Puppet on a Chain *solved*

[jacobean]

Trying to recall a film where at some point there is a car chase - I think one of the cars is a Peugeot 604. I think it collides with another car and they end up crashing into a canal. It looked like it was filmed in Amsterdam??? Did Puppet on a chain have this scene???

[mysteriesofedgarwallace]

Possibly 'Ronin' (1998)?

[jacobean]

(mysteriesofedgarwallace @ Nov 25 2005, 04:34 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>

Possibly 'Ronin' (1998)?

[/b]

No it wasn't unfortunately - I should have said before that it was definitely from the 70's

[A Pemberton]

Luc Besson made "Taxi" that had a white peugeot 604 as the star of the film but this was 1990s and Paris ,not one of his best films ,it was a success though we are now at the last call on Taxi 4 or 5,not sure, and the americans in their wisdom have decided to remake it or americanize it for their fickle audiences [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/angry.gif[/img]

[Steve Crook]

(jacobean @ Nov 25 2005, 04:26 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>

Trying to recall a film where at some point there is a car chase - I think one of the cars is a Peugeot 604. I think it collides with another car and they end up crashing into a canal. It looked like it was filmed in Amsterdam??? Did Puppet on a chain have this scene???

[/b]

Is there any film made in Amsterdam with a car chase where at least one car doesn't end up in a canal?



Steve

[jacobean]

(Steve Crook @ Nov 27 2005, 09:10 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>

Is there any film made in Amsterdam with a car chase where at least one car doesn't end up in a canal?



Steve

[/b]

Yes youre right. Similar to when you see an old Jaguar in the Sweeney or Professionals - you know its going to get wrecked in a car chase

[PaulFromBristol]

(jacobean @ Nov 25 2005, 04:26 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>

Trying to recall a film where at some point there is a car chase - I think one of the cars is a Peugeot 604. I think it collides with another car and they end up crashing into a canal. It looked like it was filmed in Amsterdam??? Did Puppet on a chain have this scene???

[/b]

It was definitely Puppet on a chain 1970 directed byGeeffrey Reeve.

[hs81]

My other recollection from childhood. Saw this film when I was 9 or 10. How I got in the theater is not clear, I went with other kids from school. I lived in Venezuela at this time. The movie's Spanish title, when translated to English is "The end of the Circle", so who knows what the original English title may have been. This film left some indelible images.



At one scene (I think when the movie opens) someone in a room is looking at the bed, on which a person is laying down, sheets covered with blood. It was apparent that this had been a suicide. From here I think the movie goes back in time. Two things I remember, cars chasing through an areas with lots of canals (I do remember thinking that this was set in Holland).



Any hints? Thank you.....

[Davoo]

Hi - The only thriller set in Holland that immediately springs to mind is the 1971 Alastair MacLean 'Puppet On a Chain' but that has a very famous speedboat chase which I'm sure you would have remembered. What year did you see it at the cinema?



David

[NappieB]

name='Davoo']Hi - The only thriller set in Holland that immediately springs to mind is the 1971 Alastair MacLean 'Puppet On a Chain' but that has a very famous speedboat chase which I'm sure you would have remembered. What year did you see it at the cinema?



David

David - many thanks! I wanted to respond to HS 81 but couldn't remember the name of the film. "Puppet on a Chain" - that's the one that I've been thinking of (and it's been driving me crazy!) ever since he posed the question.

[hs81]

Thank you David (Davoo),



I believe you've got it. The mention of the speedboat triggered more memories. I'll look it up in imdb.com.



If it came in 1971, I was 9 then. I saw it at a matinee in Valencia, Venezuela. They used to get movie tickets to our school. That's how I got to see this movie, the Wizard of Oz and a whole bunch of Walt Disney movies. This particular movie was indeed the odd ball of the group, and perhaps why it left that memory imprinted.



Thanks again!

[batman]

There is also a Dutch thriller called 'Amsterdamned' which featured a chase through throught he streets of Amsterdam. It's a bit of a grisly affair and has one or two scenes with lots of blood, but I don't immediately recall the 'suicide' scene you describe.

[catflap]

I remember when I was in the first grade at school (about 4 years old) we would be taken to the church hall next door to the school every Friday afternoon to watch a movie run through a projector by one of the teachers.



