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Interesting website listing Lancia cars used in Films and Cartoons:

http://www.geocities.com/cleanstream/lancia/onfilm/index.htm

enjoy!
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Very interesting, i never knew Don Cross was in Godfather 2 in his Appia :o

TRUST YOU!!!!!! funny though :D

I don't see my Appia Coupe' mentioned even though it was featured in the film "Skin" shot on lacation in the Magaliesberg in South Africa about 2 years ago.

The film stars Alice Krige and Sam Neil, directed by Anthony Fabian - see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0964586/

Has anyone seen the film?  I'd love to get a copy, but it wasn't released in South Africa.  ???

One not listed on the website mentioned above... Just been sat watching FRANTIC, a thriller with Harrison Ford.  A Fulvia is parked up outside the hotel as Harrison Ford pops across to the florist and bar.. seen in three shots.  Get's prime screen time :)  Roman Polanski must've liked the Lancia :)

Lima,

Thanks for reviving this thread, which I seem not to have noticed when it started back in April. I must look out for 'Frantic'.

One to add: the last Monsieur Hulot film from Jacques Tati was ‘Trafic’ from 1971 – one sequence includes a massive traffic jam with a shot lingering on a Fulvia Sport.

Colin

Colin, thanks for the nudge: i can't add to the Lancia memories, but Jacques Tati's "Mon Oncle" and "Jour de Fete" ( the postman trying to get on his bike :) )rank up there with the Marx brothers for me. Absolute genius.

If we want to keep this data in some way, the geocities site is closing on 26 October 2009 (next week!), so if someone has the technical know how to get this, now would be a good time!

Details here: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/close/close-05.html

I've saved it. 

If anyone else wants to for "private study" or whatever the copyright position might be in Internet Explorer I have a "Page" menu towards the top right and I went "Save As" with the option "Webpage Complete".   This created a 2MB directory of all the stuff.   In the directory you made go to the "index_files" subdirectory, within that go to the "index_files" subdirectory, and then right-mouse-button-click on "films.htm" and "Open With" then "Word pad".   Highlight from the start of the line that starts <SCRIPT>  all the way down the dozen or so lines to </SCRIPT> and hit delete, then save.   Quit the editor, double click on "films.htm" and you have it.

David

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxaRt6OWD1A

Flavia lovers, do not watch!

Hi all

Just a reminder that there's a link to the Internet Car Movie Database list of Lancias on the Giro "Links" page:

http://web.mac.com/girodisalopia/iWeb/Lancia%20Giro%20di%20Salopia%202008/Lancia%20Links.html

Just watched the Flavia clip - should I tell Chugga where that car is now?

David

Shown on BBC4 in the art house season of films was Romanzo Criminale, which started off with the main characters joy riding in a Flaminia and following through with various models upto and early Delta as the film was depicted Italy from the late 50's through to the early 80's.

Why I watched the film as it had subtitles, I don't know but probalbly trying to spot the many Lanica's through the ages.

Regards

Simon Davis

Simon,
ie there a link to it please.

Brian

Brian,

Did a Google search and found a couple of trailers for the film, with a couple of Lancia being shown. The search via IMDB does not give too much detail.

Have you tried Iplayer, or watch out for a rerun, should not be too long away on BBC4!

Regards

Simon

Surfing the net for anything Dilambda related and came across a mention that a Dilambda appears in The Yellow Rolls Royce. Purchased a copy on Ebay and sure enough there it was!  :o

The 1964 film tells the travels and travails of a Yellow Rolls Royce through three ownerships. The second is an American gangster (George C Scott) who is being encouraged by the salesman to take the Dilambda making mention of its Mussolini connections. His moll however (Shirley MacLaine) favours the Rolls and he buys that instead. Poor choice in my view!

Not a scintillating 2 hour watch despite a stellar cast, although the Rolls is very easy on the eye and of course in almost the same colour scheme as Modestine. It could easily be a Carlton body too.

Robin.

Is this the one with Rex Harrison, Moira Lister, and Peter Ustinov, to name but a few, ???  the last time I saw this I wasn't into Lancia's, so the Dilambda didn't register :o and for the life of me I can't remember George C Scott or Shirley McLaine being in it either.

Brian
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Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Alain Delon, George C Scott, Jeanne Moreau, Omar Sharif Joyce Grenfell, Michael Hordern and Shirley MacLaine.

Written by Terence Rattigan.

Wonder if the Dilambda survives? Most of the cast don't!

Robin.

British Pathe have put their archive film onto http://www.britishpathe.com/index.php and you can happily waste several evening digging.  But if you get excited watching a couple of policmen sitting in a Flaminia in the rain, President Gronchi arriving to open the 1956 Turin Show in what looks like a Stabilimenti Farina Astura, a Fulvia and a Flavia in the 1966 Monte Carlo Rally and so on....... just put 'lancia' into the search box.

