The E-Type in movies.

The E-Type in movies.

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The following is taken from EJAG magazine, July 1984:

Play Misty for Me XK140 or XK150

Terms of Endearment 68 BRG E-type

Gumball Rally Red 61

Hotrods from Hell [Wild in the Streets] 2 or 3 XK120's

Harold and Maude E roadster E coupe / HEARSE

Blues Brothers SIII roadster/Twiggy

Love Story XKE

Odessa File Jag sedans and E's

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice S1 E

Fuzz Mk 2

St. Ives Mk 2

Robery Mk 2

Deerhunter xk140 or 120

The Jerk xke

Island in the Sun xk120

I'd also like to report sighting a luscious S1 4.2 OTS (regency red/black interior) in "father's day". The movie was crummy but the shots of the car were dee...lightful! I was a little nervous when Robin Williams was "learning" how to drive the car after borrowing it from Billy Crystal, but fortunately, no harm came to the car.

Tin Kin Lee - still looking for a S1 FHC
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From: "John Franklin" frankjw@ibm.net, on 5/25/97 11:59 PM:

In keeping with a previous thread of discussion about Jags in movies, I was watching the Blues Brothers movie the other day. In the scene where Twiggy meets Elwood, she drives up in a SIII OTS. Of all the British cars they could have gone with, they chose the big cat. Why not?

See ya,

John

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"Harold" in this movie was Bud Cort, who, if anyone remembers (or cares) was the kid in the Jaguar T.V. advertisements around 1965. this promo can be seen in the documentary on the E-type which is available in video.

Watch the crash and burn scenes closley, and you will see that they switched to old hulks (if you could ever call any E-Type that) the instant before the crash and burn.

Larry S.
'67 E-Type roadster

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> From: pat harrington patharr@gte.net
> To: e-type@jag-lovers.org
> Subject: E-Types in movies
> Date: Wednesday, May 28, 1997 12:26 AM
>
> My favorite starring role for the E-type is in the John Wayne film
> "Brannigan", Where that bad guy is in the black series 1 coupe.
> There is also a lot of good E-type sounds in the movie as well.
> But alas, the E-type was crashed and burned at the end.
>
> Another good one is 52 pick up with Roy Scheider, where he has
> an opalescent blue S1 roadster, and "Harold and Maude" where
> the kid turns a S2 roadster in to a hearse. I wonder what happened
> to that car. There are some good E-type sounds in that film as well.
> This one crashes and burns at the end as well.
>
> Have fun
> Pat Harrington
> 64FHC

There was an old movie on TNT titled "When Time Ran Out" from the
70's filmed in Hawaii about a volcanic eruption that destroys almost
everything on the island. A red Series III E-Type OTS is seen running
from the lava and then goes over a cliff and is seen with the bonnet
coming off after falling over the cliff.

Blues Brothers movie:
In the scene where Twiggy meets Elwood, she drives up in a SIII OTS.

I've identified two new, yet-to-be-released films that feature
(or at least include) a Jaguar XKE. "Austin Powers, Man of Mystery"
a Mike Myers (Saturdasy Night Live, Wayne's World) is spoofing James
Bond - the coming attractions clip shows an early XKE painted with
the Union Jack.

"Father's Day" is a new Ivan Reichman (Howard Stern's "Private Parts")
film, and the promo clip showed the rear of a red XKE, I believe.

movie "Fathers' Day" - Billy Crystal,
Robin Williams, and one RED S1 E- TYPE OTS

Clint Eastwood movie "Play Misty for Me" to that list? I
happened to catch that on the tube a couple of days ago,
and Clint was driving an XK120 (?).

"She's out of Control" (1989) starring Tony Danza and a
red Series 1 E OTS. The E drag races a Corvette and beats
it :-) and then stalls.... on the railroad tracks....
after the race and you guessed it, gets taken out by
a freight train!! :-(
The scene of the remains on a lift in a repair shop
afterwards is tooooooo horrible for words.......

