Now and Forever
1983 Cheryl Ladd
A loving, and seemingly perfect marriage is destroyed
when the husband is wrongfully accused of rape. After he is sent
to prison his wife begins taking drugs and drinking excessively.
The
War of theRoses
Addendum by Gerry Willburn
There were three Morgans used for the scenes in "War
of the Roses." The "Pre-Restoration" car was (and is) owned by Jim
Whelan. The writer of that film was Michael Leeson who previously
owned the SNOBMOG 3375.
An interesting aside to that story...it would have made a better TV mini-series than a movie. They shortened it quite a bit to fit the movie length and lost the major thread of the plot (as well as most of the Morgan scenes). In the film, you never really know why the marriage went sour or why she hated the Morgan. In the story, it was when he decided to restore the Morgan and started spending more time in the garage with it than he did in the bedroom with her that things started to go wrong.
Barbara and our son, Derek prepared the three cars used
in the film. Whelan's car was the "before" car, the "restored"
car was purchased by the studio and sold after the picture was over and
the car that was "crushed" was a rolling hulk rented from Bob Couch.
It was modified by the prop department and was actually mounted on a dolly
(the same one that was used to lift the front of the 4-seater in "Silent
Movie") so that it could be lowered even more during the crush scene. After
the film, it was restored by Bob and now lives somewhere in the East.
Fame
1982-1987 TV Series.
In the wake of the successful movie of the same name,
a TV series was spawned baded on the stories of the students and
faculty of the famous New York City High School for the Performing Arts.
In one episode, the aging music professor, is taught to drive in a Morgan.
Lovejoy
TV series 1986-1994 Ian McShane, Dudley Sutton,
Chris Jury and Phyllis Logan
Lovejoy is a loveable rogue and an antiques dealer with
an amazing talent for spotting hidden treasures. When not looking for the
odd collectible, Lovejoy spends most of his time using his con-artist skills
to help out the less fortunate. His partners in crime are wealthy Lady
Jane, his dim assistant Eric, and the genially intoxicated Tinker.
Dempsey & Makepeace
1985-1986 British Television Series. Starring Michael
Brandon and Glynis Barber in the title roles
James Dempsey was a tough New York cop who got himself
into a lot of trouble by killing his partner during a corruption investigation.
With things too hot for him in New York, Dempsey was seconded to London's
elite SI10, where he was assigned to work with Detective Sergeant Harriet
Makepeace, under the supervision of Chief Superintendent Spikings. Dempsey
found British police methods slow and infuriating, and his new colleagues
considered him a violent maverick, entirely too attached to his .357 Magnum.
The immediate antagonism between Dempsey and Makepeace was countered by
a strong physical attraction, and while they fought continuously, they
made a good, effective team. A Morgan Plus makes an appearance in the fourth
episode series.
Have His Carcase
1987 Starring Harriet Walter, Edward Petherbridge, Richard
Morant.
From the 1932 novel of the same name. Harriet Vane, author
of crime and mystery novels, goes off on a hiking holiday. She finds a
fresh corpse on a lonely beach, and although she is able to collect photos
and evidence, the body is washed away before it can be recovered. The plot
concerns the efforts of the local police, assisted by Harriet and Lord
Peter Wimsey, to identify the dead man, recover his body, determine whether
his death was suicide or murder, and if the latter, to unmask the killer.
A 1933 Morgan Supersports Threewheeler makes an appearance.
Matlock: The Billionaire
1987 Andy Griffith The action takes place in London and
one of the main characters drives an Ivory Morgan roadster. He is
on trial for murder. As Matlock has just taken his case, he MUST be "good
guy" after all. Thanks to Doug Davee for this one
Lair
of the White Worm
Keeping
up Appearances
My
Girl
King
Ralph
Den Ofrivillige Golfaren
1991 Starring Lasse Åberg, Jon Skolmen,
Mats Bergman
n this Swedish comedy and satire, a gentle and shy man
is fired from his job by an obnoxious yuppie. When that same yuppie challenges
him to learn golf in a week's time, the beleaguered man seeks the help
of a friend, who takes him to Scotland to learn the game in its spiritual
homeland. Along the way, he not only picks up the basics but falls in love
with the daughter of a Scottish golf pro. Meanwhile, his path crosses that
of some of the snobbiest and most class-conscious individuals ever to have
teed up for a round of golf. A Morgan Plus 8 makes an appearance on the
way to the Golf course.
