British films

Quote Mt61 Thu 07-Aug-25 12:35:37
Far from the maddening crowd, original version with Alan bates.

Alan Bates and Terence Stamp in one film , phew

keepingquiet

Local Hero is one of my favourite films- helped by Mark Knopfler's score of course!

It’s an absolute classic. I might find that I start watching and realise I have seen it at one time.

"A Matter of Life and Death" with David Niven and Roger Livesey
"Went the Day Well" with Melvyn Johns and Thora Hurd
"Dead of Night" with Googie Withers and Michael Redgrave
"An Inspector Calls" with Alistair Sim and Bryan Forbes
and many more.

Kind Hearts and Coronets is in my top 10 of all films, ever! Powell and press burger's portrayal of Englishness is peerless.

Oh I like the sound of some of these. Love anything with thora hird.
I’ve just watched lost for words. I’m not criticising newer films just enjoying the nostalgia.

Perhaps I should point out Ellie Anne that "Went the Day Well" is not a comedy. It is a grim film made during WWII which told a (fictional) story of the invasion of a village by German soldiers who pretended to be British and were helped by a British collaborator.

Magenta the ones I have mentioned are not comedies either. Some are quite sad but can have some funny moments.

"Goodnight Mr Tom" starring John Thaw

Sorry Ellie Anne. It's just that I always associate Thora Hurd with comedy as she was such a brilliant comic actress.

Of course she was also a brilliant straight actress. Do you remember her in Alan Bennett's short television play "A cream cracker under the settee"?

Mt61

Far from the maddening crowd, original version with Alan bates.

It’s Far from the MADDING Crowd, not maddening. A quotation from Thomas Grey’s Elegy in a Country Churchyard (which was inspired by the churchyard at Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire, where my son lives).

The quotation from Grey (Gray?) was then used by Thomas Hardy as the title for his novel. This causes some confusion about its origin, and it is often attributed to Thomas Hardy.

Vintagegirl

"Goodnight Mr Tom" starring John Thaw

This is a wonderful, very moving film.

Magenta I found ‘ cream cracker under the settee’ very moving. But I like anything by Alan Bennett.

Oh goodness - thanks for this. We were taken to Bromley Oden to see Far From the Madding Crowd by our English mistress as it was one of our set books for English Lit O Level. Every teenage girls dream to be able to spend a school afternoon not only in the cinema but with Terence Stamp and Alan Bates.

25 years later I picked it up on Video in a charity shop as it was a set book for my daughter's English Lit GCSE.

But she was more Guns 'n Roses!

Thanks for the memory

My school took us to see A Tale of Two Cities with Dirk Bogarde who we all fell in love with.

The other day we watched ‘Yield to the Night’. Diana Dors at her finest. She seemed to be a much underrated actress, the glamour side was publicised more.

Watching YouTube films? I presume they are all segmented or advert free?
I ask because every time I try and watch something any longer than two minutes, it gets inundated with ads every 40 odd seconds.

We watched ‘Yield to the Night’ on Talking Pictures. They do have adverts, but we either record and wizz through the adverts or just pause during the ads and fast forward, so we don’t have to endure them. TP shows some brilliant films.

Change your browser to one that allows adfree Youtube. I use Edge (microsoft) and that works but not Chrome.

The Winslow Boy 1977

Shirley Valentine

A Town Like Alice

Shadowlands (Anthony Hopkins based on CS Lewis biography)

Saving Grace with Brenda Blethyn.

I don’t think there were adverts on you tube. And not segmented.