: An RAF squadron is assigned to knock out a Nazi rocket fuel factory in Norway, by flying up a well-defended fjord at low level.

This one is an awful oldie, but it belongs in the serious Land Rover collectors library. Its about an RAF Mosquito squadron on a mission to blow up a Nazi base in Norway. So, what are Land Rovers doing in WWII? Thats the charm of this choc-full-of-errors film. Watch for an RAF 109 in the opening scenes as the planes land at their base. Later, look for RAF ground officers scurrying to their Series One insufficiently obscured by bushes. Perhaps the most glaring celluloid license is a British 1960s Saracen blatantly masquerading as a 1940s German armoured car (with no bushes to hide the indecency).

Disney film with some good Rover content in the start of the film. Takes place in southern Africa. Quite a decent show, with some great shots ofthe African landscape. For more details and a movie trailer click here.

 

 This is an adaption of Neville Shute's novel by the same name .  An English secretary is made a prisoner of war by the Japanese after the fall of Malaya and Singapore.  When none of the Japanese POW camp comandants will accept a group of women and children they are marched under guard from camp to camp, suffering the trials and humiliation of exhaustion, hunger and disease.  Along the way Vivian McKenna's character meets an Australian POW played by Peter Finch who reminisces about his home in Alice Springs.   After the war each unknowingly goes unsuccessfully in search of the other.  When all seems lost, they meet by accident in Alice Springs airport. 

 

An 80" Land Rover features in Vivian's search for Peter in outback Northern Territory. 

I uploaded an edited version only showcaseing the series one in the movie. It only feature'd for min or so. You can view it on youtube here

 

I did post it before but it was to dark here it is again lightened up.

 

 

Pet detective Ace Ventura comes out of retirement to investigate the disappearance of a rare white bat, the symbol of an African tribe.

If you are a die-hard Land Rover spotter, be forewarned also that this is no Gods Must Be Crazy, either in comedy or in Land Rover action. A couple of beautifully restored 88s (a Series IIA and a Series III) figure fairly prominently in the action. In all, eight Land Rovers were used in the film, most doubling for each other. Mike Smith and his East Coast Rover Co of Camden, Maine, filled the contract, restoring five 88s to identical mint condition in the period of one week. Film director Steve Oedekerk was so impressed that he ordered three more and wrote fifty more pages of script for added Land Rover action. The movie company hired the entire crew of East Coast Rover to maintain the vehicles during filming, which actually took place in the sub-Saharan environs of Charleston, South Carolina, and San Antonio, Texas. The director planned to re-sell the Rovers and swore no harm would come to them. To learn more and see a movie pre-view click here