British films

The early Carry Ons like Constable, Sergeant and Teacher were excellent as they were like a continuation of the Ealing comedies, but the later, seventies films were mostly dross and people lost interest in them. However, the franchise lasted for 21 years and there were massive queues whenever a new one was released in the fifties and sixties.

And I’ve just come across Bag lady with Maureen lipman. 🥲

I like some of the sitcom spin offs from the seventies that show you what life was like then. The Likely Lads one was on recently and it's interesting to see fashions like flared trousers and maxi dresses and Terry being excited about moving to a high rise flat with an inside toilet and a fitted kitchen.

I love old black and white British films particularly the comedies, wish they showed them more.

Mollygo

Saving Grace with Brenda Blethyn.

An ex boyfriend of mine was locations manager for that and had a fleeting part in it.

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

Saving Grace with Brenda Blethyn.

Shadowlands (Anthony Hopkins based on CS Lewis biography)

A Town Like Alice

Shirley Valentine

The Winslow Boy 1977

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Vintagegirl

"Goodnight Mr Tom" starring John Thaw

This is a wonderful, very moving film.

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.

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).

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"?

"Goodnight Mr Tom" starring John Thaw

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

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.