John

Just been doing my night owl bit and watched a film on BBC 2, 1200- 1.40am, called "Massacre in Rome" with Richard Burton, Leo McKinstry and Anthony Steel, all playing German Officers.
Based on a true story (that I've Read recently), in March 1945 the Partisans in Rome killed 33 Germans with a Bomb, and the Germans shot 330 Italians as a reprisal.
 Spotted twice driving past, was an Augusta with wartime style white paint all along the mudguards.

Brian
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       If you are into Italy and Romance with the [b]nuova Delta[/b] in a major role then take a look at 'Letters to Juliet' starring Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave. A fluffy modern romance but seeing the Delta being driven around the countryside near Sienna made it worthwhile. Beats the other star, a Fiat 500, easily! On Sky Box Office at present and I believe on DVD already, it only came out in May. 

"Angels and Demons", the recent-ish film based on another book by Dan Brown (wash mouth out with soap and water!), has a nuova Delta appear a fair amount. It's a Rome Police Officer's car.

I am not a big film fan, but I watched "Angels and Demons" simply because it has a nuova Delta in it.  I thought that the film was really rather good!

caught a bit of "Last of the summer wine" today and in the entrance to Belmont Garage
was the tail of a Gamma coupe

This shows a Flaminia late in the clip. It is quite "dramatic", and is not recommended for those involved in Flaminia restorations or for those with a soft stomach. Courtesy of Sebastien Simon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGmC-1nbS20&search=la%20segunda%20oportunidad

I'd rather be in the Flaminia than the DS... the Flam comes out of the impact quite well I thought, but comparing head-on to a 90 degree side impact probably isn't fair.

Yes I thought the PF came out of it quite well, very spectacular how the DS's bolt on panels detached themselves.

Mind, if that had been in the UK the b--- -y police would have shut the road for 3 days for investigations, as appears to be their wont after every accident these days, always admired the French for the way they do a quick look around and then push everything to the side and let the traffic flow, with hardly a cone or barrier in sight, while they sort out the details.

Brian
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I was just shocked to see a Flaminia crashed like this, but yes, it did come out well!

That's exactly the same clip as I found yesterday on youtube and posted under the heading "surely not".  Weird that!

It's been a while since anyone has posted on here and it just so happens that I can now add to it.

The Consequences Of Love (Le conseguenze dell'amore) is worth a watch in its own right.
Admittedly it's slowly paced, but the sound-track is good and there's a Gamma to be seen!
And yes it's Italian with English sub-titles.

Has anyone seen the Movie called "The General" about a notorious Dublin gangster, in one scene the getaway car is a black Dedra driven at speed through Dublin streets. Interesting , starring Kevin spacey  as the General.

And talking of Dedra, one appears in Gomorrah (original title Gomorra), a film about the Napoli mafia, recently shown on terrestrial TV.

On one of the documentary channels there was a programme last night that follows an American classic car dealer - 'Chasing Classic cars' In last night's programme he was getting an Aurelia ready for auction and part 2 (sorry don't know when its on) will be at the auction. Fine looking car that needed some work to the engine. The mechanic - who admitted he had never worked on a Lancia before - soon had that out though and with a twirl of his socket set had it sorted and back in! Quite thought provoking!! I think the phrase is 'buyer beware!'

Is that a White Flamina saloon in the trailer for 'Tinker, Tailor,Soldier, Spy'? Only the rear nearside quarter is in the shot.

Clocked a lovely side view of a silver Beta HPE on Minder last Saturday. Also remember seeing a Delta 1500 from the rear in another episode.

Its actually the film Ordinary Decent Criminal and its a grey Dedra driven by Colin Farrell!

A British film of 1959, "Hidden Homicide" includes footage of an English bodied Astura being used by the baddies in a car chase through the streets of suburban London. I have tried to find clips but so far without success. No doubt due to my incompetence using t`ìnternet

You can find the whole film on youtube, this bit gives it an honorable mention:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kurHMz34cXM&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLCC79AE29C1F53CA2

There is a rather good chase involving a Bentley and a Lambda in the 1968 Hammer film The Devil Rides Out. You can see it at the beginning of part 4 on the YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28d2RcbJ48w&NR=1
The sequence in fact begins at the end of part 3, and if you persist a little further into part 4 you will see what was then John Maltby's Lambda (now Tony Stephens') among the assembled cars.
Maltby's car appeared again in Camp on Blood Island where it was apparently destroyed by a grenade (Tony will probably find the dents under the back seat) but clips of that film don't appear to be available.

John

Re Camp on blood island, I think the Lambda belonged to my dad at the time, as i remember him telling me something about they paid for a new windscreen to replace the one  that was cracked in the filming.BCO was the second car that i travelled in as a sprogg :)

So, who owned/ or owns now, the red Lambda in the chase scene, I have freeze framed various parts and got the reg number ER 5421.

Re Hidden Homicide, reg number HDL 413, is not on the DVLA list, nor is ER5421 The Lambda from The Devil Rides out :'(

ER5421 belonged to a Mr A Livingstone, from Ealing, London, circa 2000, but I think it has since been exported from the U.K.

