Archive through 22 September 2002

[Mikael Jonsson]

Hi.

Have any more of the oceanliners than Titanic, Britannic or Queen Mary appeared in any movie?

Has Queen Mary been in other movies than Pearl Harbour?

 

[Iain Stuart Yardley]

Was it the Queen Elizabeth that appeared in one of the James Bond movies?

 

[Matthew O'Brien]

Don't forget the Carpathia and the Californian, they have both been in various Titanic films.

 

[greg robertson]

Queen Mary also featured in ''Assault on a Queen'' and numerous others - including:
Murder She Wrote
Airwolf &
Charlies Angels

Ile De France was in ''The Last Voyage'' as the SS Claridon

SS Asturias was in ''A Night To Remember'' as the Titanic

Britannic was in the movie ''Britannic'' at the opening scenes

Archive film of 'Aquitania, Lusitania & Carpathia' appeared in ''A Night To Remember''.

 

[greg robertson]

The 'Seawise University' (Ex Queen Elizabeth) appeared in the Man With The Golden Gun as the secret headquarters.

 

[Dave Moran]

One of the Queens is in Diamonds Are Forever - that bit at the end where the two blokes get set on fire/ have their family jewels crushed .

That James Bond, he's a lad, eh ?

 

[Steve Smith]

Poor old Ile de France... she deserved better than ending up half-sunk as a prop in a particularly bad movie...

 

[greg robertson]

United States appears as herself in a scene from a British Movie.
I cant remember the Title of the film but It has something to do with an inventor of possibly a plane.
The United States features when a family of Americans are arriving in Southampton docks.
I think Joan Sims played a small role in the movie, its in colour too.
Might be ''The Net'' but I dont know for sure??

Does anyone know for sure??

 

[Iain Stuart Yardley]

What ship (if any) is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes set on?

What was the ship used in "Goliath Awaits", the Brit ship which was torpedoed, sank to the bottom of the sea and the survivors lived for years in a giant air pocket? And was it based on a true story? (Kidding).

 

[Randy Bryan Bigham]

The Queen Mary is "portrayed" in "The Talented Mr. Ripley."

 

[Shelley Dziedzic]

Funnel Flicks Revisited-love it! Normandie on her side like a beached whale appears in Hitch's Sabotage, Queen Mary pops up with Bob Cummings aboard in Dial M for Murder, a Columbo episode, Brideshead Revisited and just about any recent made-for-tv show needing a liner!

 

[Michael Shetina]

Hey, I like The Last Voyage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Colleen Collier]

Boz. I just bought the video Goliath Awaits. (Only avalable as a prior rental, so quite expensive, and somewhat difficult to find.) Undoubtably this is Queen Mary, but there is a model of our beloved 4 stacker Titanic on the front cover of the box!!!! Fun to watch! ~I~ believed it! Doesn't Frank Gorshin play an evil character?!
SOS Titanic has scenes of Queen Mary, and Posideon Adventure too.
TV shows, I seem to recall an episode of Simon and Simon, Matt Houston, and more recently, opening credits for the show "COPS" when they were filming in the Port of Long Beach area.
Suppose mentioning the show "The Love Boat" wouldn't count?
Colleen

 

[Michael H. Standart]

How about an episode of The Night Stalker in which the Queen Mary was featured?

 

[Dave Moran]

Oh yeah, the one with the werewolfs on board !

 

[Mikael Jonsson]

Thanks everyone for answering my question. Now I shall rent The Talented Mr. Ripley to see Queen Mary

 

[Scott Reigel]

Chaplin (Robt. Downey Jr) has scenes shot on the QM, as well as a great long shot of Normandie leaving NYC (in 1946 none the less).

 

[Michael Shetina]

The Normandie is in The Josephine Baker Story, I believe.

 

[Iain Stuart Yardley]

Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam and others starred in a film about a ship full of Jews leaving Germany just before the outbreak of WW2 that was refused entry to all ports and was forced to return to Germany. Can't remember the name of the ship though. Any ideas?

Cheers,

Boz

 

[Dave Moran]

The ' St Louis ' a two funnelled ship owned by Hamburg America IIRC - the movie was called ' Voyage of the Damned '