Help me identify this film from the John Lewis advert?

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It's driving me crazy

Here's a link to the John Lewis advert- take a look at the old movie showing on the television at 1 minute in, please.

Everybody thinks it's from It's A Wonderful Life, the embrace you can see at 3:21 in this clip:

But it really really isn't.

Maybe it's because Freddy is such a wet lettuce in that film?

Rex Harrison and the Ghost of Mrs Muir

Also Blythe Spirit with the wonderful Margaret Rutherforf

(not as the reason that Rex just talk-sang )

I say the cardigan... Of course I also mean the pipe, the hat, the slippers etc.

The whole package as it were.

*and Mrs Muir

If we're talking sexy older men, what about Christopher Plummer in TSoM? Somewhere in my youthful childhood... tra, la, la,

For anyone who enjoys an Alec Guinness comedy, the little-known but rather marvellous film The Card is available on YouTube . It's based on an old Arnold Bennett novel- I saw it a few weeks ago, and really enjoyed it.

Ooo I've never even heard of it. He was quite attractive when young too, in a gangly way.

I think the film changed the ending dredges memory of play

Claim to literary quote, my SIL actually stole my DD's Monsoon Wool coat, which means that when ever her name is mentioned I can go all wide eyed and mutter about 'them that pinched her new straw hat was them that done her in' no flu jabs round her

Withnail, Star Wars, My Fair Lady - some days I need never utter an original line.

ArsenicSoup I couldn't agree more. "I have often walked.." Oh shut up and get a move on FFS

Rebel Without a Cause is on Sky Atlantic in just now. I don't have Sky.

Natalie Wood - another tragic story, but how beautiful is she?

With Warren Beatty in 1962 - looooooooook at him!

Just looking at it. Natalie Wood is dressed up like Little Red Riding Hood looking beautiful about 30 with her perm. No wonder teen rebellion was needed.

but about 30

May I butt in with a photo of this delectable young cove?

Well, Sorrel, I guess we are talking about sexy older men who can't sing for shit, but we lurve them anyway and are rather good at, ahem, being stern

Margot Delicious Dirk! Is that from "Tale of Two Cities"? There's a movie he's in with John Mills "The Singer Not the Song" and I fell madly in love with a leather-clad Dirk when I watched it (No idea how old I was when I saw it but probably early teens)

Margot, who is that? I bet he's wearing big boots. I love a man in tight trousers and big boots

BorderBinLiner I'm always talking I'm film/stage dialogue (much to DH's bewilderment). MFL is an excellent source of material with a much used favourite being "I washed me face and 'ands before I come"

It is indeed Delicious Dirk (big boots just out of shot ).

I also loved him clean cut in the Doctor films.

Dirk was a great actor too and a had a wide range from the fluffiness of the Doctor movies to things like "Victim" and "The Night Porter"

So has it been confirmed that it's a fake?

Late to the party but I brought Gene.
say hello, Gene.

Only by AQA -- when Watchdog checked them they found they answered 37 of 40 questions correctly, though, so there's still room for doubt (especially as the person putting together answer for AQA is just a homeworker with Internet access doing a minute's research, and dozens of us on this thread with Internet access haven't been able to find a definitive answer over three or four days).

John Lewis have just tweeted Mumsnet to say that it's a scene from 1947 film "Born to Speed".

So not specially made! And we have the answer! Yay :)