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Just watched this movie about a group of young Scots who broke into Westminster Abbey in 1950, and took the Stone of Schoon from under the Coronation Chair. I hesitate to say "stole" because the English stole the stone from Scotland back in 1200 and something. Its a feel good movie, but I have to take the director to task on two points. In 1950, rock and roll had not been invented, musically it was the end of the Swing Era, but the sound track used dreadful 1970 style R and R with fuzz tone guitar work which completely breaks the mood they were trying to create. Secondly, the male actors have their hair over their ears. You only have to look at photos taken in 1950 to see how post 1964 and Beatles influenced this is. Even that late, males in the Western world were expected to go to the barber every two weeks, and the back and sides were trimmed down very short. A little hair on top was allowed to grow to about four centimeters. This was not a style as it is today, it was a regulation. It was often enforced by anyone in a position of authority: parents, school teachers, employers, court officials.
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