Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) on Netflix
Maindrian Pace, an insurance investigator, leads a crew of car thieves. A drug lord offers him a fortune to steal forty-eight vehicles in five days, including a yellow Mustang codenamed Eleanor.
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Plot summary
Maindrian Pace runs a garage in Carson, California, where his crew takes serial numbers, engines, plates and transmissions from wrecked cars and builds them into stolen vehicles of the same model. He also works as an insurance investigator, and every car his ring steals is covered. A South American drug lord offers him four hundred thousand dollars, half in advance, for forty-eight named cars he must bring to the docks at Long Beach within five days. Each car on the list has a woman's code name, and the hardest is a yellow 1973 Ford Mustang codenamed Eleanor.
Cast
- James McIntyreas Stanley Chase
- Ronald Halickias Corlis Pace
- Markos Kotsikosas Uncle Joe Chase
- Butch Stocktonas 1-Baker-11 Detective (Driver)
- Phil Woodsas 1-Baker-11 Detective (Passenger)
- Gary Bettenhausenas Self
- Jonathan E. Frickeas KFOX Interviewer
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
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- Gone in 60 Seconds is known for its 40-minute car chase, the longest in film history, during which a total of 93 cars were destroyed.
- While shooting Gone in 60 Seconds, H. B. Halicki was badly hurt for real when "Eleanor" was rear-ended by a Cadillac Eldorado on the Harbor Freeway and spun into a light pole at 100 mph. He asked "Did we get coverage?" when he came round, and finished the film in a leg cast after a three-week halt.
- H. B. Halicki, who wrote, directed and starred in the 1974 film, was killed instantly while preparing a stunt for its sequel, when a cable snapped on a 160-foot water tower he planned to topple and a telephone pole fell on him. He had bought over 400 cars to destroy in the sequel.
- Denice Halicki, who holds the Gone in 60 Seconds rights, sued over unlicensed copies of the "Eleanor" Mustang and won a 2008 suit against Carroll Shelby; in 2022 a court ruled the car was "not entitled to standalone copyright protection" and that its status as a character was "an invention of overzealous advocacy".
- Halicki bought the police cars, the garbage truck and three fire trucks wrecked in Gone in 60 Seconds at city auction in 1972 for an average of $200 each, and they sat in an empty lot for over a year before shooting began in 1973.
- The film had no official script beyond a few pages of dialogue, so the cast and crew improvised; editor Warner E. Leighton never knew what footage he would get, and the construction-site chase was written on a piece of cardboard with a circle on it.
- The climactic "Eleanor" jump reached 30 feet in the air over a distance of 128 feet, a feat rarely attempted today without CGI; Halicki compacted ten vertebrae doing it and, according to cinematographer Jack Vacek, "never walked the same again".
- The fire trucks seen on the Vincent Thomas Bridge during the main chase were real Long Beach Fire Department units on their way to an emergency call; the staged crash blocked both lanes until the cars were cleared, and Halicki had the crew film them in case he could use the shots.
