COX engines in movies

Bob I think the Harrison Ford movie Fugitive is also parodized in its first half..?

balogh wrote:Bob I think the Harrison Ford movie Fugitive is also parodized in its first half..?

I have seen (hasn't everybody) "The Fugitive" Andras, but missed "Wrongfully Accused." But yes, Leslie Nielson can dead-pan a joke with the best of them.  Steve Martin too especially in "Planes Trains and Automobiles."

I'm not a big movie fan, especially those produced after the 1970's when they started dropping F-Bombs like snow flakes in a New Hampshire Blizzard.  I'm a long way from a prude, 20 years in the Navy, but I have my limit and run to the Smithsonian Channel, PBS, and Turner Classic Movies to get away from that stuff.

 If the gratuitous bomb is the best Hollywood writers can come up with maybe they should go back to school and increase their vocabularies rather than contribute to the dumbing down of America.

That said, Steve Martin's verbal exchange with the Marathon agent at the terminal in PT&A was pure gold.  

Bob

I agree Bob I also do not like aimless F-bombing and many of the films are dubbed here with excellent dubbing dialogues and Hungarian character actors lending their voices..dubbing at least mitigating the Fbombs a bit.

There are some movies though that without vulgar language would be less authentic.e.g.those of my favorit actors Deniro and Pesci et al

Honestly, I can never remember seeing a Cox engine or any model aircraft engine in movies (TV yes but not movies).
I have avoided movie theaters for the most part, except James Bond, over the last 25 year span.
I will only devote time to watch a full length movie on TV if it's the caliber of Casablanca, Maltese Falcon, African Queen, or The Thin Man anyway.
The F bomb really turns me away and in my opinion there are only a few times in history where you could justify it.
Like, George Custer topping the hill at Little Big Horn...OH F... !!!
Or the Mayor of Hiroshima , WTF... was that !!!!

There have been a few limited mentions of Cox products in cinema and TV. The 1st one I remember is the Mercedes race car purchased by the Beaver, with his $10 birthday cash. Another was in an episode of My Three Sons, where Robbie intentionally looses the airplane contest, so his friend wins. And If I remember correctly, there was a Wen Mac used in a spy Vs Spy episode of UNCLE.
Should be referenced to them somewhere in here, as we did have a thread on it a while back.

All this TV stuff is wonderful and as rare as Yeti/Bigfoot. Love to relive those days!!! Mark

This 1992 movie features a flying-machine built by two young boys (brothers) made from a Radio Flyer wagon and powered by a pair of glow engines that the boys continually refer to as "Cox-engines". I don't think that they were actually Cox engines.. but I could be mistaken. They were larger-displacement than your typical Cox .049.. and didn't resemble your typical Cox engine. I suppose that they could have been Conquests.. but I doubt it.

The engines can't be seen in this movie-trailer.. but it's a powerful film.

There are some scenes that would be upsetting to certain individuals.

A PT-19 trainer complete with product engine is shown on the Red Green Show (not movie however).



He returns to "playing" with the plane several times during the episode.

Another CL model airplane clip. Although, I don't believe the plane has a Cox engine in it, but he mentions "049".

Unfortunately, I missed the live show he did here in Portland about three months ago.  This was his last time to tour, so I'll never get to see him live...

The Possum* Mark





*Yes, I am a card carrying member of the Possum Lodge

My favorite RC movie scene is the pterodactyl in WarGames, but no engine.

I know you happy people understand whether its movies or real life these Cox cars and planes are a major part of our culture. Just incase your wondering Finky is atop a 1949 Cheerios box! I'll show the backside later. Peace, Mark

Here's the rear & sides of the cheerios box!!

Some more early cereal car stuff. Demented Mark , just trying to keep it all interesting!!

Opie had a Wen-Mac Dauntless in his bedroom in one episode of The Andy Griffith Show and a Turbo jet in another but I don't recall him ever flying them.