Nightmare
in the Daylight
Pole
to Pole
JFK:
Reckless Youth
Splitting
Heirs
Speechless
Wolf
Another
Woman
My Girl 2
1994 Starring Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anna Chlumsky
and Austin O'Brien
The plot involves the main character, Vada Sultenfuss,
going to Los Angeles for the spring break to learn more about her deceased
biological mother. Vada has spring break coming up, and an assignment:
to do an essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she
wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realizes she knows
very little about her. She manages to get her father (Aykroyd) to agree
to let her go to LA to stay with her uncle and do some research on her
mother. Once in LA, she finds herself under the protection of Nick (O'Brien),
the son of Phil's girlfriend, who at first is very annoyed at losing his
own spring break to escort a "hick girl" around town. However, he soon
becomes more involved in the difficult search. A Morgan Plus 4 DHC makes
an appearance.
Dream for an Insomniac
1997 Starring Ione Skye, Jennifer Aniston and McKenzie
Astin. Girl leads a
lonely life until she meets the boy of her dreams. The
boy, however, has a
live-in girlfriend. There is a scene where a condom is
demonstrated. This
demonstration is on the hood of a silver/blue (two tone)
Morgan.
Preaching
to the Perverted
1997 Starring Guinevere Turner. A minister on a moral
crusade employs a young
computer whizzkid to infiltrate the London S?M scene.
The whiz has to gather
evidence of physical "assaults" in order for the Minister
to prosecute but our boy
unwittingly gets drawn in and falls for the grand Mistress.
Blue Morgan Plus 8
appears about halfway through the film.
Midsommer
Murders
Beauty
Thick
as Thieves
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Dangerfield TV Series: Tying the Knot 1999 The last episode of the drama series featured a Morgan 4/4. First aired 19 November 1999. GoMoG thanks Brian Goree for this one! Keep them coming! |
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Linda
McCartney
2000 starring Gary Bakewell. Gary Bakewell is really trading in on his resemblance to Paul McCartney being as this is the second time that he has played the man. He also does a credible job at it. The title of this movie is a little deceiving as it doesn't really tell the story of Linda, but more about her marriage to Paul. The love story between them is, as always, inspiring and Elizabeth Mitchell does a good job as Linda. The movie shows Paul McCartney driving a green Morgan in the 1960's. The car is actually a 1955 Morgan Plus 4 owned by Fred Ernst of West Vancouver. Larry Sharp |
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The
Right Temptation
2000 starring Keifer Sutherland, Rebecca de Mornay A detective falls for the man she's supposed to be investigating - until he frames her for murder. Sutherland drives Mike Hattem's snappy white Morgan Plus 8 in the film. |
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Rated X 2000 starring Charlie Sheen and directed by Emilio Estevez This is a movie biography of the Mitchell Brothers who opened up a successful San Francisco strip club. Sheen drives a red 8 interim cowled Plus 4. Many thanks to Chris Wnek for this contribution. The Morgan used in this movie is the 1957 Plus 4 owned by Arthur Beatty. He has owned it since 1959 and it is an original car with the high cowl and grill. The movie was largely shot on his road in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. He reports it was great fun to chat with Emilio Estevez! |
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Take
a Girl Like You
2000 Sienna Guillory joins Rupert Graves and Hugh Bonneville
to take her first leading role in Andrew Davies’ adaptation of Kingsley
Amis’ 20th century classic playing on BBC television. A BRG 4/4 Morgan
plays a supporting role.
Addendum by David Spraggett
Your details regarding the Morgan in this BBC film are
incorrect. The car is a BRG +4 4 seater (Chassis No. 3436, reg SLB
930) from 1956. I know because I own it!
Mike
Bassett: England Manager
NCIS
Bright Young Things
2003 A comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Fry,. making
his directorial debut. Starring Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell
Moore James McAvoy, Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Fenella
Woolgar, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Broadbent, Simon Callow, Jim Carter, Stockard
Channing, Richard E. Grant, Julia McKenzie and Sir John Mills (in
his final film role).
It is an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's satirical 1930 novel Vile Bodies.The central plot is a romance story, but the film provides social commentary on younger people in the 1930s, as well as society in general. The lead character, Adam, is played by Stephen Campbell Moore in his screen debut. A 1932 Morgan Super Sports Three Wheeler makes an appearance.
San
Antonio
"The
Fisher King" An Episode in the Midsomer Murders TV Series
January 2004 Starring John Nettles and John Hopkins.
Thirty years ago, Roger Heldman, notorious in the locality as a womaniser,
died one night at the site of an archeological dig on the ancient mound
of Midsomer Barrow, on his land. Now his only legitimate child, Gareth
Heldman, is killed by a violent blow from a Celtic spear that was taken
from the mound's central chamber. Local antiquities author David Hartley-Reade,
who is widely known to be an illegitimate son of Heldman's, asks his widow
for permission to hold a midsummer ceremony on the mound, invoking the
possibility of an inheritance claim on the land to persuade her. As the
reasons for wanting to hold the ceremony start to be realised, he is shot
in the back with an arrow in front of the large crowd gathered there. Barnaby
and Scott's investigation stirs up a maze of twisted relationships, professional
jealousies and lies festering within the picturesque village community,
as they discover other illegitimate children of Heldman's.
