The Fast Lady - 1962 - Complete
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- IMDB Review by mike.wilson6@btinternet.com
Murdoch Troon, an enthusiastic member of the local cycling club, gets involved with Charles Chingford, a local businessman, when the two of them are involved in an accident. Then Murdoch meets Chingford's daughter, Claire, who persuades him to give up the bicycle, buy a sports car, and learn to drive. At first he is horrified, but the thought of dating the attractive Claire, he relents, and takes his first driving lesson.
Theres nothing better than sitting down and watching a good old British comedy film, a real feel good, fun film. 😁👍
It's Yankeefied though😂😱🤪
@@jasanders5877 Sadly true, have to pander for the larger audience i suppose.
@@Shagnasty1956 very true 🙏🌺
The house & garden shots were at my grandparents home, Huntercombe in Taplow, happy childhood memories there, lovely to see it again, great for hide & seek. You can see a ladies dressing table mirror in some shots, my mother still has it 😁.
That's awesome !! .
Do you know if the street scenes were also filmed in and around Taplow? Some look familiar.
@@sightsounds9453 I wish I knew more about it, but it was filmed before I was born & my Grandparents didn't ever mention it unless they were asked & as it wasn't a well known film it was just forgotten really! I think I saw a taxi with a local name on it, so yes some of it seems to have been shot locally. My Granny moved to Ascot in the 80's as it was too much for her, it then passed out of private hands, which I always thought was a shame, maybe a family will have it again one day.
Its a Hospital now isnt it? what a beautiful home it must once have been.
@@marshalllucky Yes I believe that is so, although I'm not sure whether it's in current use, I haven't looked; it was state run, but may be private now. It was lovely & as far as I recall, had actually been very well cared for over the years & didn't have any horrendous issues, the grade I listing was both a help & a hindrance. My Granny stayed as long as she was able & a family trust was considered, but in the end she decided not to burden us with it & she sold.
I'll watch this film over and over again for the country lanes, the bicycles, the street scenes, the motor cars, the fashions, the houses, gardens and, of course, the simply adorable JULIE CHRISTIE!
Yes the same here !
Charlie West
As you say...the simply adorable Julie Christie.
Poor girl. We're about the same age. If she'd played her cards right, she could have had me!
@@MauriatOttolink Ha, ha, ha: good one for a Monday morn!
Yeh,when Britain was normal
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With the added bonus of a number of carry on yet to be stars.
Stanley Baxter, a wonderful entertainer that I grew up with. Nobody holds a candle to this man. Wonderful film. Thanks x
Used to love the Stanley Baxter's Christmas specials
@@joshjones597 .Oh yes ! Happy days .
@@joshjones597 Now that's what you call entertainment of the highest order. It was the best thing about Christmas telly.
Ah the glorious simple innocence of classic British comedies with a whopping fine cast of laughter-makers. Enjoyed it on its first release in 1962 and still good today !
Lucky you to see it in the cinema where film's should be watched.
Stanley Baxter is my favourite Scotsman. 96, and still going strong. We need many more like him.
Wow 96!😲
Is He really still going strong... marvelous
Would watch his shows at new year. Stopped years ago.
Still going strong and so is Julie.
I checked, still alive and will be 98 in may 2024. Born may 24th 1926. Yes a favorite even for me in Scandinavia. 😂
Rest in Peace Leslie Philips, God bless thank you for your wonderful entertainment over the years, may the angels fly with you.
😢 another good genuine entertainer gone forever… freddie 🦊 ❤
Stanley Baxter, Leslie Phillips, James Robertson Justice - all topped-off with Julie Christie, what a line-up ! I'm in 'Old film' heaven !
Very good entertaining film, no swearing which makes it all the better. I wish modern films were made like that.
I could have agree more.
An absolute classic, they knew how to make comedies back in those days!;)
A good old-fashioned fun-filled British film. It was great to see the cameo appearances by a string of comic greats.
