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Wed 29 Oct, 2003 05:38 pm
Hello!
I am a student in film and for a homework bonus question I need to find the Make of the yellow sports car that Kyle Hadley(Robert Stack) drives in Written on the Wind.
It is a very tough question!
Thank you in advance for you help.
I think it was a T Bird but I'd have to research it.
Try:
www.imdb.com
and enter the title of the film. It may be in trivia.
yellow sports car
Thanks lightwizard, but please check because I thought it was a Corvette.
Thanks for your help/
I am torn between a Corvette and T Bird but I'd likely bet more on the Corvette. I asked Roger Ebert but it would have to be included on his daily Answer Man as he doesn't respond to individual E mails. Let's see if anyone here remembers or has the film on tape or video -- I'd bet they can't stand it and will have to fast forward through (wouldn't take long as the car shows up early in the film).
Very true. Thank you again for trying to find sources
I will keep searching.
It's a special built sports car called a Woodill Wildfire, a real car that was built by SoCal's Robert "Woody" Woodill in 1952-53. This from someone in the industry and a phone call away.
(Nobody's gonna recognize what it is from fast forwarding through the DVD). The car was also featured in "Johnny Dark" with Tony Curtis:
http://www.sd455.com/moviejohnnydark.htm
Lightwizard......
You amaze me!
I bowl myself over sometimes -- I was searching with Google just for the sport (sic) of it and on the phone to the Hollywood Hills at the same time. It was a rush!
I'm betting that drag_on is the only person in her class that gets the answer to this, thanks to you.
You kinda have to wonder who the teacher is to come up with such a question, don't you?
yellow sportscar
Dear Lightwizard
Thank you so so so much for your enormus help.
It is greatly appreciated.
You are a real wizard!!!!!
:wink: :wink:
Well, if someone really knows who to call and how to make Google do its little tricks...
Awww now. Don't go getting all modest on us.....
Well Lightwizard, you're a better google than I. I just spent a good hour trying to google this one and came up with nada, zip, zero. High five wizard ;-)
I also used my phone a friend -- I saved my asked the audience and eliminate two of the wrong answers. Do I win the million dollars? Our site at the gallery gets Googled every day for key words, names and phrases so I have a good idea how the algorhythms work. Well also my phone a friend came up with the same answer from memory.
Yeah, I can see how helpful that phone a friend can be and you know that the audience is known to be wrong.
if you click on IMAGES in google, and put in Woodill Wildfire, there are a number of pictures of this rather Tr-2 looking car.
My third choice from memory was the Tr-2 but couldn't get it off my tongue. Hope this doesn't stretch the screen:
It's red and Dorothy Malone drove a red sportscar in the film -- gee, I wonder!
(Didn't stretch it too much, so I guess I'll leave it).
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