Yeah, I saw that. Plot-wise, I thought it was odd that the character, an
American, was tooling around in a new MG --- supposedly she was just
visiting. Did Hertz rent MGAs in 1955? I suppose a rental would have been a
relatively-unphotogenic Austin or Morris.
Right after the program, the station showed a promo for a rerun of an
Inspector Morse mystery, where his famous Jaguar saloon almost collides with
an Iris Blue MGB.
It's not surprising that the British producers of period dramas use
authentic vehicles. It is weird when MGs turn up in contemporary American
commercials, like the insurance spot where a car rolls down a hilly street
into a parked MGB (or is it the MGB that rolls? I forget -- maybe that would
be more realistic). Or the casino ad I just saw, where the funloving young
couple drive up to the door in a white RBB -- it looks totally out of place.
A 911 Cabrio or Z4 would have been more in keeping with the general tone of
the commercial -- we all know MG drivers don't have money to gamble with,
and get their risk-taking jollies just driving in traffic.
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 7/15/09 8:47 AM, Simon Matthews at simon.d.matthews@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Councill,
> David<dcouncill@msubillings.edu> wrote:
>> Yeah, I saw that movie last year and my son pointed out the MGB which
>> was a quick shot late in the movie.
>>
>> On a related note, I was watching another movie a few days ago that
>> featured a MGA fairly prominently. The movie was a classic 60s black and
>> white movie called "Horror at Party Beach"
>
>
> Earlier this week, I wathced one of the latest TV dramatizations of
> the Agatha Cristie "Miss Marple" stories on my local PBS station. This
> episode was "Murder is easy". It featured a powder blue MGA.
>
> Simon
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