Absolute pleasure to watch this old British Classic. Stanley Baxter one of the Worlds greatest actors that ever graced the screen. Och Aye
This is one of the best films, ever. I saw it in a cinema in Rotherham when it was first released on a rainy afternoon when I was 9 or 10, and the humour does not date in the slightest. OK, we have scenes with many pre-war cars, which were still widespread in the early sixties, and roads are of the period, but the characters still exist in the forms presented. Who would be a better car salesman than Leslie Phillips in any era? Who has ever done a dim Scot better than Stanley Baxter? Who has ever been more alluring than Julie Christie, and was there ever a more fearsome potential father-in-law as James Robertson Justice? But the real star is the beautiful car. What an absolute attention-seeker she is. Lovely.
Beautifully put, can't say more or better than that.
Oh for that Bentley for 460 Pounds today and Julie Christie in the seat beside. (At the age she is in the film lol). Mmm....Dreaming is not as fun as those days LOL.
This was one of the funnier British comedies - a lot of the old comedy stalwarts - Robertson-Justice, Phillips, Baxter, Harrison and a few comedy cameos too! A lovely film, thanks for uploading.
Rest in peace Leslie Phillips legends never die
Leslie Phillips died!. 😔
While all my friends were swooning over Hollywood heart throbs I was mad about Leslie Phillips😁
Ding dong not wrong
Absolutely LOVE Leslie Phillips, he was such a gent, ( not like those cads he often played !! )
@@michellefalleur960 I love his films and love him too.
He's a brilliant actor and he was a good looking guy funny guy.
Saw this with my parents and sister in the 1960s Bangalore. Gave me a sense of style.
A lovely little comedy which I saw with my grandmother when I was 10. Thank you for uploading it.
Fabulous film....the great Leslie Philips, Stanley Baxter and the fabulous Julie Christie x
That was fantastic. a classic with some of the best comedy actors Britain has seen. Thank you for uploading
Thank you for this what a great British film yes Hollywood did film making bigger but you can't beat a good old British film
She was gorgeous with a voice to melt ice... and the chemistry between the cast was beautiful ...
Such a lovely couple...
The legend that is Leslie Phillips superb in comedy films of this type but also a brilliant serious film actor a national treasure!
cameo appearances of Dick Emery, car sales man. Bernard Cribbins, man on stretcher, Clive Dunn, man jumping out of the window.
Thanks for the upload.. Always a fan of these British films I grew up with. And always a fan of Leslie Philips.
Eddie Gray and Bill Fraser on the golf course, Frankie Howerd in the manhole...,
Artishealings Don't forget Derek Guyler (doctor in police station) Brian Rix (motorcycle cop) Frankie Howard (man in drain)and Fred Emny (?) on golf course.
Beautiful actors and beautiful cars. It made my day. Thanks for sharing.
The movies from the UK from about 1935 to about 1975 are my favorites especially the comedies!!
THANK YOU!!!!
You must like "Carry On Behind" then!
Definitely my era of favourite films as well, we've got good taste !!
A pure joy to view in this age of COVID 19. Seems UK life in the early 1960's was fun, fun, fun! With movies like this, incredible popular music, and pirate radio stations blasting out the sounds the people were entertained.
Wow, that was surprisingly great! Opening credits almost made me bail but holy smoke, laughed my head off! Buncha great classic British actors, seen but forget their names, but real talent. And a v. young Julie Christie lookin' gorgeous.
What a lovely comedy movie! I love it. :)
I don't know why this came up in my recommendations but I'm glad it did! Nice cheery films from more innocent times just what we need during this virus epidemic.
I was just wondering the same!
One of the funniest movies i have ever seen:I just love it ! Just look at the car-dealer looking in the mirror and saying : "You sexy beast" Virtually unbeatable.
A fully functioning state healthcare service.
Or as Bevin said " freedom form fear ".
If you like this one you should check out "Not now Darling" or even the "Carry On" series of movies, English humor at it's silly best :-)
RIP Leslie Phillips - you've given a lot of pleasure in your long life.
THANK YOU!!!!!
"More please" any or all that you can get hold of, I think British comedy is great.
I've got a good websight if you want to entertain the kids with stories Jez tells stories you tube, tune in.
R.I,P. Leslie, another childhood favourite taken away.
absolutely Love Leslie Phillips
he was a Legend ❤ and James Robertson Justice
thanks for posting
Thanks a lot for uploading and sharing this old English comedy.
