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?

Heartlands - lovely, lovely film with the perfect Michael Sheen

I get a bit of eyerolling from the rest of the family about Went the Day Well? I could watch it umpteen times over. Also Green for Danger.

There's one whose name I forget about a young woman working in a munitions factory during the war whose husband is in the RAF. I think that might be one of those portmanteau films where we follow several people, in this case all young women adjusting to their new lives in the factory.

I think we have The London Nobody Knows on DVD. I tracked it down for DH.

I'm a Powell & Pressburger fan too.Love AMOLAD and IKWIG. I do like Edge of the World.

One of my most favourite films and I'm not sure if it's obscure but it is old, Blithe Spirit, love it.

Abigail's Party

Bob I agree about it being a bit racy, much more than you'd expect for the 30s.

I've only seen 'Went the Day Well' once. I'd like to see it again.
I always enjoy Genevieve if I catch it on tv.

I recently watched 'In Which We Serve' again. Noel Coward all stiff upper lip and noble as a WW2 naval commander. Great stuff.

I'm also rather fond of 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' with Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone. I love Basil Rathbone in anything actually - even those dodgy Sherlock Holmes films.

The Lost Weekend
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
The Dark Mirror

Trapeze. Anything with Burt Lancaster of that era really.

Not that old but Australian film Lantana

Arsenic and Old Lace
Harvey
Guys and Dolls
Love them all they are wonderful films

MissKelly "Dahling, i'm just popping into Hythe" - loved it when we lived in Hythe one of my favourite films.

I wouldn't say Abigail's Party was obscure, i'm early-40s.

Harvey with James Stewart is just lovely, sad but lovely. Bell Book and Candle is another James Stewart film withKim Novak and Jack Lemon, they are all witches. She has a cat named Piewacket [spelling] Jack Lemon plays the bongos!

I love The Anazing Mr Blunden. It's a family favourite. Picnic at Hanging Rock gets my vote.

DifficultLemon Is that the film with Kate Rusby?

To me, many of these films aren't obscure - must be my age, they were always on tv when I was growing up.

Incidentally when I was about 14 I got an amazing book from the library, "The Ghosts" by Antonia Barber. Two years later it was made into a film "The Amazing Mr Blunden".

Wow 😊 I'm hearing about lots of amazing films I need to watch - plus tAMB affacianados 😍❤️ Who knew ?

Not totally obscure but The Dead of Night, portmanteau British late 1940s horror. God it's brilliant.

Also love Went the Day Well.

And Magic, 70s film with Anthony Hopkins playing mentally ill ventriloquist. Makes me shudder thinking about it.

Some of these aren't old! (It's strange that when I was a kid in the errrrm 60s and 70s films from 30 or 40 years before were regarded as old, but now films from the 80s and 70s I don't regard as being that old)
I was a fiend for old films when I was younger, still love them.
Some favourites-The Band Wagon, The Black Cat(bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff in Art Deco black magic hokum), love a big religious film(despite being a huge atheist), Busby Berkley musicals, The Amicus portmanteau horror films. Dd asked for a list of 100 must see films last weekend, lots on this list.

Dracula AD 1972.

Dracula resurrected in swinging 70s Chelsea! So bad it’s good!

Im a Chelsea fan and have even found some of the locations along the Kings Road on the way back from a match!

Ooh yes, love an epic: Spartacus, Ben Hur, The Vikings.

Also She. Was that Ursula Andress?

Attack of the killer tomatoes it's awful but amazing

There's one whose name I forget about a young woman working in a munitions factory during the war whose husband is in the RAF.

Gasp0de, that sounds like Millions Like Us. Gordon Jackson was the pilot.

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The Spiral Staircase
The Good Die Young
The Man in the White Suit

All the above are totally brilliant in my opinion.

ohwhatfuckery I love busby Berkeley musicals too, my childhood was basically watching or reenacting Goldiggers of 1933/5