The near-detonation of Doctor Doolittle.

Joseph Pugh of the UK's National Archives discusses entertaining aspects of the archives' records relating to film, including an attempt by explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes (a cousin of Ralph) to blow up the set of Doctor Doolittle.

About the image: Rex Harrison, apparently not a favorite of Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Doctor Doolittle, dir. Richard Fleischer, 1967.