Best regards, luck and health.
Gosh!.... I remember the council estate I came from (late 50's early 60's)... it looked exactly like the one here.
All the houses were immaculately turned out and everyone took pride in their gardens.....I wouldn't dare go near the same place these days.
Watched this 3 times. Love England at this time. So unique.
Brilliant , a wonderful film . It never fails to make me laugh .
Another top movie from Ken Annakin. There’s lots to delight in this comedy romance, but Leslie Phillips steals the show at 3.14 minutes in as he looks lovingly at his own reflection & says “Ooh, you sexy beast!” And so a legend was born!
Anakin Skywalker....
a name that is very uncommon....
inside joke between film directors......Steven Spielberg and Ken Annakin?
Seen this before . what a blast from the past . cheers
... for those who think the sparsely parked cars and kids playing in the road were staged just for the film, you'd be wrong!.. in the late fifties, early sixties, I can remember their only being a couple of parked cars down my road in London... ahh, great times! 😀... it's bumper to bumper now ... ☹
and whiter
It was the same in the north when I was about five I was in a photo outside our house on a main road.
About three car's are in the photo.
But I have never owned a car and never would always
We had the only car in our street til about '69/70. Dad had to start parking on the other side of the road finding himself suddenly outnumbered!
The uk is horrible now. The comedy has gone, the strength. Its run by immigrants and people are told what they can And cannot say, what they can or cannot eat. 😞. Everything we enjoyed is edited so not to offend some wetwipe
I was born in 1948 and lived in London. I can confirm what you say about how few cars there were then. In our street of 20, three-storey houses, there were only 4 cars and a small van parked there.
As of April 2020, The Old Man (Father: James Robertson Justice) died in 1975 at 68, but the couple are both still living, her (Julie Christie: Claire) 80 and him (Murdoch: Stanley Baxter) a mere 94 years young...
Even Freddie (Leslie Phillips) is still with us at 96.
I ordered the dvd in March, it never arrived thanks to the postman, I put it in I didn't expect it to come up I will enjoy watching it a lovely film.
Unfortunately as of December 2022 Leslie Phillips is no longer with us.
Nice to see so many vintage stars in cameo rolls. A nice quick flash from Frankie Howard. Not seen this film before, thanks for the up load.
Love Frankie Howerd, as well.
I was working on a contract next to Beaconsfield Film Studio's, we could see over the wall the filming of this movie, I said to another lad name Billy, let's go over and see what is going on, he was scared , I said just walk around as if we are working there, as we went through some trees, the first person I saw was James R Justice sitting in a deck chair with a large bunch of grapes on the table, I put on my best posh voice and said to him " good morning Mr Justice Sir, those grapes look rather nice, I only have grapes when I am ill, and I feel rather unwell now " he laughed and gave me some grapes. they were actually filming the little old lady on the crossing; she had a dog lead with no dog on the end. went over a few times after that.
I certainly love this picture ! So funny, so sweet ! And all those wonderful english cars ! Thanks a lot for posting, I already saw it three times...
A British classic remember going to see this at the Regal Cinema in Bridlington and fell in love with the Rolls Royce Silver Cloud ,just love the driving lesson scenes. (GREAT STUFF).
The most wonderful film ever, so simple but glorious to watch, it gives you a warm, homely glow all over. Suburbia in all it's suburban-ness!!!!! I think it was filmed in Iver Heath, such a lovely street. Google maps. The wonders of technology. I found the exact house where Murdoch lived!!!!!
Oh do pm the address please!
Great movie acting was great too. Made the year I was born...............The country side and villages were so beautiful. Thanks 👍🏴🤪
Utterly bloody daft but utterly bloody great!
Lots of well-loved faces in extremely short parts because they are well-loved and obviously enjoy being utterly bloody daft!
All star cast movie, brilliant and very watchable over and over again
Thank you so much for uploading this. It was absolutely delightful!
FANTASTIC loved it to pieces. Thank you
A British Comedy Classic!
Many thanks.
Happy Christmas All. 🎅
Thank you for the upload..
Just what we needed to take our mind's off of the crazy times we live in today......
