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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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lizzieoak · 14/10/2017 17:11

That Kiefer Sutherland film was made in 2002 - I don't think that qualifies as old. In fact, nothing KS is in would qualify as old to me as he's younger than me. His dad's early films squeak in by my criteria.

ilovesooty · 14/10/2017 16:27

Phone Booth with Kiefer Sutherland?

bialystockandbloom · 14/10/2017 15:40

Oh wow scabersley that film with the man in the phone box Shock I saw that when I was about 9 and was terrified of phone boxes for years - would love to see it again.

Whoever said the Bicycle Thieves, that's amazing, but just so sad.

Zaphodsotherhead · 14/10/2017 15:26

I think someone ought to start an 'Amazing Mr Blunden' Appreciation thread. So many of us!

My friend had never heard of it, but, as she's a mad-on lover of Christmas, she was easily converted.

theluckiest · 14/10/2017 15:12

Oh I LOVE the Amazing Mr Blunden!! It's a brilliant film.

My mum was determined to educate me in classic movies so I had a childhood full of Fred n Ginge, Ealing comedies and some real old creaky films.

My absolute faves though were the Doris Day 50s stuff - On Moonlight Bay, By the Light of The Silvery Moon...probably creaky as hell now but how I loved them.

We're introducing the kids to Its A Wonderful Life this Christmas. If they don't love it, I'm afraid they'll have to live in the shed Grin

allegretto · 14/10/2017 15:11

I really fancy watching Spring and Port Wine now - and having mackerel!

Zaphodsotherhead · 14/10/2017 15:05

Oh, oh, and the adorable Jonathon Pryce in Something Wicked This Way Comes... spooky film I'd nearly forgotten about.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 14/10/2017 14:44

Dh,when the dc were younger, used to try and educate them in old films, to varying success. Marx bros, laurel and hardy, Harold Lloyd buster Keaton, Hitchcock-success. Charlie Chaplin-loathed. One famous one was a French film called Au Hazar Balthazar, very sad 50s, cinema verite about the life of a donkey. Lead Ballloon. Has become a standing joke now, whenever we want to watch something light and fun someone suggests the Donkey Film.
Oh and Louise Brooks - fab name, such a stunning woman.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 14/10/2017 14:35

Have a look www.bnwmovies.com/here You want obscure? You got it.

TinklyLittleLaugh · 14/10/2017 14:26

My Grandad always used to say I looked just like Veronica Lake when I was a teenager (I really didn't).

HelpInheritanceDilemma · 14/10/2017 13:39

A Disney film from the 60s called That Darn Cat! Hayley Mills has a cat which helps solve/stop a crime. I first watched this the day after I got my cat (now decreased several years) and she sat on my lap while I watched it.

Also another (I think) 60s film called The Thrill Of It All. Doris Day plays a housewife who gets a job advertising soap on TV and her husband gets a bit jealous of her success.

saythatagain · 14/10/2017 13:27

rhubarblover than you so much. I think you've just made my month telling me that! The time I've invested trying to remember; now done!
I shall look forward to a Saturday afternoon when I can treat myself to view it.

wanderings · 14/10/2017 12:25

The Knowledge (as in Knowledge of London).
Clockwise - very underrated.
Les Quatre Cents Coups (known as 400 blows - iconic at the time).
Eskimo Day (not that old, mid-90's, but not well known).
Cement Garden - utterly weird.
Our Mother's House - another Dirk Bogarde film, where a mother suddenly dies; the children bury her and carry on as if nothing has happened.

TheNaze73 · 14/10/2017 12:15

Red Rock West
Being John Malkovich

Scabbersley · 14/10/2017 12:11

ooh ooh

The Bedroom Window (1980s) with Steve Guttenberg. Really good little thriller

SignoraCarmignola · 14/10/2017 12:10

To me an old movie is black and white like Casablanca or Key Largo. Yep, quite a few 'old' films mentioned are not only younger than me but were released after I was grown up. Shock

And Peter O'Toole was a very, very beautiful man.

AdaColeman · 14/10/2017 11:48

The Seven Year Itch, with the incomparable Marilyn.

Bananalanacake · 14/10/2017 11:37

I was about to say How to Steal a Million, I love the story.

ShangriLaLaLa · 14/10/2017 11:35

Indiscreet - marvellous Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant. Must have been quite racy for the time.

More recent but I loved My Brilliant Career.

CoolCarrie · 14/10/2017 11:24

Greyfriars Bobby another tearjerker

LifeIsLikeTetris · 14/10/2017 11:22

Blue Remembed Hills

CoolCarrie · 14/10/2017 11:21

Yes The Red Balloon! And The Bicycle Thieves.

Vitalogy · 14/10/2017 11:21

A film called Proof, one of Russell Crowes first films, also starring Hugo Weaving, a clever film, well worth a look, it's on Youtube.

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cafenoirbiscuit · 14/10/2017 11:21

I also loved Same Time Next Year.

I'm going to be busy with all of these great suggestions!

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CoolCarrie · 14/10/2017 11:20

The Snow Goose A Story of Dunkirk. Richard Harris & Jenny Agutter ( on YouTube, not great quality but it's never been released on DVD)
. Also from a story by Paul Gallico, The Small Miracle ( YouTube again) both total tearjerkers

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