Old yet glorious and obscure movies

Have now scanned the thread and have been reminded of favourites from afternoon TV movies, especially (but not limited to) Mrs Miniver and The Ghost and Mrs Muir. I also loved Summer of 42 vulgarlady and Letter to Brezhnev, though I do remember why that's unsuitable for afternoon viewing! Klute, the Allen J Pakula film with Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda is another lost gem that has come back to me. I have a DVD of it, but it's a German release, and the opening is slower than I remember. I must have spent hours at the movies on my own in those days.

'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore' is a great film, starring the wonderful Ellen Burstyn. I'm also very fond of 'Five Easy Pieces' - Jack Nicholson on excellent form (when he could act). A lot of those 70's American films are wonderful and you just don't see them these days.

Too many to mention, but Badlands has come up already. My favourite films were the independent American movies from the 1970s to the 90s. House of Games, anything with Sissy Spacek, Jim Jarmusch, any Paul Schrader screenplays, all the great Gene Hackman's oeuvre, Trouble in Mind, Down by Law, Heathers, sex, lies & videotape... and anything at all with Jack Nicholson in it, big or small budget.

LouiseBrooks Thank you! Think that might be the one. I will also check out Blythe Spirt.

Love MN.

Oh I missed your post! I remember now, mr knibbles - she had to say that she really and truly loves rabbits and he appears! I need to watch it again.

EvilCleverDog It's the film I mentioned up thread called Mr Horacio Knibbles!
I know it was real because my sister remembers watching it too!!
I've tried to get a copy, but haven't had any luck.

Youlooklikeaclown, I saw my Dad in the play and went and got the video, great film!

I'll also always watch On Moonlight Bay, well basically any Doris Day movie, brightens any day.

A kids film I used to watch when I was little - can't remember what it was called (was taped off of TV) but it was about a giant rabbit in a 3 piece suit who was invisible to everyone except one little girl. Think in culminated in him revealing himself at her birthday party.

No one I've ever mentioned it to has heard of it, and I'm sure it wasn't something I'd dreamed.

Oh goodness, Conspiracy of Hearts. Makes me sob every time.
Green Dolphin Street with Lana Turner and Van Heflin.
And of course Jezebel with the red dress scene

I fell in love with Blithe Spirit when I was a kid, particularly Elvira (Kay Hammond).

bagel

A matter of life and death is excellent and so clever

Kittens A Matter of Life and Desth is definitely in my top 5, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve watched it (and All About Eve). I love Roger Livesey’s voice! It’s so gorgeous, I could listen to it for ever.

Yy to Charlie Wilson’s War. Hugely underrated and so true, esp at the end when he asks for money for schools and hospitals. It’s reminded me of Wag the Dog with Dustin Hoffman, another underrated film.

One of my favourites is Victor/Victoria, wth Julie Andrews, James Gardner, and Robert Preston. Julie Andrews plays a woman, pretending to be a man, pretending to be a woman, with some great songs.

Irma La Douce, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine

Conspiracy Of Hearts; Nuns hiding children from Nazis
The Collector; Terence Stamp and Samantha Egger, very creepy
The Yellow Rolls Royce
Never On Sunday

The Little Kidnappers 1953 version is lovely, gruff old grandfather looks after his orphaned grandsons.

Meet me in St Louis, (loved Margaret O'Brien in this) Calamity Jane, the oldest version of Little Women (with Elizabeth Taylor as Amy and Margaret O'Brien again, but not as good as in MMISL)

The Name of the Rose (is that old enough? 1986)

Loads of really good films here - most of which I'd forgotten about but some I hadn't heard of.

Raise the Red Lantern ~ wonderful though so sad.

YY to Tom Jones with Albert Finney and the absolutely fantastic David Warner.

ChinkChink
Green for Danger - Ace film. Wish it was a theatre script.

My vote would be The Cardinal. One of those films that was on on 27 December, when I was still at the "eaten-so-much-I-can't-move" stage - it was the only thing on. And it was brilliant.

Angels with Dirty Faces has that second last scene which has hunted me, love Cagney, what an interesting man he was, his autobiography is really good.

I see some of mine have alreay been mentioned :)
Angels With Dirty Faces
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane
Cool Hand Luke (maybe not that obscure)
The Littlest Horse Thieves
Also I cannot for the life of me think of the name, or remember that much about it but an animation about a black cat and it saved a family from a house fire (caused by an iron). Would love to watch it again.

From the 1980's
Clue (my favourite ever film)
The Princess Bride
The Goonies
Batteries Not Included

Tom Jones; Albert Finney YY and Barry Lyndon Ryan o Neil

Batteries Not Included, 1987, lovely film

Does anyone know the name of a B&W film that starts with two couples in open top car and for what ever reason they end up in heaven

Sounds like Topper to me.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topper_(film)

Need to read the whole thread, but marking place for now with:

The Women

The 1939 original, not the remake.

So funny, well-acted and stylish.