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Ys on Film and other media |
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The Y has featured in a number of films and TV shows over the years, and even songs! In this page we hope to bring these appearances to your attention. If you have any stills or video clips (preferably both), please send them to the Webmaster and we will try to feature them here.
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Invitation (1952) 
Ellen Pierce (Dorothy McGuire) is very happily married to architect Dan (Van Johnson). However, due to a bout of rheumatic fever in her childhood, her heart is weak and she cannot exert herself too much; how frail she is, she does not really know. Her wealthy father (Louis Calhern) and the family doctor (Ray Collins) have kept from her the fact that she probably only has a few more months to live.
When Ellen visits acquaintance Maud Redwick (Ruth Roman), Dan's embittered former girlfriend, Maud reminds her about a vicious remark she had made at Ellen and Dan's wedding that he was only a "loan" for about a year. That, plus an invitation addressed to Dan to a medical conference and various other clues, leads Ellen to discover the truth, not only about her prognosis, but also an even more devastating secret: that her father had arranged the marriage to make her happy, and that Dan did not love her.
When Dan finds out, he confesses via flashbacks that he had initially rejected her father's offer, but due to a lack of success in his career, he had indeed married her at her father's behest. However, he claims that he has since fallen deeply in love with her.
He tells her about a Doctor Toynberry who has come up with a new technique that has a good chance of curing her and begs her to undergo the operation he has arranged for her. If it is a success, they will know by spring. After absorbing everything, she goes through with the medical procedure. The film flashes forward to the spring, with her healthy and blissfully still married to Dan.
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Archer (Series 5 Episode 8 2015)
Archer is an animated, half-hour comedy that revolves around an international spy agency and the lives of its employees. Although their work of espionage, reconnaissance missions, wiretapping and undercover surveillance is daunting and dangerous, every covert operation and global crisis is actually just another excuse for the staff to undermine, sabotage and betray each other for personal gain. The series features the voices of H. Jon Benjamin as the highly skilled and incredibly vain master spy "Sterling Archer;" Aisha Tyler as Archer's fellow agent and ex-girlfriend, "Lana Kane;" Jessica Walter as Archer's domineering mother and spy agency director, "Malory Archer;" Chris Parnell as the easily intimidated comptroller-turned secret agent "Cyril Figgis;" Judy Greer as Malory's loquacious, dingbat secretary, "Cheryl;" Amber Nash as the discordant director of human resources, "Pam Poovey;" Adam Reed as the gay voice of reason, "Ray Gillette;" and Lucky Yates as the spy agency's possibly mad scientist/ possibly clone of himself, "Krieger."
In this episode, Sterling Archer is driving an MG YT in a car chase.
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A Suitable Boy 
A Suitable Boy is set in 1951, a newly post-independence, post-partition India. The novel follows four families during 18 months, and centres on Mrs. Rupa Mehra (Mahira Kakkar) and her efforts over the arrangement of the marriage of her younger daughter, Lata Mehra (Tanya Maniktala), to a "suitable boy". Lata is a 19-year-old university student who refuses to be influenced by her domineering mother or opinionated brother, Arun Mehra (Vivek Gomber). Her story revolves around the choice she is forced to make between her suitors.
In this scene an MG YB can be seen in the background.
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Charlie (2004)
Luke Goss teams up with Steven Berkoff to tell the real life story of Charlie Richardson, the head of the notorious "Torture gang". In the sixties, London was owned and ruled by two families, North of the river the Krays, to the South, the Richardsons. Now for the first time in his own words "Charlie" reveals what really happened when he was arrested and tried in what notoriously became known as the "Torture Trial".
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Meet Mr. Callaghan (1954)
Meet Mr. Callaghan is a 1954 British crime drama film directed by Charles Saunders and starring Derrick De Marney. Based on the 1938 novel The Urgent Hangman by Peter Cheyney, which Cheyney had then turned into a play.
Co-producer and star Derrick de Marney had directed the stage version of Meet Mr. Callaghan at the Garrick Theatre in 1952, which starred Derrick's brother Terence as Cheyney's private eye Slim Callaghan. Derrick played this role in the film.
Down at heel private Detective Slim Callaghan (Derrick De Marney) is hired by young socialite Cynthis Meraulton (Harriette Johns) to investigate. When her rich stepfather changes his will in her favour, and is then subsequently murdered, suspicion falls on Cynthis.
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The Deer Hunter (1978)
In 1968, Michael (Robert De Niro), Nick (Christopher Walken) and Steven (John Savage), lifelong friends from a working-class Pennsylvania steel town, prepare to ship out overseas following Steven's elaborate wedding and one final group hunting trip. In Vietnam, their dreams of military honor are quickly shattered by the inhumanities of war; even those who survive are haunted by the experience, as is Nick's hometown sweetheart, Linda (Meryl Streep).
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Passport to Shame (1958)
Passport to Shame, also known as Room 43, is a 1958 British drama film directed by Alvin Rakoff, written by Patrick Alexander and starring Diana Dors and Herbert Lom.
In order to get a loan, a London cabdriver (Eddie Constantine) hastily marries a Frenchwoman (Odile Versois), not realizing she is a recruit for a prostitution ring.
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Look at Life (Title sequence - 1963 - 1964)
Look at Life was a regular British series of short documentary films of which over 500 were produced between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation for screening in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas. The films always preceded the main feature film that was being shown in the cinema that week. It replaced the circuit's newsreel, Universal News, which had become increasingly irrelevant in the face of more immediate news media, particularly on television with the launch of ITN on the Independent Television service, which began broadcasting in parts of the United Kingdom in 1955. This sequence was used circa 1963 to 1964 on at least two short films - Rising to High Office and Fings are getting smaller.
Catherine Cookson - The Round Tower
"The Round Tower" - a novel written by Catherine Cookson and is set in mid-1950's England. This story tells of the wealthy, socially upwardly-progressive Ratcliffe family. Their youngest daughter, seventeen year old Vanessa, feels alienated from her selfish parents, who are more interested in their eldest daughter's upcoming marriage into one of their town's old families. An old friend of the family, who is himself trapped in a loveless marriage, makes love to Vanessa one night, and she becomes pregnant, but won't reveal who the father is. Her parents are sure it is an employee of the Ratcliffe's, Angus Cotton, who hotly denies this and quits his job to go and start his own business.
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Y 2793 
Y 2793 festured in a video made by a dealer Nervesauto in Italy. Narrated in Italian with English subtitles.
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Y 4484
Y 4484 festured in a video made by a dealer (AutohausNaples.com) of Florida prior to its sale in 2021.
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 181.2mb - a 13 minute video file Y 4484 also festured on an ealier video on YouTube uploaded by anystreet51 taken at the Sarasota Motor Museum, Florida, USA. |
Father Brown - Series 8 Episode 1 - BBC
"Father Brown" is a British TV Series eccentric Catholic priest turns detective. This clip features the MG Y/T belonging to Peter Vielvoye and appears in Series 8, Episode 1, titled as The Celestial Choir.
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YB 0538 road test with a tachometer Canada 
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YB 0538 road test with a tachometer Canada |
Unknown Y at Hamburg
Motor Classic show 2018 Germany 
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Unknown Y at Hamburg Motor Classic show 2018 Germany |
Y 4249
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Y 4249 at the Cotswold Motor Museum and an Austin Bantam UK |
YB 0825
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YB 0825 arrives with its new owner - February 2018 UK |
Y/T 2659
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A promotional video, offered for sale through Gateway Classic Cars, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. |
Y/T 4672
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Promotional video by Auto Seller Marketing, Galveston, Indiana, USA. No soundtrack |