Imperial Car Chase

[roquefortfiles]

I have a HUGE soft spot for these big grand vista vision classic 60's Hollywood movies. I simply love them.

[Agedperfection]

Classic all the way.

[johnsmileyjr]

They'll all see what we're doin'!!



[SchoolofSoul]

@GIwillo - damn right, Ethel Merman was a total MILF. Ngaa-ngaa-ngaa!

[jjp009]

@SchoolofSoul TOTALLY! How about the scene where they flipped her upside down to get the keys stuffed in her bra, and you could see her white undies? That was hot.

[1985janelle]

My favorite line in the movie is "If he jumps up again like he did before I'm gonna get the hell outta here!" Hahahahaha.

[GIwillo]

man...the red haired woman is really hot!damn!!!

[flippyflyer]

Ethel Merman was sooooooooooooooooo good in this!

[Carmania6267]

"We're the ones with the Imperial and we're running last?" LOL

[hebneh]

"Well, whaddya waiting for, an engraved invitation?!"

It's good to see how many people know Ethel Merman's lines from this movie today, especially later on when she's shrieking at Sylvester on the phone. "And will you shut up and listen so I can tell you what happened??!"

[65Dart]

Didn't show the part where the dude kicks the bucket, either.

[ra86226]

Ha! " And do you know what all those half wit morons up in Sacramento do about it? They just sit there, with there big feet up on their big desks." Time don't change.

[562vert]

look at the vw real nice

[svxcallday]

no wonder avgn loves this movie

[FoxForever90]

@svxcallday

I wonder if he gave it popularity. I remember watching this movie back in 2001 when I was 10.

[RALPHIEREDRYDER]

I'M ALWAYS SEARCHING FOR THE BIG W!

[akiracon]

This is on my top 5 list of greatest films of all time! I love this movie to death!!! Such a wonderful cast and awesome stunts!!

[actionjackson9000]

i want to know where this road is?

[keithsmove]

We know she isnt in this movie....

We had a side discussion.

Get with the program and READ the comments

[mcrtnyfan]

This is and always has been my favorite all time comedy. I saw it at the show all those years ago with my mom, aunt and cousin and definitely remember the intermission. I've got this on Beta when the anniversary issue came out, tons of extra footage, interviews, I've got the dvd but I wish they'd put what I have on Beta on the dvd.

[hebneh]

They're all extremely lucky that on their mad crazed race down the mountain, they encounter virtually no other vehicles going in the opposite direction. Otherwise, the entire demented competition to find the "great big W" would've ended prematurely if all four vehicles had slammed into each other in a chain reaction at very high speed if the first one had hit another car head-on. But then that wouldn't have been a very funny movie, would it? Or a very long one either, which this definitely is.

[avguy2006]

This is a great movie. I have it on VHS when my family recorded it on TBS many moons ago. Does anyone know if it's available on DVD?

[gdwriter]

Yes, it is. I own it.

[johnsmileyjr]

@gdwriter ABSOLUTELY!! It's available on BluRay I understand. It's great in surround sound, too!

[gregwddriver]

It's my guess that the 413 in that Imperial could probably pin the ears back on all of them...unless that wagon was hiding something under the hood.

[montego13]

I would think that the lighter Plymouth Wagon with probably a 361ci would out run the Imp. I could be wrong.

[ItsMeForAllYouKnow]

413 max wedge.

2 four barrel carbs.

Cross ram induction.

My money is on the Imperial.

A true "sleeper" in every sense of the word.

Looks like grandma's "Sunday drive" car, but could blow you so far into the weeds you'd need a compass to find your way back.

[BarneyFife82]

They didn't show the part where they ran that old truck off the road and the old man says.... "I said it before and I'll say it again.... I didn't want to move to California"

[gdwriter]

That's one of the best scenes/lines in the movie!

[Esuper1]

@BarneyFife82 yes and the look on the guys eyes is priceless... PRICELESS!!!

[nellgwen48]

@Esuper1 What kind of attitude is that.? These things happen. They only happen because the whole country is full of people who, when these things happen they just say these things happen. and that's why they happen.

[johnsmileyjr]

@BarneyFife82 This segment is all about the Imperial. You're right, it's a famous scene!

[eurekayes]

@BarneyFife82 yes, has to be the funniest scene ever in a movie.... supposedly racist.... c'mon! :-|

[scottoro]

In the original script, it was a Cadillac.

[MeTaLdUdE02]

every man for himself!!lol.

[vividwatch47]

Watch when Lee Marvin wrecks a 1967 Imperial in "Point Blank" and the 1968 model Walter Matthau drives in "Charley Varrick".

[8prieskd]

I love Merman in this film best character in the whole film

[krumlee]

Watch the older chap who plays the Sheriff of Crockett County - he was Sterling Holloway - he was the voice of Winnie the Pooh a few years later. Also - supposedly this film opened in theaters on Friday, November 22, 1963 - the same day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated; hence, it did poorly at the box office due to the period of national mourning in the aftermath of that.

[vividwatch47]

Sorry, that was Andy Devine.

[montego13]

I first saw Mad World in the summer of '63.

[essanay45]

Sterling Holloway was the fireman on the hook and ladder.

[gazaguy]

Have to laugh.... Ethel may have been a Republican and she may have been, as Judy Garland observed, "not big on brains" but she had it right about the ones in the Imperial running last. Let's hope that imperial aspirations of Bush-Cheney Inc. run last and they are defeated in November!!

[essanay45]

GOT IT BABE!

[locobuick]

We're the ones with the Imperial and were running last!!!

[Imperialist440]

That Imperial convertible happened to be just one of 554 made. The buckled rear quarters of the car in the last scene attest to the degree of the damage. Buddy Hackett was in the movie and claimed that the Imperial became a studio lot car (used for errands) after the movie was filmed.

[gazaguy]

LOVE IT! Ethel Merman's wisdom on choice vs. destiny is classic! "Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'these things happen'? They only happen because this whole country is just full of people, who when these things happen, they just say, 'these things happen', and that's why they happen! We've got to have control of what happens to us."

[locobuick]

The great Merman was a Republican.

[gazaguy]

Yes. As Judy Garland said of her: "Ethel was not big on brains. But she sure knew her way around a stage."

[keithsmove]

Garland shouldnt be attacking anyone

She was a druggie

[gazaguy]

Judy Garland was started on prescription narcotics as a child for weight control That she became addicted to them and developed major depression does not make her a "druggie."

[keithsmove]

Good spin for her....

Are you her ex-agent?

LOL

[gazaguy]

har har... Nope, I'm just an ordinary joe... Judy Garland, whose funeral is believed to have sparked the great Stonewall Riots that led to one of the greatest civil rights movements in this country, was before my time. I was only 7 when she died. But her music, her talent, her status as an entertainment icon speaks more for her remarkable resilience in the face of all odds - the kind of spirit that comes from within, not from an agent.

[tripjet999]

She started with the gateway drug: tobacco, the most addictive and defective of them all! Tobacco must be banned.

[gazaguy]

She started with prescription narcotics as child, medications forced upon her by over-zealous parents and greedy film companies. Perhaps parents and films should be banned?

[Delphi333]

What r u talking about? She's not even in this movie. LOL.

[mrvince316]

I think I saw this movie.