Inside Out • Catherine & Co. • Hot Potato • Sparkle • All the President's Men • Ode to Billy Joe • The Outlaw Josey Wales • The Gumball Rally • The Ritz • St. Ives • The Killer Inside Me • Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same • A Star Is Born • The Enforcer Unchained • Young at Heart • Battle Cry • New York Confidential • Murder Is My Beat • East of Eden • Strange Lady in Town • The Sea Chase • Tall Man Riding • Land of the Pharaohs • Mister Roberts • The Dam Busters • Pete Kelly's Blues • Jump into Hell • The McConnell Story • Blood Alley • Rebel Without a Cause • Illegal • Sincerely Yours • I Died a Thousand Times • Target Zero • The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell They Came to Rob Las Vegas • Dracula Has Risen from the Grave • The Trygon Factor • The Big Bounce • 2000 Years Later • The Illustrated Man • The Sweet Body of Deborah • The Big Cube • The Wild Bunch • The Learning Tree • The Rain People • On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... • The Valley of Gwangi • The Great Bank Robbery • The Good Guys and the Bad Guys • The Madwoman of Chaillot • Once You Kiss a Stranger • The Arrangement • The Damned • 80 Steps to Jonah In Our Time • Passage to Marseille • Shine On, Harvest Moon • Uncertain Glory • Between Two Worlds • Mr. Skeffington • Make Your Own Bed • The Mask of Dimitrios • The Adventures of Mark Twain • Janie • Crime by Night • Arsenic and Old Lace • The Last Ride • To Have and Have Not • The Very Thought of You • The Conspirators • The Doughgirls • Hollywood Canteen

While the plot is a bit thin and predictable, it is very well made, particularly the sequences on and of the train, the famous Flying Scotsman that runs from Edinburgh to London. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre • My Girl Tisa • They Made Me a Fugitive • April Showers • Winter Meeting • To the Victor • The Woman in White • Silver River • Wallflower • The Big Punch • Romance on the High Seas • Key Largo • Embraceable You • Rope • Two Guys from Texas • Johnny Belinda • Smart Girls Don't Talk • June Bride • Fighter Squadron • Adventures of Don Juan • The Decision of Christopher Blake • Whiplash Ice Palace • Cash McCall • Guns of the Timberland • The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond • The Bramble Bush • The Threat • This Rebel Breed • The Cranes Are Flying • Tall Story • Sergeant Rutledge • Hannibal • Hercules Unchained • Ocean's 11 • The Crowded Sky • Sunrise at Campobello • The Dark at the Top of the Stairs • Girl of the Night • The Sundowners An interesting curio then, but perhaps not for everyone. The restoration premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival at the end of February and you can also catch the Flying Scotsman locomotive itself, also restored, at an upcoming exhibition at The National Railway Museum. You can find more information on that here and you can get hold of a copy of the film on DVD at LoveFilm here. There’s a clip below courtesy of Optimum Releasing.The Flying Scotsman is something of a historical artifact, being the first full-length British film to feature sound. It was made by British International Pictures, though distributed by Warner Bros, who had of course made and released 1927’s The Jazz Singer, which was the first talkie to make its way onto the big screen. In truth the film is something of a hybrid, consisting of a first half that one might call a good old fashioned silent film, with musical score, inter-titles and an affected, artificial-feeling acting style, before the second half gives us scenes loaded with dialogue and sound effects. The film is notable for being the first lead role of Welsh actor Ray Milland, who went on to stardom in Hollywood during the 1940s. [1] Milland, then appearing under his birth name of Alfred Jones, was spotted by director Castleton Knight while he was working as an extra on The Informer which was being shot on a neighbouring stage. The name was first associated with the Special Scotch Express train journey from London King’s Cross Station to Edinburgh which ran every day from 1852. It was the fastest day express service on the east coast mainline, and before long became popularly – but unofficially – known as the Flying Scotsman. Chasing Liberty • Torque • The Big Bounce • Clifford's Really Big Movie • Starsky & Hutch • Spartan • Taking Lives • Bad Education • Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed • The Whole Ten Yards • New York Minute • Troy • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban • House of Flying Daggers • A Cinderella Story • Catwoman • Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light • Exorcist: The Beginning • Laura's Star • The Polar Express • Alexander • Ocean's Twelve • Million Dollar Baby • The Aviator