As Ade says, ER 5421 is now in Italy.  It was pretty tired when Arnold Livingstone had it and even tireder after The Devil Rides Out, but it had a distinguished history.  It was built up by Alec Park who was a partner of Terry Breen in his car breaking and dealing business in North London, using a fifth shell with the scuttle extended, the rear suspension lowered and an eight series engine fitted.  Here is a picture of the car with a proud Alec taken, judging by the cowled lamp, sometime during the war.  The car was later owned by Wells Coates and here is the famous picture of him with the car that appeared in Vogue.  

John

There is a very brief glimpse of a Lambda Casaro in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" very near the end when her daughter arrives with her boyfriend.

Diana

In the new series "Panam" about trolly dolly's which my wife Denise recorded there was a very nice Flaminia Superleggera in silver in one of the scenes. The series is set in the 1960's so it should  produce some interesting cars. Thanks . David. :)

I don't think it's been mentioned before but one of the best sequences of a Lancia in film is in Il Sorpasso, a Dino Risi film from 1962 in which a B24 Convertible has a large part.  It can be got from Amazon for about £10, or the opening credits and splendid last sequence can be found on YouTube at http://youtu.be/q0rePVClZHc and http://youtu.be/xhu_uM9mk_o
The car that disappears over the cliff is apparently an Alfa, heavily disguised. The B24 has recently been restored, see http://video.repubblica.it/edizione/bologna/l-auto-del-sorpasso-restaurata-a-lizzano/82857/81247

John

On sunday I was watching Great Escapes of the War on 'Yesterday', the programme was about the Long Range Desert Group who upset the Italians in Libya by knocking seven bells out of their Areodromes and other facilities, eventually this leads to a chase of the LRDG by the Italian Army some in Lancia Lorries RO's? that seemed to have the Lancia Badge on the Radiator, which wasn't always the case according to "Camion Lancia".
As everything is always repeated on yesterday it would be worth looking out for even if they only for about a minute.

brian
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Not a car but a book written by a Lancia owner. Does that count I wonder? ???

Young James Herriot BBC 1 this evening. Herriot is given a book to give him an insight into the 1st World War - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque. With revenue generated by sales of this best seller Remarque fulfilled a long held desire to own a Dilambda. Obviously a man of impeccable taste! ::)

See Viva Lancia December 2009 and  http://www.lancia.myzen.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=2769.0

Robin.

Channel 4 on 10th Dec showed Woody Allen's 2008 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' starring Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson with Javier Bardem as the seductive painter. Set in contemporary Barcelona the usual Citroen taxis abound but a cameo appearance of a Lancia Musa caught me by surprise, it must have been on the screen for no more than 3 seconds. Now, that did wake me up!
Just to confirm here is the scene. 

 http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_205714-Lancia-Musa.html

I have never seen one in the UK but there is one for sale on ebay.

Gerard.

Theres a Lancia in this clip from The Sweeney - somewhere  ;) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFeJAe4f9g0&feature=player_embedded

Darned if I could find it!

Nor me ??? I think the very first episode of the sweeny featured a Lancia. May have been a Fulvia 2000 ::)

About 34 seconds in, after the blue mini,rear quarter view of a ......

The Original Sweeney episode did feature a White Flavia 2000 Sedan used by the criminals along with an XJ6 to turn over an armoured Transit, however Regan, Carter et all were wise to it. "You're nicked!"

HPE?

Gamma? saloon in godfather 3

Delta HF Turbo in Patriot Games.

New Delta appears very briefly, but you can't miss it, in "The American" (starring George Clooney).
The film is set mostly in Italy and the car he drives around in is unfortunately not a Lancia but a Fiat Tempra.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440728/

In the closing scenes of Michael Kane's 1987 film " The whistle blower " Michael kane walks a white Lancia Delta parked at the side of the road, (it looks like a standard 1300)   before he knocks at the door of the villan of the movie. I rember watching this film back in the 80's but never noticed the white delta . Thanks, :) David .

In The Battle for Malta this evening, 2030 to 2130, in the early scenes there is a clip of Mussolini in, I think, an open Astura.

I was asked to post this by one of our Italian members:

I would like to inform you and all LMC Members about the following 4 historic movies available on Youtube:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZG_pKO7ApA
 
(Absolutley great document with D24s and Lancia Official Drivers!)
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqF-2ENKVhQ
Min. 6'57   9'43 Vincenzo Lancia
 
 
Mille Miglia 1953
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hv1t6S-ZNI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yItvnOKlWkc
 

Tim Heath

Tim, thank you for the links.

May I add that one, with Ascari's win 1954 of the Mille Miglia on D24:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY1y5wKzIfM

It is just marred by the central text, during the whole film ...

Tim, thanks for posting these films.

It is particularly good to see the much cherished Shell Film Unit films freely available on youtube. The Mille Miglia film is fantastic! Both are directed by Bill Mason, father of his more famous son Nick Mason.

