...would you be in a hurry and get out of a car on the passenger side? You're the driver and you get out on the passenger side of the car??!! That was the dumbest scene! Why didn't he just enter from the right side of the house and get out of the car like a normal person? Dumb.
shareDon’t try to find logic in their actions and reactions, they wanted to be snatched.
Eternally walking...
I've noticed quite a few old movies where they inexplicably get out of a car from the passenger door, or get into a car from the passenger door then scoot over to the driver's seat. Obviously it was easier to do back since the front seat of most cars was just a single "bench". I wonder whether that was actually common to do that though, or if it's just a way to create a little bit more suspense in films.
shareI think it's simply to avoid having to walk extra steps around the car to get in. It also avoids having to risk being hit by traffic. The bench seat certainly made the move easy.
shareI had a 1959 Ford that had a key lock only on the passenger-side door. You either scooted across the seat and exited that way, or you walked around from the driver's door to lock the car.
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People who are in a panic, don't always act/react logically. I personally find it a cool piece of direction when
McCarthy slides out the passenger door with the car still in drive. It's movie, dum dum.
Because back then, the law said "you get in a car on the side closest to the curb." In a car parked in a two-lane street, that is the passenger side.
People followed the law closer.