Scene from "The King's Speech"

[Jim]

Went to see this tonight. A wonderful movie. There's a nice scene in it where Bertie, the speech-afflicted Duke of York, unexpectedly comes to visit Lowe, the speech therapist, to discuss his problem. Lowe's young sons had been engaged in building solid-molid aeroplanes on a table in the room, but had been gently shooed out in advance, leaving all their model-building paraphernalia behind. The duke wistfully admires their handiwork, telling Lowe how as a child he had always yearned to build models, but that his father, King George V, had forbidden it as an inappropriate passtime for a young member of the Royal Family. Lowe tries to draw him out further in an attempt at getting to the root of Bertie's speech problem, and as a reward for revealing personal intimacies, tells him he can glue the top wing onto the interplane struts of his son's "Curtiss Biplane," which the duke proceeds to do.

It was a touching scene, made all the more enjoyable by the prominence of the hobby all of us here share...

[Balsabasher]

Wow ! I must look out for that scene and make an effort to see this film,funnily enough I was only looking at an advertisement for it on a bus shelter awning today for this film,what a co-incidence,thanks for the heads up on this one,wonder who it was who actually made that solid ?
Barry.