Movies Or TV Shows Starring A P15 Or D24
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The Defiant Ones
With Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier. Tony fires up an old barn fresh D24
to make a getaway.
Songs Of Ordinary Times
With Sissy Spacek and Beau Bridges. Movie was filmed in Windsor, Nova
Scotia, Canada and stars one of the D24s in our photo gallery.
They Live By Night
1949 with Farley Granger features a P-15 convertible.
Cause For Alarm
1951 with Loretta Young has a P-15 club coupe in it.
Magnificent Obsession
starring Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman. One, possibly two P15s keep showing
up throughout the movie. As an Airwing Gray taxi in multiple scenes and
sporadically as an Airwing Gray passing motorist (It was likely the same
car with the taxi stuff removed). In one critical scene, Hudson gets in
the P15 taxi with Wyman who is trying to get away from him. This provides
some great interior shots. The seats are covered with the Gorvin seat
covers you see on ebay so often. Wyman, trying to escape opens the suicide
door and get nailed by a passing car (hmm, perhaps the true origin of the
name is revealed).
New York New York
With Robert De Niro and Liza Minelli. Filmed in 1977 but takes place right
after WWII. Several P-15's. De Niro even drives one in the movie.
A Beautiful Mind
Starring Russel Crowe and a couple of P15's.
Mattlock
TV series episode titled "The Diner", Mattlock buys a P15 4 dr. from his
client so the client can make bail. Even shows a 40's or 50's tow truck
hooking it up to tow it away from the clients house.
The Shadow
1994 file starring Alec Baldwin, Penelope Ann Miller and John Lone. P15
and D24 heaven! Many scenes with P15 and D24 taxi cabs. Nice maroon D24
pulls up behind "Lamont Cranston" at the "Cobalt Club" and also when the
"Hotel Monolith" appears from the "clouded minds" of the New York
citizenry. Look for that grill! Very good movie for old car lovers in
general.
The Godfather I
You can catch a peek of a D-24. After they tried to kill him and he was
put in the hospital they are taking the Godfather out the back of the
hospital to a safer place. You'll notice the D-24 facing the camera next
to the unloading ramp.
The Godfather II
Classic mob film, scene where Pentangeli and Willi Cicci go to a bar to
meet with another mobster. (this is the scene where Pentangeli gets
strangled in the phone booth but lives). They are standing outside the bar
waiting to go inside and seen clearly behind them a P15 Business Coupe
slowly drives directly behind them in full view.
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter ?
1957 comedy starring Tony Randall and Jayne Mansfield. Scene where Randal
(Hunter) is running from a mob of teenage girls and ducks into a P15 taxi
cab. What is unusual is he climbs out the sunroof ! This P15 taxi had a
sunroof above the rear passenger seats.
Roswell: The Alien Attacks
Sci-Fi channel movie about Roswell, New Mexico. An alien female gets a
ride into town in the P15 Club Coupe. She later kills the man and
confiscates his P15. Also shots of a nice maroon D24. The cars make up for
the movie !
Joe Gould's Secret
A black P15 Coupe with fender skirts drives past as the two main
characters stand on a street corner. Same car drives by again in another
scene
Pollock
P15 and a couple of Desotos in this one as well as a P14 Plymouth in an
early scene (timeline from 1941 to early 50s).
Cool Hand Luke
A P15 police car is one of the stars besides Paul Newman.
The Runaway
P15 police car had a prominent amount of screen time on Hallmark Theatre
movie "The Runaway".
Mischief
Several scenes with a P-15 as background and with one of the characters
working under the hood of a Beige or Gray P-15 Special Deluxe Club coupe
at a garage. In the background of the garage is a green with black fenders
Dodge Pickup. Movie is teenage coming of age taking place in the Midwest
in 1955.
Dark City
1950 classic has numerous shots of Charleton Heston driving, jumping in
and out of a P-15.
China Town
With Jack Nicholson, one of the LAPD cars in front of the courthouse is a
P15. The one right in front is a Ford, but then as he turns to walk back
up the steps the unmistakeable P15 grill on the other police car.
West Side Story,
Scene where 4 main characters are dancing down the street, P15s parked
along the street. Same scene is often used in movie poster promoting the
movie.
North by Northwest ,
1959 Alfred Hitchcock classic has various taxi scenes using D24s
Deep Crimson
1997 Arturo Ripstein directed movie with long series of scenes where main
characters take a P15 from a car lot and drive to another location.
Interior shot of P15 dashboard as they travel down the road. In another
scene they use the roomy 4 door sedan to carry their murder victim to the
country for burial !
Rough Magic
1995 movie with Bridget Fonda, scene near the end of movie where Fonda is
riding in a Dodge D24 4 door taxi.
Wild Harvest
1947 movie with Alan Ladd and Dorothy Lamour.
Sunset Boulevard
Academy Award winning 1950 movie with William Holden and Gloria Swanson.
Edge of the City
1957 movie with Sidney Poitier.
Desert Fury
1947 movie with Burt Lancaster.
At War With The Army
1950 comedy starring Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin.
Lolita
1997 remake of classic drama starring Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith and
Dominique Swain. (Police squad car.)
Shadow Of A Doubt
1991 remake of classic thriller starring Mark Harmon.
Inventing The Abbotts
1997 romance drama starring Liv Tyler.
Dream Chasers
Late 70s-early 80s film, stars P15 Business Coupe.
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999 drama starring Ethan Hawke, numerous interior dash shots of P15
The Big Steal
1949 drama starring Robert Mitchum and William Bendix. Various street
scenes with 4 door P15s.
The House on Carrlo Street
Numerous street scenes with both P15s and D24s. A blue P15 4 door sedan
drives by trailing a large cloud of blue smoke. Considering the period of
the movie it would have been a nearly new car !. Another P15 coupe is
parked across the street from Kelly McGillis apartment. A D24 , complete
with amber fog lights is parked around the corner, plus more.
Devil with the Blue Dress On
P15 4 Door sedan in taxi trim toward the end of the film.
Quiz Show
D24 in street scenes