"How to Steal a Million".
Audrey Hepburn and a Series I OTS. Talk about classic!

"Convoy" (S2 OTS)
"Fun with Dick and Jane" (another S2 OTS)
"Speed zone" with a S3
"Gumball rally" with a S3 OTS that they can never get started.

"Silver streak" with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder

"She's Having a Baby" -1st scene is Alec Baldwin in a red S3 ots.

"The Man With One Red Shoe"
- primrose S2 ots in a funny scene w/ an ambulance.

"Harold and Maude":
Harold converts his black E-type into an E-type hearse.

Another movie which includes an E-Type is a movie about
the beach music duo Jan & Dean (contemporary to the Beach Boys).
One of the two drove an e-type roadster into oblivion around
'Dead Mans Curve'. I don't recall whether he drove off a cliff
or smashed into a truck, but it definitely became an ex E-Type.
He later recovered from his injuries to write the song
"Dead Man's Curve". I saw this movie long time ago, so I can't
say for sure what the details are.

Some of the "Herby-the-Love-Bug" movies have E-types
as competitors in the races Herby was so good at winning.

"Car Trouble." It is a British B-flick and the movie consists
entirely of a man, a woman (his mistress) and a (69?) coupe.
As I remember, an awkward accident involving the three eventually
gives rise to the disolution of his marriage.
I think he gets to keep the car.

"Love Story" --- Blue OTS
"Flamingo Kid" --- E-Coupe
"Thunderball" --- E-Coupe
"Play Misty for Me" --- ooops, that was an XK-150 OTS

Keeping the theme of Jags destroyed in movies going, check out "52
Pick up" with Roy Scheider and Ann Margaret. The character played
by Roy has spent considerable time restoring his "baby", a Series 1 OTS.
Not to spoil the ending but the poor OTS ends its life in a big way
at the end of the film!

There is a great English movie called "The Italian Job" starring
Michael Caine (and a cast of 1'000's) in which the saddest moment
of all has to be when a S 1 Roadster and S 1 Coupe are both pushed
off a cliff by a mechanical digger (sob), next the digger turns
its attention to Caine's DB5 Volante - it just wrecks the windscreen.
If you ever get the chance to see this movie, you will love it for
all the great English cars of the 60's - and a few Italian's too!
Just to cheer you up, the S I roadster in that movie was one of
the first dozen made. But there is a happy ending. It was not
destroyed and has been restored. The current owner is none other
that Phillip Porter, the person who wrote "The Definitive History
of the E-Type". He also owns the coupe that was used to announce
the E-Type at the Geneva auto show in 1961!

"Magnum" PI shows. Whenever Magnum's Ferrari broke down he would
drive around in an OTS. They must have put a milk crate on the
seat or used a 3/4 sized car because it always looked like he was
driving a toy.

So, for those of you interested in staring at movie that
CENTERs around the E-type and not just a cameo appearance,
"Car Trouble" would be a good choice.

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"Blues Brother's" movie, where the model Twiggy, (the woman not the car)
was driving a S111 OTS while trying to pick-up Elwood at a gas station.
He refuses and she slowly drive away - great V12 sounds ...

There is an early seventies James Garner movie titled "Philip Marlowe."
It is a pretty good detective movie where one of the female stars drives
a yellow E-Type (SIII I think).

I went to see CONAIR this weekend which was previously reported to have
an E-Type in it. It was actually a 60's vintage Corvette Stingray which
had a rather brutal demise - thank God it wasn't an E-Type. Good action
flick if you like that sort of thing.

While I was standing in line for popcorn I noticed a poster on the wall
fo a new movie called "Excess Baggage". There was a nice looking young
woman sitting on the bonnet of an open-headlight E-Type roadster - a
series II if I had to make a guess. If it shows up on a poster I would
guess it would have a prominent role in the movie.

Norm Black
67 FHC
63 OTS