Dancing on ice

HERE’S A SUPERB MOMENT IN the 1969 car-race caper where Major Digby Dawlish (Peter Cook) and Lt Kit Barrington (Dudley Moore), driving the ‘1928 Lea-Francis Special Rally’ across a frozen lake in Sweden, outmanoeuvre the Germans amid a winter sports festival thanks to some garden-shed ingenuity and a slice of luck. “I think it’s pretty clear whose side the Lord is on, Barrington,” says Dawlish as the