In the beginning of the mystery, you can see a red Morgan Plus 8. numberplate FJ03PVF.
Massive Engines
2004 UK Television Series.
Also known as Chris Barrie's Massive Engines. A Morgan
of '70s vintage.
Out
of Reach
Wallander
2005 Swedish Television Series. Crime drama. Kurt
Wallander is a fictional Swedish police inspector created by author Henning
Mankell. The protagonist of many of Mankell's novels, he lives and works
in the town of Ystad, outside the city of Malmö in the southern province
of Skåne, Sweden. Wallander was born in approximately 1948, and has
been divorced since his wife, Mona, left him. He has one daughter, Linda,
who eventually joins the police force as well. He has few close friends
and had a tempestuous relationship with his elderly father prior to his
death. In the episode Bröderna, ("the Brothers) a Connaught Green
Morgan 4/4 can be spotted.
Kill
Ari 2
Abby
Sciuto). Ari is at it again! He kidnaps Ducky to get Gibbs off the trail
of his accomplice, who tries to help Ari get away. Gibbs decides to use
the new Mossad Agent Ziva David to his advantage. She is Ari's control
agent in the Mossad. Ari sends a decoy sniper to get Gibbs off of his trail.
Gibbs catches on and sets up a trap for the terrorist. Fortunately for
Gibbs, Ari shows up and admits to killing Kate just to cause Gibbs pain.
He says Gibbs reminds him of his own father who didn't care about him except
to make an agent out of him. He trains the gun on Gibbs, ready to shoot
and suddenly a shot echoes from the top of Gibbs' basement stairs. Ziva
is there, and has shot Ari. Ducky drives his own 1954 Morgan 4/4. He restored
the car himself.
Marple:
By the Pricking of My Thumbs 2006 Movie made for Television. Geraldine
McEwan as Miss Jane Marple with a 1952 Morgan 4/4 Flat Rad. When
Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her nursing home, Tuppence
is concerned by the odd behavior of some staff and residents. So when Tuppence
hears about Aunt Ada's sudden death and the disappearance of her friend
Mrs Lancaster, she realizes her concerns were right. Tuppence meets Miss
Marple and together they follow a path of clues that lead them to the Norfolk
village of Farrell St Edmund, where they find a community guarding an array
of secrets. Only by getting to the bottom of these secrets do they begin
to unravel the truth about the mystery of Aunt Ada's death and Mrs Lancaster's
disappearance.
Nancy
Drew
Suburban Girl
2007 Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alec Baldwin
Brett, from the suburbs, is an associate editor at a
small New York publishing hous. She meets a literary lion, Archie Knox,
who's 50. Brett is soon dating Archie, then moves in with him. He's charming,
attentive, and gives advice. He also has a history - ex-wives, a distant
daughter, a couple of diseases, and a photo album of former girlfriends.
However, he also has a blue Morgan Plus 8!
Radeloos
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Who is Clark Rockefeller?
2010 Starring Eric McCormack. A con man presents himself as Clark Rockefeller, a member of the famous Rockefeller Family. The movie is not especially good. However, there was a lovingly photographed view of a BRG/Cannaught Green late model trad Morgan, from the side view. As the car is being driven by Clark Rockefeller (played badly by Eric Macormack) the camera pans a side view from the front bumper, passing rearward over the grill, cowel, bonnet and then side door and cockpit. It is LHD, w/o side curtains, and the car appears to be in brilliant condition. It appears about 80% through the movie. (Contributed by Audrey Morris and Art Greenberg). The picture below is of Tom Van Zuiden, the former editor of Toronto's MSCCC's Blurb, the Club's newsletter. |
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18 anni dopo (18 Years Later)
2010 Starring Edoardo Leo and Marco Bonini. To dispose
of their father’s ashes, two estranged brothers are forced to travel across
Italy together in a Morgan 4-seater. The brothers haven’t spoken since
their mother died years ago. Sophisticated Mirko has been working in London
as a successful merchant banker while Genziano has been helping with the
family business. When their father dies, the two brothers discover his
last wish is to have his ashes laid to rest in a small cemetery in Calabria.
The only catch is that the two brothers must make the journey together
in the family’s vintage car. found by Steve Stierman
French Exit
2020 This one was spotted by the keen eyes of Morgan owner John
McNulty and features a model Morgan! It stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges and directed by
Azazel Jacoob and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick
deWitt, who also wrote the screenplay. It tells the story of a
Manhattan heiress (Michelle Pfeiffer) who moves to Paris with her
son with the little money they have left. Pfeiffer's performance
was praised and she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best
Actress.
