Notorious

[Barry M Wheeler #2189]

I watched most of this Hitchcock movie last night on TCM. It has a plethora of 1941 Cadillac convertibles. Two of them as well as a 1942 Cadillac Series 67 limo. The first is a darker color car used by Ingrid Bergmann. She gets loaded at her own party and takes Cary Grant on a top down cruise at high speed down a dark road. The movie shifts to Rio, and there are some street scenes of the lighter colored (Dusty Gray?) convertible that Grant uses as "his" car. The limo is Claude Raines' personal car which transports Bergmann to and from his home. A trunk view gives just about enough light to show the narrower '42 emblem on the back than a 1941.
As I was watching the conclusion, where Grant and Raines almost literally drag the drugged Bergmann down the marble staircase and out the front door, where the convertible is waiting under the portico, what might have happened if suddenly, time was advanced about twenty years and the car wouldn't start, allowing the Neo-Nazis to walk out and see what is really going on. (They want to "talk" to Raines who has goofed up by marrying an American agent.) Good Hitchcock, and of course nice shots of the cars.

The Gray car is probably the one used in the Betty Grable glamour shot, and in The Glenn Miller Story, Wings of Eagles, and another that I can't recall.

[Mr Peanut]

You should check out the Internet Movie Cars DataBase  [http://imcdb.org/] You can search by movie title or by make of automobile.  There a tons of screenshots of Cadillacs (and all other makes) that have been posted from movies.  Here are a couple that you mention.  The description is from the website......Chuck

[Mr Peanut]

BTW - If you are looking for LaSalle screenshots you will notice that they are not listed on the page.  You have to click on "see complete list..." in the bottom right corner.  Instead of a list of 203 makes you get a list of 3,606 makes - including LaSalle..............Chuck

[Quentin Hall]

Next time I see a group of Cadillacs , I will know to call it a " plethora of Cadillacs" hehe.   

[Martin Michaels]

The Vincent Price movie, House on Haunted Hill opens up with the guests all arriving in what I believe are 10 1956 series 75 limos(it's been a long time since I seen it)

[Glen]

Next time I see a group of Cadillacs , I will know to call it a " plethora of Cadillacs" hehe.   

A bunch of Fords would be a “Rattle of Fords” ?

[Walter Youshock]

Frank Sinatra, Carolyn Jones, Edward G. Robinson and Eleanor Parker in "A Hole in the Head", 1959.

Frank's character drives around Miami Beach in his then 2-year-old '57 series Orion blue 62 convertible.  An old millionaire friend comes to town and he and his wife are chauffeured around in a new Persian Sand '59 Biarritz.  Frank's character is in desperate need of money so he sells his '57 back to the local Cadillac dealer, the lot filled with used Cadillacs.  The movie is worth it just for the Cadillacs.  The soundtrack also introduced JFK's campaign theme song "High Hopes".

[Barry M Wheeler #2189]

There is a "B" movie out there somewhere in B&W that shows a chase scene using a 1941 Series 62 sedan making a really sharp turn at way too high a speed. It was on a wide, city intersection, so the worst that could have happened was to roll the car.

Also, here is a question for Bill Ingler, the flyboy. I saw a B&W picture about a two-bit airline that a DC-3 (which was the star of the show as far as I was concerned,) makes a questionable landing on a too short strip. The shot ends with the pilot standing on the brakes so that the airplane shudders to a stop on the main gear with the tail rising up off the ground so that the plane ends up for a moment in "take-off" position just before it would have run into the trees or over a cliff. I can't remember which.

I think it was one of those pictures where both the male star and the second lead have the hots for the girl, and one or the other of them "dies in the end." I'd love to see it again. Any help on the name?