Movies and notable TV programmes
that feature four wheel drives in significant or quirky ways.
Films:
And God Created Jeep (1956)
(aka And God Created Woman)
Brigitte Bardot's husband's brother does a flashy bit of
4WD beach driving in a war-surplus Jeep MB
(like [this])
on his way to rescue her from a burning boat
after which they succumb to their lust for each other.
Directed by Roger Vadim.
Bond, James Bond (various)
James Bond movies
are often good for sightings of four wheel drives and other boy toys.
Breakdown (1997)
Kurt Russell and Kathleen Quinlan's Jeep Cherokee breaks down
(the product-placement no one wanted to have?) in nowhere,
leaving them open to a tale of kidnapping, violence and chases.
John Travolta takes some Hummers
and other military hardware for a burn.
Charlie's Angels (2000)
More of a cartoon of a movie than even Mission Impossible
or a Bond flic. Bosley (Bill Murray) gives a Ford Bronco
a bit of a work out in support of the Angels
(Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrimore, Lucy Liu).
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The ultimate
Land Rover
movie with the 4X4 winching itself up a tree not to mention
the broken hand-brake sequence and many other
gags surely inspired by the Keystone Cops.
Heartbreak Ridge (1984)
Clint Eastwood trains a bunch of misfits
into a "crack fighting team",
trouble is they only have the island of Granada to go and monster.
Still, there are numerous
M151 Mutts,
6x6 trucks and even a
8x8 ASLAV
in US guise to watch.
The Italian Job (1969)
The Italian Job is well known for the destruction of a Lamborghini Muira
in the opening minutes and for the `race through the sewers'
sequence in Mini Minors at the height of the action.
The film also features a 4x4
Dodge Command Car,
which accompanies the gold truck before the theft, and a Land Rover
S2A LWB
used by the thieves to hijack it. Stars Michael Caine, Noel Coward
and Benny Hill - as a computer nerd who puts Rome's traffic lights
out of action!
Son of Jurassic Park, Mercedes Benz M-class on show this time.
Mission Impossible II (2000)
There is a good car chase featuring an
Audi TT
and a Porsche. In the finale there is a Nissan
Patrol
doing things that normal Patrol 4x4s certainly do not.
From an Australian point of view, the local expert's accent grates and
just why did the good guys have a headquarters in Whoop-Whoop
when most of the action is set in Sydney?
Swordfish (2001)
Features
TVR sports cars,
Lincoln Navigator 4x4s,
another four wheel drive or two,
John Travolta as a jewel thief, or is it spy, Gabriel Shear,
Hugh Jackman (ra, ra, aussie) as a computer hacker,
Halle Berry.
Tea with Mussolinni (1999)
A gem of a movie, with Judie Dench, Maggie Smith and Cher,
set in Italy in the 1930s and 1940s.
A band of ex-patriate (mostly-) English women refuse to leave because
of the war and are interned.
Vehicles: Jeeps, Dodge weapons carriers and
International half-tracks.
Blooper: the Germans roll into Florence in a Sherman tank.
Terminator (1984?)
Sarah Connors drives into an uncertain future in a
Jeep Renegade
at the end of the movie.
Three Colours: Red (date?)
Stars a red Jeep Wrangler with a black hard-top.
It belongs to a budding lawyer who is in love with the wrong girl
but meets the right girl thanks to the efforts of a retired judge.
Strangely the previous two films in the series,
`Three Colours: Blue', and `Three Colours: White',
feature neither blue nor white Jeeps.
The makers only came to their senses with the final part of the trilogy.
The owner of a toy factory leaves it to his military brother
(Michael Gambon) rather than his flaky son (Robin Williams) or daughter
on his death. It's just a glimpse, but the brother arrives in a
Lamborghini LM002 4x4
at the start of the film.
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