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Not exactly completely relevant to the kit/replica cars but I thought it interesting when watching an old movie (right now) called Dead On Course or AKA Wings Of Danger, an English movie from 1952, and saw what looked to be an MG TD at the very beginning.
So I searched online for it couldn’t find any mention of that one. However, another movie of the same era came up. And get this, the movie name is very similar. Heights of Danger, about an Alpine race by a garage mechanic with a MG TD (also a hillclimb before that).Maybe some of you already knew of this, although I searched the forum for any talk about either movie and results were 0.Well, back to the movie… another car that looks a little like the MG TD is on screen now, just obviously not one this time.Found someone had posted about the movie Funny Farm a while ago. A comedy I had forgotten about, last seen it half dozen years ago. Chevy Chase driving a MG TF to his new home, meant to be a reclusive location for his book writing.
I watch a lot of Turner Classic Movies on TV and they’ve had commercials for Pillow Talk, a Rock Hudson and Doris Day movie. He has trouble getting into or out of a MG TD. In fact, I just realized that movie is on right now so I might as well look for that but don’t like the movie!(arg! edit, edit) So that makes 3 movies with a MG TD in them. Well, 2 and a possible 3rd since I’m not sure about Wings Of Danger (AKA Dead On Course) where they show what looks like the MG TD at the very beginning. And the TF model, making 4 old MG’s.Listing them in order of year, that would be:Dead On Course (AKA Wings Of Danger; MG glimpsed beginning of movie?) [1952]Heights Of Danger [1953]Pillow Talk [1959]Funny Farm (MG TF) [1988]Anyone know of others?LRH2015-04-12 18:49:02
Here’s a link with a lot of them.
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?make=MG&model=TD&modelMatch=1&modelInclModel=on
Allen Caron
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Curiously missing are the Heights Of Danger and Wings Of Danger/Dead On Course movies, even after I searched for models TA thru TF. I know the first movie definitely has a TD in it.Confused me a moment when contemporary cars were shown for TF before I remembered about newer models with the same TF naming.I’m amazed at all the movies I know so well from those searches and didn’t realize they had these cars in them. Many of the Sci-Fi genre, like On The Beach where Fred Astaire races a car and a TD is among the entries. Although been several years since I’ve seen that movie, likewise the others.Pillow Talk I watched earlier has a TF, not TD, to correct myself. Sorry for the mistake.Another Doris Day movie, Do Not Disturb has a TC in the background at some point. Found that using search on imcdb.Don’t know how I didn’t see that movie car site when I was searching for movie MG TD before. Much appreciated for giving that link! Just remember that it apparently isn’t complete next time your watching movies and TV shows.Speaking of TV shows… My Mother The Car was a childhood favorite, I think only because it had an old car in it! They show a TC was in an episode, not that I will ever remember that or see it again!I remember Abbey driving an MG in that 70s sit com Eight is Enough. I think there was one in The Way We Were and more recently in Mona Lisa Smile with Julia Roberts.
Yep, those are listed at imcdb.org.
I’ve been surprised people knew what my car is supposed to be. I had never heard of them before, only knowing about the later MG sportsters. So really a surprise to me they were in so many movies and TV that I probably noticed and never thought they were an MG.LRH2015-04-13 14:51:54
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