All Star Character Actor Pontiac Commercial 1969
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- Here's a Pontiac spot featuring a number of long time Hollywood character actors, Mike Mazurki, Elisha Cook Jr, Lon Chaney Jr, Robert Strauss and Leo Gorcey as the convicts and Broderick Crawford plays the lawman.
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I miss all these guys, especially Big Lon! Cheers, Warren Chaney Jr.
And Gorcey too
@@michaelboyce9373 -- Yup! & where was Huntz? Cheers, wsj
I don't understand where 'Warren' comes from. His real name is Creighton Tull Chaney. Am I missing something?
@@MickeyWN -- Warren is me! And I'm not dead! Cheers Warren Chaney Jr.!
@@awarningtothecuriouswerewolves I'm sorry, I didn't realize it was you.
What fun to see "the boys" together in this! It's interesting that the 4th convict (supposedly J. Carroll Naish) is heard but not really seen in the this commercial.
Mike Mazurki - "Wow! The new Pontiac!"
Elisha Cook Jr. - "What a sweetheart!"
Lon Chaney Jr. - "The Pontiac!"
J. Carroll Naish (unseen) - "What a Beauty!
Robert Stauss - "The new Pontiac"
Leo Gorcey - "What a gas!"
Also, there are only 4 convicts in the Pontiac at the end of the commercial (definitely Robert Strauss and Lon Chaney Jr, but it's hard to identify the other two). Is it possible that they got Broderick Crawford to chase after the train? Whoever it was, was really sprinting!
This from the September 16, 1968 issue of Broadcasting:
General Motors’ Pontiac Motor Division today begins its TV campaign for 1969 models. But the models it is using in its new series of commercials are of an earlier vintage.
The campaign theme “Breakaway” will have eight 30-second spots in the first commercial flight with longer and shorter versions for local market use. The first commercial in the series, a “mini-movie” spoofs prison films and features a roster of film characters from the double-feature era: Broderick Crawford, Leo Grocey, Lon Chaney Jr, J. Carroll Naish, Robert Strauss, Mike Mazurki and Elisha Cook, Jr.
Other commercials in the series star George Raft, George Brent, Rudy Vallee, Maxie Rosenbloom, Iron Eyes Cody, Richard Deacon, Scat Man Crothers and Jack Nicklaus, among others.
Place through MacManus, John & Adams, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., the spots were produced at Klein Harzman Hecht Film, Hollywood. Cost of the spots is estimated at $250,000, exlcusive of air time.
It was probably Crawford himself doing the sprinting. He was only in his late 50's here, though he always looked older than what he was.
I don't recall seeing this before (I'm 66), but I also thought that the con after Lon was J. Carroll Naish. This is around the time he was making 'Dracula VS Frankenstein' with Lon, but some are saying it's Jack Albertson.
They told Brod that Lon & the boys had a 26er of Beam with them! Cheers Warren, Beam fan!
Leo Gorcey, bless him. 💟 Such a great star lost too soon.
How can this be the 1st time I’ve ever seen or heard this commercial?
Me three. I'm 55. Loved the 69 GP all my life since my mother bought one. Thought I'd seen all the 69 Pontiac commercials until now.
R.I.P PONTIAC :'(
The guest stars of every QM show of the 70s What a voice Strauss had and Broderick Highway patrol Crawford Makes me want to watch reruns of Mannix lol
What a great commercial!
Loved the Pontiac commercial.😊
VOICE-OVER ACTOR, WHO DOES THE TAG AT THE END... EQUALLY AS WELL KNOWN:
PAUL RICHARDS, CHECK IMDB
He was the spokesman for Pontiac in the 70s
I miss the humour of that era.
That was great. Some of my favorites from the 1930s and 40s. Leo Gorcey, Elisha Cook.
Nothing like pure pontiac
What a time that must have been to buy one of those cars .until the mid 70's.
I doubt Broderick Crawford could run that fast. STUNT MAN!
Heycomebackherewheredoyouguysthinkyouregoing?
I remember seeing that one person in the movie HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL.
Every motorized vehicle in this commercial was a GM product. That includes the Locomotive.
Love it!!!!!!
THE GUY DOING THE VOICEOVER ALSO VERY WELL KNOWN: PAUL RICHARDS
T J Eisenhauer
That's right,
the GREAT PAUL RICHARDS!!
