[FWDLK] The Car That Ate Paris

["Bill K." <pontiac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The other night I saw this on cable, made in 1974 in Australia "The Car That Ate Paris" ...  a horror film where the town conspires to cause outsiders to crash their cars and they then both rob the people and salvage their cars, while a mad doctor performs lobotomy-like experiments on the people that make it to the hospital.

 

Although most of the vehicles are Australian or European - various vintage Holdens, a Mini-Cooper, and others - the police car is a RHD '59 Chevy, and the mayor's car is a RHD '58 DeSoto Firesweep sedan.   Of course by the end of the movie they smash hell out of the back of it, but it's another movie with a Forward Look car prominently featured.  I also noticed a couple Mopars in scenes of the local junkyard; a mid-50s DeSoto Ute (one of those with the 54 Plymouth body shell) was most obvious.

 

I saw it on IFC, I don't know what the availability of it is but I suppose a check of IMDB would tell you.  

 

 

Bill K.

 

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