Colin

Chaps,
Just a future note , it's great to see these film links and at some point (this year I hope) I will expand the 'media' search facility of the database so we can load 'Film' links from the internet into the database (thus make them searchable or able to produce a spreadsheet of everything). So, at the moment, please keep them coming onto this thread :o)
Steve

A lot of the first film with the D24s seems to have been taken in the Valentino Park in Turin, where Lancia seemed to take a lot of their promotional films.

Brian
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Groupe B
en course de cote
in Hillclimb
zum Bergrennen
Les plus belles images de Groupe B en course de Cote des années 1989 a 2006
AH Video Concept Communications

http://www.videoconcept.com/magasin/product_info.php?cPath=23_28&products_id=639

On Malaysian TV there is an advert currently running for Astra satellite TV which features a black B24 Convertible.
Chris

'Madness in the Desert' Paris to Dakar was a fascinating BBC 4 documentary I watched last Sunday. It traced the history of the rally from its inception in 1977 to 2008 when it was bought to an end in Africa by terrorism. Ari Vatanan won in 1987 in a modified Peugeot 205 T16 which in the previous year had been banned as a Group B rally car in the WRC. Link to a surprise shot of a Delta S4 and another of Marku Alen in 1986 as they covered the ban. I wonder if Lancia ever thought of entering their then redundant S4's?? Have any Lancia's ever been entered in the Paris Dakar?
You can catch it again on the BBC website this week but it is to be repeated on BBC4 Monday 4 March.

Sky Arts 1 is showing a 12-part series called 'Corleone', with English subtitles. Some great footage of a Lusso Aprilia, as well as an Appia Camioncino. Lots of Fiats, too. Runs on Friday night at 10am, but check your region in case of change.
Tim

Found this on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=i4hqfLcE3bc

An Aurelia berlina, not a B12 as indicated, but fun nonetheless! Good for your italian too!

Strange position of the steering wheel sometimes, and those wipers do not quite fit the car.

On the new trailer for 'Rush', a Flavia Berlina makes a brief appearance (driven fast!) at 1.31.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdkIFrMY_v0

Andy, good spot it was only on screen for a brief moment, the film looks good too.

Not a Flavia - a "2000" :)

Do I at least get "anorak of the hour" ?

David

I think you do.  :)

On the same site as that D50 article Richard found:

https://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/james-hunt-the-shunt/

I'd forgotten the Hesketh teddy logo.

David

Tonight Wednesday BBC1 'Munich' ,spotted a parked silver Fulvia Coupe in Italy as well as a series 2 Fulvia Berlina, no doubt there were more but that's all that caught my eye.
I may be wrong but I'm fairly sure I saw a Silver ? Flaminia PF parked up in Paris.

Brian
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A New Hunt film due soon I understand

Turned over to Film 4 (Freeview 15) just after midnight to find a film that wasn't shown in the weekly TV guide in the Daily Mail, it was called 'The Arrival of Wang' , it was Italian with English subtitles and was about an Alien come to earth, the only thing of note was the appearance of a Thesis!
Has anyone else seen this one?

Brian
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In the trailer for Rush (mentioned above) Nicky Lauda is driving some friends in a Flavia/2000 saloon and is egged on to show some aggressive driving in it!

Did he really have one?

I was in the cinema the other night (watching Alpha Papa) and impulsively said 'oooh, Lancia' when I saw this...

(watch trailer on http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GEnQ7JOoaj0#t=16)

The Flavia sequence in the film Rush is a big grin moment!! Also think I saw the nose of a Flaminia parked at one of the scenes at the pits.

Thought the film a good watch but the lung hoovering almost made me throw up. I am a bit squeamish bit it was so real you were with Lauda the whole way through....probably the most horrible thing I have seen on film and definitely not entertainment!!!

Last night "Letters to Juliet" with Vanessa Redgrave in a romantic story, (tear Jerker) with a happy ending, searching for a lost love from her youth in Italy, filmed in Verona and Sienna, and featured a Dark Blue new Delta as the rental car they were driving around in for at least an hour through some lovely scenery.

Brian
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just turned on travel +1 to see an 037 rally being driven in anger in Italy , program is called fast lane:italy channel 252 on sky

Angels and Deamons aired last night , with Tom Hanks in the lead role completely over shadowed by the Black Lancia Delta  :)

Last night on TV a programme about when the IRA Kidnapped Shergar the famous racehorse, 10 minutes from the end I'm pretty sure I spotted a Beta Berlina parked after the gate on the left hand side as police vehicles were exiting the farm/stud, from where he was taken.

Brian
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Check the car 23 seconds in.
Very interesting piece of film that brings back many memories of my youth!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLaRH67dApI&sns=em

Brian
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Interesting film, before my time enjoyable anyway.

and mine! That could well have been me driving one of the Maltby cars. GPA? or EGF?
 Regards, John

I was 13!!!!

