3 posts tagged “1986”

Before The Lord of the Rings, before Bad Taste even, Hong Kong film-makers on the crew of 最佳拍檔千里救差婆 (Aces Go Places IV) came to New Zealand to film their action–comedy.
   Watch as we go all from New Plymouth to Auckland to Wellington: by the miracle of film you can exit the Auckland Harbour Bridge and wind up on Willis Street, Wellington!
   Fly over the Cable Car tracks from the Clifton Terrace car park and wind up at … the Clifton Terrace car park going the opposite way!
   Fly off the Lombard car park and wind up on a Hong Kong sound stage, your Holden Torana turned into a Ford Taunus!
   You know this is old because the traffic on the Bridge is moving.
   You also know this is fiction because the drivers on the Bridge are letting other motorists through.
   Kiwi TV fans from the 1980s: look out for Credit Card hostess Gayle-Anne Jones as a henchwoman—yes, there were beautiful blonde TV hostesses before Hilary Timmins.
   And, Indiana Jones fans, that is Ronald Lacey there as the baddie in the Rolls-Royce.

I seem to remember one of the car brands doing a similar commercial here. This one is for Ford of Britain, made in the 1980s. If the Sierra there is a brand-new one, I would guess this was made around 1985 or 1986. It’s a nice, nostalgic trip through the 20th century and notice the British variation on the American ‘Quality is Job No. 1’ slogan at the end.

The scene with Sam Kinison in Back to School is probably my favourite, outranking the titty scene and each time Rodney Dangerfield calls Ned Beatty ‘Dean Martin’. Fun fact: before he was a comedian, Sam Kinison was a preacher.