Pram-pushing in films

[lauraking]

Hi all,

I'm trying to track down examples of films in which men push prams, or notable refuse to/avoid doing so. Gone With the Wind is the best example I have so far. Can anybody think of any others? British films pre-1970 would be ideal, but any other suggestions welcome!

Thanks.

[Gerald Lovell]

Welcome to the forum, laura. As regards your query, I think Alf Garnett was not happy about doing it in The Alf Garnett Saga, albeit this is a 1972 film.

[cassidy]

Kenneth More pushes a pram across the road in Regents Park in "The 39 Steps" 1959.

[RogerThornhill]

Paul Newman in Somebody up There Likes Me.

[jimw1]

Not British and Post 1970...but theres a well known Scene in The Marathon Man in which an Assassin uses a Pram and Doll in an Attempt to Assassinate the diamond courier played by Roy Scheider

(The Doll Contains a Bomb)

[lauraking]

Thanks for the great suggestions! I'll certainly follow all those up. The last one is interesting - the pram is frequently used as a means of disguise for weapons etc. If any more films (or for that matter television shows, books and so on) occur to anyone, I'd be delighted to hear about them.

Cheers.

[Tonch]

Victor Spinetti and Roy Kinnear as the scheming mad scientist Foot and his lab assistant Algernon wheel a pram along the street where The Beatles live in the film "Help!" - with a tape recording of a crying baby aboard it so as not to arouse suspicion. They are intent on breaking into the fab four's pad to steal Ringo's ring.

On the small screen I remember a scene in "When The Boat Comes In" where the posh school master who married Jessie Seaton is pushing the pram containing their baby through the streets to his mother in law's place and a small group of kids run along taunting him with the scornful chant: "His mammy is his daddy!"

[GRAEME]

Victor Spinetti and Roy Kinnear as the scheming mad scientist Foot and his lab assistant Algernon wheel a pram along the street where The Beatles live in the film "Help!" - with a tape recording of a crying baby aboard it so as not to arouse suspicion.

Better than that! It's a record of a baby crying on an old fashioned gramophone!

[m35541]

The Untouchables has a big shoot-out featuring a pram and Kevin Costner. Costner helps a woman push a pram up some station stairs. He lets go of it to shoot various bad guys and Andy Garcia stops it with his feet when it rolls down to the bottom of the tsairs.

[GRAEME]

The Untouchables has a big shoot-out featuring a pram and Kevin Costner. Costner helps a woman push a pram up some station stairs. He lets go of it to shoot various bad guys and Andy Garcia stops it with his feet when it rolls down to the bottom of the tsairs.

Yes, it is a masterful homage to the great Odessa Steps sequence in Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin.

[Tonch]

Better than that! It's a record of a baby crying on an old fashioned gramophone!

You're right of course

I cannot think "Men and prams" without thinking of Last Of The Summer Wine and those interminably unfunny downhill stunts featuring Compo

More amusing was the wonderfully mental David Cleveland as the lab coated "Prof" from Vision On - for some reason a pram occasionally seemed to feature as his preferred mode of barmy time-lapse transport

[GRAEME]

You're right of course

I cannot think "Men and prams" without thinking of Last Of The Summer Wine and those interminably unfunny downhill stunts featuring Compo

More amusing was the wonderfully mental David Cleveland as the lab coated "Prof" from Vision On - for some reason a pram occasionally seemed to feature as his preferred mode of barmy time-lapse transport

I loved the Prof! Check out his website: It's Prof Again

[Scorpio]

Lionel pushes a zombie baby in Braindead