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Jun 05

Check the Carfax

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Just as happened the last time I blogged about “The Yellow Rolls Royce,” I saw TCM airing a promotional film about the movie just now and hoped it was to promote an upcoming showing. I’ve only seen parts of the movie and have been hoping since that time to watch it start-to-finish.

Well, according to TCM’s web site, the movie won’t be airing until August. So I’ve signed up for one of TCM’s reminder e-mails.

This is an oddity – an anthology movie from 1964, composed of three separate stories, quite different in content, linked only by the title vehicle as it passes from one owner to the next over three decades. The cast includes … get ready … Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, Jeanne Moreau, George C. Scott, Omar Sharif, Alain Delon, Art Carney (no relation) and Wally Cox, the voice of Underdog and a regular on the early years of the Peter Marshall “Hollywood Squares.” It was the last film of the great British director Anthony Asquith.

I guess I’ll have to wait until August (and, even then, set my DVR – it’s airing at 3 a.m.).

Jan 03

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

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Turner Classic Movies got my hopes up just now, by airing a little puff promotional documentary about the making of “The Yellow Rolls-Royce.” Often, when these little short subjects turn up, it’s to promote an upcoming airing of the movie in question, but I can’t find any scheduled airings on my DVR schedule or IMDb.

I’ve only seen this once, and I’ve wanted to see it again. It’s not the greatest movie ever made, it won’t change your life or give you many happy years of repeat viewings, but it’s an interesting and well-made oddity, and if you’re a classic movie or TV fan you have to see it at least once.

It’s an anthology of sorts, with three different stories told in sequence. The only connection between the stories is the title car, as it is passed on from owner to owner. The stories range from marital infidelity to freedom-fighter heroics.

The reason to see the movie is the cast. In order to tell these three very different stories, they needed a broad range of personalities: Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, George C. Scott, Jeanne Moreau, Shirley MacLaine, Omar Sharif, Art Carney and Wally Cox, among others. (Art Carney is no relation, by the way, although when I was very young, my father had “Art” on his bowling team shirt as a joke.)

Apr 24

Not to be confused with ‘Big Yellow Taxi’

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I have a quite unusual movie on the TV this evening; unfortunately, I’ve been busy with a million little things and haven’t been able to pay it the attention it deserves.

It’s a curiosity of which I wasn’t even aware: “The Yellow Rolls-Royce.”

Here are some of the names in the cast, and see if you can imagine them all in the same movie: Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, George C. Scott, Ingrid Bergman, Omar Sharif, Art Carney (no relation) and Wally Cox (the voice of the original Underdog!).

The way they all fit is that it’s actually an anthology: three mini-movies in one, taking place over several decades, with the car as the one thing connecting them as it passes from owner to owner.

I’ll have to give this a closer look the next time it airs.
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