The Flying Scotsman [DVD] [1929]

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Brass • The Tie That Binds • Little Church Around the Corner • Main Street • Where the North Begins • Little Johnny Jones • The Printer's Devil • The Gold Diggers • The Country Kid • Lucretia Lombard • Tiger Rose A Child Is Born • Brother Rat and a Baby • The Fighting 69th • British Intelligence • Calling Philo Vance • All of the stunts were filmed on the moving locomotive with the actors. Most dangerously, at one point actress Pauline Johnson walks along the edge of the moving train wearing high heeled shoes, transferring from the coaches to the locomotive while travelling at speed. [2] One Sunday Afternoon • John Loves Mary • Flaxy Martin • South of St. Louis • A Kiss in the Dark • Burma Victory • Homicide • My Dream Is Yours • The Younger Brothers • Flamingo Road • Night Unto Night • Colorado Territory • One Last Fling • The Fountainhead • The Girl from Jones Beach • Look for the Silver Lining • It's a Great Feeling • White Heat • The House Across the Street • Golden Madonna • Task Force • Under Capricorn • Beyond the Forest • The Story of Seabiscuit • Always Leave Them Laughing • The Hasty Heart • The Lady Takes a Sailor • The Inspector General

Roughly Speaking • Objective, Burma! • Hotel Berlin • God Is My Co-Pilot • The Horn Blows at Midnight • Escape in the Desert • Pillow to Post • Conflict • The Corn Is Green • Christmas in Connecticut • Pride of the Marines • Rhapsody in Blue • Mildred Pierce • Confidential Agent • Danger Signal • Too Young to Know • Appointment in Tokyo • San Antonio Conductor 1492 • George Washington Jr. • Daddies • The Marriage Circle • Beau Brummel • How to Educate a Wife • Broadway After Dark • Babbitt • Being Respectable • Her Marriage Vow • Cornered • Lover's Lane • The Tenth Woman • Find Your Man • Three Women • This Woman • The Age of Innocence • The Lover of Camille • The Dark Swan • The Lighthouse by the Sea • A Lost LadyThe development of the Art Deco style in the 1920s, which flourished in the 1930s, saw art and design embrace industry for the first time in an assertively modern style. Art Deco was obsessed with travel and speed, and new forms of transport in a decade that saw land, air and water speed records being broken year on year. Artists sought to convey luxury, movement and speed in a futuristic, abstract new style. The Man I Love • Nora Prentiss • The Two Mrs. Carrolls • Pursued • That Way with Women • Stallion Road • Love and Learn • The Unfaithful • Cheyenne • Possessed • Deep Valley • Life with Father • Cry Wolf • Dark Passage • The Unsuspected • That Hagen Girl • Escape Me Never • Always Together • The Voice of the Turtle • My Wild Irish Rose

The Vengeance of Fu Manchu • Firecreek • Flaming Frontier • Countdown • The Fox • Sweet November • The Shuttered Room • Bye Bye Braverman • The Young Girls of Rochefort • Kona Coast • The Double Man • Chubasco • Petulia • The Devil in Love • The Green Berets • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter • Rachel, Rachel • Hugo and Josephine • Finian's Rainbow • Bullitt • I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! • Assignment to Kill • The Sea Gull • The Sergeant Agatha • Boulevard Nights • Ashanti • Tilt • A Little Romance • Over the Edge • Beyond the Poseidon Adventure • The In-Laws • The Main Event • The Wanderers • The Frisco Kid • Life of Brian • Time After Time • The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie • 10 • Jesus • The Great Santini • Promises in the Dark • Going in Style This movie used the correct loco, 4472 Flying Scotsman as well as the train of the same name. I believe some of the stars did their own stunts, including walking down the side of the coaches when it was at speed. Allegedly Sir Nigel Gresley, chief engineer of the LNER, was so concerned at the unsafe practices shown in the film, such as the decoupling of the locomotive from the train while in motion, he insisted that a disclaimer was placed in the opening credits explaining that such things could not happen on the LNER. [7] The notice stated "For the purposes of the film, dramatic licence has been taken in regard to the safety equipment used on The Flying Scotsman". [8] Film historian John Huntley claimed that Gresley subsequently forbade any further filming on the LNER. [9] The full-size locomotive is in the collections of the Science Museum Group, but many more have enjoyed ownership of their own Flying Scotsman locomotives thanks to the beautifully scaled models made by toy manufacturer Hornby, like this example in our collection.

Since the 1930s there have been several other claims to the title of the Flying Scotsman, predominantly associated with cycling. The Flying Scot series of bicycles were built in Glasgow from the late 1920s until 1982 by a firm founded in 1901 by David Rattray. Although most 'Scots' bicycles were men's frames, there were also women's versions called The Queen of Scots.

