Adventures In Marketing: Ancient Buster Keaton Forces Lion Into Flat-Nose Econoline
February 17th, 2011 1:33 AM
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Buster Keaton reached the height of his fame in about 1927, but Ford’s 1966 marketers must have figured that nostalgia for the allegedly wholesome silent-film era would be big, what with all the not-so-wholesome madness heating up in the United States at that time. How about we put Buster Keaton in the Econoline?
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Keaton died of lung cancer later in 1966, so this may well have been his final acting role. The flat-nose Econoline had but one more year to go, so perhaps the choice of actors was a fitting one.
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Let's not forget what I think may have been his final role in "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum".
Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hacket flying the twin Beechcraft through the Coca Cola sign!!!!!! Milton Berle and Terry Thomas fighting in the desert. IAMMMMW Is the classic comedy
I think that's the funniest forty-some year old car commercial I've ever seen.
On account of it's feline cargo, wouldn't it be more appropriately called an "Econolion"?