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Here’s an 80’s artifact. Trump Plaza, where Penn & Teller rose to fame, is featured prominently. Look fast for the Amazing (James) Randi.

If you appreciate Celia Johnson in David Lean’s Brief Encounter, you’ll enjoy seeing Nova Pilbeam in Hitchcock’s Young and Innocent. This is a movie that isn’t shown very often, and towards the end it’s obvious why that is.

https://youtu.be/J_5Or8Rs8H8

This was Roger’s car in The Saint TV series, a ’62 Volvo P1800.

If there is a better film about adult relationships than this one, I don’t want to know it. Brief Encounter is perfect for me as it is.

If Leslie Howard had been alive I suppose he would have been given the lead opposite Celia Johnson, and been ever so wrong for the part. Trevor Howard played the role deftly, allowing the sublime and subtle Celia to carry every scene. She is utterly convincing as a conflicted, middle-aged married mother who has fallen deeply in love, possibly for the first time in her life.

Now that I’m embedding this complete copy of the film that somebody has made available, and my site is once again being indexed by Google, I suppose this video will soon disappear. So if you’ve never seen it, watch now before it disappears.

Ever hear of Big Train? If not, here’s a Big Train sketch, coincidentally about a big train, featuring Simon Pegg.

If you liked that one, this playlist has 25 more examples of the same sort of uniquely British nonsense.

Note to my twinster Jean.