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?

The Gnome Mobile

The Mystery At Castle House

Not obscure but bonkersly glorious: Black Narcissus.

Law and Disorder. Michael Redgrave as the conman and Robert Mor;ey as the Judge. Brilliantly funny.

Imitation of Life - probably all kinds of incorrect now, but it has the best funeral EVER.

Morley

Atanarjuat - not that old but deserves to be better known.

YY Black Narcissus, fantastic film.

The Yellow Rolls Royce is very good - it shows the lives of all those who owned it.

Has anyone ever seen It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World? Gloriously loopy! "We're looking for the big W"

I was up ridiculously early one morning and happened across 'Ladies Who Do' - fabulous film, so funny and a proper uplifting gentle comedy

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_Who_Do

Murder By Death starting Peter Sellars, Maggie Smith, David Niven, Peter Falk - and a whole host of others. Nutty film.

I have also met people who have never seen Peter Sellars' The Party

Another vote for Powell & Pressburger here - A Canterbury Tale for me.

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

Night of the Hunter

But my ABSOLUTE favourite is Genevieve. Love the bickering that couple do - it seems so out of step with standard film-making of the day. And Kay Kendall was just gorgeous...

Though I've gone off IKWIG slightly since reading an article the other week about how good it was by Michael Gove, of all people. I'm glad I haven't seen that - I don't ever want to go off IKWIG.

The ones I always trot out on threads like this are:

Whisky Galore
The 39 Steps (Robert Donat version)
The Maltese Falcon
To Have and Have Not

I also have a great fondness for The Thin Man films - the early ones at least.

Waterloo Bridge - my favourite movie of all time. I do so want to be Vivienne Leigh!

Oh Monsieur Hulot! Thanks for reminding me. The tennis match in M Hulot's Holiday! Also enjoyed Jour de Fete.

Genevieve was great - anything with John Gregson is really - plus it has a bonus Joyce Grenfell.

Mention of Joyce reminds me of Alastair Sim, and a couple of his that may count as obscure: Green for Danger and An Inspector Calls.

Loving this thread.

Went The Day Well - fab wartime film about an English village that gets secretly infiltrated by Germans

Some great, great films getting mentioned.

I'll add:
This Happy Breed
Passport to Pimlico
Local Hero

Ooh, 39 Steps, yes! Watched it again recently and it seemed rather racier than I'd remembered.

And Jour de Fete too

Anyone seen Went the Day Well?

Also anything with Dirk Bogarde

Back in the day all this stuff used to be on Channel 4 & BBC in the afternoons and on Saturdays. I hoovered it all up. And LWT used to show silent cinema in the early '80s. London Live has B&W films on in the afternoons these days, but you don't really get them on terrestrial any more. God I feel old!

Cross posted with LadyMetroLand!

Dirk Bogarde's my favourite actor but I thought one of my favourite films, Death in Venice, wouldn't count as 'obscure'. I love it.

Just thought of another oldie but goodie - Pink String and Sealing Wax. Googie Withers at her best.

Heavenly Creatures. Saw it randomly as it was on and I watched it with no expectation whatsoever and it blew my mind at the time.

Pretty much anything with Edward G. Robinson

@allegretto London Nobody Knows rocks big time! I love that film and nobody bloody knows about it.

What a marvellous thread. I've seen most of these. Old black and white films are often so good, even when they were made really quickly and cheaply. (I suspect the ones that were rubbish haven't survived.)

The original St Trinian's film, with Alistair Sim playing brother and sister, Joyce Grenfell and George Cole. I adore it. None of the sequels are up to much, but that one is fantastic.

Alec Guinness playing umpteen members of the same family in Kind Hearts and Coronets.

Spring and Port Wine.
Love it more every time I see it.