Media
Type |
Title
/ Year |
Type
of Outboard / Year
|
Notes |
Reported
By |
Movie |
The
Birds - 1963 |
Martin 60(?) |
Run
by Tippi Hendren on small skiff to cross the bay |
OJM |
Movie |
Live
& Let Die / 1973 |
Evinrude |
Bayou
chase scene "my cousin Billy-Bob's got the fastest boat
on the bayou!" |
OJM |
Movie |
On
Golden Pond |
1956
Evinrude 5.5 Fisherman |
On
Ethel's (Katharine Hepburn) rowboat
|
RCH |
Books |
Travis
McGee mystery series |
British
Seagull |
On
the tender of the Busted Flush; books by John D.
MacDonald. |
OJM |
Movie |
Cape
Fear/ 1962 |
Scott
Atwater 7.5 or 10
'60 or '61 Johnson 40 hp |
Hanging
on rail in the background at marina
Seen on boat in background at the marina |
OJM |
Movie |
Flipper
/ 1996 |
British
Seagull
Yamaha |
On
back of small boat
O n bottom of ocean :-) |
OJM |
Movie |
Flipper’s
New Adventure / 1964 |
Evinrude
2 Evinrude Larks |
On
beach wall
On boat |
OJM |
Book |
One
Morning In Maine |
WaterWitch
1cyl/? |
Won't
run and gets a new AC spark plug! A great book by Robert McCloskey |
OJM |
Movie |
Dr.
No/1962 |
1960
Evinrude 10 or 18 |
On
Quarrel's boat |
RCH |
Movie |
Thunderball/1965 |
1965
Evinrude 90-S |
Bond
unplugs fuel line to fake engine problem and meet Domino.
Movie also has an Evinrude 14" Playmate outdrive boat
in many scenes |
RCH |
TV |
Gilligan's
Island |
1957 Johnson 10 or 18 |
Professor
tries to repair it, Gilligan manages to start it (without
a fuel tank) out of water so it is destroyed. |
DT |
| TV |
Gilligan's
Island |
Evinrude
Lightwin |
Motor
is spray bombed yellow. Dingy is powered by the evinrude and
piloted by a famous Hollywood producer. The castaways get stars
in their eyes and scare him off. |
DT |
TV |
The
Simpsons |
70's
model Clinton with tractor lower unit |
Former
President George H.W. Bush retires to Springfield and works
on the old motor hoping to rattle some windows in Kennebunkport. |
DT |