Some things have changed so much whilst others not so. 8mph in the centre of many large towns at certain times of the day is still a totally unrealisable dream !!!!

Look at the construction sites, not a hard hat, steel toe cap boot or a fluorescent jacket in sight.

As for design standards on the motorway itself, no central reserve barrier, no impact protection for bridge piers or abutments. The hard shoulders are of minimum construction and not a piece of armco to help prevent errant vehicles from careering down embankments ......... all of this and no speed restriction!!! Oh, and of course 'one for the road' was simply the done thing!!!

Freer times, but not, I think, the good old days!!

                                          Andy

I remember seeing a bad accident on the M1 between the A5 at Friars Wash J9, and the Hemel Hempstead turn J8, when a large lorry travelling south crossed the centre reservation and plowed into the north bound traffic, horrific accident and it wasn't so long after this they started adding the barrier to the central reservation, not before time!
Who needs a hard hat when a decent trilby was all you needed ;)

Brian
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John,
I tried blowing the picture up but I still couldn't make out the registration number :(

Brian
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That film was much enjoyed.  Reminds me of Thunderbirds and Eagle comic cutaways.  I got drawn in by the link to this one as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgOxglry8Dw&sns=em

Bridges get protection and the hard shoulder colour coded but no central barrier.  Its interesting to see how little has changed since that time.  They did a pretty good job getting us from the Victorian era to something that has lasted my lifetime with every indication it will see me out.

Its easy to say "what happened to that spirit" but Crossrail is a very impressive project and the Olympic Park and its transport systems went up at a stunning pace.   The main London stations are now being transformed in a similar way to the "grand schemes" for Hyde Park Corner and Marble Arch.

David

The spirit is still there David, in the sixties and seventies we led the world in suspension bridge design, just as we did when Isambard and his like ruled the engineering world The first Severn crossing and the Humber bridge were great engineering feats even if the latter was very poor value for money in transportation terms and was a purely political venture!!!

More recently it has been UK architects that have hit the headlines although when it comes to the tricky bits they then turn to the engineers!!!!!! That view is only a lot biased!!!

Perhaps one reason that we may have a relatively reduced presence on the world stage in  the field of large scale construction projects is that we live in a relatively small country and once led the world and thus most of our construction needs and requirements have already been met. People ask why we don't have sea and river defences of similar capability to those of the Dutch ....... one very good reason is that in the UK the great majority of our urbanised areas and farmland is above flood level, in Holland it is the opposite. So, they face a far greater risk from flooding and consequently have far superior flood defences!!

Most construction expenditure is needs driven, many of our needs have been met.

                                             Andy   

I love looking at the sign each time I come out of Schipol Airport that marks sea level about 2 metres above ground!

Also if you get the chance to see a great little film from the '60s called "The Tortoise and the Hare" - (by Pirelli I think) featuring an E type, a blonde and a Fiat petrol tanker - watch the opening scene in Rome -  quite a lot of Appias!

Brian Mills

Road building - the book and exhibition:

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/wellington-arch/exhibitions-at-the-arch/current-exhibition/

Friday afternoon Chanel 5 the 1999 film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and scripted by John Mortimer 'Tea With Mussolini' telling the story of a young Italian boy's upbringing by a group of English and American women who refuse to believe that World War II will affect them in any way. Maggie Smith and Judy Dench are, as ever, superb.

Nice shots of an Augusta.

Robin.

Was that a Lancia bus they all left on for San Gimignano?

P

Just watching reruns of Bergerac on BBC2, series 1 episode 10 starts with an overhead view of A40 Westway past Marylebone Road, and centre screen is a white or cream Beta Coupe

If you are a Sky subscriber then do catch the 'Rally de Monte Carlo Historique 2014' on Motors TV a repeat of which goes out at 6.25am tomorrow, Friday 7/3. Some great shots of Fulvia's and also a Stratos. The retro clips also featured Jean Claude Andruet in the Martini 037 from 1983 (or maybe '84?).

Motors TV 'Auto Mundial' is a weekly global review of the Automotive Industry, worth catching as it can be very informative. Fiat/Chrysler occasionally gets a mention but in episode 8 of the current series they featured the Lancia Delta HF in their 'Classic Tweet' of just over 2 minutes. Shown on a stand at a show was a German registered model 'K HF 83' minus a badge!     

Brannigan's Tower Bridge scene. Same Flavia as in Sweeney film. The red mini apparently was the one which nearly ran over Frank Spencer whilst he wasonrollerskates.

From 'The New Avengers' via Pistonheads

BBC 2 last Weds night 7/1, Supercars v Used Cars showed a job swap for 2 car salesman, one from London and the other from Bridgend. Joe Macari's showroom in SW London showed glorious Maserati's, Ferrari's and Lambo's so on the lookout for a Lancia obviously. Sure enough in the background outside the showroom and on the forecourt was a Maroon HF Integrale M35 DOY. Filmed last year sometime I wonder if it was sold to a club member? His current website shows the rare Delta S4 for sale at £240k if you're interested. Nothing spotted at the Bridgend garage!

