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
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