What's your Favorite Dodge Ram Movie?

Twister

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Bullitt and other flicks with Mopar muscle cars in starring roles roll off the tongue with absolutely no effort, but Dodge Trucks? They're not quite as automatic. Our list endeavors to hit some stars, some bit players, and dig up some hidden Pentastar gems. Since the Internet Brands screening room, 1) doesn't exist, and 2) doesn't have all of our picks in its library, we apologize for the less-than-stellar image quality of some of the stills herein. Now on with the show!

Produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Jurassic Park and Westworld author Michael Crichton, Twister's main characters, played by Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt, pit their trusty 1995 Dodge Ram 2500 SLT Club Cab up against the worst nature can dish out in Oklahoma's portion of Tornado Alley. As things get more serious, the V10-powered Ram sheds its color-matched cap to brave earth, wind, and fire. A pre-Chrysler division 1982 Jeep Pickup Honcho Townside steals a little screen time too.

Lone Wolf McQuade

Starring Walker, Texas Ranger's Chuck Norris, Kung Fu's David Carradine, and Bond girl Barbara Carrera, 1983's Lone Wolf McQuade features everything you want from a Norris film: lots of guns, plenty of fight scenes, and baddies getting their due. As Ranger Jim McQuade, Norris [spoiler alert], uses beer and his specially modified 1983 Dodge Ramcharger to extricate himself after being buried alive. Rams save lives.

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Little Fauss and Big Halsey

Little Fauss and Big Halsey stars Robert Redford and Michael J. Pollard as friends and motorcycle racing rivals. It also stars a 1955 Dodge C-3 pickup in just about every other scene. The C-3 does what trucks do—haul motorcycles, stand in for bedrooms, and occasionally break down. Other notable cast members include model/actress Lauren Hutton, and Noah Beery, Jr., the actor who played James Garner's dad, Rocky, in TV's Rockford Files.

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Little Fauss and Big Halsey (bonus images)

Little Fauss and Big Halsey is the rare film that features Redford in a role as a bit of a scoundrel, and not one with a heart of gold, either. It also features music by the man in black, Johnny Cash.

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Simon & Simon

We're betting this is the one that popped into Dodge Forum members' minds first. Simon & Simon ran from 1981 to 1989 on CBS. Yes, it's TV but we couldn't make a list of Rams without this 1979 Dodge W-150 Macho Power Wagon on it. The series initially used a Sierra Red 1979 Power Wagon, which came standard with a roll bar, larger tires, and special graphics, but mid-run added a second truck for selected shots, a 1980 Dodge long bed 4×4 done up to look like the '79. The Macho package, made from 1977 to 1981, was part of the "Adult Toys from Dodge" marketing effort, which included sweet customs vans and the famed Li'l Red Truck.

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Who’ll Stop the Rain

1978's Who'll Stop the Rain takes its title from, and contains, the C.C.R. song of the same name. It's also chock-full of old cars and trucks, including Nick Nolte's character's Land Rover, a Chevy C-Series pickup, a 1961 Dodge Lancer wagon, and the reason we're here: a 1968 Dodge A-108 Sportsman van that figures heavily into the storyline. The film stars Nolte as a Vietnam vet who gets in a bind via bad friends and illicit narcotics and also features always-excellent actors Tuesday Weld and Michael Moriarty.

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The Misfits

Written by Arthur Miller and starring his then-wife Marilyn Monroe, 1961's The Misfits would be Monroe's last film, as well as the last film of co-star Clark Gable. Directed by John Huston, the film was set, and filmed, in the 100-plus degree Nevada desert, the film includes loads of fantastic footage of a workhorse 1954 Dodge C-Series Platform truck in the scorching landscape.

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HUD

Another oldie-but-a-goodie is HUD, a 1963 film that starred Paul Newman as a Texas rancher. Newman's trusty steed is a 1959 Dodge D-100 Long Bed Sweptline—with a full gun rack of course. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won three—one for Patricia Neal as Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor for Melvyn Douglas, and one for veteran cinematographer James Wong Howe for Best Black and White Cinematography, no doubt because of his amazing shots of the photogenic Dodge.

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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is an epic comedy, a genre known for long run times and for employing half of Hollywood's available actors. The 1963 films stars, among others, Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Edie Adams, and Jonathan Winters. As you can probably guess from some of those names, it's end-to-end zaniness, but it also acts as a widescreen time capsule of period automotive history. Our pick from the movie is this gorgeous 1951 Dodge M-37.

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The Brown Bunny

Roger Ebert called The Brown Bunny the worst film in the history of Cannes Film Festival. The 2003 film written, produced, directed, and starring Vincent Gallo may be most notable for Gallo's feud with Ebert, and for Gallo's no-holds-barred sex scene with Chloë Sevigny, but there's an argument to be made that it belongs in the canon of great road movies, as well as on any list of films passionate about motorcycling. Where does the 2002 Dodge Ram Van 1500 come in? As with the C-3 in Little Fauss and Big Halsey, The Brown Bunny's Ram Van is used as a vehicle for the main character's compulsions, including his race bike.

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The Brown Bunny (bonus images)

The Brown Bunny's road trip shows us America through a bug-splattered windshield, accompanied by '70s radio fare. It also shows us some great shots on the Salt Flats, and '70s superstar model and poster pinup Cheryl Tiegs hanging out by herself at a highway wayside. It's normal to walk out of a Gallo film confused about what's new and what's old, and what's beautiful and what's ugly. Could a Dodge Ram be all those things at once?

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