Old yet glorious and obscure movies

[cafenoirbiscuit]

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?

And it should be added that a Spanish telephone operator made a reference to it in a very witty ad in the 90s (when the State's telephone monopoly was broken):

Not sure how I missed this thread as Dh and I are Talking Pictures addicts but will someone please maker get rid of that sodding DREARY music they play over and over

YY to The Amazing Mr Blunden. Haven't RTFT so no doubt someone's already mentioned the sad later life of Lynne Frederick (who played the girl).

Finally - @Gasp0de , seriously, are you me? Sunday, Bloody Sunday is one of my favourite films too and it also introduced me to that trio from Così fan tutte which - like you - I kept in my head for years as a magical memory until I heard it played and someone said what it actually was. Spooky.....

The Abominable Dr Phibes...Vincent Price, Terry Thomas, saw this as a kid and it really fascinated me.

No trees in the street with Herbert Lom, Sylvia simms,

It always rains on sundays with Googie Withers.

Old black and whites (or at least they were when I saw them on my telly!) Now both available on Amazon, just brilliant and a real glimpse of life gone by

Now I can't stop thinking of obscure films. The most bizarre but highly enjoyable must be 'The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T' - anyone else seen that?

It's based on a Dr Seuss story about a mad musician who kidnaps little boys on the pretext of running a summer music camp, then forces them to play his awful compositions. It's as camp as Christmas and played mostly for laughs with Dr T played by Hans Conried, a very funny actor. The sets and costumes and Technicolor are amazing. It's like Disney on acid

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

Auntie Mame is brilliant, " Life is a banquet, but most poor suckers are starving to death"

The Slipper and the Rose. Beautiful film and one of my favouries when I was growing up.
Willow, not sure it's really that obscure but moe people I know haven't heard of it. Was a family favourite when I was a kid.

I have seen none of these!! I’m going to make a list.

The original charlottes web is absolutely gorgeous.

I absolutely love Spring and Port Wine too, it is a wonderful film and made more special for me as my Dad took me to watch it, it was the first grown-up film he took me to, and a lovely memory for me. He loved the cinema and I do too. I think it's about time I bought the DVD.
Also mentioned up thread: Le Chateau de Ma Mere and La Gloire de Mon Pere, both absolutely glorious.
I remember watching The Greengage Summer and The Battle of the Villa Fiorita many years ago, and absolutely loved them (both adapted from books by Rumer Godden who also wrote Black Narcissus). I cried so much for the little girl who had to sell her pony in Villa Fiorita (I was young and pony mad at the time). Also anyone remember Poor Cow & Cathy Come Home. I was reminded of these two as I saw Carol White in Dulcima with John Mills on the Talking Pictures channel only the other day.
Recently re-watched Whistle Down the Wind and it still makes me cry.
What a wonderful thread - I've now got a huge list of films to watch, thank you.

This is s fab thread!

Another good film is Les Girls with the beautiful Kay Kendall. Saw this a child on tv and loved the story.

Sideways
Sightseers.
shallow grave

Babette’s Feast

The Chalk Garden
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
The Three Faces of Eve
Anything with Bette Davis but I really like All about Eve

cafenoirbiscuit I loved "Same Time, Next Year" and was coming on here to mention it, then I saw you already had!

Bridge of Spies - it's not exactly obscure but it's not mentioned very often

The Prisoner of Zenda ~ crammed with swashbuckling, and a fab cast including James Mason.

Will Hay films, Keep it under your hat with Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge, Arthur Askey films. They all remind me of my dad, and I'll always remember watching them with him when I was a young child, so I love them for that

I came on to say Murder by Death and was pleased to see it appear on the second page. I loved this film and watched it over and over. It even has Truman Capote along with a stonking cast and it's a parody of all detective movies (so there's a Poirot figure, a Sam Spade, Miss Marple etc). Great Alec Guinness blind butler as well.

Midwich cuckoos
Old Roman Polanski films - Rosemary's baby, the Tenant (super scary), repulsion I know Polanski was a total creep tho

Summer of 42...no one I've ever met has seen this. About teenage lads in cape cod trying to get laid. Which sounds like Porkys or something else crude but it's actually sad

This Happy Breed. About a family in south London between the wars. Gentle, funny, heartwarming. Remember watching it with my lovely Nan as a kid ❤

I, too, love The Amazing Mr Blunden.

Also Dean Spanley. A beautiful film.

Last Year at Marienbad.

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

Yes to This Happy Breed. Celia Johnson playing the mother without her usual cut-glass accent. And a lovely performance by Robert Newton as the father.