Lee Marvin stars as Walker in this organized crime thriller. There's an excellent scene in which Lee Marvin nearly thrashes to death a new 1967 Imperial convertible, and the car dealer who's trying to sell it (Stegman, played by Michael Strong). A black 1967 Imperial 4-door hardtop also makes a brief appearance.
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| Michael Strong plays Stegman, a typical cheesy car dealer who also has organized crime connections. Walker (Lee Marvin) has just arrived at his dealership under the pretense of looking for a new car. Marvin asks about this 1967 Imperial Crown convertible, to which Stegman mumbles out of the corner of his mouth, "Beautiful car, beautiful car. Costs a lot of money." " I got a lot of money," responds Walker. | |
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| Lee Marvin checks out the power options--here seen playing with the power vent windows--while Stegman checks out a blonde interested in a Corvette. | |
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| How cool to see Lee Marvin lowering the '67 Crown's convertible top! | |
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| Lee Marvin adjusts the Imperial's new-for-1967 tilt and telescoping steering wheel. "Fall in love?" asks the salesman. "Yeah, pretty nice rig, huh," replies Walker. | |
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| Here Lee Marvin puts on the (optional?) seatbelt, despite Stegman's assurances that it's unnecessary: "You don't really need that." "Most accidents happen within 3 miles of home," counters Walker, who actually has plans to hurtle Stegman about the car in just a moment. | |
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| Lee Marvin alternates between stomping on the 1967 Imperial's powerful Budd disc brakes, and punching the Imp's 440 motor. This causes Stegman to careen helplessly about the cabin...an interesting tactic for "roughing" him up. | |
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| Lee Marvin next sends the '67 Imperial convertible crashing through a chain-link fence, to an area underneath some freeway overpasses. | |
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| A perfect red wound "magically" appears on Stegman's forehead in the next shot, just as the Crown's convertible top is inexplicably shredded and it gains long red streaks on its flanks. Imperial fans can take heart that this probably means that the perfect car from the dealership was not trashed. One must wonder, though, where they would have found a "junker" 1967 Imperial convertible for a 1967 movie. | |
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| In shades of "Charley Varrick", Lee Marvin puts the Imperial through the paces by squealing in a circle for a while... | |
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| ...before deciding to play demolition derby by backing up straight into.... | |
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| ...a concrete pillar, which pops open the Crown's trunk. (Where did those red marks come from?) | |
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| The "bumper car" action continues, this time heading forward.... | |
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| ...smack into another concrete pillar. The Imperial nameplate hangs proudly despite the abuse. | |
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| Another round of rear- and front-end collisions sends Stegman sprawling out of the car. | |
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| Assessing the damage later, Stegman's mob superior, Reese, questions whether he spilled any information to Walker: "Why didn't he kill you?" "He killed the car!" Note the triple-stripe whitewall tires that debuted in 1966. | |
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| Mobster Reese exits a black 1967 Imperial Crown four-door hardtop and enters the "Corporation's" headquarters. | |
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