The Flying Scotsman [DVD] [1929]

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The film is notable for being the first lead role of Welsh actor Ray Milland, who went on to stardom in Hollywood during the 1940s. [1] Milland, then appearing under his birth name of Alfred Jones, was spotted by director Castleton Knight while he was working as an extra on The Informer which was being shot on a neighbouring stage. Individuals have also been conferred with the title of 'the Flying Scotsman', notably cycle-racing pioneer, innovator and twice world hour record holder, Graeme Obree, and more recently Sir Chris Hoy, the eleven times World Champion and six times Olympic champion cyclist. Following the successful tour of Australia, Flying Scotsman ran special trains around Britain, including regular runs over the famous Settle to Carlisle Railway and trips hauling the prestigious Orient Express Pullman train.

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The name was first associated with the Special Scotch Express train journey from London King’s Cross Station to Edinburgh which ran every day from 1852. It was the fastest day express service on the east coast mainline, and before long became popularly – but unofficially – known as the Flying Scotsman. Sir Chris Hoy at the Homecoming Parade in Glasgow in 2012. Photograph by Mark Harkin, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Lawyer Man • Frisco Jenny • Hard to Handle • Parachute Jumper • Ladies They Talk About • Employees' Entrance • Mystery of the Wax Museum • The King's Vacation • Blondie Johnson • Girl Missing • 42nd Street • Grand Slam • The Telegraph Trail • The Keyhole • The Mind Reader • Untamed Africa • Central Airport • The Working Man • Elmer, the Great • Picture Snatcher • Lilly Turner • Ex-Lady • The Little Giant • Gold Diggers of 1933 • The Life of Jimmy Dolan • Private Detective 62 • The Silk Express • Heroes for Sale • The Mayor of Hell • Baby Face • The Narrow Corner • She Had to Say Yes • Mary Stevens, M.D. • Voltaire • Captured! • Goodbye Again • Bureau of Missing Persons • I Loved a Woman • Wild Boys of the Road • Footlight Parade • The Kennel Murder Case • Ever in My Heart • College Coach • Female • From Headquarters • Havana Widows • The World Changes • Lady Killer • Convention City • The House on 56th Street • Son of a Sailor The Man I Love • Nora Prentiss • The Two Mrs. Carrolls • Pursued • That Way with Women • Stallion Road • Love and Learn • The Unfaithful • Cheyenne • Possessed • Deep Valley • Life with Father • Cry Wolf • Dark Passage • The Unsuspected • That Hagen Girl • Escape Me Never • Always Together • The Voice of the Turtle • My Wild Irish Rose

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The development of the Art Deco style in the 1920s, which flourished in the 1930s, saw art and design embrace industry for the first time in an assertively modern style. Art Deco was obsessed with travel and speed, and new forms of transport in a decade that saw land, air and water speed records being broken year on year. Artists sought to convey luxury, movement and speed in a futuristic, abstract new style.

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Engine driver Bob is due to retire from his job after years of distinguished service. On Bob's last day working aboard the famous Flying Scotsman, a disgruntled fireman, dismissed after being reported for drinking at work, decides to get his revenge on Bob (who reported him to the company) by causing an accident. Meanwhile, the fireman's amorous young replacement has fallen in love with a beautiful girl, whose father, unbeknown to him, happens to be Bob (and who has also boarded the train in an attempt to stop the villain). [2] Plot [ ] House Party • Magic Mike's Last Dance • Mummies • Creed III • Shazam! Fury of the Gods • Air • Evil Dead Rise • The Flash • Barbie • Meg 2: The Trench • Blue Beetle • The Nun 2 • Wonka • Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom • The Color Purple Sir William McAlpine, pictured here in 2016, saved Flying Scotsman in 1973 by putting together a rescue plan and paying off creditors. Painting entitled Take me by the Flying Scotsman original artwork for LNER by AR Thomson, 1932 ( T.2020.55.1)