Here are a few films from around the world featuring scenes where the good guys chasing the bad guys are doing so in high hood Jeeps. Which must be an advantage, right?
Big Score (also known in the UK as Big Haul, or in Denmark as Olsen-bandens store kup) is one of the early films in a long and popular Danish series of Olsen Gang ("Olsen-bandens") comedies. It's not considered one of the best in the series, but it has the usual coincidences, rival gangs of criminals, and suitcase full of money.
Much of the action takes place at the Copenhagen airport, where the police drive a CJ-3B. There are plenty of vintage jetliners in the airport scenes, and a glimpse of a vehicle here which may be another Jeep.
The gang's transportation for much of the film is a classic International Harvester panel truck (50K JPEG).
One commentator on the Internet Movie Database calls this Tamil film made in India a romantic-comedy-action-drama-martial-arts musical. Which I think is a genre in India.
Anyway, it's great to see the police raising dust in a Mahindra.
See lots more Mahindra police Jeeps in another 1995 film, Alluda Mazaaka.
This French film, also known as Cent mille dollars au soleil ("100,00 Dollars in the Sun"), starred Jean-Paul Belmondo in a story about bandits and truck drivers in North Africa.
This Jeep actually belongs to the Pompiers (fire department), not the police. It appears briefly in the background of Vilaine, a forgettable 2008 French comedy about a homely girl named Melanie who works at a restaurant and gas station. She is taken for granted, and taken advantage of, by everybody, but finally gets fed up and turns "bad." The film is also known in English as Ugly Melanie.
Another shot shows more of the Peugeot van, and at one point we also get a better look at the Reo tanker (40K JPEG) in the background. Meanwhile, the police have to make do with a Renault van (40K JPEG).
See more high-hood cops in Bandit Queen and Ocean's 11 and Godzilla vs. Mothra.
See also CJ-3B Police Jeeps in the Netherlands and Police Service Jeeps on The CJ3B Page.
Thanks to the Internet Movie Cars Database for photos. -- Derek Redmond
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