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  1. carguy

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    #1 carguy, Feb 22, 2011
    The 1959 movie is "On the Beach" starring Gregory Peck, Fred Astair, and Ave Gardner. It's about what happens to the rest of the world after the US and USSR have a nuclear exchange, with radiation fall-out descending on areas not directly hit. Anyway...Fred Astair buys an old race car (Ferrari) and proceeds to race it and drive it...it's white in collor and I really can't tell what model Ferrari it is. But I thought it was interesting. I see other threads where people try to name all the movies that have a Ferrari in them, but I don't recall this movie being mentioned.
     
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    #4 El Wayne, Feb 22, 2011
    750 Monza s/n 0492 M.
     
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    #5 VIZSLA, Feb 23, 2011
    Jeez Wayne it took you an hour.
    Everything OK?

    :D
     
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    #6 tatcat, Feb 23, 2011
    i love how fred astair bolts on the plaque just before he starts the engine and blocks the door of the garage. it's good to know ferrari won the last gp in the world and how ironic the last car running in the world is english.
     
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    #7 Arvin Grajau, Feb 23, 2011
    and what did Ava Gardiner say about Melbourne?
     
  8. treventotto

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    #8 treventotto, Feb 24, 2011
    Here's a nice scene with the Monza in a race

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2KkbHxo6po[/ame]
     
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    #9 VIZSLA, Feb 24, 2011
    Astaire.

    Great movie. While he had done a number of light dance/musicals before his acting in OTB surprised the heck out of a lot of people.
     
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    #10 JazzyO, Feb 24, 2011
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    #11 VIZSLA, Feb 24, 2011
    Just used race cars then :)
     
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    #12 tongascrew, Feb 24, 2011
    One of my favorits.A great film that has a real message and told so well. And the 750 Monza is a treat.just one man's opinion tongascrew
     
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    #13 Miltonian, Feb 24, 2011
    Ava Gardner is cross with Fred Astaire for driving his Ferrari near to where the cows are grazing. She says "the cows won't give milk for a week" due to the awful noise he has created. Well duh, the cows are grazing on highly radioactive grass, and she only drinks brandy anyway. She's all testy just because everyone is about to die.

    I noticed that the plaque screwed onto the nose of the Ferrari declares that it was the winner of the 1964 Australian Grand Prix, so I guess the movie took place slightly in the future at the time it was made.
     
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    #14 JazzyO, Feb 25, 2011
    Yes, but I wouldn't have done those stunts. It seems not just the cars were expendable. :)


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    #15 VIZSLA, Feb 25, 2011
    Certainly not just in that film. In those days there was a romantic fatalism attached to motor racing that seems inconceivable today.
     
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    #16 Stackhouse, Feb 27, 2011
    Nutz!!
     
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    #17 velocetwo, Feb 27, 2011
    Thats some wild driving! Corey Loftin did a number of the stunts.
     

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