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HealeyRick said:
A Touch of Class - 1973
Romantic comedy about a pair of clandestine lovers in a London-Spain tryst starring George Segal and Glenda Jackson.


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Thank you! Not only does the Sprite Mark IV make its appearance in this thread, you got it in the same Mineral Blue that mine is.
 
HealeyRick said:
These "Look at Life" shorts are great, although I'm not sure their vision of London traffic has worked out the way they foresaw.
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Trivia alert --Tim Turner the narrator of this short was the voice of the Invisible Man in the 50's British TV series and Jason in Jason and the Argonauts
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The Earth Dies Screaming is a 1965 British science fiction film directed by Terence Fisher, and starring Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price, Vanda Godsell, Thorley Walters, David Spenser, and Anna Palk.[SUP][/SUP] After a mysterious gas attack which kills off most of the earth's population, a few survivors gather at a country inn to figure out a plan for survival. However, the gas attack is only the first step in an alien invasion, in which groups of killer robots stalk the streets, able to kill anyone with the a mere touch of their hands. The group's members find additional weaponry in a nearby drill hall, but the robots continue their campaign of terror, which only increases when their victims rise from the dead as zombies, eager to kill anyone who might try to stop them.

This movie has some of the cheesiest robots I've ever seen, and personally I would've been grabbing the Sprite with the works hardtop instead of the shortwave radio:

 
The Earth Dies Screaming

Having seen this film maybe a better title would have been 'The Audience Dies Screaming'
 
A Woman Under the Influence is a 1974 American drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes. It focuses on a woman (Gena Rowlands) whose unusual behavior leads her husband (Peter Falk) to commit her for psychiatric treatment and the effect this has on their family. It received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Director. In 1990, A Woman Under the Influence was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", one of the first fifty films to be so honored.

 
Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990) Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be - hey, even the rats that infested her house have disappeared. But Jamie starts bringing ghostly friends home and behaving more and more oddly.

 
End of the Road:


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OK, folks. I've run out of film clips that contain Spridgets. There's plenty more films that show them, but the films aren't available online. Hope you've enjoyed them and if I find some more in the future, I'll post them up here.
 
Great fun, Rick! I've been scratching my head and wondering what you do for a living that you've had the time! At any rate I really enjoyed them.

Kurt.
 
David_Doan said:
I really enjoyed the bugeye ones. The van movie was hilarious. Why did you find this stuff?
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Why? It was fun to see how the cars were often used to convey something about the character in a film, much like their clothing or manner of speech. For instance, I found this about "Harry O's" Sprite:

"I sorta liked Harry O's car, brought in because the network DEMANDED he get a car. So the writers made sure the car, an old Austin-Healy Sprite, was battered and almost always broken, in the shop or on its way there, in need of repair and a little care. Sorta like Harry himself."

Ialso started a similar thread on the big Healeys: https://www.britishcarforum.com/bcf/showthread.php?94264-Pourquoi-viens-tu-si-tard

And if you want to know "how" I found the films, it was just a matter of going to https://imcdb.org/, searching through the films and then locating the film, usually on YouTube. Only took a few minutes to edit the film for the relevant scenes.
 
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