Paul was a wonderful character actor who had a magnificent speaking voice. Today, most people probably have never heard of him (died in 1974) but if you're a lover of old TV shows from 50s-70s you no doubt have seen his face. One of those actors who has facial recognition but you never know their name. He started with Eduard Franz in the psychological drama "Breaking Point " during the 1963-64 TV season. It was a spin-off of "Ben Casey" that unfortunately only lasted one season. The show broke new ground in that it dealt with issues of homosexuality, frigidity, and rape. These topics were hardly, if ever, discussed on TV. I encourage you to watch this groundbreaking show here on RUclips; there are about 12 episodes posted. You'll love it!
Also Great 67 GTO Commercial - The Great One :)
@@mercedyzmarieguion292 Paul Richards was great with David Janssen on The Fugitive, and everything else.
@@MickeyWN
He sure was !!!
@@MickeyWN
He was awesome as the psychotic but intelligent killer Neil "Pinky" Pinkerton on episode "APB" of The Fugitive series.
Episode had some good people like Shirley knight, Lou Antonio (who has to be in his 80s), and the wonderful Virginia Gregg as the pill poppin' mother...the dinner table scene was serious, sad, and funny because you could tell the mother was "tranquil";
Neil: your mother, she's hooked??
Lol
A survey was taken to determine the top villain of "The Fugitive " and
Paul Richards was voted NUMBER ONE!!!
A fun and memorable Ad even if Pontiac never sold cars in the UK. Hope they all got paid well.
Some of best love them all
Loved it!!!
Very cool!
Great commercial. Thank you.
The 4th guy - who is never really seen except in long shots (where you can see there are 6 guys) is J. Carrol Naish.
Naish was a wonderful character actor.
I love him as the villain in the first of the "Whistler " movies with Richard Dix .
There must be over a thousand movies represented by those guys.
Mike Mazurki, Elisha Cook,Jr., Lon Chaney, Jr. (my guess), Robert Strauss, do not know that 5th guy, and Broderick Crawford as the guard.
It's Chaney, all right.
Leo Gorcey from Bowery Boys/East Side Kids and Dead End Kids
Leo Gorcey his trademark hat from the Bowery Boys
They don't make cars or commercials like that any more ! {~);}
Never saw that one before. A good and funny commercial. RIP Pontiac. It should have been Buick that died. And yes, they don't make car like that anymore.
""GREAT"""
even reconized the naraitor
Big fan of Lon, Leo and Elsa
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After doing some digging, I believe no. 5 is Leo Gorcey.
With his "Satch" hat.
Bruce Gordon should have been there too.
Super clever
Who is the fourth prisoner? We don't get a good look. Some here in the comments are saying it is J. Carrol Naish or Jack Albertson.
I miss the days when you'd see old actors sentenced to hard labor keeping America's roads maintained under armed guard.
WHEN CARS, WERE CARS, AND MEN WERE MEN.
sweet cars
The fourth man who is heard but not seen is Academy Award character actor J.Carroll Nash. He is pictured in a photo I had seen of all the actors, but for some reason they cut him out as the camera passes Chaney Jr. if you freeze Chaney jrs closeup you can just see him at Lon's shoulder. The two have appeared together in a couple of Universal Studio's Horror films in the 1940's then made thier last film together in a low budget piece of garbage in 1970. A sad ending to their careers.
Well, a) the commercial is only a minute long, b) Pontiac would have insisted upon maximum emphasis on the cars, and c) Naish was arguably the most normal looking of the bunch, the only one who did not look like a cartoon character come to life. All of these combine to suggest why he would have been the loser in the editing of the commercial.
sure looks like Jack Albertson to me.
Naish is there at the 0:34 mark.
Ram Air GTO ragtop
Yep...
Always pictured a commercial spoofing the scene in "Cool Hand Luke" where the woman is washing the car and the road crew is getting all hot and bothered. But the road crew is getting hot and bothered at the car, and they yell at the woman to get out of the way for them to look at the car.
Broderick Crawford
there were six cons but they only showed five..
He was already driving the train ...fast runner.
The are six members in the work gang. The fourth one does not get any face time with the camera. I am going to guess that he is also a veteran character actor but I can not make out who it is from the group shoot. there appears to be only four sitting in the car as the train pulls away. Leo Gorcey is absent.
The guy from Chico and the man. Jack Albertson. 2 frames of time.
It's J. Carroll Naish, as confirmed by a 1968 issue of Broadcasting (and as someone else mentioned, a still is out there.)
www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1968/1968-09-16-BC.pdf
Slip Mahoney with the hat.
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