Tell your wife the Alpines had to pull over early in the film so dozens of
attractive females could admire them, thus making them unavailable for later
sequences.... Bill
Jonathan Audette wrote:
> Hmm, pretty quiet out there this weekend... so here's some exciting Sunbeam
> Alpine news! A heretofore unrecognized appearence of our favorite car on
> the silver screen, spotted by none other than my long-suffering wife,
> Arlene! Great excitement when we saw two red Series V's (maybe Series IV's)
> in the 1966 classic "The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery" on the tube this
> afternoon. It's a silly English comedy in the genre of "Its a Mad, Mad,
> Mad, Mad World". The Alpine's are showcased quite nicely for a minute or
> so, and maybe more earlier that we didn't see. Later on in the movie,
> there's a shot from above of two red convertibles, but they're not the
> Alpines, they're a Triumph and an MGB. Wasn't following the plot, so I'm
> not sure what was going on. When I expressed my confusion with the vehicle
> switch, my wife, ever cynical, replied that "the Alpines had probably broken
> down!" Ouch!
>
> T.J., this is definitely one to add to your list...
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