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?

Over The Edge...1979. Matt Dillon's first ever movie!

What's that movie where James Mason (be still my beating heart) is the dad who, annoyed his daughter won't eat herring (I think) for her tea, refuses to throw it out and serves it up to her every day for a week?

"Veronica Lake", Verona is a city!

There's a film of The Amazing Mr Blunden??? Why have I never known this? I love that book!

I have just googled and didn't even realise that the novel wasn't even originally called The Amazing Mr Blunden. So much for my dedicated love of it!

LouiseBrooks That's Spring and Port Wine

The Ghost and Mrs Muir is one of my favourites too, Middleofthetoad, nobody else seems to have heard of it.

This thread is making me want to close the curtains and hunker down with my extensive collection of Powell and Pressburger DVDs.
And The Ghost and Mrs Muir is a great film.

Last Summer. It is very, very hard to track down and doesn’t ever seem to last too long on YouTube but it is absolutely brilliant! It is about four teenagers at a seemingly blissful and hot Cape Cod, three of whom turn on the fourth with unbelievable cruelty. It was made in the sixties and stars a very young Barbara Hershey and Richard Thomas. So gripping and sinister!!!

Thanks howdoyouall

Imitation of Life. Bawl like a baby every time.
Ladykillers
Raising a Riot - kids film
Three life's of Thomasina - Kids
Johnstone Monster - Kids

Kind Hearts and Coronets with Alec Guinness.

My regular comfort film is How to Steal a Million with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole .

Ohwhatfuckery I'm with you on how we define old. There used to be a dating site ad with someone singing

'I like old movies.....like The Godfather....Three'.

I thought Old Movies??? The Godfather??? That's not old! To me an old movie is black and white like Casablanca or Key Largo.

Just shows your age.

Camelot - the lovely Richard Harris. We went to see it on honeymoon in Cornwall many years ago, and I remember weeping at the end.... "Don't let it be forgot, That once there was a spot, For one brief shining moment, That was known as....Camelot."

The Field ( Sean Bean & Richard Harris)
Zorba the Greek ( Alan Bates)
Fahrenheit 451 ( Julie Christie)
The Castle (Australia)
Circles in the Forest ( South African )
Fiela se Kind ( South African)
Lust For Life ( Van Gogh story with the real paintings featured, from the collection of Edward G Robinson)
Doctor Crippen ( Donald Pleasance)
The Triplets of Belleville ( animated)
Le Chateau de Ma Mere ( French)
La Gloire de Mon Pere. ( French)

Omg I loved The Amazing Mr Blunden!

When it was on one Christmas a few years ago I raved about it to dc and they duly lined up to be Amazed. But then the little blighters all slunk off saying it was boring Philistines.

Also good to see This Happy Breed on here. I'm going to enjoy reading through this. Will have a think of some more. Good thread, thanks op!

Has anyone mentioned The Red Balloon?

The Snow Goose A Story of Dunkirk. Richard Harris & Jenny Agutter ( on YouTube, not great quality but it's never been released on DVD)
. Also from a story by Paul Gallico, The Small Miracle ( YouTube again) both total tearjerkers

I also loved Same Time Next Year.

I'm going to be busy with all of these great suggestions!

A film called Proof, one of Russell Crowes first films, also starring Hugo Weaving, a clever film, well worth a look, it's on Youtube.

Yes The Red Balloon! And The Bicycle Thieves.

Blue Remembed Hills

Greyfriars Bobby another tearjerker

Indiscreet - marvellous Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant. Must have been quite racy for the time.

More recent but I loved My Brilliant Career.

I was about to say How to Steal a Million, I love the story.