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?

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.

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

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

Irma La Douce, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine

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.

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.

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A matter of life and death is excellent and so clever

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Love MN.

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

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

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

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).

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.

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.