Joke Opportunity----Take It Away!

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Robert Donat's Mr Chips is excellent. Peter O'Toole's is even better (though admittedly also more colourful).

Best black and white movie ever? Same as the best book ever - 'To Kill A Mockingbird'.

[Malc]

That's the second time I've heard that statement this week and it's only Monday (here in Oz, that is).

I'm illustrating a book at the moment, and the author and I have become quite chatty over the phone. He has offered the opinion more than once that To Kill A Mockingbird is the best book ever writ. According to him, Harper Lee never wrote another, and I just Googled to confirm that.

Oddly, Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind) also only wrote one novel. Mind you, if you're only going to write one, write that one.

[peter]

Was The Thirty-Nine Steps in black and white? The first one I remember seeing was in colour and it starred Kenneth Moore.

No it was Robert Dona't 1935 

[peter]

I thought Gone with the wind was wrote by Micheal Rennie

[peter]

Just been to my first Muslim birthday party. musical chairs was a bit slow but F... me  Past the parcel was frantic.

[peter]

Just had my car hit by one of those new Skoda's.



There was jam and sponge all over the place

[Malc]

Jim Davidson Lives!!!!

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Quite! 

[Rob Baker]

I agree with Peter, one of my top 3 favourite films is Hitchcock's 39 Steps.  I've always wondered if the places in Scotland where Hannay has to go really exist and were used as locations in the film. I think they were called Alt-na-Shellach and Killin. 

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

I can't say whether they were the locations used in the film or not, Rob, but both certainly exist. I've been to Killin many times in my life, being a lovely little village at the western end of Loch Tay. There is an Alt-Na-Shellach about 50 miles away from Killin, near the village of Guildtown, north of Perth. But it looks to be no more than a few fields on Google Earth, which perhaps doesn't tie in with the novel.

[Malc]

No, Google Earth isn't even mentioned in the novel.

[Roger Kettle]

My sister, Diamond Lil, lives in Killin. It is, indeed, a glorious location.

[The Peepmaster]

I've never been there, but I've heard of the Killin Fields. Didn't they make a movie about them?

[Max]

Took this from the IMDB,

Filming locations for
The 39 Steps (1935)


Big Water of Fleet Viaduct, Dromore, Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, UK

Forth Bridge, South Queensferry, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Glen Coe, Highlands, Scotland, UK

Lime Grove Studios, Lime Grove, Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK

One day I will visit the locations of "Scottish" films like "The Bridal Path", anyone remember that?

Especially the part when the hero runs away because the girls are Campbells.

[Malc]

...maybe they were chunky.