Word: brighton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brighton, Mass...
...subject of the film is the annual Commemoration Run, from London to Brighton, of the British Veteran Car Club. The heroine is an alizarin-crimson 1904 Darracq named Genevieve, the hero an anonymous cadmium-yellow 1904 Spyker. The Darracq is the proud possession of a young man of moderate means (John Gregson). His wife (Dinah Sheridan) just goes along grimly for the ride. The Spyker belongs to a friend named Ambrose (Kenneth More), a frisky youth whose ambition it is "to combine the pleasures of the London-Brighton run with a really beautiful emotional experience...
...Brighton at last, while watching More crank up to a seduction scene with his girl, the husband begins to wonder darkly, "What happened on the '49 run?" when his wife, before they were married, made the trip in the yellow Spyker. His discontent takes the form of a belligerent insistence that his car is better than the other, and the two soon rooster each other into a race back to London, with the rash sum of ?100 riding on the outcome...
Donlan, who lives in Brighton and attended B.C. High, gave his reason for changing as a desire to be near his ill mother...
Reckoning. In Brighton, England, a magistrate's court ordered John Ayling, 71, to pay off a $602 debt in weekly 8? installments...