Bullitt, The Betsy, Black Test Car, Speed, Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields and more

Autoline goes to the movies in Part One of this special discussion in which we talk about the special role automobiles have played in films throughout the years. Early on, comedians such as W.C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops discovered the car could be the perfect conduit for slapstick antics. Later the industry itself was featured more heavily in such films as "The Betsy" with Sir Laurence Olivier and "Black Test Car," a Japanese film dramatizing corporate espionage.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• cars
• autos
• automobile
• auto industry
• industry
• corporate
• Detroit
• Bullitt
• Steve McQueen
• Bullet
• Bullit
• WC Fields
• W.C. Fields
• If I Had a Million
• Laurel and Hardy
• Speed
• Jimmy Stewart
• The Betsy
• Black Test Car
• Laurence Olivier
• Lawrence Olivier
• Jim Hall
• Motor Trend
• Todd Lassa
• design
• epsionage
• spy
• corporate spies
• Autoextremist
• Peter De Lorenzo

[Miradart]

Wasn't sure where he was going when he said something like 'its not so much fun when you are the one dragging on the ASSphalt. I didn't expect the second syllable. LOL!!