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Old 18-08-2007, 09:48 PM
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I`m Looking For The Old Black & White Version Of
Greyfriar`s Bobby. Hope Someone Might Be Able To Come Up With Some Information.

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Old 19-08-2007, 01:20 PM
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Are you sure it's a B&W print? Could it be you saw it on a B&W TV (I do this all the time and I'm constantly being surprised at discovering that old favourites are actually in colour). The only version I know is the 1961 full colour Disney version. I have a mint copy if this one interests you - send me a PM.
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If you are seeing 'black and white' could you be thinking of THE BODYSNATCHER directed by Robert Wise, from the R.L. Stevenson novel with the great Henry Daniell as Doctor Wolfe "Toddy" MacFarlane? The opening part of the film - which is in black and white - shows a burial, and the wee dog mounting guard over the grave. The animal sadly comes to grief when it is later dispatched with a spade by the Edinburgh bodysnatchers working for Toddy.
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About a couple of years ago I put on a thread about a B+W version of Greyfriars Bobby. It was many years ago that I saw it and although it might have been a colour film on a B+W telly I don't think so, it had the feel of a much older film, 1940s or 50s maybe even late 30s. I might be wrong here but I seem to remember that it was Finlay Currie playing the part the shepherd, but there's nothing on IMDB to confirm this. I can't even remember what the film was called but I'm pretty sure it wasn't the one with Donald Crisp.
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About a couple of years ago I put on a thread about a B+W version of Greyfriars Bobby. It was many years ago that I saw it and although it might have been a colour film on a B+W telly I don't think so, it had the feel of a much older film, 1940s or 50s maybe even late 30s. I might be wrong here but I seem to remember that it was Finlay Currie playing the part the shepherd, but there's nothing on IMDB to confirm this. I can't even remember what the film was called but I'm pretty sure it wasn't the one with Donald Crisp.
Are you perhaps thinking of OWD BOB with Will Fyffe? He and Finlay Currie and Donald Crisp were pretty much interchangeable.
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No I don't think it was 'Owd Bob' Aphra, this was definitely about Greyfriars Bobby with the dog guarding his master's grave for years. In the end the town councillors put up a monument to him. Also the dog was a small terrier not a 'Lassie' type sheepdog.
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I can't come up with any information, but I can inform you that on a recent trip to Edinburgh I bibbled the Greyfriars Bobby statue- and milady took photographic evidence to prove it!!
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on a recent trip to Edinburgh I bibbled the Greyfriars Bobby statue
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Bibbled??????
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Greyfriars Bobby is a good page on it. I have visited Greyfriars frequently (my Pattie's family's mausoleum is there). I was told that the other year they had some schoolkids in, who had been doing a family history project, and one of them turned out to be a great-xn-grand-daughter of PC John Gray, Bobby's owner!
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