A Child Is Born • Brother Rat and a Baby • The Fighting 69th • British Intelligence • Calling Philo Vance • Agatha • Boulevard Nights • Ashanti • Tilt • A Little Romance • Over the Edge • Beyond the Poseidon Adventure • The In-Laws • The Main Event • The Wanderers • The Frisco Kid • Life of Brian • Time After Time • The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie • 10 • Jesus • The Great Santini • Promises in the Dark • Going in Style My Reputation • Three Strangers • Cinderella Jones • Saratoga Trunk • Devotion • Her Kind of Man • One More Tomorrow • Janie Gets Married • A Stolen Life • Of Human Bondage • Two Guys from Milwaukee • Night and Day • The Big Sleep • Shadow of a Woman • Cloak and Dagger • Deception – Nobody Lives Forever • Never Say Goodbye • The Verdict • The Beast with Five Fingers • Humoresque • The Time, the Place and the Girl Milland, in his autobiography, recalls that it was on this film that it was suggested he adopt his stage name; and chose Milland from the Mill lands area of his Welsh home town of Neath. [3] Milland starred in two further Knight-directed films, The Lady from the Sea and The Plaything. [4] All of the stunts were filmed on the moving locomotive with the actors. Most dangerously, at one point actress Pauline Johnson walks along the edge of the moving train wearing high heeled shoes, transferring from the coaches to the locomotive while travelling at speed. [2]

A Night Full of Rain • An Enemy of the People • Crossed Swords • Straight Time • The Medusa Touch • It Lives Again • The Sea Gypsies • Big Wednesday • Capricorn One • The Swarm • Hooper • Girlfriends • Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? • Bloodbrothers • The Great Bank Hoax • Movie Movie • Superman • Every Which Way but Loose

The day before his retirement an old engine-driver reports his stoker for being drunk. The stoker is fired and warns that he will make trouble for the driver and crew. On the day of the last run, the driver’s daughter is on the train and notices that the ex-stoker is also aboard, unaware that he intends to separate it from its carriages – with disastrous consequences. Hotel • First to Fight • The Corrupt Ones • A Covenant with Death • The Mikado • The Cool Ones • The Family Way • Up the Down Staircase • Triple Cross • The Naked Runner • Bonnie and Clyde • The Bobo • Reflections in a Golden Eye • Camelot • Wait Until Dark • Cool Hand Luke • It! • The Frozen Dead Individuals have also been conferred with the title of 'the Flying Scotsman', notably cycle-racing pioneer, innovator and twice world hour record holder, Graeme Obree, and more recently Sir Chris Hoy, the eleven times World Champion and six times Olympic champion cyclist.

See also

Brass • The Tie That Binds • Little Church Around the Corner • Main Street • Where the North Begins • Little Johnny Jones • The Printer's Devil • The Gold Diggers • The Country Kid • Lucretia Lombard • Tiger Rose Dr. Crippen • Dead Ringer • The Incredible Mr. Limpet • FBI Code 98 • A Distant Trumpet • Robin and the 7 Hoods • Ensign Pulver • Kisses for My President • Richard Burton's Hamlet • Cheyenne Autumn • Youngblood Hawke • Dear Heart • My Fair Lady • Sex and the Single Girl The Couch • Samar House of Women • Rome Adventure • The Singer Not the Song • Lad, A Dog • Merrill's Marauders • The Music Man • Guns of Darkness • The Chapman Report • Gay Purr-ee • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? • Gypsy • The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo • Malaga • Days of Wine and Roses