Buses on Screen - Films Fm-Fz

Folly to be Wise (1952, Alastair Sim)

Short scene towards the end has a glimpse of a London Transport C-type Leyland Cub, also an interior view, which may be a studio shot. (+Colin Read)

Food for a Blush (1959, dir Elizabeth Russell)

Experimental film shot in Chelsea in 1955 has brief glimpses of London Transport RTL1639 (OLD648) on route 19 and RT2479 (KXW108) on route 49

The Football Factory (2004, dir Nick Love)

Movie about London football fans and football violence features HIL2155, a Leyland Leopard PSU3/Plaxton Supreme operated since new by Hearns of Edgware. (from uk-bus-fleetnews Yahoo group)

For Better For Worse (1954, Dirk Bogarde)

Scenes shot in Oxford Street, featuring lots of London Transport buses. (thanks Bob Wingrove)
When Bogarde and Stephen leave the cinema early in the film, London Transport RTL556 (KGU6) brakes hard to avoid hitting them. At the end of the film a Saunders-bodied RT is seen, possibly RT1296 (KLB545) on route 25. (+Colin Read)

Forces of Nature (1999, Sandra Bullock, Ben Affleck)

Bullock and Affleck ride into Mexico on a motorcoach of Zzip-a-way Tours. Also seen is a Grayline coach. The scene in Mexico was filmed in South Carolina.

Foreign Correspondent (1940, Joel McCrea, George Sanders)

Brief view from a taxi of London Transport all-Leyland Titan TD4 STD28 (DLU338) on service 13, in wartime livery including masked headlamps. (+Colin Read)

For Heaven's Sake (1926, Harold Lloyd)

Silent classic shot in Los Angeles features a hair-raising chase scene involving double decker bus 663 of Metropolitan Motor Bus Company, also several trolleycars. Short clips from this movie can be seen at Getty Images: Film Page - key 'For Heaven's Sake' into the search box.

For Pete's Sake (1974, Michael Sarazin, Barbara Streisand)

In one scene Streisand is being chased in downtown Brooklyn and runs into a subway station. In the background are New York City Transit Authority buses. (thanks Alan Aron)

For the Love of Ada (1973, Wilfred Pickles, Irene Handel)

Jon Price comments "Big screen version of the (popular?) sitcom, features background shots of unidentifiable RTs (including one on route 1), MB/SM and a green RF. Also features Bedford SB/Duple ORO 970D of Wrens Coaches (red/cream) bringing guests to the surprise party."

Forrest Gump (1994, Tom Hanks)

The main story of the film is framed by Forrest Gump sitting waiting at a bus stop. Unfortunately the buses passing are never seen clearly! During Forrest's childhood there is a glimpse of a GM Silversides, also this Chevrolet school bus:

"There is a scene when Forrest Gump is in Washington DC to meet President Kennedy and he runs into his love Jenny. She is a hippy and Forest is a prim and proper soldier. In part of that scene, Forest gets into an argument with a friend of Jenny's. This takes place alongside a GM Old Look Model TDH 4515. In the background is the back of a Scenicruiser and a Flxible New Look (non - airconditioned)." (thanks Alan Aron)

....and the movie closes with another school bus....

(Thanks to Sue Harris for the screen captures)

Fort Apache The Bronx (1981, Paul Newman)

An early scene has a passing GM Fishbowl with side advertising boards.

Later in the film Newman requisitions Flxible 9260 to transport a large group of people - and chickens - back to the station:

A second Flxible, 2041, is also glimpsed

For Your Eyes Only (1981, Roger Moore)

Paul Denyer provided this screen capture of a Mercedes bus - can anyone identify the model? For Your Eyes Only

Foul Play (1978, Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase)

"Features a great shot of Market Street (San Francisco) with trolleybuses. Many scenes with overhead and a few PCC streetcars" (+Colin Read)

The Fourth Protocol (1987, Pierce Brosnan, Michael Caine)

"There is an evening shot glimpse of a Southend Transport Duple Caribbean-bodied Leyland Tiger (one of the batch 246-251 A246-250SVW, B100XTW) operating in London on the X1 Southend-Heathrow service in the blue/yellow coach livery of the late 1980s/early 1990s." (thanks Malcolm McKinnon)

In one scene a female Soviet agent alights from London Country BTL37 (C137SPB), a Leyland Tiger TRCTL11 with Berkhof bodywork new in 1986. It's route branded for Flightline 767. (thanks Alan Sinclair)

Late in the film there's a brief shot of coaches bringing protestors to a demonstration:

The Franchise Affair (1950, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray)

Features the AEC Regal IV RF prototype UMP227 on the forecourt of the former St Albans garage, with a 4Q4 AEC Q parked outside. (+Colin Read)

Frankie and Johnny (1991, Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer)

Features an MCI MC-9.

