3:55pm Friday 26th June 2009
A Boy, A Girl and a Bike (1949)
Made in 1948 by Gainsborough Pictures Ltd, the original title, Wheels Within Wheels, was changed during shooting.
Locations include Ilkley, Halifax, Hebden Bridge and Skipton.
Rival suitors in a Yorkshire cycling club, a working class lad and a toff, pursue the object of their desire.
The actors include John McCallum, Patrick Holt, Honor Blackman, Diana Dors, Maurice Denham, Anthony Newley, Thora Hird and Megs Jenkins.
Ted Willis, the writer of Dixon Of Dock Green, was one of the film’s three screenwriters, and the director was Ralph Smart.
Location filming was supposed to take three weeks, but was interrupted by bad weather. Tony Earnshaw, author of the film book Made In Yorkshire, says: “The stop-start shoot meant the actors had to remain in costume for hours on end, ready to climb into the saddle the moment the sun broke through the clouds.”
DJ Jimmy Savile, who featured as one of the cyclists, has fond memories of the proper lunchtime dinners from the catering wagon. “It was wonderful, a dream time.”
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