If you are into Michael Portillo's 'Great Continental Railway Journeys' try his Rome to Taormina episode and see how many Ypsilon's you can count in Rome.     

Catching up on pre Christmas recording of Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace shown on BBC 4 10/12/2014. Certainly not expecting to see a Lancia but what looks like to be BBC continuity link shot in London with 2 bowler hatted executives beside a Lambda with registration PX 4213. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04tt1yj Scene is around 21'45" in.

Also - did you notice the spoilerless Stratos?

Only just got round to watching "Rush" , really enjoyed it, some excellent sequences and some gory bits.

A really good scene with a 2000 being driven by Niki Lauda whilst impressing "the girl". But the continuity-editor in me says that you cannot change gear that quickly in a 2000  (slightly stubborn 'box), even if you are Niki Lauda .... but they do handle as well shown !

Not perfect but recommend !

Ah yes a 2000 not a Flavia...... Although it has Flavia underpinnings.... And who knows if that box hadn't been fettled just for film... My 5 speeder in my (Fulvia) sport which is 180,000 miles young is surprisingly fast compared to all the other (Fulvia) 5 speeders I have driven.

I was taken by the thought that the gear stick in the film 2000 cameo was longer that in real life????

Smiley's People (currently being re-run by BBC). Episode 2 about 12 minutes in Smiley goes into a phone box to call a mini-cab. A passing red Beta Coupe is reflected in the glass. When he gets into the mini-cab there is a blue Gamma Saloon in the background (not there when he gets out!).

Those were the days when Lancia ruled the streets!

Alan Cooper sent me this one,not very good quality but very evocative; interesting as the pass is the way I came home from Turin in 2006, but it had obviously changed, although I did recognise one place which I thought was Pinarola.
Have a look at the large gent sitting onthe right in a dark overcoat about 10 minutes 10 seconds in, could it be Gianni  Lancia?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyATclz9ibo&feature=em-share_video_user

Brian
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Have a look at the large gent sitting onthe right in a dark overcoat about 10 minutes 10 seconds in, could it be Gianni  Lancia?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyATclz9ibo&feature=em-share_video_user

Brian
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[/quote] It certainly looks like him!
Regards, John

It certainly looks like him!
Regards, John
[/quote]
Thanks John.

Brian
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I don't know if this link has been posted before......

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles_make-Lancia.html

Every model of Lancia in various films, mainly just in the background though but a few have more prominent roles.

a few worthwhile clips from Alan Cooper.

http://footage.framepool.com/en/shot/758971089-lancia-flaminia-rally-monte-carlo-monte-carlo-monaco-car-racing

 

http://footage.framepool.com/en/shot/684116261-alfa-romeo-pininfarina-luigi-barzini-junior-lancia-flaminia-car-show

 

http://footage.framepool.com/en/shot/744150887-lancia-fulvia-sport-mobil-economy-run-mobil-oil-gasoline-consumption

 

http://footage.framepool.com/en/shot/428597307-lancia-flaminia-trunk-moderator-fashion-show

 

http://footage.framepool.com/en/shot/924749937-follonica-pocket-watch-lancia-stopwatch

 

and more! Just search for Lancia on the site


Brian
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Over the last 10 or 15 years I have chatted to Chris Rea at 1996 various race meetings, usually about racing, occasionally about music and very oiccasionall7y about his film La Passione. I have always thought the music in the film was great, even the Shuirley bassey song which he dislokes, but I had never seen the film. At the Goodwood Revival 4 or 5 years ago, we were in the Goodwood Hotel at the bar having a quiet drink together and I felt I could ask him where I might be able to get a copy of the film hacvuing failed to find anything previously on the internet. He told me that even he didn't have a copy! And that he actually disliked the final product so much as it had been hijacked by Warner Bros that he hoped it wouldn't be released on DVD.
At this years Revival we were in the same race and opposite each other in the paddock and he took great delight in telling me that he had bought the rights to the film and he wa   

Ooops! Hit the wrong button.
........and he was reworking the soundtrack and film selecting the best bits for re-release together with some unseen footage and also a lot of new footage from Wolfgang von Trips family.
I have got my copy now which comprises 2 CDs. 2 DVDs and a large book and the is an Aurelia B20 featured in the footage shown whilst 'Girl in a Sportscar' is playing on DVD1. There might be more Lancias on Film  - I have only watched selected bits so far.
Of course most of the car footage is Ferrari of the early 60's but nevertheless it is all very atmospherice together with Chris' music.
Well worth a look I reckon if you are into 50's and early 60's Italian cars and fashion.
Chris

Sorry. I didn't get a chance to proof read my first post today.
The original La Passione was released in 1996.
Chris

I have a copy - I guess it must be on VHS.

I've got my original copy and the music on a cassette tape, film apart from the cars was rubbish but ,OH the Music!

