The old 1950's cars werre workhorses! They were gas guzzlers, but gas was cheap back then. Great comedy. Love how Lucy and Desi make us laugh with just their facial expressions and the topic of their strained conversation.
when we moved from CO to CA. pulling a trailer we had a episode much like this. I was 5 and we were coming down a mountain, and cars were pulled over, obviously, seeing us coming and wanted to avoid us, and I remember looking out the window, behind me, and seeing the trailer sway from side to side. I remember being scared, so this movie brings back true memories of my childhood in the 50's
This scene in the movie was HILARIOUS. We were laughing for a good half hour after that because its nerve wracking and they're talking about such an absurd subject!! I'm keeping this piece to watch and laugh again!!
I remember my mom introduced me to this movie when I was a kid and I liked it a lot. Mostly because much of it was filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains, I used to go up there every summer with my family. If this were to happen in today’s day and age they would need a dually turbo diesel truck to haul a trailer like that up a mountain like the one here.
They used a different car for that scene. It was more powerful (Y block vs sidevalve) but looked similar. You can see the grille is different from the rest of the movie.
Not, EVEN. I'll bet they completely gutted the inside of that trailer, just for that scene, so that Lincoln could handle it. It NEVER would have made it, otherwise..only a one-ton truck of that era (at a MINIMUM) with very LOW rear-end gearing, would be realistic for extensive towing, for a trailer of that weight.
OMG! I remember that theater!! What a great film to see there!!! I saw The Wizard of Oz there!! Only time I ever saw it on the big screen. Remember the comfy couches with the "coffee" table in front of them with the big glowing button on them that you could press in the dark that would call the "drink girl" to get you a drink?
On our trip across country Ken and I were on a road similar to this and, after turning a corner, we met a great big motorhome-not a dinky car. It was the same type of dropoff. We had a trailer that was really too large for the truck we pulled it with but we did make it over several passes. I was just glad I wasn't driving. I shut my eyes and just hoped we would make it. A little later, I saw that Ken had us going on another similar pass. I refused to go with him. I finally convinced him to take a little different route even if it was longer. By doing that we got to see Telluride ski area.
This movie came on at around 2:00 am one morning. I remember I had to get up to go to work and I had left the TV on all night. This is when TBN use to play really good movies early in the morning, I guess for insomniac's. It kept me up laughing. This really is a cult classic. Desi's performance was so funny. The part here where they are freaking out, but keeping a conversation always gets me laughing.
I love this movie, I have always enoyed everytime that I saw it on television and I bought the DVD set too!! I love Lucy, but what the heck were you "thinking" putting those rocks in the trailer, and not telling Ricky about them before this harrowing part of the trip!!!!!
And why didn’t she get much smaller rocks? She instead got boulders. She must’ve had half a mountain’s worth of boulders in that trailer and ten years worth of canned goods.😂 I don’t blame him for throwing that stuff over the cliff once they had reached the top of the mountain and he had discovered it.
We lived in this exact trailer when I was growing up at the lake after my dad died. Except even this trailer was actually 2 bedrooms, one built in double bed behind the kitchen wall, a walk-thru room to the bath and then the back bedroom. On the movie they just hid the fact it was two bedroom. Ours was even the same exact color.
In 1974 we took a huge van like that into the Australian outback. At a creek crossing the approaches were so steep the vans stabilization sway bars lifted the back wheels of our Ford station wagon clear off the ground. Luckily there was a roadworks gang at the crossing, building a new bridge to replace the crossing. They used a grader to haul us out. My Mom regularly reminded Dad of this adventure by playing this movie as many times as she could.
I love Lucy, but she REALLY did a dumb thing, hiding the fact that "tons" of rocks were in the trailer when they made this harrowing mountain climb and thankfuly NOT DROP!!!!!
OMG... Everything in this film was so well done! If it were remade today they would be so heavy handed about every gag that it would be unrecognizable and entirely unfunny.
My mom told me a about making this trip in the 1950s. She said people had signs in their car windows that said “Pike’s Peak or bust!” She said a lot of cars broke down trying to make it up that mountain. Keep in mind that even though the cars were work horses, they had varying degrees of age and wear and tear.
I remember seeing this move, before I was a Teen, which means over 50 yrs ago. My feet go numb at the over the edge shots. We have a few 5000 ft high Passes in Canada, but I haven't seen one as Steep as this, though the Coch in BC is almost as bad That poor Car should have been boiling over long before the Summit Whitney Portal Road was where that was filmed
Nida Abdulkarim I wonder were you would get the hole movie. ? I loved the movie I was a small boy .I thought it was the most interesting movie I ever seen. LOL that's no small feet to hold a small boys interest.
I'm curious about the scenes where he is backing up and the trailer extends way out over the edge of the mountain. I know they didn't have CGI back then, so I wonder if this was done with miniatures. Seems incredibly dangerous even if it was done by professional stunt drivers.
The notion of towing such a barge as a 40 foot New Moon with Any passenger car is absurd. The potential to accelerate is based on the profile of a heavy truck that floats along and the braking action for any Ford, Mercury, or Lincoln is laughable when a huge dead weight is behind. I love the movie for the concept of home on wheels,but the truth about towing such a rig is absolutely ridiculous.
A great old movie ! But we have some problems here... 1953 Mercury Monterey convertible weighs 3,770 lbs. with a 256 CI engine pumping out 125 HP. These cars had a towing capacity of maybe 3,000 lbs not the three tons that trailer was claimed to have. The car wouldn't be able to tow that huge ass thing.
What you are saying is very true, that's why if you look closer at the car in the clip you will notice that it is not a Mercury but rather a yellow 1953 Lincoln which had around 200 hp and a much bigger engine. The Lincoln succeeded where the Mercury would have failed but just about nobody noticed the switch.
@@8176morgan Yes sir.... While filming location shots they found out the Monterey had no ability to pull such weight up even a moderate incline, so they got a yellow Lincoln to stand in. 1953 Lincoln Capri was a much sturdier car with a heavier engine, but I'm pretty sure even it would have a maximum tow capacity of maybe a ton. I never before saw a hitch dolly like they had. Interesting stuff
I'm shocked a car can pull something that heavy looks like a nice trailer but I would hate to sleep in it in the summertime without air conditioning it must be over a hundred degrees in there
They should have clamped on mirrors on both front fenders in order to see what is alongside and behind them.... they should have enlisted the help of someone who actually knew how to properly equip a car for trailer towing!
i love that movie ! i have see that movie in the early 80ties in TV ! i have found that movie on DVD in 2018 ! i love old space age cars ! i have old space age cars ! and i have a 24 feet long camper ! with an old us car ! but not a women was collect stones !!!! 🤣🤣🤣 thanks god !
Always one to complain.. Nothing is ever good enough. If you MUST know..I did this clip years ago and I tried to post the whole movie. But I had no idea what I was doing.. It keep getting flagged and removed.. So you get what you get. Lucky you got this much to be honest. Just be happy.
