Benz Dr., Do you know any of the history of the car/cars they used in that film?
In addition to all the first-hand info DanC can provide, I offer the following which stems from M-B Forum postings; way back in the 1990's:
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Kris Salzer wrote:
>./. ".... Turns out a lot of the existing old-style 230SL driver's side door panels were used up in a recent movie [film came out in 1994] that starred Richard Gere where he skids his 230SL sideways into another car. Thanks a lot, Dick..."./.
Hans: As a follow up I can mention that this (IMHO sentimental, but at least the lead character has good taste in cars....!) Paramount film is called "Intersection", and features shots throughout the movie, some of it great sequences, of a silver 280SL with hard top fitted.
What surprised me in the crash scenes was that the H/T stayed on although the car overturned several revolutions, and it did not cave in. Strong things these SL´s!
BTW, Richard Gere has M-B's in many of his films. "American Gigolo" (1980) for example prominently features a nice black R107.
More W113, Dudley Moore's girl friend "Samantha" (Julie Andrews) has the good taste of driving a silver SL Pagoda in the film "10" (also starring Bo Derek).
Hans in Sweden See "Intersection" just for the SL. Watch as Gere takes two hours to crash a 1970 280SL. (280SL owners may need counselling afterward.) Oh, and Sharon Stone is in it also.
/Jim MahaffeyThe film was shot in Canada, British Columbia, the Fraser Valley to be exact. In fact, his dying moments are in one of the hospitals in Abbotsford.
Regarding Intersection: my boss was the mechanic on set for that movie and currently maintains 2 of the surviving cars, a close eye will notice that all the cars had their front bumper overriders set too far apart -Why? A movie guy came to our shop looking for Jaguar E-types for use in the movie. My boss convinced him that a 280SL was a superior vehicle, and showed him one of our customers cars which had incorrectly placed overriders and a Nardi wheel--it was then the prototype for the movie cars.
/Randall Farac Remember, you can view SL scenes from this and other films right here on our Website;
http://www.sl113.org/wiki/Main/Video/Hans in Sweden