CMPs in the movies

[Little Jo]

Hi All
Another classic with a lot of Blitz in it was with the blitz ambulance in the desert. "Cold Ice In Alex" starring John Mills. Loved the movie even if there were a few ??? moments like backing up a sand dune backwards using the starter.

Cheers

Tony

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Little Jo

Hi All
Another classic with a lot of Blitz in it was with the blitz ambulance in the desert. "Cold Ice In Alex" starring John Mills. Loved the movie even if there were a few ??? moments like backing up a sand dune backwards using the starter.

Cheers

Tony

No Blitz ambulance there Tony .......... that was an Austin K2 ... and if you come to Corowa next year you will see one.

Actually in that film the film company were having traction problems and a local REME unit in Libya fitted CMP axles and transfer box to make it 4x4, and this is visible in the part where they are winding the ambulance up a sand dune

[Jon McGrath]

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

Hi Alan

Good spotting, I meant to include this picture as well

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Another movie with of CMPs is called I believe Commandos Strike at Dawn.

Cheers Phil

Another movie that was filmed in and around Victoria, BC. It included some members of a local artillery battery. Jon

[Little Jo]

Originally Posted by Richard Farrant

No Blitz ambulance there Tony .......... that was an Austin K2 ... and if you come to Corowa next year you will see one.

Actually in that film the film company were having traction problems and a local REME unit in Libya fitted CMP axles and transfer box to make it 4x4, and this is visible in the part where they are winding the ambulance up a sand dune

Hi Richard

I just proved I know very little about CMP vehicles, However I am a Jeep man. It was still a good movie.

Cheers

Tony

[Nigel Watson]

Have just watched a Czech film called Tobruk about a unit of theirs who fought with a Polish Div at Tobruk. Subtitles but well produced film with some good sequences of CMP trucks.
Don't know how accurate the scenario is though.

[Tony Wheeler]

Originally Posted by Nigel Watson

Have just watched a Czech film called Tobruk.....with some good sequences of CMP trucks

...particularly the 9th Australian Div Cab 12 scene which runs for several minutes. Some pics here:

http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...=Tobruk&page=2

[Dean (Ajax)]

There was one in the Hong Kong sceen in the recent film PACIFIC RIM. it is sitting off to the side with a bunch of Stuff on it when the baby "Monster" comes out of the dead mother.

[Dinty]

I'm reasonably certain (but age is catching up LOL) that in the movie 'Bad Blood' with Jack Thompson, set in New Zealand during WW2, that somewhere in the movie I spotted a CMP? but it has been a long time since I saw that movie, cheers Dennis

[Rob Beale]

There are two CMP in that movie Bad Blood. One is a C8AX and the other a C60.

Rob

[Lynn Eades]

... And I know one of the soldiers in it! (as far as claims to fame go, that's the best I can come up with!)

[m606paz]

Don´t forget Cast a Giant Shadow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD-8-09guFg

[r.morrison]

I've wanted to contribute something to this thread for ages. Many years ago, even before I got involved with this hobby, I watched a movie with the late great English actor Jack Hawkins (Bridge on The River Kwai Fame). The story line took place, I recall, in Singapore (?) after the war. It was somewhat of an spy movie, us guys versus the "commies" sort of era. But there was a great amount of the movie when they zipped around Singapore, escaping this or chasing that, in a CMP Cab 13 3 Tonner GS. I've been buggered to find or locate the movie. Anyone in the UK recall this movie or "down under" for that matter.

Get out and be part of Remembrance Day tomorrow and "Just Remember". Cheers.....Robert

[warren brown]

It could have been the film 'Outpost in Malaya' (1952) - this is what imdb says about it : The marriage of rubber-plantation owner Jim Frazer and his wife, Liz, which has survived many disasters, including years in a Japanese internment camp, is at a breaking point. Under constant threats of bandit attacks and concerned with the safety of his plantation and the people on it, Jim spares no time for his marriage. Liz is to take their young son, Mike, home to school in England, and, without telling Jim, does not plan to return. A neighboring plantation is attacked and the owner killed just prior to her departure. Liz and Jim get arms and ammunition from a near-by town, and a night of terror follows as the bandits attack.

[lynx42]

Originally Posted by m606paz

Don´t forget Cast a Giant Shadow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD-8-09guFg

Hi Mariano,
That one is not a CMP but a White (Make not colour) ex school bus.There is one somewhat like it on Ebay at the moment.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/121481826055...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Good movie though,
thanks Rick.

