" Cheaper by the dozen " did any film leave a lasting memory for you ?

In 1974 I met a young woman who had been a child extra in the Inn of the Sixth Happiness. Although living in East Anglia at the time she had grown up in north Wales where the scenes of the children crossing the mountains were filmed. Her mother was Welsh and her father Chinese.

Where did I meet her? We were in adjacent beds of a maternity unit. Funny the things you talk about in the early stages of labour.

It has always been one of my favourite films. I think I was 12 when my parents took me to see it and I too jumped out of my skin at the beheading scene.

The Sound of Music. Taken to the Cinema to see this when I was 4

I was around eight or nine when I went with my Mum and Dad to see Carve her name with pride. I remember crying at the end in the scene with Violette Szabo's daughter.

Around the same time we also went to see The inn of the sixth happiness. I was very moved by the ending when the children reach the end of their journey across the mountains singing This Old Man.

I all recall a film called A kid for two farthings which I think was quite sad.

Witzend like you the cinema was a very rare treat, and I was completely blown away by Fantasia. For me it was the Sorcerer's Apprentice scene and the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy with the waltzing elephants that I remember best.

Deadly Pursuit with Sidney Poitier playing the lead detective. He was about 60 then but still looked good. I wish it would be put on Netflix or Amazon now. It was so exciting.

"The vessel with the pestle has the pellet with the poison, the chalice from the palace holds the brew that is true."
Danny Kaye in The Court Jester. One of the funniest scenes I've ever seen.

Schindler's List, The Killing Fields and Doctor Zhivago all left a lasting impression. However, I just loved ET and would happily watch it again and again. I obviously lack any sophistication!

Calendergirl I was made of strong stuff! ?

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas at the end when his little friend was caught up with those heading for the gas chamber--horrifying really. I'd seen it a couple of times and it was on not so long ago.

Grandmabatty

I've just remembered one! Psycho. It was on tv and I begged my parents to let me watch it. I was around 12 but very precocious. They let me stay up to see it. Apparently I seemed very nonchalant about it. However once I was in bed it was different. There was a creaking noise outside my door, the door was thrown open, and there stood my dad in mum's dressing gown and a blonde wig holding a kitchen knife! He told me later that he hadn't realised how many swear words I knew.

That’s awful! Wonder you weren’t traumatised for life.

BBJS DD watched Jaws on television with us when she was about 7. Her comment was "Ooh scrambled man for tea!"

I've just remembered one! Psycho. It was on tv and I begged my parents to let me watch it. I was around 12 but very precocious. They let me stay up to see it. Apparently I seemed very nonchalant about it. However once I was in bed it was different. There was a creaking noise outside my door, the door was thrown open, and there stood my dad in mum's dressing gown and a blonde wig holding a kitchen knife! He told me later that he hadn't realised how many swear words I knew.

Empire of the Sun really moved me, I was a young Mum and pregnant when I first saw it, I couldn’t compute how the parents and child could ever pick up where they had left off.

The story was really about loss of innocence and was based on J G Ballard’s experiences of Shanghai under Japanese occupation.

As a child I remember being taken to the cinema to see The Searchers. The scene where the little girl is taken really scared me. I can still conjure up that feeling now.
As an adult, Soldier Blue left me shocked. No one in the cinema moved for a minute when it ended.

When I was young, went to the cinema for the first time with a friend and her mum, cannot remember the film title, but it was about that man who walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope, Blondel?

I wanted to go to the loo, but didn’t dare ask where the toilets were!

Must have sat cross legged through the latter part of the film!

My first cinema memory is Lady Hamilton. I was enjoying the tall ships but when the battle began I shouted out ‘I don’t want those lovely ships to sink!
Snow White, memorable for the witch terrifying me. ‘Why have they brought me to see this?’ I wondered.
I loved the ballet costumes and dancing in The Red Shoes but found the ending disturbing. When I recently saw the ballet on stage the ending seemed to prompt an angina attack!
A Yankee at King Arthur’s Court with Danny Kaye and other films of his from the 1940s and 50s. So funny and colourful.
Meet Me in St Louis, I remembered the songs and costumes with pleasure but only realised fairly recently that I was very confused and upset by the Hallowe’en scenes and Margaret O’Brien crying.
I adored any Lassie film.
An Australian bw film about lost children called Bush Christmas sticks in my memory.

I thought my daughter was too young to see "Jaws"; she insisted that all the other kids had seen it, so we went. After,
I asked if she had enjoyed it and she said the best bit was "when the whale munched the man"; I was a good swimmer but now
whenever I am out of my depth I can hear the music of the
sharks approaching......

Old Yeller. I saw it in the cinema and it really upset me. Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nuryev dancing. I saw that as a special film at the cinema too. Mum took me and my friend out of school for the afternoon. The Sound of Music. I went with the Brownies and loved it. Like some of you, Schindler's List. It was so moving. The film version of Jesus Christ Superstar. I know every word of every song.

'Carrie', seen about 40 years ago - the knife throwing scene
'Black Christmas' - nearly all of it and it still scares me

I must have been about 7 when I saw A Kid For Two Farthings and I still remember the poor little kid dying because the little boy didn't know how to feed it.

And there's always "Fredo you're my brother and I love you, but don't ever take sides against the family again"

I loved The Inn of the Sixth Happiness as a child. All those little children being carried by the bigger ones singing Nick Nack Paddy Wack. It was so moving.

I was shocked by the beheading I remember.

So many films from childhood to the present day. That’s why I love cinema so much and I’m so upset at the thought that I won’t be going to one for the foreseeable future. To be transported to another world for a few hours and then find yourself still thinking about that film for ages afterwards is amazing. I guess the earliest ones were How the West was Won (still love it), the Korda Jungle Book, Fantasia, Sleeping Beauty (loved Malificent). Then TheLife of Pi, Pans Labyrinth, Edward Scissorhands, Last of the Mohicans, Let the Right One In. And many more.

Shandy57
The pilot flying that helicopter bought a boat from us.
The same pilot did the mountain rescue scene in the film Cliffhanger. He said it was the scariest thing he’s ever done: and he was a pilot in the Vietnam war.

Shandy57

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for me, the scene at the end. I love Jack Nicholson.

I watched that for the first time in a cinema in Milan. At the end the whole audience applauded.

I made my son watch it 20 years later and he loved it, it was still wonderful. Definitely in my top 3.

Oh, and I never saw it as a child, but dd was hooked from about 3 on Disney’s Cinderella, which I’ve always adored - ditto Sleeping Beauty.