[Healeys] On The Beach - 1959

Tue Oct 6 21:00:28 MDT 2020

Every good movie needs a good commercial (obligatory NFI):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqTFJjfKfj4

On 10/6/2020 4:43 PM, Mark Donaldson via Healeys wrote:
>
> As David said, it is a Longbridge BN4, and much of the movie was shot 
> on location in and around *Melbourne*.
>
> The final scene is of the submarine leaving, not Sydney Harbour, but 
> *Port Phillip Bay*, heading toward Bass Straight.
>
> My father had an Australian office in Melbourne and several of his 
> staff were’ extras’ in some scenes.  They said it was a lot of fun.
>
> Some of the track footage was, I believe, shot at the wonderful 
> circuit at *Phillip Island*, which many Australian and New Zealand 
> motorsport followers know well.
>
> Mark
>
> Ardmore, NZ
>
> *From:*David Nock BCS <healeydoc at sbcglobal.net>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 7 October 2020 12:20 p.m.
> *To:* Mark Donaldson <ardmorebusiness at xtra.co.nz>; editorgary at aol.com; 
> healeyrik at gmail.com
> *Cc:* healeys at autox.team.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] BN2 in 1957 mystery movie
>
> Special note it is a Longbridge BN4
>
> David Nock
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> *From:*Mark Donaldson via Healeys
>
> *Sent:*Tuesday, October 06, 2020 3:56 PM
>
> *To:*editorgary at aol.com <mailto:editorgary at aol.com> ; 
> healeyrik at gmail.com <mailto:healeyrik at gmail.com>
>
> *Cc:*healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>
>
> *Subject:*Re: [Healeys] BN2 in 1957 mystery movie
>
> A promotional ‘still’ of Ava Gardner in the Healey, one of four I have 
> on file.
>
> Mark
>
> Ardmore, NZ
>
> *From:*editorgary at aol.com <mailto:editorgary at aol.com> 
> <editorgary at aol.com <mailto:editorgary at aol.com>>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 7 October 2020 2:00 a.m.
> *To:* healeyrik at gmail.com <mailto:healeyrik at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] BN2 in 1957 mystery movie
>
> Cool, Rick. I figured someone would have information. We did record 
> the movie, but haven't watched it yet. Leo McKern is one of my 
> favorites... "Ah, I'm being called by She Who Must be Obeyed."
>
> I did see the same thing with them clipping a wider mirror into the 
> original holder to do the "two-shot." But the wider mirror would 
> actually be a nice accessory. Wonder if anyone ever made them?
>
> And my favorite Healey siting scene is still one of the closing scenes 
> of On the Beach, where she stands next to her BN6, watching the 
> submarine come out under the Sydney bridge. Good eyes can spot the 
> stock factory blanking plate in the cockpit filling the space where 
> the heater controls would have gone, since the car had been produced 
> for warmer climes without a heater.
>
> Cheers
> Gary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HealeyRick <healeyrik at gmail.com <mailto:healeyrik at gmail.com>>
> To: Gary Anderson <editorgary at aol.com <mailto:editorgary at aol.com>>
> Cc: healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net> 
> <healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>>
> Sent: Tue, Oct 6, 2020 4:00 am
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] BN2 in 1957 mystery movie
>
> Hi Gary,
>
> Thanks for posting this.  I've become a "collector" of films that have 
> Healeys in them and have well over a hundred of them, but this wasn't 
> one.  In watching the movie, I was wondering why it had such an 
> oversized rear view mirror until I saw they used it to reflect both 
> the driver and passenger in the car in the same shot.  As a Mercedes 
> guy, I'm surprised you didn't mention the Gullwing Mercedes in the 
> final scene, driven by Leo McKern, later famed for "Rumpole of the 
> Bailey" The whole movie is available here: 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8v5vgk1cME
>
> Healthy Healeying,
>
> Rick Neville
>
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> On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 1:03 AM editorgary--- via Healeys 
> <healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>> wrote:
>
>     We were watching Turner Classic Movies this evening -- a little
>     know film-noir called "Time without Pity."
>
>     In the initial close-up of the two actors driving through London,
>     with the backdrop moving behind them and them sitting in the car
>     with just a little bit of the car showing, the car looked familiar
>
>     When they moved to a camera angle where you could see the
>     A-pillar, it had the distinctive folding windshield of an
>     Austin-Healey BN1/2, but given the year of the film, probably a BN2.
>
>     A street scene showing them pull up to the curb showed the
>     registration number on the plate: OOX 926. Does that car or film
>     or registration number ring any bells with anyone? I haven't
>     looked it up in IMDB, but it was a pretty obscure film.
>
>     Thanks
>     Gary Anderson
>
>

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