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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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WhiskyChick · 14/10/2017 21:14

The Slipper and the Rose Grin

Chestervase1 · 14/10/2017 21:09

Someone to watch over me with Tom Berenger and Mimi Rogers

elQuintoConyo · 14/10/2017 21:07

Letter from an Unknown Woman Joan Fontaine

glovesonstrings · 14/10/2017 20:58

The Winslow Boy
Metropolis
Down to the sea in ships

LeavesinAutumn · 14/10/2017 19:28

Waterpolo bridge what is the heart breaker.
That Hamilton woman.
Bringing up baby
It happened one night is glorious.

LeavesinAutumn · 14/10/2017 19:27

Waterpolo bridge what is the heart breaker.
That Hamilton woman.
Bringing up baby
It happened one night is glorious.

GoEasyPudding · 14/10/2017 19:16

Not obscure but I wanted to mention a few of my favourites that you may want to look at if you are making notes and want to check out some classics.
A Place in the Sun. Starring Elizabeth Taylorand Montgomery Clift.
Niagara. Starring Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten.
The Roaring Twenties. Starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart.
Angels with Dirty Faces. A James Cagney one again
Thanks to everyone on this thread for their favs, there's loads here I haven't seen.

Rufustherenegadereindeer1 · 14/10/2017 18:59

Oh gosh there are loads so far that i really like

Especially arsnic and old lace Grin

elQuintoConyo · 14/10/2017 18:56

Yes SquatBetty The Company of Wolves is fantastic - never trust a man with hairy palms!

Iirc it was quite a sexy film (altho contained no sex).

Rufustherenegadereindeer1 · 14/10/2017 18:55

Love the amazing me blunden!!!!

I have it on dvd

Would love candleshoe as well

Off to read the thread...please god dont let it have turned into a thread of dead actors where this post is really inappropriate

HildaOnAHarley · 14/10/2017 18:54

Auntie Mame - Rosalind Russell is fabulous
Blithe Spirit
Passport to Pimlico
Mrs Miniver

SquatBetty · 14/10/2017 18:40

Ooh ooh finally thought of one!

The company of wolves - fantasy 'horror' type film starring Angela Lansbury

mumsiedarlingrevolta · 14/10/2017 18:30

Mrs Miniver
Desk Set
Bell Book and Candle
All the old Hitchcocks-Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, Man who knew too much...
The original Parent Trap

OliviaStabler · 14/10/2017 18:28

@ChinkChink Thanks, I'll check them out

SomethingNastyInTheBallPool · 14/10/2017 18:22

On the non-Balloon weeks, it was M. Hulot. God knows how many times I saw Mon Oncle.

SomethingNastyInTheBallPool · 14/10/2017 18:21

Au Hasard Balthazar and The Bicycle Thieves are just toooo sad! That poor little donkey! sob

My parents used to drop me off at our local art house cinema kids club every Saturday. It felt as if they showed The Red sodding Balloon every other week. I can still sing the theme music.

elQuintoConyo · 14/10/2017 18:03

I am actually furiously making a list of all these fantastic films i haven't seen!

elQuintoConyo · 14/10/2017 18:02

Hobson's Choice - John Mills b/w
Midnight Lace - 1960s Doris Day thriller

Both brilliant.
And i have a sift spot for both Barton Fink and Delicatessen which were cult hits, but not really seen by many people. When i meet someone who has seen one of these films it is like a secret handshake!

maddiemookins16mum · 14/10/2017 18:00

White Heat with Jimmy Cagney - 'top of the world Ma, I'm on top of the world!!'.
Fabulous black and white gangster movie.
Give it a go.

Vitalogy · 14/10/2017 17:54

*her first film

Vitalogy · 14/10/2017 17:47

I forgot Whistle Down The Wind, with Hayley Mills Yes, a good one. Which reminds me of Tiger Bay, also great.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 14/10/2017 17:40

Anyone wanting a seriously scary one, try Les Diaboliques, the old B&W French original, with subtitles.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 14/10/2017 17:37

My niece as a child of 8+ visiting from the US used to love Blithe Spirit. Had to dig it out every visit.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 14/10/2017 17:35

I forgot Whistle Down The Wind, with Hayley Mills as a child.
Never saw it till a few yrs ago - very impressed.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 14/10/2017 17:31

The Tamarind Seed - early 70s with Julie Andrews in her first non-butter-wouldn't-melt role, getting mixed up with a Russian (Omar Sharif) who wants to recruit her as a spy - or does he? Wonderfully evocative of extreme Cold War scariness and a fantastic twist or two that you won't see coming. Also featuring a young and very beautiful Sylvia Sims, brilliant as the diplomat's wife.
One of my all time favourites.

Other memorable oldies,
Gaslight
Rebecca (old B&W)
Blithe Spirit (great fun)
The Scarlet Pimpernel with Leslie Howard
Goodbye Mr Chips - old b&w and a v good newer version with Martin Clunes

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