filmfan456

This one has been bugging me for years.
I remember seeing it around 69-70,it featured a young mechanic who drove around France (I think) and was in love with a young woman who was either married to a much older wealthy man (or could have been his daughter.)
apart from all the fast driving around the country lanes, the only scene I really remember is the mechanic fixing the old man's Rolls and tuning it so smoothly he could stand a coin on it's edge on the engine and it wouldn't fall over!
Why I remember this film at all is a mystery, but it does bug me!
duh

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Steve Crook

Are you sure it wasn't an ad for Rolls Royce? Their ads have always claimed things like that trick with the coin on the engine or the bonnet. Or that at 70mph (or whatever speed) the loudest thing you'll hear is the ticking of the clock!

Steve

Steve Crook

PaPAS

filmfan456

Good suggestion Steve,
Only problem is that it lasted over 90 minutes.
I seem to remember him driving about in a red lotus elan convertable. Very similar to the scenes of Dustin Hoffmann in The Graduate, and no it wasn't the Grad.(and Dustin was driving an Alfa Romeo Duetto Spider of course.)
Alan.

plasticjock

Doest tha' mean "Hello-Goodbye" with Michael Crawford?

filmfan456

Hey Plasticjock,
You may have got it there!
The driver was a blond haired skinny type who could well have been a young Michael Crawford.
The film can't have been all that good as I can only rememder that tiny bit.
can you give me any more of the plot or characters, please?
Alan.

filmfan456

Mystery solved,
Plasticjock was right. Made in 1970 and starring Michael Crawford and the old Frenchman was played by Curt Jurgens.
Information obtained by internet web search.
Wasn't life a pain before the web!

Wilfried Mueller

Hello,
maybe this will help: The film was made in 1970 and here is the plot which I found:
Harry England, a British car salesman on a trip to France meets a Baroness when her Rolls-Royce Breaks down. They spend a few days together and become lovers before she disappers one night, but Harry does not know her surname. The Baron then hires Harry to teach his teenage son about cars on their country estate. Harry discovers the Baroness again and their affair continues. Harry falls in love and asks the Baroness to leave the Baron who has taken up with a lady of his own. Hello-Goodbye is a light comedy where one of the funny moments occurs with a drunk Harry driving a prize vintage car into a swimming pool.

Wilfried Mueller, Germany

filmfan456

Hola Wilfried,
Thanks very much for the info. I have run it past my mind's cineviewer and you have the plot for sure.
To think that I have been scratching my head for over 30 years trying to put a title to it!

Jim

I have noticed this about film companies. They use someone's prized possession; beit car, 'plane or whatever, and then they total it!!

One film comes to mind is Monte Carlo or Bust. There is a gorgeous 2 seater Mercedes Sports car with a bonnet (hood) the length of a cricket pitch and in one scene it connects with another vintage car and you can see, with the facitity of slow play, that the Merc's wing is all but ripped off!! B****y sacrilage!

Another in the same film is the car that Tony Curtis is driving as he leaps over the dock, to land in the ship's hold and smashes the streering section right up against a capstain, totally wrecking the front end! Curtis gets a little tool box out to start fixing it!! A total rebuild could not have been accomplished with a box of tools that size!

While I'm rabbiting on about cars - what happened to the 6 wheeler in "The Great Race', (Professor Fate's car) clearly a car especially made for the film and like-wise, the car used by 'The Great Leslie' in the same film? :mad:

OK rant over!

Good morning boys.

filmfan456

Hi Jim,
Couldn't agree more!
What a waste of some beautiful machines.
What about the cars pushed down the mountain in The Italian Job! :mad:

Jim

Yes filmfan456 - e-types; astons - to quote the grumpy sergeant in the 'Battle of Britain' "it makes you want to weep". :mad: :mad: :mad:

Good morning boys.