The Flying Scotsman [DVD] [1929]

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Sir William McAlpine, pictured here in 2016, saved Flying Scotsman in 1973 by putting together a rescue plan and paying off creditors. 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. Sir Chris Hoy at the Homecoming Parade in Glasgow in 2012. Photograph by Mark Harkin, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The day before his retirement an old engine-driver reports his stoker for being drunk. The stoker is fired and warns that he will make trouble for the driver and crew. On the day of the last run, the driver’s daughter is on the train and notices that the ex-stoker is also aboard, unaware that he intends to separate it from its carriages – with disastrous consequences.

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] 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 My Reputation • Three Strangers • Cinderella Jones • Saratoga Trunk • Devotion • Her Kind of Man • One More Tomorrow • Janie Gets Married • A Stolen Life • Of Human Bondage • Two Guys from Milwaukee • Night and Day • The Big Sleep • Shadow of a Woman • Cloak and Dagger • Deception – Nobody Lives Forever • Never Say Goodbye • The Verdict • The Beast with Five Fingers • Humoresque • The Time, the Place and the Girl 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 Racing Stripes • The Phantom of the Opera • Constantine • Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous • House of Wax • Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist • The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants • Batman Begins • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory • The Island • Must Love Dogs • The Dukes of Hazzard • A Sound of Thunder • Corpse Bride • The Little Polar Bear 2: The Mysterious Island • Duma • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang • North Country • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire •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 Roses Personal Best • Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man • Deathtrap • Chariots of Fire • Soup for One • Mad Max 2 • The Escape Artist • Firefox • Blade Runner • A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy • The World According to Garp • Night Shift • Hammett • Hey Good Lookin' • Love Child • Creepshow • Five Days One Summer • Bugs Bunny's Third Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales • Honkytonk Man • Best Friends Inside Daisy Clover • Harper • Stop the World - I Want to Get Off • A Big Hand for the Little Lady • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? • A Fine Madness • An American Dream • 'Kaleidoscope • Any Wednesday • Chamber of Horrors • Not with My Wife, You Don't! • Once Before I Die • You're a Big Boy Now While the plot is a bit thin and predictable, it is very well made, particularly the sequences on and of the train, the famous Flying Scotsman that runs from Edinburgh to London. Engine driver Bob is due to retire from his job after years of distinguished service. On Bob's last day working aboard the famous Flying Scotsman, a disgruntled fireman, dismissed after being reported for drinking at work, decides to get his revenge on Bob (who reported him to the company) by causing an accident. Meanwhile, the fireman's amorous young replacement has fallen in love with a beautiful girl, whose father, unbeknown to him, happens to be Bob (and who has also boarded the train in an attempt to stop the villain). [2] Plot [ ]

A campaign spearheaded by the National Railway Museum to save the locomotive for the nation amassed the support of thousands, confirming its status as a national treasure. The first half of this obscure movie is silent and we don't see any railway action. This starts in the second half, as does the sound. The engine's fireman sets out on his last trip before retirement. The previous day, he reported his driver for being drunk and gets suspended for this. He is on the train to get his revenge. The driver's daughter is also aboard. The suspended driver gets out of his carriage and goes to the engine by walking along the roof of the train, followed by the fireman's daughter. A fight breaks out when he arrives and the loco is uncoupled from the rest of the train, a points change just avoids a collision. After things have calmed down, the train continues its journey and arrives in Edinburgh on time, despite the delay. 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 Lady 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] In Our Time • Passage to Marseille • Shine On, Harvest Moon • Uncertain Glory • Between Two Worlds • Mr. Skeffington • Make Your Own Bed • The Mask of Dimitrios • The Adventures of Mark Twain • Janie • Crime by Night • Arsenic and Old Lace • The Last Ride • To Have and Have Not • The Very Thought of You • The Conspirators • The Doughgirls • Hollywood Canteen

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