The Chimes of Big Ben

   The plot is for No.6 and Nadia to escape the village together. They do manage to escape by boat, however rickety that boat might be, to the Polish coast. There, waiting in a cave is Nadia's contact man, Karel, together with a crate marked London, via Danzig and Copenhagen, in which Nadia and No.6 will travel together sealed inside the crate.

   However, this is not such an original idea as you might think.

   You will no doubt have read my piece of blog entitled This week I am mostly watching ‘The Clouded Yellow,’ but if not, why not? In the 1951 film, Secret Service agent David Sommers arranges for himself and a young girl Sophie, who has been framed for a murder which she did not commit, to escape the country by ship to France.... sealed up together for the journey inside a crate!

    Is it possible that the idea for the way of escape and the subsequent journey via Gdansk and Copenhagen, for Nadia and No.6 to be sealed in a crate together, could have stemmed from the film ‘The Clouded Yellow?’ All things, as they say, are possible. But without actual confirmation from the script writer Vincent Tilsley, there can only be speculation. However I think we can allow coincidence, yes I think we can, but this is more than coincidence.... don't you think?

A novel way of arriving at Portmeirion would be - sealed in a crate on the back of a lorry!

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