You boys are talking about one of my all-time favorite movies (guess that
dates me a bit), although I haven't seen it for a _long_ time.
Fred Astaire was indeed the main character involved in the car race but he
drove a Ferrari Monza, not a Jag.
And he didn't kill himself in the race, although a lot of other drivers
did - presumably as an alternative to a lingering death from the approaching
radioactive cloud. Astaire's character won the race but, having failed to
croak himself as he'd expected, drove the Ferrari into his garage, sealed
the door and sat in the cockpit revving the engine with a smile on his face
until his suicide was successful.
And yes indeed, a Coke bottle attached to a window shade and a
radiotelegraph key played a memorable part in the movie.
Jim Hill
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> > If this is the movie I think it is, the only thing I remember
> > is one of the characters deliberately killing himself by
> > crashing an E Type.
>
> That character, I believe, was played by Fred Astaire, and if it was an
> E-type, it had to be a pre-production model, because the movie was
> released in 1959. I think it was meant to look like a C- or D-type.
> Headrest fairing, right-hand drive, and large-mouth air intake, as I
> recall (it's been more than a decade since I've seen the movie on tape).
>
> Strange, but I don't remember all the details of the race. The most
> persistent image in the movie, for me, is the Coke bottle attached to
> the window shade and the radiotelegraph key set.
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