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Scott of the Antarctic (1948) was a Action - Adventure Film directed by Charles Frend and produced by Michael Balcon and Sidney Cole.

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Scott of the Antarctic (1948) with John Mills

By Greg Orypeck on Jun 12, 2014 From Classic Film Freak

Share This!“We knew that poor Oates was walking to his death, but though we tried to dissuade him, we knew it was the act of a brave man and an English gentleman.  We all hope to meet the end with a similar spirit and assuredly the end is not far.” —— Robert Falcon Scott If ever there was... Read full article

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[At the South Pole]
Captain Scott: Great God! this is an awful place.
Herbert Ponting F.R.P.S.: The sleeping bag, a poem. On the outside grows the furside; on the inside grows the skinside. So the furside is the outside, and the skinside is the inside. One side likes the skinside inside, and the furside on the outside. Others like the skinside outside, and the furside on the inside. If you turn the skinside outside, thinking you will side with that side, then the soft side, furside's inside, which, some argue, is the wrong side. If you turn the furside outside, as, you say, it grows on that side, then your outside's next the skinside, which for comfort's not the right side. For the skinside is the cold side, and your outside's not your warm side. And two cold sides side by side are not right-side when side to side! If you decide to side with that side, turn the topside furside inside. Then the cold side furside skinside, beyond all question, inside out!
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Scott of the Antarctic Facts
The hut where Scott and his party stay throughout the winter months before their final push to the South Pole still exists today and is a tourist attraction for those few who travel down to that part of the world. The intensely cold, dry air has preserved everything almost exactly as it was a century ago.
Ralph Vaughan Williams later transformed the score into his seventh symphony, the "Sinfonia Antartica."
Captain Scott's log and many of the personal effects of the explorers were loaned by The British Museum to add to the authenticity of this near-documentary.
James Robertson Justice was so keen to play P.O. Evans he even shaved off his beard for his first scene.
The scene where the explorers land at the Bay of Ross was specially extended in the cutting room merely to accommodate the power of Vaughan Williams' score for the sequence.
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