Model boats or ships in film scenes.

[orpheum]

I am watching RTT now,it was on London Live a short time ago.It sunk Lord Grade.Thankfu!!y I did not waste my money on it.It is truly awful.

[Mancunian Films]

I'm also a life long fan of Ed Wood:cool:

[Gerald Lovell]

Here's one in the cottage of 'Captain' Gordon (Billy Russell) when there's a "Lack of Communication" in DR. FINLAY'S CASEBOOK:

[Gerald Lovell]

Parents Kathleen Ryan and Dirk Bogarde think a teddy bear is probably a better bedtime companion for their sleeping son Jackie in Esther Waters (1948):

[theuofc]

Excellent! I forgot about that shot.

[Gerald Lovell]

There are plenty of models for designer Gordon Jackson to swoon over in the independently-framed Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Floodtide (1949):

[Gerald Lovell]

It's not surprising Alec Guinness has one in his respectable pad in The Captain's Paradise (1953):

[Gerald Lovell]

And also not surprising that old sea dog Cecil Parker should have one in his pad with his respectable wife Ursula Jeans in The Weaker Sex (1948):

[Gerald Lovell]

It's all lovey-dovey at the moment for Stanley Baker and Ginger Rogers as they gaze upon their latest craft, but will they ever board the full-sized version in Beautiful Stranger (1954)?:

[Gerald Lovell]

Nyree Dawn Porter rubs her hands with glee as she ponders a voyage on the full-sized version of the vessel which is a "Balance of Terror" perched upon Robert Vaughn's mantelpiece in THE PROTECTORS.

[Gerald Lovell]

Shipbuilding is the plot's catalyst for The Demi-Paradise (1943) and so there are numerous models featured throughout the film. Here are a couple of them in the Tisdall household:

[Gerald Lovell]

Felix Aylmer has a big one in his office while She Shall Have Music in 1935:



Unfortunately, Felix and his model only get two brief scenes in the film, whereas the songs cover all decks from port to starboard.

[Gerald Lovell]

Alec Cavendish may have spooks in his cellar, but he's also got a model ship in his lobby in The Ghost of Rashmon Hall (1948):

[Gerald Lovell]

Goldie Hawn sees a ship come sailing in when There's a Girl in My Soup in 1970:

[Gerald Lovell]

Behind cronies Bill Nagy and Cec Linder is Yul Brynner's Surprise Package in 1960:

[Gerald Lovell]

Two Way Stretch (1960) gives us this decoration in the prison governor's office:



Maurice Denham is the Governor and Wilfrid Hyde-White the crooks' guv'nor. The model is a nice bit of continuity as in a throwaway line early on in the film, the Governor is referred to as "Commander".