Stanley Baker "This Sporting Life" but had to drop out when "Guns of Navarone" went over schedule. She says Baker never regretted losing the part of Bond to Sean Connery but regretted not making "This Sporting Life". Baker wanted to move into production, and to this end formed his own company, Diamond Films with Endfield. They developed a script about the Battle of Rorke's Drift written by Endfield and John Prebble. While making "Sodom and Gomorrah" Baker struck up a relationship with that film's producer, Joseph E. Levine which enabled him to raise the $3 million budget for "Zulu" (1964), directed by
Stanley Motor Carriage Company factory closed permanently in 1924. An entire song entitled "The Stanley Steamer" appears in the 1948 film "Summer Holiday" starring Mickey Rooney and Gloria De Haven. The number, written by Harry Warren with lyrics by Ralph Blane, features an extended musical sequence with what appears to a fairly early yellow 10 HP model. Another Stanley Steamer appears in the 1965 film "The Great Race" starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood as the driver of the car. A Stanley Steamer appears in the 2003 film, "Seabiscuit". Stanley from "Cars" and "Cars 2" who appeared in "Time Travel Mater" is