Accurate review, although I did watch it all it would have been good at an hour. Too much non drama drama
I agree. I think, with the material they had, the programme makers might have struggled to make an hour long show look padded. I did like the bike though.
Looks like he's had a second great escape https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ot-face-court-trial-fake-driving-licence.html
I went to the Triumph museum in Hinckley, the fella taking the tour of the factory told me this was the bike from the film, found in a Belgium barn?
Triumph motorcycle exhibition: The Great Escape bike on show http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-41809557 Andy
You should get a side by side photo of your lad on the bike and McQueen sat on it in the movie. He will grow up to appreciate the significance of it in later life, even if he understandably doesn't know who the actor was.
I think the bike has taken residence in the museum now but I’ve got that famous poster of McQueen sitting on it next to the stop sign so could try to do something with that in the background. My lad is ten so his computer skills are much better than mine, he could probably photoshop it or something !
The fact that they used a British bike as a German Army issue motorcycle was a no no, but even more so the use of a swinging arm model which didn't appear in production until 1954 makes it a farce. Still the best War movie ever.........
Sky Arts channel has been showing a series of documentaries about McQueen’s life that are worth watching. He didn’t have much of a childhood by the look of things.
I can smell hospital..... made me laugh. Fair play to him, for just hitting it first go. No messing about.
Chad reckons that his mother told him that Steve did the jump - but, to be fair, Neile Adams said lot of things that are provably rubbish about her ex-husband...