Leslie Phillips looked so much like my father, it always made me and my brother laugh when we saw him on TV. Since we lost our dad (Aug '18), seeing him on screen has a special poignancy.
Condolences, may he RIP ♥
@@acehandler1530 Thanks.
One of the funniest films, thanks for the upload :)
An excellent film. Thanks.
Yesterday I saw Leslie Philips as a serious policeman in The Limping Man (1953) ; also on UA-cam.
Superb with a cast that is Who's Who of British Actors. Thank you for posting.
Absolutely lovely film...
Great humour, great artists; thanks a million !
Best of British comedy. The triumbvant of Baxter,Phillips & Robertson -justice. Watch Very important person, crooks anonymous and father came too - superb
Totally agree!
Very Important Person also JRJ, Philips and Baxter at their best!
Great fun. The chase sequence is full of laughs. Perfect pick me up after a bad day at the home office. 😎😷♥️
gets better as it goes along... nicely
That 3.5 Bentley was priced about right for the early sixties at 475 quid. You couldn't given 'em away then. They came up in local classified ads from time to time, plus the back pages of 'Motor Sport' monthly magazine. The old cronk was 40-years old and there was no such thing as classic car movement with fancy prices in those days. The cost of a new Mini was about 500 quid by comparison. Fast forward to 2020 and a similar 3.5 Bentley from the mid-1920's would likely garner 350-450,000 quid at auction and the actual Fast Lady from the movie might sell at auction for 1 million quid plus. The really desirable sporting Bentleys from this era are the 4.5, 4.5 supercharged and 8-litre variants. A 4.5 litre supercharged model with history is going to make millions at auction. In 1973 I was offered the ex-Jim Clark 1959 Aston Martin DBR1 Border Riviers sports-racer for 25,000 quid. Today that car (one of 5) would garner 40 million quid plus. I didn't buy it.
Not a 3.5 litre. The 1920`s models were 3 litres or later 4.5 litres follwed by the Speed Six and the 8 litre. A 3.5 litre model based on a contemporary Rolls Royce (which acquired the Bentley name in 1931) was produced in 1933 but shared nothing with the design of The Fast Lady.
@@keithmountain9437 I stand corrected. Mea Culpa! In the 1960s, I visited London for the first time, staying with an uncle and aunt in their flat in Bickenhall Mansions, just off Baker Street. My uncle rented a mews garage for his car, the garage's location a mere 5-minute walk away from the flat. There was a blue plaque affixed to the outside wall of the garage which informed passers-by that this little garage was home to the first Bentley!
Marvelous as Norman Wisdom would have Said...
Classic B Movie great cast many thanks for the uploading.
I absolutely love these vintage British comedies. They're better than anything Hollywood produced at the time.
In the 60s there were plenty of great Hollywood comedy movies made. NOW there aren't at ALL. As it did there in the U.K. it's done the same here: Political Correctness WRECKED everything.
This is a little known classic! Great stuff!
Complete awesomeness on four vintage british wheels!!
As a fellow Scot I laugh out loud at Murdoch watching TV in the dark to save electricity. It's the utterly ridiculous programme 'The White Heather Club' and Murdoch indignantly defends it to Freddie Fox "It's the best programme on English television!". A lovely film with a lovely cast. Nice to think Julie and Stanley are still with us.
The White Heather Club did bring Andy Stewart and The Corries to a wide audience. My family played their records as my
father saw the show when he was working in England for awhile and brought their records back to NJ.
I never saw the show, but over the years I have heard many British comics make sport of it..
I take it that it was way over the top with old fashioned Scot culture, to the point of parody?
@@jerseymike7946Thank you for your reply. Yes it did tend to perpetuate a culture that didn't belong to the mass population of lowland Scotland. My mother and my aunts were all from the Highlands and they loved the show.
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I laughed my heart out! Thanks for sharing!
My parents where Irish and things weren’t always favourable for them during the 50s in England, but my Father was a skilled steel erector and bought a house in Orpington Gardens in Edmonton in 1952 and had paid for it by 1956. It cost 2572.00 Pounds. I came along in 1960. My childhood was idyllic. I grew up seeing these movies at the cinema. I miss that England and our life as it was then. I miss it so much it hurts. The world has gone to shit. The dollar rules and everyone else can get fucked.
