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In this Discussion
- 66patrick66 January 2008
- hudsontech January 2008
- Jon B January 2008
- oldhudsons January 2008
- OlHudson8r January 2008
1934 Terraplane in an old Western
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I have run this by numerous people over the years, but no one except me seems to have seen this old Western movie (probably from 1934). This movie in B/W was the typical one of the genre: bad guy, good guy, beautiful girl, horses, etc. However, this one had quite an interesting twist: the beautiful young girl drove a 1934 Terraplane cabriolet, always with the top down (on the car, not the girl!), throughout the movie. The Terraplane was in scene after scene and even figured in giving chase to the bad guy who, of course, was caught by the good guy and the girl in the Terraplane. I no longer remember if the latter two rode off, or drove off, into the sunset. I have never seen a movie with so much Hudson footage. I saw this movie in the summer of 1973 on television and vaguely recall that it may have been broadcast on a Chicago station. I turned the TV on about five minutes into the movie, so I don't know the movie's title, the actors, or any of the credits. This Western is possibly still stored in the archives somewhere. I figure if anybody can find this old movie, it would be hudsonkid. I am amazed at some of the things he can dig up. How about it, hudsonkid, would you know how to find this old Western? Dee Kruzan
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do you remember who was in it which might make it easier to track down?
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....or anything about the plot? And are you even totally sure it was a Terraplane and not (gasp!) a '34 Ford or something? After all, this was many years ago, you were but a young shaver, and not as "well-schooled" in Hudson lore as you undoubtedly are now. And, time plays funny tricks with our memories...
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oldhudsons wrote:do you remember who was in it which might make it easier to track down?
It was not any of the well-known ones like Hopalong, Hoot Gibson, Autry, Rogers, or the like. I did not recognize anyone in it, but I for sure recognized the Terraplane, the only reason I would have watched that movie anyhow!
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Jon B wrote:....or anything about the plot? And are you even totally sure it was a Terraplane and not (gasp!) a '34 Ford or something? After all, this was many years ago, you were but a young shaver, and not as "well-schooled" in Hudson lore as you undoubtedly are now. And, time plays funny tricks with our memories...
Thanks for the "young shaver compliment", John B., but I was forty years old at the time! It was a 1934 Terraplane cabriolet, for sure. I had already been in HET for several years, had had a 1933 Terraplane 8 by then, and had driven and owned many Hudsons since 1949. Also, Gene Davis, in his '34 Terraplane cabriolet, and I, in my 1937 Hudson 6 brougham, traveled together from Charleston, Illinois, to a meet in Indianapolis before 1973. You are right about funny tricks and our memories, though, for the life of me I can't remember what I had for breakfast this morning! LOL -
OlHudson8r wrote:Thanks for the "young shaver compliment", John B., but I was forty years old at the time! It was a 1934 Terraplane cabriolet, for sure. I had already been in HET for several years, had had a 1933 Terraplane 8 by then, and had driven and owned many Hudsons since 1949. Also, Gene Davis, in his '34 Terraplane cabriolet, and I, in my 1937 Hudson 6 brougham, traveled together from Charleston, Illinois, to a meet in Indianapolis before 1973. You are right about funny tricks and our memories, though, for the life of me I can't remember what I had for breakfast this morning! LOL
Breakfast?????????
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr -
Well, it's no "western" (far from it!), but you'll see a Hudson of the same vintage in the 1945 movie "Blithe Spirit". The car shows up near the end, in the scene in which the character played by Rex Harrison hops into his Hudson convertible in an attempt to escape his two former spouses (who are cramping his style despite being dead). Unfortunately, the car proves to be the "vehicle" by which the unfortunate fellow joins his ex-wives.
Actually, the movie's rather fun to watch, above and beyond the fact that it's one of the few films made during Hudson's production years, which actually feature a Hudson. -
www.imcdb.com is a great place to research old movies - even find out what movies your favorite car appears in!"The time has come", the Walrus said, "to speak of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot,
And whether pigs have wings..." -
66patrick66 wrote:www.imcdb.com is a great place to research old movies - even find out what movies your favorite car appears in!
Thanks for the info, but the page was unavailable when I clicked on it this morning. DK -
Try this: http://www.imcdb.org/