Brian
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Never noticed it before, but early in 'Dr. No', as Felix Leiter pulls out of Kingston airport to follow Bond, there is a beige Aurelia Spider in the parking slot opposite to him. Top down of course.

Just signed up for Netflix - late in the day , I know, but I started streaming the original "Day of the Jackal" and there is an S3 Appia about 15mins in ...

Plus loads of amazing DS's, HY's Simcas , R4's etc etc

More from Alan,

https://youtu.be/Y9qYcwnIOQs

Brian
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In message 43 of the thread LANCIAS ON FILM the late John Turner suggested that the 5th/8th modified torpedo of Wells Coates, the famous architect subsequently owned by Arnold Livingstone, was BY 2011 in Italy. This is one of the ten or so Lambdas that we believe in the Lambda Consortium and the Lambda World Register has probably survived but has been lost sight of. We have no information on its VIN number. If any reader has information about its whereabouts - even the continent it is in - or its VIN, that would be of interest.

My sister put me onto a Freeview channel called 'Talking Pictures'. I'm addicted to it now - they show all the old British films from the 50's and 60's and the street scenes and cars are superb - especially when set around the London Docks where I grew up. So I found myself watching Tito Gobbi in 'The Glass Mountain' a few months back (as you do) and towards the end a Lambda winds its way up a mountain road. I'm not a Lambda expert so can't tell you which series etc but I believe it was a closed saloon. A few weeks ago watched an old comedy called 'To Paris With Love' and towards the end of that an Aurelia is parked up next to Terry-Thomas' car. If you love old British stuff, like the old 'Scotland Yard' series etc this is the channel to wallow in.

Just noticed this thread, thought some of you might like this...
S1 Fulvia spotted in The Italian Job, and my virtually identical car.

You never know.........

I just watched "The Scarlet and the Black" about the Vatican underground in WW2. The lead character, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty played by Gregory Peck, has a couple of scenes where he uses a car which looked to me to be an Augusta. It's an excellent film so well worth the wait for a brief Lancia sighting.

There it is !!!

https://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=86251

https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_721957-Lancia-Augusta-231-1935.html

White on the wing edges and slits for the lights.

That's interesting. I didn't notice a scene with the full car in shot. I can't have been paying attention properly.

Tonight on talking pictures, 'Legend of the glass mountain'
Last 5 minutes a Lambda Saloon makes an appearance.
Brian
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BBC 2 drama 'Trust' now on catch up.

This is the tale of the Getty family and the true life kidnapping of John Paul Getty Jnr in 1973. I had a vague recolection of this so watched it. It wasn't until the half way through that the kidnapping took place, in Italy. Now I was interested but it was all Fiats and Alfa's for a couple of episodes. Then the class came when a Fulvia Berlina was used for an action shot along with a Flavia coupe. Then came in the background a Fulva coupe and also, I think a Flamminia Belina.


Worth a view but I warn you it is a bit gory in places.


Gerard.  8)   

Didn't watch it, but was on the laptop on the sofa one episode head down but somehow still spotted...

GINO!!!

https://www.facebook.com/The-Journeys-of-Gino-993772977334926/

...and isn't that the batmobile far left?

Also quite a few on the BBC Trust series on the kidnapping of Paul Getty.
At least two Flavias and a Fulvia Berlina..

BBC 1 Little Drummer Girl now on catch up/iplayer


Classic le Carre spy tale set in the late 1970's in Europe and about an Israeli / Palestinian undercover operation. A Mercedes W123 takes centre stage on the car front but to my surprise a Fulvia Berlinetta S2 plays a small characterful part as the shadow car through Austria in episode 3. If you get to episode 4 you get a shot of a Red Beta coupe in the background.


Keep your eyes peeled!


Gerard 

 

Sky Atlantic series "The Miracle".

 Set in modern Rome it is a political and supernatural thriller, with a Weeping Madonna and of course the Mafia. It was the Prime Minister's cavalcade in Episode 5, of 3 Lancia Chrysler Thema 300's (or however they marketed it) that on rewind, caught my eye. Last episode bought in the Mafia and something far more recognisable, an HF Integrale.  Still available on catchup but be warned there's a lot of blood (from the weeping Madonna) .     

Sky Documentary "Stirling"

A excellent documentary that I watched in the New Year not expecting to see any Lancia's. The 1948 Goodwood meet, 9 mins in, shows a racing Lambda manoeuvring in the background, No 51, I believe. Also, 1955 Le Mans, 34 mins in, shot shows the Jaguar D types, 7, 8 and 9 coming towards the camera, maybe in Parc Ferme, with an Aurelia following them. Maybe Mike Hawthorn driving the Aurelia as he had one then? He drove the winning Jag No 6.

Available on catch up but it also going out this Sat 9pm.

Have been watching Department S and happy to see the Fulvia  1st series coupe used in lots of episodes

I recently watched "Tea with Mussolini" which briefly features an Augusta and also a larger saloon I could not identify. The Augusta was used in place of the larger posher car as the passengers needed be less noticeable.

