Re: What year/model is this movie Packard?

Posted by HH56 On 2016/3/14 10:50:58

One of the saddest Packard demises I remember seeing is an early 50s gangster movie that was on TV not too many months ago. After killing the car owner and throwing his body over a cliff the bad guy got into the dead guys 22-23 series convertible to speed away. One curve later he runs into a gasoline tanker, swerves and he too goes over the cliff. You clearly see the Packard with an egg crate grill and interior fully ablaze smashing into some rocks halfway down before continuing to the bottom.

I suppose a 3 or 4 year old Packard was just a used car then and don't think they had special effects capability to spare the car so am fairly sure the crash and fire part was for real. It was disappointing they picked such a nice car to trash.