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I had a lot of fun tracking down movies containing big Healeys in this thread https://www.britishcarforum.com/bcf/showthread.php?94264-Pourquoi-viens-tu-si-tard and now I'm moving on to the Spridgets. I'll try to do one a day. Here's the first one:

Eegah (also known as Eegah: The Name Written in Blood) is a 1962 film starring Arch Hall, Jr., Arch Hall, Sr., Marilyn Manning and Richard Kiel in the titular role where teenagers stumble across a prehistoric caveman, who goes on a rampage.


The film's notoriety was enhanced as a result of being featured on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and was said by many to be an all time worst film and one of the films listed in Michael Medved's book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time. Here's what MST did with it:

 

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That was great! Good old Richard Kiel from Birmingham, AL...had a junk yard/scrap business there.
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That was great! Good old Richard Kiel from Birmingham, AL...had a junk yard/scrap business there.
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Oh, THAT Richard Kiel:

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I watched that MST3K clip last night right before bed... and I had the craziest dream. In my dream, the girl in the Sprite befriends Eegah (Richard Kiel) and he rides around on the parcel shelf of the Sprite (I know that is not possible but my unconscious is more familiar with later cars) helping her to become a better, more confident driver. Richard Kiel's head towering 4 feet above the windshield was pretty comic.
 

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So the Dad sounds like the same guy as is Christmas Story re Red Ryder Bb Gun. No clue on the teenager.
 
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So the Dad sounds like the same guy as is Christmas Story re Red Ryder Bb Gun. No clue on the teenager.

The Dad was Jesse White, the original Maytag Repairman:
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The teenage narrator's voice was Kurt Russell although the on screen actor was Spencer Quinn, who apart from two episodes of "The Smothers Brothers Summer Show" doesn't appear to have any further film credits.
 

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Interesting stuff. Keep 'me coming.
 

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I remember seeing the Disney film on the Wonderful World of Disney. IIRC when the kid is born, instead of crying when the doctor slaps him, you hear a car horn.
 
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Massacre at Central High is a 1976 horror-thriller film directed by Dutch director Rene Daalder, a protégé of Russ Meyer. Despite its title, it is not at all a slasher film; the film is more an odd and violent political allegory, which tells the story of a series of revenge killings against a group of bullies at a fictional Southern California high school.

I couldn't resist the opening scene with the portholed, winged and sidepiped van that looks like it was stolen from the A-team. And how about that jerk Rodney who not only drives a Shelby GT350 to high school but throws rocks at the poor Midgie. Don't worry, he'll get his.

 
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Night of the Big Heat is a 1967 British sci-fi horror film released by Planet Film Productions. Based on the 1959 novel of the same name by John Lymington, the film was directed by Terence Fisher, and starred Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and Jane Merrow. The film was released theatrically in the United States in the winter of 1971 by Maron Films as Island of the Burning ****ed, where it was paired up nationwide on a double bill with Godzilla's Revenge. While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties. The boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visiting scientist suspects aliens are to blame. Meanwhile the new secretary to the local best-selling author is raising the temperature in her own way.


 

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Rick seeing this SWA doing some driving down a country road making me jealous. I should have kept my '68 to drive while Bugsy II my '59 BE is under restoration. At present rate of speed more than a year away from enjoying a beautiful spring day.
 

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So the Dad sounds like the same guy as is Christmas Story re Red Ryder Bb Gun. No clue on the teenager.

The guy in Christmas story, was old-tyme radio personality Jean Shepard. Who coincidentally owned a Morgan and drove it everywhere (I saw him in it once).

The first car in the car lot of "Dad...can I borrow the car?" is a Ginetta, another British sports car (that's Kurt Russell in the lead).


One of my all time favourites; American Graffiti (which had just about one of everything in it in terms of cars)

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There is a move The Van. It is so bad it is funny. It is a little racy. It has two girls driving around in a Bugeye being pursued by a couple of guys in a van. One of the guys works at a car wash run by Danny Devito. I don't know how to do a link. It is on YouTube.

Thanks for the tip. There's a few more bugeye scenes in the movie, but the file I downloaded was corrupted at that point. BTW, how come the Dodge Dart gets the U-boat commander treatment going through the car wash with the top down and the bugeye is dry as a bone?

 

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LOL All of these are SO campy (except the Twilight Zone). Hilarious.
 
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