The Flying Scotsman (1929 film)
The Flying Scotsman is a 1929 black and white partsilent film set on the Flying Scotsman train from London to Edinburgh, also featuring the famous locomotive LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman. Directed by Castleton Knight, the thriller is chiefly remembered for being the first acting role of Ray Milland, as well as for its daring stunts performed aboard the moving train.
The film is notable for being the first lead role of Welsh actor Ray Milland, who went on to stardom in Hollywood during the 1940s. Milland, then appearing under his birth name of Alfred Jones, was spotted by director Castleton Knight while he was working as an extra on The Informer which was being shot on a neighbouring stage.Milland, in his autobiography, recalls that it was on this film that it was suggested he adopt his stage name and chose Milland from the Mill lands area of his Welsh home town of Neath. Milland starred in two further Knightdirected films, The Lady from the Sea and The Plaything. ........
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