Netflix movie with Packards

Posted by Dave Brownell On 2016/7/31 11:25:44

There is a 2015 movie on Netflix that shows at least 10-12 Packards in driveby street scenes. The movie is "Life", a biopic about a Life magazine photographer who spends time with actor James Dean in 1955. The somewhat true story shows some of the situations where Dennis Stock took a series of his iconic photos months before Dean's death (the real photos that many of us might recognize are shown in the final film credits). I found the movie to be somewhat slow until the Packards started showing up, along with several Hudsons. At minute 40 in the film, three 1956s (two Patricians and a Clipper hardtop) are shown at once on a snowy (actually Canadian) "NYC" street with a CGI added Chrysler Building in the foggy background. Other Packards sighted include a few 53-54 Patricians and a few 1938-41 senior sedans. If this made in Canada movie was made there, I wonder where they got all of these cars? TThe last recent movie starring lots of Packards was Carol, and credit was given to Citizen Motors of Dayton OH.