1974 Monaco police in "Psycho From Texas" (1975)
Dec 8, 2020 18:14:28 GMT -5
Post by Steam McQueen on Dec 8, 2020 18:14:28 GMT -5
- It's not 100% for sure a police package Monaco but being this film is 1975 and the car looks the part, it was probably within the budget to rent an actual police car/movie prop. This Monaco might have been in a dozen movies back in the day, a plain Jane package with multiple door shields to choose from 
. They don't wreck the car which is almost surprising considering one of the producer/directors is an old-school stunt guy! Jim Feazell. But truth be told he worked on westerns only as stunts, no car chases. He then takes a break from the business and a few years later returns as co-producer/co-director of this movie.
The original title was "Wheeler" when it first came out in 1975. By 1976 it reached New York City.
^ LOL.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_From_Texas
- www.imdb.com/title/tt0082955/
They filmed some extra scenes and I guess it was then that it was officially re-released as Psycho From Texas ?.
- www.imcdb.org/vehicle_1068636-Dodge-Monaco-1974.html
. They don't wreck the car which is almost surprising considering one of the producer/directors is an old-school stunt guy! Jim Feazell. But truth be told he worked on westerns only as stunts, no car chases. He then takes a break from the business and a few years later returns as co-producer/co-director of this movie.The original title was "Wheeler" when it first came out in 1975. By 1976 it reached New York City.
The film's 1976 promotional stunt in New York City attracted attention. In 1990, the New York Daily News said "This obscure slasher [film] is best remembered from its cowboy-style promo campaign, when a loudspeaker-equipped truck bearing an outsized "Psycho from Texas" banner struck terror into unwary Times Square pedestrians when the pic premiered here back in '76."
^ LOL.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_From_Texas
A drifter/hitman is hired by a local business man to kidnap the local oil baron. The hitman had been reared in squalor, suffering the abuses of his whoring mama. When the baron escapes his assistant must chase him while the hitman takes care of a few loose ends.
- www.imdb.com/title/tt0082955/
They filmed some extra scenes and I guess it was then that it was officially re-released as Psycho From Texas ?.
It was then re-filmed in 1978 featuring the Linnea Quigley sequence. This was one of Quigley's first film appearances. Later, Quigley related unhappy memories of the shoot: "They made me take my clothes off and poured beer on me. It was stupid."
- www.imcdb.org/vehicle_1068636-Dodge-Monaco-1974.html
