The CJ-3B in the Movies

The Jeep CJ-3B is a fairly unusual sight in Hollywood films, usually limited to a brief cameo appearance, and often in a military role. There is only the occasional glimpse of a civilian CJ-3B (as in Hellfighters, seen here.) The best big-screen roles for the CJ-3B have been in foreign films.

Hellfighters

El Rey (2004)
Riders to the Stars (1954)
Missing in Action (1984)
Topkapi (1964) and When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
Platoon (1986)
Children of Nature (Börn náttúrunnar) (1991)
Scent of Vengeance (El Aroma del Copal) (1995)
Wild Horses (Caballos Salvajes) (1995)
Good Morning Vietnam (1987)
Julie (1956)
Hellfighters (1968)
Fire on the Amazon (2000)
Havana (1990)
Sahara (2005)
Ocean's 11 (1960)
Blue Hawaii (1961) and In God's Hands (1998) and Ride the Wild Surf (1964)
Picnic (1955) and The Long Hot Summer (1958)
Virus (1980)
3 Women (1977)
Bananas (1971)
Lords of Discipline (1983) and Dante's Peak (1997)
Mother Teresa (1997)
Octopussy (1983)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Contact (1997)
Bandit Queen (1994)
Godzilla 2000 (1999)
The Killing Fields (1984)
Air America (1990)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Patton (1970) and The McKenzie Break (1970)
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) and Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
I'm For the Hippopotamus (1979)
Mitsubishi Jeep on TV: The Amazing Race (2008)
Cops in CJ-3B's in the Movies (1964-2008)
Mahindra Jeep Stunt in the Movies

I'm currently looking for video copies of a number of other films which reportedly include scenes with a 3B. Some are available on video; I just haven't gotten around to digging them up at the video store. If anybody has access to any of these films and can grab some frames showing a CJ-3B, please let me know.

Black Mama White Mama
Two Lane Blacktop
Johnny Dark
The Beast
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Gamera
A Bright Shining Lie
PT 109
Qurbani

If you spot a CJ-3B on the screen in other films, please drop me a line. -- Derek Redmond

Also on The CJ3B Page, see a Willys Wagon in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, a Postal DJ-5A in Addams Family Reunion, and some Surrey Gala Jeeps in the Movies.

Elsewhere on the web, see the Internet Movie Cars Database for all kinds of Jeeps in the movies.

Last updated 26 Jnauary 2010 by Derek Redmond redmond@queensu.ca
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