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The central premise of the film is roughly analogous to the controversy surrounding the Ford Pinto and its fuel tank design. A 1977 article in Mother Jones alleged Ford was aware of the design flaw, refused to pay for a redesign, and decided it would be cheaper to pay off possible lawsuits.
With Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Colin Friels, Joanna Merlin. An attorney representing a traumatized accident victim finds that his opponent is a very familiar defense attorney - his own daughter.
When Donna & Tad reach the Camber house, their Ford Pinto car's alternator dies. They are ambushed by Cujo while still in their vehicle, sending Tad into a panic. Donna and Tad are trapped inside the Pinto while the massive dog waits outside, attacking repeatedly, all while Vic is out of town on a business trip.
Ford Pinto in 227, 1985-1990. Ford Pinto in Breakfast Club: Right on Track, 1987. Ford Pinto in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, 2023-2024. Ford Pinto in Herbie, the Love Bug, 1982. Ford Pinto in Fear the Walking Dead, 2015-2023.
The majority of Cujo is predicated on a one-location, claustrophobic nightmare: a rabies-infected St. Bernard terrorizes a mother and her son inside their broken-down Ford Pinto.
“The Pinto Memo,” which contains these dirty numbers, was allegedly circulated among Ford’s senior management in 1968, two years before the Pinto hit the streets and caused a number of ...
The Ford Pinto is a subcompact car that was manufactured and marketed by Ford Motor Company in North America from 1970 until 1980. The Pinto was the first subcompact vehicle produced by Ford in North America.
Cujo is a 1983 American horror film based on Stephen King 's 1981 novel of the same name and directed by Lewis Teague. It was written by Don Carlos Dunaway and Barbara Turner (using the pen name Lauren Currier), [4][5] and starring Dee Wallace, Daniel Hugh Kelly and Danny Pintauro.
The drama and nightmarish events that the Ford Pinto has been a part of seems like a scary story that you would tell around the campfire - aside from the fact that it’s all true. Everyone knows someone who knows someone else who has had their world rocked by a Ford Pinto, and not in a good way.
There was a scene (on a suburban street) where a car goes out of control skidding toward a parked Ford Pinto. It stops just before touching and one of the kids says something like “thank god, it didn’t hit it” and the other replies something like, “it’s a Pinto, they don’t have to touch. Run!”.