Big Screen Renault 4s

[jcarruthers2]

Further to my threads on Renault 4s which have featured on TV, I thought it would be fitting to compile a list of Renault 4s which have featured in films. Renault 4s which have had a leading role in films are few and far between. I will start off by listing these followed by those which were involved in short scenes and I will finish off by those which were background vehicles. If I have had the time to watch the film during the lockdown, I will also mention how many minutes into the film the R4 features.

Leading Roles

1) Occasional Strong (1999), short film starring a young Daniel Craig, (7-11 mins in), blue R4GTL, UK plate.

2) Leap Year (2010), red R4, Irish plate.

3) Romancing The Stone (1984), cream R4, Colombian plate.

Short Scene

4) Rude Boy (1980), (1hr 20 mins in), white R4.

5) Laws of Attraction (2004), (48 mins in), blue R4F4.

6) Miracles (1986), (1hr 18 mins in), red R4.

7) Lamb (1985), (21 mins in), R4F4.

8) The Padre (2018), green R4.

9) The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), (1hr 24 mins in), white R4.

10) A Good Year (2006), silver R4.

Background Vehicles

Eskimo Nell (1975) blue R4, One Day (2011) burgundy R4, Doomsday Gun (1994) (1hr 39 mins in) light blue R4, Some Girls Do (1969) (36 mins in), white R4, Keaton's Cop (1990) red R4, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1981) (19 mins in) blue R4GTL, Split Second (1992) x2 scrapped R4s, Avalanche Express (1979) white R4GTL, Dream Warrior (2003) R4 in scrapyard, Endgame (2009), beige R4, Sebastian (1968) (1hr 31 mins in) white R4, Killing Streets (1991) white R4, Crime and Passion (1976) (2 mins in) white R4, Solar Babe (1986) x2 scrapped R4s, The Hit (1984) (18 mins in) white R4F4, Siesta (1987) white R4, An Almost Perfect Affair (1979) blue R4, Otley (1968) white R4, Three (1969) (last few mins) white R4, Home Before Midnight (1979) (3 mins in) blue R4F4, By the Sea (2015) white R4, Love and Bullets (1979) (41 mins in) white R4, Perfect Friday (1970) burgundy R4, The Omen (1976) (1hr 3 mins in) white R4, Big Zapper (1974) R4, The Alamut Ambush (1986) blue R4, Windmills of the Gods (1988) white R4, Miracle at St Anna (2008) (14 mins in) red R4, The Shooter (1995) white R4GTL, The Boys from Brazil (1978) R4 night scene, Exposed (1983) white R4GTL, The Night Ferry (1976) silver R4, Take a Girl Like You (1970) light blue R4, Lost and Found (1979) dark coloured R4, Meantime (1983) R4 night scene, The Great Riviera Bank Robbery (1979) white R4TL and white R4F4, Craze (1974) silver R4, Revenge (1971) brown R4, Going Bananas (1987) red R4, 102 Dalmations 2000 (1989) light blue R4GTL, Man About the House (1974) blue R4F4, Last of the High Kings (1996) white R4F4, Breakfast on Pluto (2005) red R4F4, Not Without My Daughter (1991) light blue R4F4 and yellow R4TL, Don't Open Till Christmas (1984) blue R4F6, The Killing Fields (1984), green R4, Breakout (1975) white R4, Race for Glory (1989) white R4F4, A View to a Kill (1985) white R4F6 (an R11 was the leading star!), Frantic (1988) beige R4F6, Jake Speed (1986) white R4F6, Jason Bourne (2016) white R4F6, Rosebud (1975) white R4F4, Killer Tomatoes Eat France (1991) white R4F4, Oh Heavenly Dog (1980) grey R4F4 van, Sunburn (1979) white R4F4, The Trouble with Spies (1987) white R4F6, Body of Lies (2008) white R4GTL, I bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990) white R4GTL, The Big Sleep (1978) white R4, French Connection (1975) dark blue R4, Cocaine Cowboys (2006) grey R4, The Reader (2008) red R4.


If you have spotted any other R4s in films you have watched please add them to the list!

 

[RichardIRL]

It's also in Team America: World police

https://www.imcdb.org/v020706.html

 

[benchseat]

Sweeney "Lady Luck", 33'05", yellow R4TL (nice view of chrome trim). Now for the remaining 17 minutes.
Is it just me, or does one of us run the risk of being Sectioned?

 

[jcarruthers2]

I have to set myself little projects during the lockdown to maintain my sanity!

 

[Cornish4]

Gordon Bennett chaps, what's wrong with a bit of gardening, tinkering with the 4, some light house maintenance, walking the dog if you have one, or just some exercise. The term "get a life" comes too mind

 

[benchseat]

Answer to #Cornish4. The activities you mention are all very worthy, in fact essential. But in this period of total national fear, when little is possible other than these activities, a bit of totally stupid time-wasting has an important therapeutic effect. To quote the poet Dryden : "There is a pleasure sure in being mad, which none but madmen know."
And speaking personally, if my activities were confined solely to those which #Cornish4 lists — and yesterday I had in fact already done three out of the four of them (I don’t have a dog) plus fetching and stacking half a ton of firewood (essential shopping) — I’d reckon that I was seriously deficient in the inner life department, without which one is merely a time-server on this planet.
Fortunately I still have fifteen "Sweeney" episodes to go, plus a full-length movie, in my recently-acquired DVD complete set, so more R4s may surface over the coming days. And then I will go back to the beginning and watch them all again to make sure I haven’t missed any. Thus competing with #jcarruthers2 for the title of most meaningfully tragic possessor of OCD tendencies. Now that is what I call living . . . . .

 

[Cornish4]

I know benchseat, all this time on our hands is a bugger, so keep up the good work, and maintain your sanity

 

[Leonardo.IT]

4 LATAS (2019), a spanish Netflix production featuring Jean Reno

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_Latas
https://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=8242160
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8242160/

 

[Baron von Zach]

The leadingest role an R4 ever played hitherto is in Jacques Tati's "Trafic", no?
A yellow RHD is prominently featured in "My Name Is Emily".
In "Rien à déclarer" (Nothing To Declare) the two main protagonists use a heavily modified R4 extensively as a border patrol car.