{OT} What film's this?

A couple of people (can't remember if they're goodies or badies) in a
small shite old boat. Some other people in another boat start chasing
them. The driver of the first boat hits a switch & a panel opens to
reveal the controls for a couple of bloody great hidden engines,
allowing them to leg it at a great rate of knots. It may have been one
of those Chinese things whose name I forget.

I saw it many, many years ago, & can't remember anything else about it.

 

Preston Kemp wrote

Was that the one where they escaped on motorcycles?

I didn't yet I can't either, what an odd coincidence?

 

Yes. Motorcycles cunningly disguised as boats.

That *is* odd.

 

That'll be Moonraker, possibly the scene in Venice with the Gondolar .

 

I thought as I hit send I should've said it's not Bond. So no, it's not
Bond.

 

Nope, definitely not a Bond.

 

ITYF it is.

 

I'm pretty sure it isn't. Definitely not a Gondolar & not Moonraker.

 

The bond one was Roger Moore and I think that the gondola was just motorised
and then turned into a hovercraft skirt thing?

I'm assuming you're not thinking of Condorman perchance?
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<checks IMDB>
Don't think so - I don't remember any superheros in it. After racking
my brains some more, I think the boat was like a small fishing boat or
cabin cruiser, & the extra engine controls behind the hidden panel had
a Rolls Royce sticker by them.

 

Dont worry, there weren't any in condorman either
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Google shows a1922 film called Oath-Bound in which there's a motorboat
chase including a hydroplane.

http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/movie.aspx?m=84341

 

Nope, not that - too old.

 

IIRC it's in the plot of one of the Alastair Maclean novels, which
might have been filmed. Of course nowadays I rarely RC.

 

<fx: chalks up easy whoosh>

 

Preston Kemp says...

^^^^^^^

ITYM 'engraved silver plaque'. Rolls Royce stickers? Whatever next?

 

Lozzo was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Germans building Bentleys.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Timo Geusch

Never happen.

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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

RR industrial engines have a wee RR plaque. Just stamped metal, though.

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Nah, nothing they've brought out in the last 40-odd years has been
worthy of an engraved plaque.