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 Seven Year Itch, with the incomparable Marilyn.

To me an old movie is black and white like Casablanca or Key Largo. Yep, quite a few 'old' films mentioned are not only younger than me but were released after I was grown up.

And Peter O'Toole was a very, very beautiful man.

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The Bedroom Window (1980s) with Steve Guttenberg. Really good little thriller

Red Rock West
Being John Malkovich

The Knowledge (as in Knowledge of London).
Clockwise - very underrated.
Les Quatre Cents Coups (known as 400 blows - iconic at the time).
Eskimo Day (not that old, mid-90's, but not well known).
Cement Garden - utterly weird.
Our Mother's House - another Dirk Bogarde film, where a mother suddenly dies; the children bury her and carry on as if nothing has happened.

rhubarblover than you so much. I think you've just made my month telling me that! The time I've invested trying to remember; now done!
I shall look forward to a Saturday afternoon when I can treat myself to view it.

A Disney film from the 60s called That Darn Cat! Hayley Mills has a cat which helps solve/stop a crime. I first watched this the day after I got my cat (now decreased several years) and she sat on my lap while I watched it.

Also another (I think) 60s film called The Thrill Of It All. Doris Day plays a housewife who gets a job advertising soap on TV and her husband gets a bit jealous of her success.

My Grandad always used to say I looked just like Veronica Lake when I was a teenager (I really didn't).

Have a look www.bnwmovies.com/here You want obscure? You got it.

Dh,when the dc were younger, used to try and educate them in old films, to varying success. Marx bros, laurel and hardy, Harold Lloyd buster Keaton, Hitchcock-success. Charlie Chaplin-loathed. One famous one was a French film called Au Hazar Balthazar, very sad 50s, cinema verite about the life of a donkey. Lead Ballloon. Has become a standing joke now, whenever we want to watch something light and fun someone suggests the Donkey Film.
Oh and Louise Brooks - fab name, such a stunning woman.

Oh, oh, and the adorable Jonathon Pryce in Something Wicked This Way Comes... spooky film I'd nearly forgotten about.

I really fancy watching Spring and Port Wine now - and having mackerel!

Oh I LOVE the Amazing Mr Blunden!! It's a brilliant film.

My mum was determined to educate me in classic movies so I had a childhood full of Fred n Ginge, Ealing comedies and some real old creaky films.

My absolute faves though were the Doris Day 50s stuff - On Moonlight Bay, By the Light of The Silvery Moon...probably creaky as hell now but how I loved them.

We're introducing the kids to Its A Wonderful Life this Christmas. If they don't love it, I'm afraid they'll have to live in the shed

I think someone ought to start an 'Amazing Mr Blunden' Appreciation thread. So many of us!

My friend had never heard of it, but, as she's a mad-on lover of Christmas, she was easily converted.

Oh wow scabersley that film with the man in the phone box I saw that when I was about 9 and was terrified of phone boxes for years - would love to see it again.

Whoever said the Bicycle Thieves, that's amazing, but just so sad.

Phone Booth with Kiefer Sutherland?

That Kiefer Sutherland film was made in 2002 - I don't think that qualifies as old. In fact, nothing KS is in would qualify as old to me as he's younger than me. His dad's early films squeak in by my criteria.

The Tamarind Seed - early 70s with Julie Andrews in her first non-butter-wouldn't-melt role, getting mixed up with a Russian (Omar Sharif) who wants to recruit her as a spy - or does he? Wonderfully evocative of extreme Cold War scariness and a fantastic twist or two that you won't see coming. Also featuring a young and very beautiful Sylvia Sims, brilliant as the diplomat's wife.
One of my all time favourites.

Other memorable oldies,
Gaslight
Rebecca (old B&W)
Blithe Spirit (great fun)
The Scarlet Pimpernel with Leslie Howard
Goodbye Mr Chips - old b&w and a v good newer version with Martin Clunes

I forgot Whistle Down The Wind, with Hayley Mills as a child.
Never saw it till a few yrs ago - very impressed.

My niece as a child of 8+ visiting from the US used to love Blithe Spirit. Had to dig it out every visit.

Anyone wanting a seriously scary one, try Les Diaboliques, the old B&W French original, with subtitles.

I forgot Whistle Down The Wind, with Hayley Mills Yes, a good one. Which reminds me of Tiger Bay, also great.

*her first film

White Heat with Jimmy Cagney - 'top of the world Ma, I'm on top of the world!!'.
Fabulous black and white gangster movie.
Give it a go.

Hobson's Choice - John Mills b/w
Midnight Lace - 1960s Doris Day thriller

Both brilliant.
And i have a sift spot for both Barton Fink and Delicatessen which were cult hits, but not really seen by many people. When i meet someone who has seen one of these films it is like a secret handshake!