CMPs in the movies

[mike mckinley]

Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
This topic was also discussed many years ago, one the movies that came up was Operation Dumbo Drop.

hi hanno

did you notice the left hand steering on the dumbo drop truck...strange? mike

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

I did, and tried to see any indication how it was done underneath the front...odd!! With the twin rears, I wondered whether it was a CMP cab grafted onto something else? Now Hanno seems to imply that this was the case.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

The Dumbo Drop CMP was discussed on the old MLU forum many years ago, I think we came to the conclusion it is a true bitsa of which many can be found in e.g. Burma, where I believe this movie was shot.

H.

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

The Dumbo Drop CMP was discussed on the old MLU forum many years ago, I think we came to the conclusion it is a true bitsa of which many can be found in e.g. Burma, where I believe this movie was shot.

Just watched this movie recently and was surprised to see a CMP in it. The LHD had me confused too and so I searched MLU thinking it may have been discussed in the past. According to wikipedia the movie was filmed in Thailand.

[Tony Wheeler]

9th Div Cab 12 in Caunter scheme from the Czech movie Tobruk. Quite a long scene featuring the vehicle including from inside the cab with some nice gear whine.

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[Phil Waterman]

Hi Tony

Has that Tobruk movie been released? And if so in what countries and under what title?

Those are great screen shots.

I notice that the truck in the top shot doesn't seem to have the expanded metal grill and in the last shot it does. Also the Ford in the last shot seems to have the expanded metal Chevy style instead of Ford crossed wire style, looking at period pictures it looks like these got swapped around or removed completely.

Cheers Phil

[Dirk Leegwater (RIP)]

Originally posted by Phil Waterman
Yes CMPs come up in any number of movie films on TV......

Hi Phil, some Canadian trucks of the Dutch "Zwartbook" movie.

Mvg. Dirk

http://www.hab3045.nl/ill/zwartboekbevrijding.wmv

[Rob Beale]

called "Bad Blood" featured a C8AX. It is the story of Stanley Graham, who shot dead a number of police and citizens in 1941, as he wasn't too happy about having to hand over his rifles for the Home Guard. A major manhunt ended with his death some weeks later. Apparently Lord Hawhaw sent a message that Hitler would send a man to hold the North Island, while he held the South!

Rob
ps we saw the truck parked up in Greymouth in late 1984 as we recovered another C8AX

[maverick]

Think this is my F30 in Ike a mini series with Lee Remick and Robert Duvall

[Rhett Fisher]

Hello Alan,
No "think" about it. It is definitely your F30 with yours truly behind the steering wheel, wearing a beret, battledress blouse, jeans and trainers! Happy Days (sigh). have you freed that engine yet?
Regards,
Rhett.

[cmperry4]

I think I mentioned this before - if you can tear your eyes off Tia Carrere for a second or two, a CMP appears as a "Chinese truck" in one or more episodes of Relic Hunter (filmed in TO, so someone must know whose it was). A good show for Land Rovers, too, and a Rover P5 car shows up in some as "generic Third World auto." Various deuces appear in other episodes, as well.

[Rob Beale]

has a CMP with a crane in the background in the opening scenes. It is set in South East Asia in the post WW2 period, starring Billy Zane.

I also spotted a Ford GTB in the "making of" feature on the Papillion DVD. It has a camera boom fitted on the rear.

Rob

[Keith Orpin]

There is brief shot of a CMP 13 pattern cab 3 tonner, on an airfield which appears in The Malta Story. The only other film I caught the tailend of the other night was called "Betrayed" This showed a Ford 15cwt GS parked near the side of a house being used by the British Army as a headquarters, and one of the cast ends up being shot, falls though a window and onto the top of the Ford.
Keith
PS,
I also have somewhere, a documentary on the Burma Road, which starts off showing CMP's lurching along this important supply road

[gjamo]

Let me apologize for the quality of the pic , but you get the idea. This FAT appears in many shots in this kids baseball movie in Russia.

"The Comrades of Summer" (1992)

HBO video 90689

[aj.lec]

I was watching the movie Mad Max last night and there is a CMP in the background of the scene at the farmhouse

[Cameron Reed]

couple in the movie Australia and of course some driven by the iconic australia post man Tom Kruse in the 1954 film/documentry "The Back of Beyond"

[Keith Webb]

Indeed, and also in our documentary Last Mail from Birdsville - the story of Tom Kruse: link to pics.

Originally Posted by chopper

couple in the movie Australia and of course some driven by the iconic australia post man Tom Kruse in the 1954 film/documentry "The Back of Beyond"

[Alan McGuinness]

How about "Betrayed" (1954):

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ORIGIAL-19...item35ccc63a93

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betrayed_%281954_film%29

[Phil Waterman]

Hi All

I have a list of movies I have spotted CMPs in but my biggest problem has been grabbing a still picture out of the movie.

Can you name this movie stared James Cagney, shot in the US and Canada in 1947?
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It is listed on IMCDb incorrectly as a C15A anybody a member of that forum might want to correct it and tell them what CMP stands for. http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_328438-...-C15A-CMP.html

Don't worry about being held in suspense about the name of the movie I'll disclose it later if nobody hits it. No fair going to the movie link before guessing.

Only movie my HUP was in the entire 3 days of shooting ended up on the cutting room floor. Never been paid so much to be so bored.

Cheers Phil

[Tony Wheeler]

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

Can you name this movie stared James Cagney, shot in the US and Canada in 1947?

I can't recall this movie Phil, but I've definitely heard the movie title "13 Rue Madeleine", so I'm guessing this is it, since that's the jpeg image title! Next time you might want to change the filename Phil. D'OH!!

[Tony Wheeler]

BTW I'm still waiting for an answer to the trivia question above: "From the doco series When Weather Changed History, I'll let you guess which episode..."

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Tony

Yup should have saved the picture under one of 5 other names this film was released as.

The HUP shows up a couple of times during the movie, strange how the movie people like to pick CMPs to represent Exotic Enemy vehicles. Or was it that CMPs were just so good that the orders were to capture them if the chance arose instead of just destroying.

But then again most movie types can't tell the difference between vehicles even when they are offered the correct vehicles.


Cheers Phil

[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

[Matthew P]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

I watched the DVD of the famous Australian movie "Mad Max" (Not about Max Hedges) which was also called something like Road Warrior in it's US release and sure enough, there's a CMP in it - not exactly starring mind you, but located outside a junkyard in a couple of scenes.
The movie is showing it's age (24 years old) but it really has become a cult film. It stars a young Mel Gibson and has it's moments of extreme violence (R rated here).

Watched Mad Max the other night for the first time and spotted the CMP. So I did a SEARCH before posting and found this thread.

Matt