A Boy A Girl And A Bike
Got it through the forum library, and I know there's a queue, so I'll be passing it on shortly, though I want to show Superstoker the bike race bit, now he's into cycle sport. Unfortunately, my lads are allergic to watching black & white films.
To be fair, my monitor doesn't cope with dark films well (much of HP6 was audio only
), and there are quite a few night scenes in this.
I didn't recognise Honor Blackman. For a girl born in Plaistow (London), she did a pretty fair Yorkshire accent, as did Swindon-born Diana Dors, though with a bit less success.
I was surprised and delighted to see that much of it is filmed in and around Hebden Bridge, so I knew a lot of the locations well, and later action takes place in the southern Dales, which I also know & love. How that lad managed to run from Bolton Abbey to Malham Cove I do not know
Many beautiful shots of stone wall-lined lanes (and almost no traffic). Decent film of cycling, with few of the actors being wobbly (except where required by the story). The bike race sections are a bit hokey, but not bad. There's even a brief explanation of 'through & off' at one point earlier on, though they don't really ride like that in the event.
Things to look out for:
Tandem with sidecar
Vintage tents
(background) Interesting tracked tractor.
Good fun. The studio sets are a bit poor, the plot thin, the acting rather hammy (watch out for the rider with cramp), the class issue a bit one dimensional, and the back-projection creaky, but it's funny and engaging, and the feisty Northern lasses are a treat. And the bikes are great.
