Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Bebtley film.

For convenience, link here: www.vintagebentleys.org/carpages/tu5987

I posted here about it a few years ago but that thread has been scuppered by the Photobox debacle so here it is reconstructed...





Indeed! The car itself came up for sale at Fiskens in 2010 and I calculated back then that £475 in 1961 equated to £7882, quite a decent price for a second-hand car. Fiskens sold it for £550,000 so nevertheless a good investment, and I reckon it would get a fair bit more today.

The Fast Lady is worth getting on DVD. It contains a dream sequence in which Stanley Baxter races the Bentley at Silverstone against Graham Hill and John Surtees, with Raymond Baxter commentating - a scene which they used to cut for the TV showings (remember when TV used to show films like this?!)




iw

Right up there with the "Swiftmobile" in the 1960 School for Scoundrels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2caCgciV_ZQ

Classic!

Love School for Scoundrels

And Bebtleys

Fun film and Leslie Phillips as the used car salesman is brilliant.

link to youtube clip of this sequence (and others....) -

https://youtu.be/mtCM3TR2koo

James

...which is actually also a Bentley (under there somewhere!)

www.vintagebentleys.org/carpages/xv634

Another great film.

....hence my inverted commas.

Thanks for posting the info and the Youtube clip
Very interesting and some great old film footage

Just ordered School for Scoundrels on Blu-Ray from Amazon

Couldnt resist - I remember seeing it when I was in my early teens in the 80's on TV one afternoon and thinking it to be the most perfect comedy

One of my favourites that I havent seen in 30 odd years

You won't regret it, it's a classic.

Wendy & I watch a lot of old films, mostly British. The company Network Onair (formerly Network DVD) have a huge collection. It's worth subscribing to their mailing list, once or twice a year they have a sale with big discounts, I usually wait until then to stock up.

And as mentioned by Ray in the original post, the place to watch classic films and old television is Talking Pictures TV. I have it added to my favourites, they often have minor films that are all but forgotten but nevertheless very enjoyable. I watched The Dark Rider earlier this week with Jimmy Hanley as an amateur motorcycle racer and Lionel Jeffries as a foreign agent assembling an atomic bomb in a castle in Devon! Great stuff.

~iw