Re: Packards in movies

Posted by Dave Brownell On 2016/8/2 10:28:45

As I said in an earlier post, the Packards seen in Carol are given final credits as sourced from Citizens Motors in Dayton OH. I think that I originally counted seven or eight distinctive Packards, including the starring non-Ultramatic one driven by Cate/Carol.

There are even more in the movie Life, available currently on Netflix. If you see this film about James Dean's final months with a Life magazine photographer, the distinctive Packard count may approach a dozen. At minute 40 in this film, there are three 1956s together, making Dean's death in the Spring of 1955 somewhat problematic. No source credits are given for these Packards.