old movies
as you can tell from some of my threads im a film buff and i just love the old ones, bought the dvd of `whatever happened to baby Jane` yesterday and watched it last night, seen it so many times but i never get sick of watching it another two i bought were `A kind of loving and Saturday night Sunday morn ..love the british ` kitchen sink` films what do others think?
Started: 2nd Nov 2008 at 11:04
Two exellent british films there Maddy.Not keen on Baby Jane though.
Replied: 2nd Nov 2008 at 11:07
Love old British films.
Whistle Down The Wind
A Matter of Life and Death (David Niven)
The Lady Killers
Billy Liar
Replied: 2nd Nov 2008 at 11:38
I love 'Whistle Down the Wind', too. 
I also delighted in watching An Inspector Calls and Hobson's Choice, having enjoyed reading the plays.
'A Christmas Carol' is another one of my favourite films - in any colour!
Brief Encounter (1945) is a great film. I never tire of looking on the internet(!) - you can discover many interesting additional facts and details about films to gain a deeper insight into how they were created and the impacts they had at their time and onwards.
I'm not really enough of an 'old film' buff to be able to talk about lots of others, but I'm sure I'd reely love watching many more!
Replied: 2nd Nov 2008 at 12:07
Hobson's choice is at the very top of my list i can't watch it enough,Charles Laughton now there was amaster of his art.
Replied: 2nd Nov 2008 at 12:16
Whistle Down the Wind was one of my favourite old movies.
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jo-anne, brief encounter, the famous clock is 200yds from my house here in Carnforth
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Spring and Port Wine is one of my favourites. Pity it wasn't filmed around Wigan instead of Bolton though.
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This Sporting Life
with Richard Harris as a gritty rugby league player is a Northern classic but rarely put on tv.
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i still love its a wonderful life
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Goodbye Mr Chips and like Amanda I think Its a Wonderful Life is fantastic. Another cracker is Love on the Dole
Replied: 2nd Nov 2008 at 18:22
Local connection there franny (mr chips)
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'Lonelyness of a long distance runner' is one i would like to watch again
Replied: 2nd Nov 2008 at 18:27
goodbye mr chips makes me cry, love that film. When i was young, i use to sit and watch the old sunday afternoon films with me mum, bette davis was brilliant. Is she still alive?
Replied: 2nd Nov 2008 at 18:30
The author was born in Leigh; JH is James Hilton and he's mentioned on wigan world.
It is a beautiful, sad film, Amanda.
Replied: 2nd Nov 2008 at 18:32
yes well acted jo-anne, all the best are Lancaster based
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who's in it?
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Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. One scary film for 1950 and directed by Charles Laughton(Hunchback)
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oh cool
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didnt know spring and port wine was filmed in bolton ..interesting
Replied: 2nd Nov 2008 at 19:11
Yes maddy and there are quite a few scenes where they are driving around the town centre. That's why I wish it had been filmed in Wigan, to capture a piece of history.
Replied: 2nd Nov 2008 at 19:19
Now Voyager with Bette Davies was one of my old black & White films
Replied: 2nd Nov 2008 at 19:32
Some of these old movies might be of interest to you.
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You don't need to type the " jacklaw.
I was recently informed.
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It's just ] you missed before Old Movies, jacklaw.
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Rectified the mistake. It shows as a link now
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Prevention is better than cure xrh.
That's what they say in monkeries.
Replied: 2nd Nov 2008 at 20:57
I am far too lady-like to thw***rt, Dostaf!
Just watch out or I'll brandish my braffin!
Replied: 2nd Nov 2008 at 21:00
Dostaf - I could be cheeky and point out your error in punctuation, (check your post), but I wouldn't ... I don't want you to blame me for your thw***rting.
Replied: 2nd Nov 2008 at 21:10
Well as you didn't, I won't edit it jo anne.
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I have so many films I love and cherish: Blithe Spirit, Casablanca (the best B movie ever made!) in fact anything with dear Ingrid Bergman in! Africa Queen, Harvey, It's a Wonderful Life, A matter of Life and Death, Rebecca,The St Trinian's films for the joy of seeing Joyce Grenfell, The Carry Ons (for their cheap McGill humour and the fact that most were filmed in icy February - especially Camping when the mud was sprayed green to look like grass!), A Taste of Honey, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Blow Up, Citizen Kane, Prospero's Books, A Zed and 2 Noughts, The Piano, The Hours, In the Bleak Midwinter ( fantastic but rare!) ...
Too many to bore you with!
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Dear old Johnny,
Johnnys gone now of course, Larry dear old Larry also...joycie oh what a sweetie-gone-all gone.Dickie, still with us,for a bit longer I hope, -good old Dickie.
Replied: 3rd Nov 2008 at 23:21
bennie, that reminds me of a 'Spitting Image' sketch
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I love Gone With The Wind and Some Like It Hot.
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