These were usually Disney things or films about animals or cartoons or whatever, hauled out of the catalouge.



Anyway, one day the teacher said we we to see a movie about puppets - "a bit like Pinocchio" - I recall her saying.



She started the movie and, once the leader was running okay, wandered outside for a smoke (as was her usual habit).



Yep, the Alistair Maclean film started with a gal splayed on a bloody bed, boobs ahoy and syringes lying ssuspiciopusly next to her.



We saw most of the first reel and I think it was the sound of so many kids crying that had the teacher scurrying back inside and turning the projector off.



That was the last of the Friday afternoon movies at that school, sadly.



A couple of years later my parents needed to dump me for a while so dropped me off at a film 'a bit like humpty dumpty'.



It was "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg".



How I'm not in therapy, I don't know.

[batman]

name='catflap']I remember when I was in the first grade at school (about 4 years old) we would be taken to the church hall next door to the school every Friday afternoon to watch a movie run through a projector by one of the teachers.



These were usually Disney things or films about animals or cartoons or whatever, hauled out of the catalouge.



Anyway, one day the teacher said we we to see a movie about puppets - "a bit like Pinocchio" - I recall her saying.



She started the movie and, once the leader was running okay, wandered outside for a smoke (as was her usual habit).



Yep, the Alistair Maclean film started with a gal splayed on a bloody bed, boobs ahoy and syringes lying ssuspiciopusly next to her.



We saw most of the first reel and I think it was the sound of so many kids crying that had the teacher scurrying back inside and turning the projector off.



That was the last of the Friday afternoon movies at that school, sadly.



A couple of years later my parents needed to dump me for a while so dropped me off at a film 'a bit like humpty dumpty'.



It was "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg".



How I'm not in therapy, I don't know.

We had a great teacher when I was at school .... he was a Stanley baker fan so we used to get stuff like 'Prize of Arms' and 'Zulu' on 16mm in the school hall .... fantastic! Bats.

[Jack Gurney]

At boarding school, I also saw ZULU- alongside such oddities as GO FOR A TAKE and something called I'M FOR THE HIPPOPOTAMUS- which I believe was an Aussie film. There was also something else I can't remember the name if which started in a military courtyard with lots of red buildings (or was it just the soldiers' uniforms?) in the winter, followed by a lot of fire-lit indoor port-drinking Colonel and Field Marshal- style shenanigans. At least I think it was- it was so long ago it might have been something completely different!!



I should point out that I went to four different boarding schools, and that all the abovementioned events were completely and utterly unrelated.

[Merton Park]

There was always Operation Amsterdam with Tony Britton and Peter Finch and the Bond film Diamonds Are Forever had some scenes set in Amsterdam.

[catflap]

name='Jack Gurney']At boarding school, I also saw ZULU- alongside such oddities as GO FOR A TAKE and something called I'M FOR THE HIPPOPOTAMUS- which I believe was an Aussie film. .

Nah mate, I'm sure that was one of those Italian Terence Hill-Bud Spencer comedies that were surprisingly successful around the world in the 70s.

[batman]

name='Jack Gurney']At boarding school, I also saw ZULU- alongside such oddities as GO FOR A TAKE and something called I'M FOR THE HIPPOPOTAMUS- which I believe was an Aussie film. .

Although this film is a Hill/Spencer 'epic' it was partly funded by an Aussie Production company called Denver and featured 'Aussie Joe' Bugner (aka the man who didn't really beat Henry Cooper) so you're both right.



Bats

[catflap]

name='batman']Although this film is a Hill/Spencer 'epic' it was partly funded by an Aussie Production company called Denver and featured 'Aussie Joe' Bugner (aka the man who didn't really beat Henry Cooper) so you're both right.



Bats

Denver was an Aussie company?



And at the time, Bugner was still "Pommie Joe"!

[batman]

name='catflap']Denver was an Aussie company?



And at the time, Bugner was still "Pommie Joe"!

That's what I read in a book about Hill/Spencer. Terence Hill had deals with companies all over the world after he based himself in USA and Denver was, apparently, his Australian connection. If that's not correct please let me know.



If he was 'Pommie Joe' in 1979 and 'Aussie Joe' in mid 1980s (when he got duffed up by 'Big Frank') ..... when did the change happen?



Bats.