V-8 Fords on Film

[TonyM]

A 1942 Ford police car in the opening scene of Fingers at the Window (1942).

1942 Ford Fordor Police Car

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[TonyM]

Humphrey Bogart tries to find the killer of his WWII buddy in
Dead Reckoning (1947).

1939 Ford DeLuxe Fordor
1940 Ford DeLuxe Fordor (Cab)
1937 Ford Standard Tudor
1946 Ford DeLuxe Fordor
1935 Ford Standard Tudor
1940 Ford Standard Coupe
1937 Ford Cabriolet
1941 Lincoln Continental Convertible

[TonyM]

This Cabriolet appears only a couple minutes in Brother Rat (1938).

1937 Ford Cabriolet

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[TonyM]

She Loved a Fireman (1937)

1937 Ford Club Cabriolet


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[TonyM]

Another Club Cabriolet; Boston Blackie's personal vehicle is a 1937 Ford in Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion (1945).

1937 Ford Club Cabriolet
1940 Ford Deluxe Fordor
1934 Ford Deluxe (model unknown)

Lots of good shots of the 1937 Club Cabriolet

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[TonyM]

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Here We Go Again (1942) features radio stars from the late 30s--The Great Gildersleeve, Fibber McGee and Molly McGee, Charlie McCarthey, Mortimer Snerd and Murphy Brown's father Edgar Bergen. This is the only auto in the movie and there were a lot of good shots.

1941 Ford DeLuxe Station Wagon

[TonyM]

Ross Alexander stars in Hot Money (1936)

1936 Ford Cabriolet

[TonyM]

A lot of old cars in 711 Ocean Drive (1950) and the movie is not bad either. Might be more Fords in this than what I came up with--I was watching on the fly and had to write on a store reciept. There might be a couple that I missed.

1937 Ford (Model Unknown)
1949 Ford Fordor
1947-1948 Ford Fordor
1934 Ford DeLuxe Fordor
1940 Ford DeLuxe Fordor

[Richard]

The movie" Earth vs the spiders" there is a 1932 ford highboy roadster hotrod.
1932 Ford deluxe Roadster custom

[itsa52]

Not having read the entire thread,, How about Lucille Ball's "The long long trailer" and their '53 Merc convertible.

A bit partial to that one, but mines a year older.

[TonyM]

Here you go 52

The Long, Long Trailer (1954)

1953 Mercury Convertible
1940 Ford DeLuxe Tudor
1949 Mercury Four Door Sedan
1947 Ford Fordor
1940 Ford (Model Unknown)

[TonyM]

Make Way for a Lady (1936)

1936 Ford Cabriolet
1932 Ford Roadster

These appear very breifly

TonyM

[TonyM]

Four Girls in White (1939)

1936 Ford DeLuxe Fordor
1936 Ford Fordor Police Car

[TonyM]

There are a lot of old Fords in 1939 serial The Green Hornet; I am glad that is not my 1937 Fordor they are beating on. There might be more Fords than what I have listed.


The Green Hornet (1939)

1937 Lincoln Zephyr Coupe
1936 Ford Phaeton
1937 Ford Station Wagon
1937 Ford Fordor
1932 Ford Pick Up
1935 Ford Coupe
1936 Ford Tudor
1937 Ford (Model Unknown)
1935 Ford (Model Unknown)
1937 Ford Standard Fordor

[Rebel Sympathy]

Originally Posted by ford38v8

TonyM, Has anyone made note of "The Long, Long Trailer" with Lucille Ball & Desi Arnez? Here's a youtube of the mountain sequence, in which the '53 Merc magically morphs into a '53 Lincoln. Movie makers think the public doesn't know the difference with details like that, but this goof made the newspapers as soon as the movie came out. Seems the Merc couldn't cut it on the mountain and they had to bring in the Lincoln to pull the trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib23273MgHQ

There was also a scene in that movie where they were climbing some steep mountain on a one-lane road and they squeezed by a blue 47(?) Ford sedan which was coming down the mountain.

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"A Christmas Story" (You'll shoot your eye out.) has a few Fords, the one I remember best was a maroon 1940 DeLuxe passing by in front of Ralphie's school....

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"Tobacco Road" (1941?)

A family of illiterate morons in Georgia buy a brand new '41 Ford coupe convertible and destroy it in two weeks or less. In the final scene of the movie the car ends up entirely spent and upside down in a ditch.....

A few other '41 Fords are shown in the Ford showroom during the purchase scene. This film is not a comedy, although the opening scene with Jeeter Lester in his Model T would lead the first time viewer to believe it is. It is actually a very sad film.

As a footnote, I read an article years ago about the '41 Convertible. It seems the studio sold the car to someone after the film was made, who had it completely repaired and used it as his primary transportation. I was pleased to have read that.

Mike

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"Hold Back The Dawn" (1940?) Olivia de Havilland and Charles Boyer were supposed to be the stars of this film, but the real star is a beautiful 1939 DeLuxe Woodie. The car appears in the movie almost from beginning to end. In one scene the grill gets smashed (I wept), but a new one is installed before the story ends. In another scene the Woodie boils over. So Boyer, in all his mechanical genius, fills the radiator with ocean water (I passed out during that scene. My wife revived me with smelling salts.). The Woodie should have received an Oscar for playing the part of a "faithful '39 Ford Woodie" so well while under adverse circumstance.

In the movie the Woodie belongs to de Havilland; actually, the Woodie is a school vehicle (I think) and de Havilland plays a gullible, love-starved California school teacher. Boyer commandeers a rather beat looking '35 Cabriolet. He is a "mooch" trying to get into the United States from Mexico. However, in the end he turns into a good guy. Happy ending for de Havilland, Boyer and, more importantly, the Woodie.

There may be one or two more V-8's also, such as police cars. This is probably my all-time favorite V-8 Ford film. The 1939 Ford DeLuxe Woodie is almost a film character - certainly not just background scenery......

Mike

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"All That Heaven Allows" (early 1950's?) starring Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman. Rock is a gardener and drives a rather nice looking 1947 or 1948 Woodie. I believe there are other Fords and perhaps a Mercury or two in the film also.

Mike

[FlatheadTed]

This is a film that my car was used in its yet to screen. The signing of the Jap surrender ,Staring Tommy Lee Jones