[Healeys] On The Beach - 1959
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Tue Oct 6 18:43:02 MDT 2020
For fun, I wrote the following article that was published in
Austin-Healey Magazine, in which I discussed a few of the many movies
in which Austin-Healey was a star, or played a bit role...the website
noted has a great list of many of the roles the Healey has played with
some very famous folks at the wheel, or featuring the car with them as
co-star. Regards, Hank
-----------------------------------------From: "Mark Donaldson via
Healeys"
To: "David Nock BCS"
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Sent: Tuesday October 6 2020 4:47:21PM
Subject: [Healeys] On The Beach - 1959
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
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Special note it is a Longbridge BN4
David Nock
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FROM: Mark Donaldson via Healeys
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A promotional ‘still’ of Ava Gardner in the Healey, one of four I
have on file.
Mark
Ardmore, NZ
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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
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From: HealeyRick
To: Gary Anderson
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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:
[15]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8v5vgk1cME [16]
Healthy Healeying,
Rick Neville
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On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 1:03 AM editorgary--- via Healeys 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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