The Flying Scotsman [DVD] [1929]

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Hotel • First to Fight • The Corrupt Ones • A Covenant with Death • The Mikado • The Cool Ones • The Family Way • Up the Down Staircase • Triple Cross • The Naked Runner • Bonnie and Clyde • The Bobo • Reflections in a Golden Eye • Camelot • Wait Until Dark • Cool Hand Luke • It! • The Frozen Dead Typically, railway poster art focused on images of the destination: sunny resorts and beaches, golf courses, quaint towns and rural scenes. The railway companies, however, were always keeping an eye on their competitors, and looking to create impact with their designs, which the new Art Deco style achieved. 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

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] It was the first service to run non-stop over 100 miles and for a long time held the record as the world’s longest scheduled non-stop run from London to Newcastle, a distance of 268 ½ miles. During the period between the First and Second World Wars, the service became a byword for the luxury of rail travel. The film is notable for being the first lead role of Welsh actor Ray Milland, who went on to stardom in Hollywood during the 1940s. [1] Milland, then appearing under his birth name of Alfred Jones, was spotted by director Castleton Knight while he was working as an extra on The Informer which was being shot on a neighbouring stage.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 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 Flying Scotsman is something of a historical artifact, being the first full-length British film to feature sound. It was made by British International Pictures, though distributed by Warner Bros, who had of course made and released 1927’s The Jazz Singer, which was the first talkie to make its way onto the big screen. In truth the film is something of a hybrid, consisting of a first half that one might call a good old fashioned silent film, with musical score, inter-titles and an affected, artificial-feeling acting style, before the second half gives us scenes loaded with dialogue and sound effects. 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 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 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. 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 SergeantFollowing 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. 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. 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 •