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Old yet glorious and obscure movies

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cafenoirbiscuit · 13/10/2017 20:59

I've always loved The Amazing Mr Blunden but am amazed so few people have heard of it.
Anyone else have old yet glorious and obscure movies they love?

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NoMoreStickers · 14/10/2017 09:20

Dark Victory with Bette Davis 😍

squashyhat · 14/10/2017 08:51

Bottle Rocket. Early Wes Anderson film with Owen and Luke Wilson.

Wingbing · 14/10/2017 08:46

It was very harsh, I cried and cried for sometime afterwards

Middleoftheroad · 14/10/2017 08:32

@wingbing - sounds harsh for a kids film, but then again I'm from the 'When the Wind Blows' generation (let's all watch a family friendly cartoon about the nuclear winter).

Middleoftheroad · 14/10/2017 08:30

Whistle and I'll Come to You has been recommended as a spooky film. It sounds like 'It Follows' borrowed much from that film. anyone seen it?

I always liked The Ghost and Mrs Muir (think tgats what it was called)

Not that 'old' well 30 years or so but these films that were on in the 80s
Those Glory Glory Days
P'tang Yang Kipperbang
Little Darlings
Breaking Away (mentioned upthread and on other night)

Scabbersley · 14/10/2017 08:28

The Magic Tollbooth

Scabbersley · 14/10/2017 08:28

Cat people (the original)
That Spanish film where the man gets stuck in a telephone box

Wingbing · 14/10/2017 08:28

Just googled Quincy's quest and it's on YouTube! And in colour, some memory I have!

Wingbing · 14/10/2017 08:24

I have a memory of a Christmas film called Quincy's Quest that was about some toys that didn't sell at Christmas so they were to be incinerated unless they could make it to Father Christmas who lived at the top of the toy shop

Nobody else seems to remember it. I recall that the toys didn't actually make it, I cried so much. This must've been late 70's and it was black and white I think. Anyone remember it?

Pithivier · 14/10/2017 08:20

Better Davis obviously not David. She would be so cutting about that.

Pithivier · 14/10/2017 08:19

Jezebel with Bette David is my all time favourite film. The scene where she wears the red dress to a ball when all the Southern Belles are I. White, is a masterpiece. Henry Fonda is just so delicious.

Also Waterloo Bridge, Now Voyager and The Anniversary.

dotdotdotmustdash · 14/10/2017 08:19

Ladyhawke with Rutger Hauer. A beautiful film full of atmosphere.

regisitme · 14/10/2017 08:18

The Ladykillers.

IHaveBrilloHair · 14/10/2017 08:15

I saw Yanks recently and loved it, cried like a baby at the end.

annandale · 14/10/2017 08:12

Saw Out of the Past on iplayer the other week. Great stuff - Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas.

CFSKate · 14/10/2017 08:09

Freeview 81 Talking Pictures channel for old movies
talkingpicturestv.co.uk/

wowfudge · 14/10/2017 07:54

The film Yanks about an American camp in Lancashire during WW2 is a good film. There's a scene where a couple of lads earn a few pennies by going to the chippy for the yanks. When they get to the front of the queue they ask for fish and chips 32 times and everyone behind them groans and complains.

YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 14/10/2017 07:49

Dougal and the Blue Cat

marcopront · 14/10/2017 07:08

Another vote for

Kind hearts and Coronets
Arsenic and old lace

allegretto · 14/10/2017 07:03

I love Ice cold too!

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 14/10/2017 07:03

Ice Cold In Alex.

Not sure it's obscure enough though.

allegretto · 14/10/2017 07:00

I remember the Gainsborough lady- I always thought her hat would fall off!

saythatagain · 14/10/2017 06:51

Just had a lightbulb moment - they were Gainsborough films!

lizzieoak · 14/10/2017 06:06

I first saw If This is Tuesday, It Must be Belgium when I was 11. I adored that film and still have a soft spot for it. Lovely music as well. And with the gorgeous young Ian McShane and Suzanne Pleshette.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=G6iikEhltA8

saythatagain · 14/10/2017 05:51

I have very fond memories of watching what I now know are Pressburger films. I love that era. I tried (not particularly successfully) to recreate a list of all those that I sort of vividly remember.
I recall Greer Garson being in many. There was one that I desperately want to watch again where there is a couple who are (can't remember the reason) quite facially disfigured and live a reclusive life but because they're happy and in love, they don't see that in each other. (Hope that makes sense).
Love Mrs Miniver, Brief Encounter etc.
Does anyone remember films produced under (I think) Cavendish?