The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles

The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles - Paperback

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The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles

The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles - Paperback

by Mark Leslie
$16.18
Sale price  $16.18 Regular price 

Book Overview

The Prop Book That Keeps on Popping Up!


Yes, the cover of this book looks a lot like the one Del Griffith (John Candy) is reading at the New York airport in the 1987 movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles. That same book also appears in 2018's Deadpool 2. It was long believed that this was a prop book. But it was a real book published in the 1980s and from a company that went out of business before the end of the decade.


This re-imagined incarnation of The Canadian Mounted explores the use of this prop book and many other intriguing, insightful and entertaining behind-the-scenes details as they relate to the classic 1987 John Hughes film.


Created for fans of the movie and of John Hughes, this book explores and shares stories related to the writing and making of the film, curious tales and collected trivia associated with it, including:


  • The incident that inspired Hughes to write the original script
  • Del-isms
  • The film's eclectic sound-track
  • Missing Oxford commas
  • Deleted scenes
  • Ryan Reynolds' adoration of fellow Canadian John Candy
  • General trivia
  • And more...


If you love and regularly re-watch Planes, Trains and Automobiles, then this is a book you must read.

ISBN9781989351635
Author Mark Leslie
PublisherStark Publishing
GenreArts and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2022
LanguageENG- English
Pages194
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Mark Leslie

Mark Leslie is the author of One Hand Screaming and the editor of North of Infinity II, Campus Chills, and Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario.

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