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From: KILE_PAUL@aphub.aerojetpd.com (Paul D Kile)
Date: 14 Feb 97 07:36:08 PST
Here's some more movies with MGs:

We can't forget "Monkey Business", with Cary Grant and Marilyn 
Monroe (1952)!  Grant plays a staid University professor who stumbles
upon a potion that acts like a fountain of youth and makes you act like
a teenager.  He goes out to buy a new car, instead of the Ford sedan he
was planning on, he buys a new TD.  He ends up bombing around town 
with his secretary (Monroe), driving under a lumber carrier in the 
process.  The car sounds right in the film also, no dubbing in V-8 
noises.  Great film!

"Family of Spies", TV miniseries about the Walker spy ring, with 
Powers Boothe.  He drives a black TD, he and his wife use it to make 
a microfilm drop in the Maryland countryside, she also picks him up 
at the Navy base in it after his cruise.

"An American Werewolf in London", the doctor drives a red rubber 
bumper B-GT.  You see him parking and getting out of it in the rain.

"The Hideous Sun Demon", a typical late 50s sci-fi potboiler.  The 
hapless victim drives an MGA (before he turns into the Sun Demon).

There was an obscure TV series called "Adderley", done in the late 
80s.  Adderley plays a detective/spy who has to come to grips with an 
accident that leaves him with a non-functioning hand. In one episode,
he ends up in pre-Unification East Germany with a female agent, they
have to escape back to the West.  Instead of the usual Trabant, they
come upon a slightly seedy chrome bumper B.  He drives it UNDER a 
moving semi truck trailer to get to Checkpoint Charlie.

Finally, the most obscure MG movie sighting that I know of.  In 
"Blazing Saddles", the movie degenerates into surrealism in the end, 
with the cowboys blasting through the screen into the modern day 
movie studio/theater.  When they show the outside of the theater at 
the very end, a Harvest Gold B-GT drives by quickly in traffic. 

If anyone has already noted these, my apologies.  I'm on the Digest, 
so my replies may not always be current.  

Here's a suggestion for someone with video editing equipment and 
nothing else to do...how about a video "montage" of all these MG 
clips?

Cheers, PK

 

Paul D. Kile

kile_paul@aphub.aerojetpd.com

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