what old movie featured minis tearing around amsterdam jumping canal bridges etc top stunt action... i remember seeing this years ago and being way impressed.. may well be what first got me into minis... anyways i bought a dvd called mini at JB last night and it featured a few clips from the above mentioned film...
ANY ONE KNOW????

also bought "Cradle of filth" but thats another story

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Amsterdam ? Hmmmmmm....

you're not thinking of the original "The Italian Job" are you?

I got my copy in the mail from JB yesterday - hoping to watch it tonight

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Too many cars, and too little time.

no but nice try i bought that movie too .. 2 mini one death metal LOL the italian job is in italy strangely enough LOL...

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i had a thought it might be something to do with the beatles but i could be way off track

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OH PHEW!!!!!

I don't know it....so that means I aint no old dude!!!

no Anton, it's not that you're not old, it just means you didn't get out enough when you were young.....

I am an old dude but I don't know what film it was either....

proves my point - Anton is old

Smokie is old and doesn't remember the movie, Anton doesn't remember the movie, so Anton must be old too

had the idea to check the credits on the dvd, but it didnt mention the sorce of the film.

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get farked my geeky name

danidad:

Im very sure that this was a special promotional video for Austin/Morris Holland, around about 1972 or so, if i recall correctly the car in the video is a Red UK style Mk3 pretty standard not Cooper S or anything, which fits in with the timespan. If my memory serves me correctly, the stunts were performed by Remy Julienne's team (the same famous contemporary french stunt team who drove all the stunts in the Italian Job original) but I may be wrong on that one.

Watch the crowds of people in the vid, they are all looking at the mini in that advertising style "i want one of those" kinda poses. Also in the full version the clip ends with the mini on a pontoon boat thing by itself just cruising down the canal. I have the DVD you mention, but I've seen the full version at the UK's National Motor Museum (Beaulieu) when they had their Mini45 exhibit and it was playing with a whole lot of other promotional videos etc for the mini.

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thanks MistyK, that could be it funny i remembered it as a movie but i was only 9 in 1972 and i cant remember any other movies of the era.. kinda explains why i couldnt find anything about it on the internet searching for a movie... that bmc add with the whole town driving minis is pretty out there too.

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Yeah that's a great ad too! I didnt notice on my first look at it but it's actually for Australian Deluxe, all the cars have windup windows and the start of the clip looks very outback w/ gum trees etc. I would love to get a copy of that ad with original sound too it truly is a classic.

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i almost cried at the end of the original italian job when they threw those precious coopers off the cliff not to mention the aston martins and e type jags they trashed at the beginning sad sad sad...

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Bling me up Scotty!
"wait till it grows into a plant...then bunny rabbit THE PLANT!"

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Well fear not - they weren't cooper S's that went over the cliff. If you have it on DVD check it out again