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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2015 19:01:01 GMT
Evening chaps.. I you want a bit of light entertainment for tonight you'll struggle to do better than this film....on BBC4 at 10pm....alas they don't make them like this anymore but at least this Ealing comedy should brighten up most of us for this evening nicely.. enjoy... Pete
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Post by Callum Darraugh on Sept 1, 2015 20:53:08 GMT
That's my early night gone! Always have to watch it when it's on Callum
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Post by jma1009 on Sept 1, 2015 22:42:24 GMT
hi pete, many thanks for the reminder - would have missed it otherwise! very good film quality - much better than my 20 year old video copy. brilliant film and always worth rewatching! cheers, julian
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Post by ettingtonliam on Sept 2, 2015 13:24:03 GMT
No boiler inspections for those lads! Straight out of the museum and into steam. Possibly they were relying on the vicar and a bishop having a few words with 'the man upstairs' to keep them safe from calamity.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2015 15:22:31 GMT
it's one of my fav films,,,steam trains but also the underdog winning...good advert for village life too..lot's of fun, typical Ealing comedy....I'd love to live in a village like that...~ Pete
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Post by Callum Darraugh on Sept 2, 2015 17:18:15 GMT
The Iron Maiden is a good Ealing film as well, but they don't tend to show that one
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Post by Midland on Sept 2, 2015 19:22:15 GMT
Well Eat your hearts out chaps, my SHMBO decided that hauling my locos over half the garden and up and down steps is stupid so she said, ‘why not demolish the garden shed and put your workshop there. Then you can run your locos right into the car without all this up and down business. Yes dear I meekly replied…” So today we demolished! More news soon . . .
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Post by SteveW on Sept 2, 2015 20:14:34 GMT
Guys, Last time it was one I looked up the various locations used to make it. Yep! Someone out there does research and publish this detail. Certainly worth looking up.
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Post by ejparrott on Sept 7, 2015 11:20:35 GMT
There is a Facebook group dedicated to The Titfield Thunderbolt
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Post by steamlaser on Sept 7, 2015 15:45:07 GMT
I watched the film on BBCi Player. It was a bit of fun, but very dated. It was great to see the faces of the actors of that period ,who were stalwarts of the British Film Industry. It tried to mirror the England of the pre war years where people knew their place in the system and they all touched their caps to the "better sort chaps." Those days are gone and younger people may miss the quaintness of the film.
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Post by jma1009 on Sept 7, 2015 22:25:26 GMT
for locations have a look at the following www.british-film-locations.com/Titfield-Thunderbolt-1953midford, monkton combe, freshford, limpley stoke, bristol temple meads etc. TEB Clark (the writer) visited the Talyllyn Railway in its second year in preservation in 1952. some of the incidents are things that actually happened on the TR in those early days. the film a year later was inspired and based on the preservation of the Talyllyn Railway in 1951. the 'you can write your own cheque' is somewhat reminiscent of Alan Peglar with the Ffestiniog Railway a few years after the film was made. Alan supplied sufficient money to buy all the Davies family shares to gain a controlling interest in the then defunct Ffestiniog Railway. the Davies family still own the Snowdon Mountain Railway. in the case of the Talyllyn, Sir Haydn Jones' widow very generously transfered for free all (or nearly all) the shares in the TR to a special holding company where they still remain. i dont agree with steamlaser's view and i dont think the film has dated - if you want an Ealing comedy of social heirachy then there are plenty of better examples including 'Kind Hearts and Coronets'. cheers, julian
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