[m606paz]

Hi Rick

I put the beginning of the movie so that they can identify.

But the scene in the picture, is when they are building a road on the hill, and the possibility of falling rocks ...



http://youtu.be/Dz_Gj5noMFA

Regards!

[lynx42]

Thanks Mariano,
Loved that footage, wonder why the driver did not have the C60L in four wheel drive from the start of the rise. The film producers must have had some strong cables to stop the truck going over the edge when the rear wheels were hanging in open space.

Regards Rick.

[Dennis Gelean (RIP)]

Many years ago I bought a CMP F15a with a 2K1 body out of Ontario and had it shipped to BC. It was painted in German grey with ambulance cross on it. a flag pole welded from above rad to centre of roof on a angle. in a movie the left front had been on fire. It should be ready for 2016 western command convoy. it is complete with original radio table Ws19 and all the kit and antennas and masts. will need new tires. a portable Museum.

[Keith Orpin]

Could only be a C60 L to make it to the top !
Best regards
Keith

[Keith Webb]

This was broadcast today on Australian ABC's Landline program - the link may not work overseas and will probably not be available for long, but hopefully you can see it. Ian Doyle and I put a documentary together earlier this year which just happens to be full of CMPs in outback Australia. The colour footage is particularly interesting. Some may recognise some of the sound effects from Year of the Blitz which we hastily had to add at the last moment.
http://www.abc.net.au/landline/conte...4/s4129598.htm

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Keith

Link works in the US. Thanks for posting.

Cheers Phil

[motto]

Thanks Keith, I was unaware of the Landline program about, 'Back of Beyond'.
I'm always interested in the history of the area accessed from the Birdsville Track. Particularly since driving it in my L/L Chev in 2000

Dave

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by motto

Thanks Keith, I was unaware of the Landline program about, 'Back of Beyond'.
I'm always interested in the history of the area accessed from the Birdsville Track. Particularly since driving it in my L/L Chev in 2000

Dave

My co-producer Ian Doyle and I allowed Landline to use part of our documentary Mailmen from the Back of Beyond which they cut down to a story about the making of the movie, but of course that's only a small part of the overall story we tell. I will have copies of the complete documentary set (including Last Mail from Birdsville) for sale at Corowa next March, or you can order one earlier through the RFDS.
One of the great finds for us was Colin Wagener's footage in colour taken over a series of trips to the outback, the first one where he went on a mail run in the green Chev blitz Tom was using at the time. There's a shot of it in Marree being re-engined with a Perkins as too much load was taken up with fuel when using petrol engines, especially going through the Naterannie sand dunes north of the Cooper, a lot of low range 4X4 driving. Tom described climbing a sandhill in a blitz was like taking off in a DC3. If you go to http://www.lastmailfrombirdsville.co...collection.php you can see a lot more of the footage shot by Colin Wagener. I have been making a series of videos for the website with additional material and stories we couldn't include in the main documentary.

[Little Jo]

Hi Kieth

I just finished watching the ABC Landline Program here in Penang Malaysia. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks mate well put together.
Cheers

Tony

[Richard Farrant]

Hi Keith,
I watched the Landline programme earlier and thought it was excellent. Many years ago, before I ever thought I would make it out there I bought a book, which I sadly lost through lending it, which might have been called something like "Last of the Mailmen", with stories of all those doing the mail runs, absolutely fascinating. I would love to read it again since now having driven though that area several times.

regards Richard

[Allan L]

'MAIL for the Back of Beyond' by John Maddock has a good history of the Birdsville, Strzelecki etc mail runs, including the operators and their trucks.

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Allan L

'MAIL for the Back of Beyond' by John Maddock has a good history of the Birdsville, Strzelecki etc mail runs, including the operators and their trucks.

Thanks Allan, I think that may well have been the book I once had, I recollect the cover showed an old Blitz mail truck coming over a sandhill

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

"Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper (1981)" is a Canadian movie about the time the Canadian embassy saved a batch of Americans when the Iranian Shaw was deposed. I don't have the movie but in the opening scenes there is a Chev 15cwt wireless van dressed up as a Iranian army truck. I know because it was my truck they used!!

[Jon Skagfeld]

Bruce...the Shah was deposed...

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Jon Skagfeld

Bruce...the Shah was deposed...

Shah, Smhaw. Whoever the bugger was he never shaw it coming...

[chalky]

Anyone know what this is ? , from a 1945 film set in England called Painted Boats, LHD AND may have a CZ number.