Old yet glorious and obscure movies

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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?

Oh Monsieur Hulot! grin Thanks for reminding me. The tennis match in M Hulot's Holiday

I saw this years ago as a child with my mum at the Everyman in Hampstead. It was a double bill with another French film - Mon Oncle - also very funny.

Mr Horacio Knibbles. It's about a giant rabbit that only the little girl in the film can see. My sister & I used to watch it I the morning over Christmas. It was always on about 5.30am.
Swiss Family Robinson (Sir John Mills)
Blythe Spirit
Waterloo Bridge
Captain January
Lost Angel (Margret O'Brien)
Candleshoe (Jodie Foster & David Niven)
A matter of Life & Death.

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

Yes! Another one I watched as a child and it scared me silly!

Have you seen the French and Saunders take up?

Just thought of a few more:

Letter to Brezhnev - brilliant, film, so funny and NEVER EVER shown on TV - why??

Peter's Friends - this was out in the 90s around the same time as Four Weddings (which I wasn't impressed with). Much much better than 4 weddings and under-hyped

Another one I remember from my childhood - does anyone remember With Six you get Eggroll? I think Doris Day was in it. About a step family with lots of children.

Another vote for La Cabina, a quiet extraordinary brilliant and scary short film.

Breaker Morant - based on a true story, set in te Boer War and starring Edward Woodward

Sacco and Vanzetti - also based on a true story about two Italian-born anarchists sentenced to death in 1920’s America

Gallipoli (obscure enough?) - Mel Gibson’s best film imho

Torn Curtain - little known Hitchcock film starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews
Roman Holiday - best Audrey Hepburn film
To Sir with love
A taste of honey

Dancergirl - the Everyman was where I saw M. Hulot's Holiday and Mon Oncle 9693939393 times as a child!

Romanov and Juliet

Peters Friends is one of my favourite films of all time. Cracking soundtrack too.

Now Voyager. My favourite film ever.

Here we go round the Mulberry bush -swinging 60s in all its glory. There were a few films like this but I've forgotten the names of the others

Dancergirl I haven't but will look it up now

Now Voyager. My favourite film ever.

'Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.'

I first saw this on tv when I was in my teens, probably. Was years before I realised we were supposed to understand that they DTD the night they were stranded.

Mr Blanding Builds his Dream House. The Money Pit is based on it.

Just a heads up for fellow old b/w movie fans here - tonight on Talking Pictures [Freeview 81] at 22:00 - Quarter. A portmanteau piece with four SomersetMagham stories. Bonus Dirk Bogarde too!

It's years since I've seen it, but from memory a very young George Cole has a rather quirky way of pronoucing 'kite'.

Quartet not Quarter.

Christ. Sorry for typos.

Quartet. Somerset Maugham. Pronouncing.

I thengyou.

Mr Blunden is one of my all time favourites. I also like the Ealing Comedies and the classic Hitchcocks.

I can't believe that no one has mentioned The Wrong Box. It's completely bonkers and very English. The cast is amazing........ Just had to buy a copy off Amazon

elQuintoConyo I know the secret handshake! Delicatessen was a fabulous film. I remember seeing Barton Fink with a friend when it first came out - friend HATED it, I loved it, but then I love pretty much all Coen Brothers films.
Not too obscure but The Ladykillers is such a fabulous film. Alec Guinness as a dastardly spivvy criminal, brilliant.
1979's Spanish film, The Spirit of the Beehive - some might find it dull, I found it charming and totally atmospheric. Loved it.

The Man in the White Suit

Heavens Above

Perfect Friday (My absolute favourite!)

Clockwise was based on my headmaster Colin.

I'm still stuck on there being a sequel to Ricky horror!!

Fatbird God yes! The Wrong Box is hilarious. Pete'n'Dud, Peter Sellers as the Venal Doctor, all sorts of people doing bonkers cameos. The oddity is Nanette Newman as the love-interest, because she was married to Bryan Forbes and he produced it I think. The book is very funny too

And on the subject of Nanette Newman I can thoroughly recommend 'The Raging Moon' which she stars in with Malcolm McDowell. Deals with some quite controversial issues at the time.