The line "it was absolute madness at its very best" was written by Charles Bronson himself for the film and told to Nicolas Winding Refn during one of their phone calls.
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The stunt coordinator felt the impact of the 1974 Mercury Montego jumping the train and hitting the pavement was too much for a stunt driver to take, so a dummy was put in the driver's seat and the car was pushed toward a ramp at high speed and let go.
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The trial scene has Barbara Jane Fuchs getting grilled by the prosecutor, demanding to know if she can prove her car lot has over 200 cars on it. In the movie, Rudy Russo whispers to her from the back of the courtroom to lie and say yes, because he has a contact he can get them from in a hurry. However, in the film's trailer, to show how "honest" he is, he explicitly says to her, "I want you to get up on that stand - and lie." This scene does not appear in the movie.
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The reason Used Cars was made at Columbia Pictures was that Universal Pictures passed on this, and since the head of Columbia had once sold cars, he understood this right away.
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After the commercial where Jeff shoots up the cars on Roy L. Fuchs' lot, he is interviewed by the FBI. In the scene, he blames the attack on Iranian students. At the time of this movie's release, the Iran hostage situation was going on. According to Bob Gale in the DVD audio commentary, an alternate version of the scene was shot in which Jeff blames a different group for the act in case the Iran situation was resolved before the film was released. It wasn't, and Jeff's false accusation was still relevant when the film came out.
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Writers of the film Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis are the same age, in fact, born only 10 days apart from one another.
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Bob Gale had said in an interview that one of the reasons the film failed to garner and audience was because of the title, and that perhaps Rudy Russo's campaign slogan "Trust Me!" may have worked as a better one.
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At the time, Used Cars (1980) received the highest test-audience ratings of any movie of any genre in Columbia Pictures history. Yet, the movie was still a disappointing box office failure.
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During early development of 1941 (1979), John Milius told Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale about an idea for a movie he and Steven Spielberg thought up about a used car salesman on the outskirts of Las Vegas. After finishing I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), Zemeckis and Gale asked Milius if they could use the idea because neither Milius nor Spielberg would ever have the time to do this themselves.
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Kevin Conway passed on the role of Roy L. Fuchs.
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During the scene where the police car smacks in to the car that was being towed, the deputy involved says a police code of 961. That is an actual police radio code used by a majority of Arizona law enforcement agencies for non-injury accident.
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This is Robert Zemeckis' first movie to receive an R rating by the MPAA.
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The T-Birds' white convertible and the Scorpion's black Mercury (with flames) from Grease (1978) are two of the cars that Rudy Russo palms off on the Driver's Education teacher.
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A score by Ernest Gold was rejected, but some of his music was retained, uncredited. His most noticeable contribution is his arrangement of The Stars and Stripes Forever heard during the opening credits and reprised several times, as well as several pieces of source music heard in the background.
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Cheryl Rixon, the Australian actress who played the blonde who ends up topless on TV after her dress was ripped off while the guys were filming a car commercial, was 1977 Penthouse Pet of the Month and then Pet of the Year in 1979.
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Described by Robert Zemeckis as the Red River (1948) cattle drive with cars, the climatic chase scene was filmed in an abandoned and overgrown airfield east of Phoenix. Two hundred extras were recruited with the pitch "fifteen dollars a day, bring your own car, and be in a movie".
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Darner Chrysler-Plymouth of Mesa, Arizona (defunct as of 2010) was rented as the filming location for the "Roy L. Fuchs Auto Emporium". The dealership was selected because it was situated directly across the roadway from a vacant lot that was also rented to construct the set for "New Deal Used Cars". During filming, Darner had to place signs near the street to assure prospective customers that they were still open for business as production trucks, RVs, and assorted filming equipment had taken over the lot for 28 days, as well as the temporary name change displayed above the dealership. As a goodwill gesture, Kurt Russell appeared in character alongside the dealership's owner, Joel Darner, in some of Darner's real local television commercials to help him promote his business while the production was using his lot; Columbia paid the costs for the commercials. During the first interior scene in the Fuch's dealership you can hear the receptionist paging Mr. Joel Darner.
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In the scene where Roy L. Fuchs (Jack Warden) walks up to Rudy Russo (Kurt Russell) and Jeff (Gerrit Graham) as they are finishing shoveling dirt over the spot where they buried Luke, Graham didn't have any lines and kept pestering Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale for lines. Finally, he just decides to repeat whatever Russell said to Warden. Apparently, Warden was unaware of what Graham was doing, thus his line "What're you? A fuckin' parrot?". It was Warden's genuine annoyance at Graham, which worked so well in the scene that it was included in the final cut.
Used Cars - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Used Cars - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Used Cars - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Used Cars - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Used Cars - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Used Cars - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Used Cars - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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