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?

Putting the TV on that is meant to say.

Elizabeth Taylor has had a few mentions already, but one of my favourites is her "Taming of the Shrew" with Richard Burton and an all star cast directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
I think it won an Oscar for costumes, but overall it's visually stunning, and wonderful entertainment.

Well, if we're allowed foreign films ...

Betty Blue
The Icicle Thief

Plus a host of 90s indie films ...

My Own Private Idaho (yes, Keanu acts)
Amateur
The Unbelievable Truth
Drugstore Cowboy
Short Cuts

The Quiet Man
Why on earth am I reading this thread? I've just gone onto a well-known website and bought four cheapie DVDs and no doubt will be buying more before this thread ends. Thanks for the trips down memory lane though!

Night of The Hunter, strange, unique and disturbing with Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters, directed by Charles Laughton. The book it is based on, by Davis Grubb, is perfect too.

Yes, yes, yes to My Own Private Idaho - I saw this about 6 times at the cinema the summer it came out. It was £1 for a matinee ticket and it as when you could still smoke and I loved it. A little earlier than this but Gas, Food, Lodging remains a beautiful slice of 80's Americana. Clockers is my top cops & gangs movie - I think The Wire must be a descendant of it.

Shamelessly sentimental b&w movie I adore is "Letters to an unknown woman", the main character is a composer and he is writing to a woman who has quietly loved him throughout his life and who he has paid no attention to. Haven't seen it for years.

More recent films that have blown me away - Sing Street and The Priest. Couldn't be more different in tone and mood. Sing Street made me smile for days and The Priest, well, I don't know how I felt - provoked I suppose. I think there are some great modern movies but they aren't necessarily the blockbusters in the cinema.

ElQuinto Summer of my German Soldier - full film on YouTube, watched it this evening!

Xenadog It was Gene Tierney in The Ghost and Mrs Muir. Jeanne Craine was in loads of other excellent films and was a major crush of my late stepfather

I see Kind Hearts and Coronets, Blithe Spirit, Murder by Death, and Young Frankenstein have already been mentioned!

The Ghost and Mrs Muir is one of my mums favourites but to my shame I have not watched it yet - I will seek it out!

Has anyone mentioned Harvey yet? The 1950 version with James Stewart.

Howyoualldoworkme you are right! Bleugh! Not sure how I made that mistake.

The film stars of the 40s were just too confusingly glamorous!

And speaking of Gene Tierney she was fantastic in Dragonwyck with Vincent Price. Real mad Gothic stuff!

Not sure how obscure this is, but 'Death in Venice' starring Dirk Bogarde is a wonderful film (IMHO). Based on the life of the composer Mahler, the cinematography is beautiful and although there was hardly any diaglogue, it was unusual and the acting by dear Bogarde superb.

Yes Dragonwyck! Great film! And wasn't Gene Tierney SO beautiful.

And 'Betty Blue' - what a sad film. Haunting and a fab soundtrack too.

The Awful Truth with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.
Unfaithfully Yours with Rex Harrison.
Both absolutely hilarious.

Yes , yes, yes to Dragonwyck. Vincent Price was just made for the gothic genre.

Another film I like (this time starring Jeanne Crain) is A letter to Three Wives. Full of lovely suspense.
The last one I'll mention is the Gene Kelly Musical On the Town. Bloody love it and know all the words to the songs.

Does The Room (Tommy Wiseau) count? It's relatively old, and certainly obscure! Worth a watch for sure. It cost $6 million to make it in 2003, it only made little over $1,000 back....until recent years where it has become a much loved cult classic!

"You're tearing me apaarrrrrt Lisa!!"

I have inherited my late mother's love for 2 films already mentioned here-IKWIG and Pimpernel Smith.Also love the Ladykillers (original version only) and Rabbit proof fence is a brilliant film and is well worth watching.Also love Dirk Bogarde as many others do.Recently re read his autobiographies-such a lovely man.

They Shoot Horses Don't They

Harold And Maude

The Day Of the Locusts

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

And Love

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Zandy's Bride

Death In Venice was haunting.

Someone mentioned The Lady Killers - fabulous!

The Green Man with George Cole.
Green for Danger with Alistair Sim.
Skywest and Crooked.

Really loved The Amazing Mr Blunden too! Also, the German film 'Wings of Desire' is fab.

The Day Of The Locusts is disturbing, especially the scene very near the end. The child star girl was actually played by a boy and the character Donald Sutherland plays is called Homer Simpson, which is where the creators of The Simpsons got the name.

The Night Of The Hunter is brilliant, the hands tattooed with love and hate, and the cinematography is lovely, like a fairy tale, it's a pity Laughton didn't make another film. Must look out for the book.

Yy to Gene Tierney, so incredibly beautiful!

Cutter’s Way 1981 with John Heard, Jeff Bridges and Lisa Eichhorn (who was particularly great). Amazing film.

Frances with Jessica Lange.

The Right Stuff with Sam Shepherd, Jessica Lange and a generally great cast. Could look at Sam Shepherd all day long.