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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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Scottishlassie81 · 17/10/2017 16:41

Whew! Made it to the end of this post (for now).

Thank you!!! I have a whole winters worth of films to watch. I feel like I've missed out on a whole chunk of cinema! I am embarrassed I know only a few of all of these movies.

My re-watches are:

Flight of the Navigator as other's have said.
Labyrinth
Rebecca (though prefer the book)
Alien (does it count as old? it's 1979)
Some Like It Hot
Calamity Jane

and prob more (modern - i.e. 80s) movies I go back to like Dirty dancing and Grease.

LurkingHusband · 17/10/2017 16:33

The Gods Must Be Crazy ?

BagelGoesWalking · 17/10/2017 16:21

LouiseBrooks bloody love that book - Summer of my German Soldier - don’t know if I’ve ever actually seen the film but the book was seared into my memory and I had to get a copy as an adult.

HarrietVane99 · 17/10/2017 13:51

Pimpernel Smith - Leslie Howard as a mild-mannered archaeologist helping people to escape from Nazi Germany. Leslie Howard had played the actual Scarlet Pimpernel previously. It was on YouTube last time I looked.

And Night Train to Munich has a similar story, with Rex Harrison starring.

LouiseBrooks · 17/10/2017 12:09

Summer of my German Soldier - loved that film!

Oh yes! Kristy McNicholI think and a lovely blond guy called Bruce someone.

allegretto · 17/10/2017 11:04

It might have been a tv movie but does anyone remember Summer of my German Soldier - loved that film!

CoolCarrie · 17/10/2017 10:55

Please can this thread go into classics as a reminder for film fans.

IwantedtobeEmmaPeel · 17/10/2017 10:52

YY to the Summer of '42 - I've never met anyone else who has seen that film - I only saw it once on TV many, many years ago and it made such an impression. Also The Collector, I'd forgotten that one. I remember my Dad getting Samantha Eggar's autograph for me as they filmed part of it in Edenbridge where we were living at the time. This thread is bringing back lovely memories.

The80sweregreat · 17/10/2017 10:26

This happy breed, my dad loved that film!
And the Third Man.

HolgerDanske · 17/10/2017 09:11

Interesting.

There's another film on the tip of my tongue, but I lost it now. So frustrating!

Halsall · 17/10/2017 09:08

Just checked and I should have said that Anne Perry/Juliet Hulme was the basis for the Kate Winslet character in Heavenly Creatures

Halsall · 17/10/2017 09:05

@HolgerDanske yes, Heavenly Creatures was based on a real incident. One of the girls involved (not the Kate Winslet character - the other one) grew up to become a well-known historical novelist. She writes detective fiction set in Victorian London under the name Anne Perry.

Pannnn · 17/10/2017 07:12

The Princess Bride, a sort of cue set up to Stardust. Quirky and culty.

Ice Cold in Alex.

The night my number came up.

CoolCarrie · 17/10/2017 06:50

Into The West, wonderful irish film, starring Gabriel Byrne, two excellent young boy actors and a horse.

Skinidin · 17/10/2017 01:56

Another vote for This Happy Breed and Twelve O Clock High!

Pearlsaringer · 17/10/2017 00:41

Random Harvest. Another Greer Garson gem. Ridiculously improbable plot but totally love it. Best watched on a wet Sunday afternoon with hot buttered crumpets.

HolgerDanske · 17/10/2017 00:33

Heavenly Creatures is based on a true story AFAIK.
Now, Voyager, truly glorious film.
There are too many to mention, really. Somewhere in Time, that was a favourite when I was a young teenager.

ephemeralfairy · 17/10/2017 00:26

Heavenly Creatureso
A very young Kate Winslet plays a girl who conspires with a friend to murder the friend's mother. Set in New Zealand in the 50s.

HolgerDanske · 17/10/2017 00:20

Oh yes I've seen that Ivanhoe. Elizabeth Taylor really was something.

Aresenic and Lace, brilliant.

I love so many classic films but I guess they're not really obscure. All the greats from the fifties and sixties, especially.

Two I really must watch again are How to Steal a Million, and Charade.

I also really, really like the 39 Steps, the '59 version with Kenneth More. I'm not sure why I like it so much, only that there is something just right about it for me. Every time it's on I have to watch it.

HolgerDanske · 17/10/2017 00:15

Ah yes, the Amaxing Mr Blunden...

When I was a child I loved a television film of The Scarlet Pimpernel, starring Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour. In fact it's still one of my favourite films.

Also loved a cartoon adaption of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe from way back in the seventies (or maybe very early eighties).

ellenanora5 · 17/10/2017 00:07

Random Harvest with Greer Garson and Ronald Coleman, I love it, cry my eyes out every time I watch it.

RedastheRose · 16/10/2017 23:52

Passport to Pimlico,
Arsenic and Old Lace (Cary Grant at his best)
Another vote for the marvellous Tim Curry in Clue
A matter of life and Death
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

user1467662525 · 16/10/2017 22:54

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

TinklyLittleLaugh · 16/10/2017 22:44

Anyone seen Ivanhoe with Robert Taylor, Joan Fontaine and Elizabeth Taylor? Joan Fontaine is exquisitely beautiful in it. But Elizabeth Taylor just has this massive sex appeal that makes her infinitely more attractive.

OCSockOrphanage · 16/10/2017 20:51

When did the movies stop being interesting? I really haven't been often enough in recent years. Part of it is that I no longer live in a big city with several cinemas in walking distance I suppose. Nor do I have a chum who is equally interested. I know there is great stuff being made because my DS has picked up the baton and sees it all, but at 18 he doesn't want to see them with his mum.

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