Mike

If you really want to get obscure try the Italian war film Girabub made in north Africa in 1942. It features 1ZM armoured cars (from 12:05) and 3Ro trucks (from 15:09).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OiqVz1wHgM

So, its a bit late (by 3 years) and its not been on here before, so theres no harm in a bit of Christmas "fun" with two Lancias (and an Iveco truck!)....

https://vimeo.com/248341774

Caught the tail of a Flaminia Coupe in the Serpent currently showing on BBC1, as well as catching out the series makers as they showed a Fiat 32 being used by the police in Thailand, then the same car in India 😂

Just catching up on The Young Montalbano how’s on BBC4, the mafioso just turned up in a red integrale Evo 2, with an Autobianchi A112 in the background. Already had the coroner driving a Lybra - so more Lancia already than the original Inspector Montalbano where he drives a Fiat Tipo with Regattas used a police cars

Yes the Integrale looked well sun bleached!

Netflix  -   Letters to Juliet

Delta Third Series  prominently featured throughout the film.

Robin.
 

Features prominently, and the film is a real tear jerker, I love it.
Brian
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Just watched the original Godfather film. At one point where the younger Corleone is exiled to Sicily there is a splendid Alfa 6C and in the background the rear end of an Augusta.

Mike

Whilst watching Channel 4 documentary ' Grace Kelly-Lost Tapes of a Princess' about 25 minutes in there is a a long moving shot of Prince Rainier driving an Appia coupe into, I presume, the Palace. The Reg is 2477. The documentary is repeated on Tuesday 15/6 at 8pm on Channel 4seven.

It was my wife who alerted me. She is the art lover in our household. She had been watching a recording from last July of BBC 4's 'Art Lovers Guide to Beirut' and something would interest me. Bernard Khoury is a Lebanese architect who arrives at work via a lift and drives to his desk in an electric Renault Twizy. He apparently likes cars and has them parked around his desk. I have to thank the film crew who gave the Lancia a full screen shot. Enjoy.

Cut and paste:

https://vimeo.com/265828861

 

This time it is a bullet ridden Thesis. Settled down to watch 'No time to Die' on TV expecting the usual selection of Aston Martin's. When Vespa's and Maserati's started appearing I started watching intently and sure enough an ageing Thesis (It's 20 years old and doesn't look its age) appeared in the chase, only to be shot to pieces. I don't want to spoil the film for you but below is a clip.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B95VPTFFVFI

A light coloured Lancia road car in the Fangio TV documentary which I saw today.

A beige (?) Series 2 Appia popped up a couple of times in street scenes on the Kim Philby drama 'A Spy Among Friends'.

theres one that pops up in WPC 56 too

Is this the Appia ?

That's the one in WPC 56

Second episode of the serial Gold about the Brinks Mat robbery.
A second series Fulvia Berlina on Swiss plates.

As Brian pointed out a Swiss S2 Fulvia saloon in the Brinks Mat BBC drama (shame about the wheels?) Following on, the BBC came up with a documentary: The Gold: The Inside Story. Original film taken outside the Heathrow warehouses where the Police were stopping all vehicles. Parked up was a Beta saloon. Maybe some gold in it? After all, getting 3 tonnes of gold (6,840 bars) into a Ford Transit and driving it away would be a challenge. 

A Prisma appears briefly in the first ten or fifteen minutes of the 2023 film The Pope's Exorcist, starring Russel Crowe.

Just been trying to watch The Wife Next door (French with Depardieu) and featuring a Lancia Delta …..

The other night I watched "The Devil Rides Out", a classic horror with Christopher Lee and featuring a red Lamda. There's a great car chase with a Bentley and I'm pretty sure I spotted another Lambda, black or very dark coloured, in a static shot plus a glimpse of what could have been a Theta or Kappa. The red Lambda gets crashed but I do hope it wasn't for real.

For your Lambda, see:
https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_197380-Lancia-Lambda-1928.html

For the cars used in that film:
https://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=62885

It's a very good write up on the red Lambda Sebastien but not a complete list of the cars that appear on screen.

Watching Ocean's 12 on TV the other night the rather attractive Interpol lady catches up with the crooks at the airport in a silver Kappa saloon.

Final scene of "The Courier", Greville Wynne returns home after release from Moscow prison. The same blue Appia?

Went to see the film Ferrari yesterday.

Set in 1957 there were lots of cars from this era in the various street scenes etc. so great for any Lancia, Alfa or FIAT fans!

A white Fulvia spotted in an episode of Vera on ITV last Sunday evening, in the distance in a garage with the boot open only  :(

I think I spotted at least one Lancia Ardea in C'e Ancora Domani, which I understand has been a big film in Italy.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21800162/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21800162/)

At 1 min 43 it looks like an Ardea to me too, narrowly missing being blown up.

2004 film Shaun of the Dead, 1500 Delta.  According to the DVLA it may have passed away end of 2003  :(