Yes, Hollway's character is quite brilliant.

I hadn't thought of the 'Old MacDonald' connection with 'pigs', but
now you mention it...

And, I thought that was Audrey Hepburn!

Mike

--- In filmtalkuk@..., Robert Holz <mensch_uk@y...>
wrote:
> I have always liked this film too. I particularly
> enjoy the oening sequence in South America where Henry
> ("Dutch") is explaining his daring tale as Audrey
> Hepburn makes her first film appearance in a very
> minor role.
>
> For me Stanley Holloway is memorable for the line
> "What me? Steal a Lancier? oh no no no no."
> As a man whose business is manufacturing a range of
> tacky nick nacks this is laiden with such irony but
> whizzes past so fast that one might miss it. Ah the
> great days when humour didn't have to be flagged up by
> the sound track.
>
> Something that has always puzzled me about the police
> chase is when the Welsh officer mounts the running
> board of the stolen police car and starts singing "Old
> MacDonald". He is busy oinking away and I can't help
> wondering if the police were being called those sorts
> of names back then too. I don't recall any examples of
> such references in early films - it seems to have
> appeared as a nick name in the 1960s ie "fascist
> pigs". Perhaps it was one of those innocent
> coincidences that popular culture of the pre 1960s era
> seems to be littered with?!
> rob
> --- Mike OBrien <mob61uk@y...> wrote:
>
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