The film was shot with co-operation of the London and North Eastern Railway company, who allocated their flagship Class A1 locomotive, the eponymous 4472 Flying Scotsman along with use of the Hertford Loop Line for filming. [5] This locomotive was extensively used by the LNER for promotional purposes, having been a star of the 1924 British Empire Exhibition and breaking a number of speed records. At the time of its appearance in this film, the locomotive is technically an A1 (only being rebuilt and classified "A3" in 1947). The locomotive is the only member of its class to have been preserved. [6] The Big Shakedown • Easy to Love • Hi, Nellie! • Massacre • Bedside • Dark Hazard • Mandalay • As the Earth Turns • Fashions of 1934 • I've Got Your Number • Heat Lightning • Jimmy the Gent • Journal of a Crime • Wonder Bar • Registered Nurse • Harold Teen • A Modern Hero • Upperworld • A Very Honorable Guy • Merry Wives of Reno • Smarty • Twenty Million Sweethearts • The Merry Frinks • Fog Over Frisco • The Key • He Was Her Man • Dr. Monica • The Circus Clown • Return of the Terror • The Personality Kid • Midnight Alibi • Side Streets • Here Comes the Navy • Friends of Mr. Sweeney • The Man with Two Faces • Housewife • The Dragon Murder Case • Dames • Desirable • British Agent • A Lost Lady • The Case of the Howling Dog • Big Hearted Herbert • Kansas City Princess • Madame Du Barry • 6 Day Bike Rider • I Sell Anything • Happiness Ahead • The Firebird • The St. Louis Kid • Gentlemen Are Born • I Am a Thief • Flirtation Walk • Babbitt • The Church Mouse • Murder in the Clouds • The Secret Bride • Sweet Adeline The Couch • Samar House of Women • Rome Adventure • The Singer Not the Song • Lad, A Dog • Merrill's Marauders • The Music Man • Guns of Darkness • The Chapman Report • Gay Purr-ee • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? • Gypsy • The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo • Malaga • Days of Wine and RosesMilland, in his autobiography, recalls that it was on this film that it was suggested he adopt his stage name; and chose Milland from the Mill lands area of his Welsh home town of Neath. [3] Milland starred in two further Knight-directed films, The Lady from the Sea and The Plaything. [4] Following the successful tour of Australia, Flying Scotsman ran special trains around Britain, including regular runs over the famous Settle to Carlisle Railway and trips hauling the prestigious Orient Express Pullman train.

Operation Pacific • Storm Warning • Sugarfoot • The Enforcer • Lullaby of Broadway • Raton Pass • Lightning Strikes Twice • Only the Valiant • I Was a Communist for the FBI • Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison • Goodbye, My Fancy • Along the Great Divide • Strangers on a Train • Fort Worth • On Moonlight Bay • Force of Arms • Jim Thorpe – All-American • Captain Horatio Hornblower • A Streetcar Named Desire • Tomorrow Is Another Day • Painting the Clouds with Sunshine • Come Fill the Cup • The Tanks Are Coming • Close to My Heart • I'll See You in My Dreams • Starlift • Distant Drums Moore Marriott, best known as Will Hay’s ancient foil in the railway classic Oh, Mr Porter! (1937) and other Hay comedies, plays Old Bob, a 30-year veteran driver of the express service (which started in 1862). The day before retiring, he shops his stoker Crow (Alec Hurley) for drinking on duty. His place is taken by jeering rookie footplateman Jim (24-year-old Ray Milland in his debut), who the night before Bob’s final run is rescued from a dancehall fracas by the driver’s daughter, Joan (Pauline Johnson), though neither knows the other’s identity; kisses ensue. That this refined beauty was sitting alone in what looks suspiciously like a clip joint adds unintended frisson. Pauline Johnson was a leading British silent actress of her age, although appeared in few films after 1930. Moore Marriott was only 43 when he appeared in the film, but is already portrayed playing a retiring engine driver. A Night Full of Rain • An Enemy of the People • Crossed Swords • Straight Time • The Medusa Touch • It Lives Again • The Sea Gypsies • Big Wednesday • Capricorn One • The Swarm • Hooper • Girlfriends • Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? • Bloodbrothers • The Great Bank Hoax • Movie Movie • Superman • Every Which Way but Loose Painting entitled Take me by the Flying Scotsman original artwork for LNER by AR Thomson, 1932 ( T.2020.55.1)The name was first associated with the Special Scotch Express train journey from London King’s Cross Station to Edinburgh which ran every day from 1852. It was the fastest day express service on the east coast mainline, and before long became popularly – but unofficially – known as the Flying Scotsman. Pauline Johnson was a leading British silent actress of her age, although appeared in few films after 1930. Moore Marriott was only 41 when he appeared in the film, but is already portrayed playing a retiring engine driver. House Party • Magic Mike's Last Dance • Mummies • Creed III • Shazam! Fury of the Gods • Air • Evil Dead Rise • The Flash • Barbie • Meg 2: The Trench • Blue Beetle • The Nun 2 • Wonka • Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom • The Color Purple