Frankie Starlight (1995, Corban Walker, Niall Toibin, Gabriel Byrne)

Part set in Dublin and featuring CIE R788 (OIK984), a Leyland Titan OPD2/10 with CIE body (thanks Gary Manahan)

Freedom Highway (1956, Marshall Thompson, Angie Dickinson, Tex Ritter - sponsored by Greyhound Lines)

Part of the Prelinger Archives, themselves part of the Internet Archive. Greyhound GM Scenicruiser 2258 (new in 1955) transports the viewer (and its passengers) 'through the landscape of American mythology'. Runs 45 minutes. See the screencaps, watch it online or download it (this link is part 1, 64MB in DIVX, 480MB in MPEG2).

The French Connection (1971, Gene Hackmann)

Has some Marseilles trolleybuses. "The screen version opens with a magnificent full screen shot of one. The same film, seen on TV, seems to have a different title sequence and the trolley was cut out." (thanks John Day)
"Although primarily remembered for several subway scenes, notably the 'crash' on the MacDonald Avenue El, if one looks carefully in the background in several scenes you will see many different Fishbowls in actual service for the NYC Transit Authority.... Some even have the Bus-O-Rama ('Bat Wings' or 'Elephant Ears') advertising billboards attached to their roofs." (thanks Alan Aron)

French Connection II (1975, Gene Hackmann)

"Has a chase scene involving a Marseilles trolleybus, with the trolleys sparking through the overhead junctions." (thanks John Day)

Frenzy (1972, Jon Finch, Barry Foster)

Nasty Hitchcock thriller has a brief shot of three Routemasters, the most clearly seen being an RML on route 15:

There's also this Duple-bodied coach, either a Bedford or a Ford

Friday the Thirteenth (1933, Jessie Matthews, Max Miller)

Not the horror film, but a 1930s melodrama which opens with thirteen passengers on a London bus being involved in a horrific crash; one is killed. The lives of these people and how they came to be on the bus are shown in flashback, and it is only at the end of the film that it's revealed which of them has died. AEC Regent STL24 (JJ4332) is heavily featured. (screencap courtesy Bob Wingrove)

STL24 "is seen in close-up, when the crew hold a discussion before boarding. There are quite a few internal shots, which look authentic, but could be studio mock-up. The views through the windows are definitely back-projection. Another sequence shows a rare (offside) view of an 'Enterprise' open staircase double decker, followed by an NS in LGOC livery (+Colin Read)

Frieda (1947, David Farrar, Mai Zetterling)

Has a view of a London Transport LT-class AEC Renown. (+Colin Read)

Front Page Story (1953, Jack Hawkins, Eva Bartok)

Features London RT-family vehicles near the middle of the film. Eva Bartok is killed walking in front of London Transport RTL145 (KGK809). (+Colin Read)

The Fugitive (1993, Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones)

Illinois Department of Correction prison bus number 42 crashes off the road and is hit by a train.

The Full Monty (1997, Robert Carlyle)

British smash-hit movie set in Sheffield, South Yorkshire has "some quick glimpses of Mainline Sheffield buses at various places in the film, plus some of Supertram before it became Stagecoach operated." (thanks Peter Sephton) The Mainline glimpses are no more than flashes, but the trams are seen more clearly:

However, the opening sequence includes footage from the promotional film 'Sheffield - City on the Move':

Full Moon in Blue Water (1988, Gene Hackmann, Teri Garr, Burgess Meredith)

Not a homage to the Essex shopping centre, but a Texas-set movie about the owner of a bar mourning the loss of his wife. Teri Garr plays a school bus driver, seen briefly at the wheel, albeit one who doesn't seem to spend much of her time driving her bus.

Funeral in Berlin (1966, Michael Caine)

Occasional B�ssing D2U double deckers appear in the Berlin footage.

Harry Palmer (Caine) makes a journey by bus early in the movie - the bus in question being London Transport RT1668 (KXW314) on route 30.

Funny Face (1957, Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire)

Bill Vandervoort notes plenty of Paris buses!

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