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WARNING: If you don't feel like having a headache, skip this one.
"Gone in 60 Seconds" (1974) was released in France under the title "La grande casse", literally meaning "The Great Junkyard". For the sake of this post, we'll refer to it as the equivalent of the title "Gone in 60 Seconds", rather than "The Great Junkyard".
The cinematographer for that movie, Jack Vacek, went on to direct a slightly similar movie, "Double Nickels" (1977). When it came out in France, they called it "La grande casse n°2", which would be "Gone in 60 Seconds #2", even though both movies have almost nothing to do with each other.
The director/producer/writer/star (YES, REALLY) of "Gone in 60 Seconds", H.B. Halicki, would go on to make a semi-sequel to "Gone", entitled "The Junkman" (1982). It had a limited VHS release in France, under the title "La grande casse II", which would be "Gone in 60 Seconds II". And to make matters more confusing, the Australian release was entitled "Gone in 60 Seconds II: The Junkman". And later on, before the shooting was interrupted by his death, Halicki would make an actual, REAL sequel, entitled "Gone in 60 Seconds 2" (1989).
Now, the German DVD release packaged the unfinished 1989 movie along with Halicki's cheap cut-and-paste job "Deadline Auto Theft" (1983), under a cover that says "Gone in 60 Seconds 2: Highway Patrol".
And then, "The Junkman" had its own German DVD release, under a cover that says "Gone in 60 Seconds 3: Firebird Tornado"! Could've they made it anymore confusing?! The subtitle for this one is taken from the original German release, also titled "Firebird Tornado". Even though there's only three Firebirds in the movie, which don't even play a big part.
Plus, the original German title for "Gone in 60 Seconds" was "Die Blechpiraten", litt. "The Road Pirate". Why couldn't the DVDs retain that title?
Even better, the original German release of "Deadline Auto Theft" was entitled "Auf dem Highway spielt die Polizei verrückt!", litt. "On the highway, the police goes crazy!". Germany often gave such movies crazy titles like that, but this one takes the cake, along with the German title for "Double Nickels", which is "Mitt Vollgas durch die Hölle", litt. "With full throttle through Hell".
And now you have a full-throttle headache.
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