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Scott of the Antarctic John Mills signed 10 x 8 inch b/w photo as Robert Falcon Scott, classic movie image. Scott of the Antarctic is a 1948 British adventure film starring John Mills as Robert Falcon Scott in his ill-fated attempt to reach the South Pole. The film more or less faithfully recreates the events that befell the Terra Nova Expedition in 1912. The film was directed by Charles Frend from screenplay by Ivor Montagu and Walter Meade with ”additional dialogue” by the novelist Mary Hayley Bell (Mills' wife). The film score was by Ralph Vaughan Williams, who reworked elements of it into his 1952 Sinfonia Antarctica. The supporting cast included James Robertson Justice, Derek Bond, Kenneth More, John Gregson, Barry Letts and Christopher Lee.