Totally agree. Whenever I drive my 1961 MGA it transports me back to that late lamented England...a land of lost content.
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Another nice old comedy. I just watched A Weekend With Lulu last night with Leslie Phillips, but he was in different character. Great to see Kathleen Harrison.
Anyone else remember the days of waiting for the TV to warm up before it started working?
Radio's too, the valves need to warm up.
Not much better now , by the times theyve loaded all the wifi rubbish we have to have, and the sky boxes have cranked up,,,,
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
From a mad keen 76yo Aussie fan.
Totally agre with Pykkervots & Mortuary Artist.
This is one of my all time favorite movies! Thank you 😆
Mine too for years. I love this film so much have done since I was a boy.....
It's great to see the movie trailer after the film, a great bonus.
Thanks for posting this film. 👍🏼
Great fun watching out for all the stalwarts of British film from the period.
Classic period of British Cinema, when you throw in films with Peter Sellers, Terry Thomas Norman Wisdom and Michael Caine.
Great, classic British comedy film at its British best, with most of the old 50's and 60's comic stars. Best of all, not an American to be seen!! OK, not very PC, but no foul language. How times have changed!
Happy days. Loved this movie again many years later.........1962 . I was 17.
Some really hilarious moments saved the day.
2:14 Ann Beach
I've just finished binge watching 'Fresh Fields' a wonderful comedy sitcom with Ann featured as
"it's only me, Sonia"!
Sadly she died in 2017, aged 78.
Thanks for sharing this!
Leslie Phillips 95, Stanley Baxter 93 & Julie Christie 79, AMAZING !!
And Frankie Howard.
Great timeless models 👍. Oh and the cast were great too 😜
Great movie, thanks! Reminded me a lot of the humorous "Those Magnificent Men..." - same sort of repartee and wacky slap-stick. Thoroughly enjoyed it - and the cars, va-va-va-vooooom!
Some beautiful cars in this movie.
I truly enjoyed this movie. Thanks so much for sharing
Thanks its one of my favourite movies too
what a ❤brilliant film, love the trailer as well at the end. well done 🖒
My favourite film, thanks for sharing it.
Delightfully entertaining, very 'English' comedy with a long list of much loved actors of long ago when life was simpler and more 'innocent'. Thank you!
the VIP'S, Crooks anonomous, the fast lady, and father came too all starring Leslie, Stanley and James ! amazing that the land lady Kathleen harrison, 104, Leslie 98 RIP, and Stanley 98 still here !
Did anyone else spot the continuity glitch where the close up of Julie Christie in the Morris Cooper (with back projection) shows a woodrim steering wheel but when she stops by the Bentley for the first time the actual car clearly has the standard black wheel fitted ? A wonderful film.
What a gem! Thanks for uploading. Great to see so many old cars and old stars! I love the early sixties suits too - so well cut. How could any man resist Julie Christie with James Robertson Justice for a father in law...and I'm sure that was the same driving examiner that I had!
Allan Cuthbertson was the driving test examiner, and was rarely off the screen in the 1960s, in the cinema and on the TV. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Cuthbertson
Thanks for mentioning the well cut sixties suits- so I’m not the only one to have noticed.😊
Love the style / fashions of this era, just gorgeous , So chic, xx unfortunately I was born a bit too late ! Only a bit, mind you ! x
I love that 1960 Lincoln Continental convertible shown at the beginning.
Love these old British comedy films...
Freddy did have some movies with Norman Wisdom, one of my big time favorite
how wonderful - british humor - for ever
Julie Christie looking like this,........forever!
A delightful film to watch - thank you.
One of my all time favourite films of all time, thank you for uploading. My mum let me stay up late to see the end of this when I was a schoolboy :)
Love the old films, takes you back to being a young child. Remember concrete roads, all tarmaced over in the 70's.
17:51, girl in background Tri-ang tricycle, i had red one, colleague at work says she had a blue.
Some of my favourite faces! I love a good old British farce.
"I doubt if even a woman could drive worse" James Robertson Justice is hilarious
I remember him from "Carry On Doctor".