Rolls-Royce Phantom III cars have been converted to hearses and shooting brakes. In 1964, more than 20 years after the end of production, the villainous Auric Goldfinger (played by Gert Fröbe) drove an excellently preserved black and yellow Phantom III (Chassis Number #3BU168 Sedanca de Ville by Coachbuilder Barker), knowing that its great strength would be able to hold the weight of the vast amounts of gold that he smuggled around Europe. Rolls-Royce Phantom III The Rolls-Royce Phantom III was the final large pre-war Rolls-Royce. Introduced in 1936, it replaced the Phantom II and it was the only V12 Rolls-Royce until the 1998
The Yellow Rolls-Royce million at the US box office, among the top ten films in box office receipts for 1965, a year in which "Mary Poppins" topped the list with $28.5 million. The movie was not particularly successful at the French box office, failing to reach more than one million admissions. The film's producers also benefited financially from television's willingness to pay studios more for more timely broadcasting rights to new films: "The Yellow Rolls-Royce" received its television premiere on CBS in fall 1967. The Yellow Rolls-Royce The Yellow Rolls-Royce is a 1965 dramatic composite film written by Terence Rattigan, produced by Anatole