Old Britsh films

[Bluesofa]

37 minutes ago, Hamosity said:

After a bit of digging I think the movie is The Angry Silence (1960) 
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/494933/synopsis.html

From Wikipedia The Angry Silence is a 1960 black-and-white British drama film directed by Guy Green and starring Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig and Bernard Lee.

Alfred Burke played the rebel rouser  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Burke

Thanks for the info.
I'm trying to d/l it now, but there don't seem many people seeding. I'll see how it goes.

[Bluesofa]

15 hours ago, Bluesofa said:

All classics! Great films.

Yes, School for Scoundrels was B&W.
(I've just noticed there's another film with the same name made in 2006. Not a remake, but an American comedy)

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957) was B&W

If you're a George Cole fan, his film debut was Cottage To Let (1941) with Alistair Sim. A WW2 drama in the UK, concerning German spies. It's hard to find the film.
George was aged 15. Alistair Sim became George's 'adopted family', and George stayed at his house for over ten years.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cole_(actor)  

I see Cottage To Let is on youtube:

 

[Bluesofa]

On 9/18/2021 at 8:09 AM, Faraday said:

Full movie is on YouTube

I watched this last night.  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037367/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0    

While I've never seen it before, I thoroughly enjoyed it
It's listed as a comedy drama and is based on Noel Coward's 1939 play.  Set just after World War I, a family move into a nice house in the suburbs. They live an ordinary life until World War 2 breaks out.
I found the dialogue funny, very English humour of the time. 
It was unusual to be filmed in colour at this date.

[Faraday]

25 minutes ago, Bluesofa said:

I watched this last night.  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037367/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0    

While I've never seen it before, I thoroughly enjoyed it
It's listed as a comedy drama and is based on Noel Coward's 1939 play.  Set just after World War I, a family move into a nice house in the suburbs. They live an ordinary life until World War 2 breaks out.
I found the dialogue funny, very English humour of the time. 
It was unusual to be filmed in colour at this date.

Yes, it's quite a lovely movie, gives us an insight as to what life must have been like then.

Makes me think of my Gran, she lost her husband who was on a Submarine, & Uncle Steve who I never knew, & died sometime during WW2.

[Bluesofa]

On 9/18/2021 at 2:49 PM, Hamosity said:

After a bit of digging I think the movie is The Angry Silence (1960) 
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/494933/synopsis.html

From Wikipedia The Angry Silence is a 1960 black-and-white British drama film directed by Guy Green and starring Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig and Bernard Lee.

Alfred Burke played the rebel rouser  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Burke

I watched The Angry Silence (1960) B&W 1hr 35mins https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053602/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

I could see the similarity in the story to I'm All Right Jack (1959)
I also saw Bernard Lee (M from James Bond) and noticed Oliver Reed had a bit-part in it.

[Bluesofa]

The Blue Lamp (1950) 1hr 24mins  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042265/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0  

A policeman is murdered in London, starting a manhunt.
Starring Jack Warner, Dirk Bogarde, Jimmy Hanley, Robert Flemyng, Bernard Lee.

A black & white film which started the long-running BBC TV series Dixon of Dock Green.
Jack Warner was the only actor to appear in both the film and the TV series.

Available on torrent.

[Faraday]

 

 

Goodnight all......

 

 

 

[Tanuki]

'Mr. Porter'...  starring Will Hay... Classic British comedy (with some Irish chucked in there too) ..available on youtube

[steve860]

Was my dad's favourite film, Frank Randle.

[El_Trauco]

The Last Picture Show (1971, US, B&W)

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.

Stars: Timothy Bottoms,  Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman

Director: Peter Bogdanovich

2 Oscars: Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Ben Johnson; Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Cloris Leachman

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067328/

 

 

 

[oldschooler]

All David Lean Films

 

[JohninDublin]

On 9/18/2021 at 2:07 AM, Bluesofa said:

If you're a George Cole fan, his film debut was Cottage To Let (1941) with Alistair Sim. A WW2 drama in the UK, concerning German spies. It's hard to find the film.

It is shown occasionally on the "Talking Pictures" Channel which is on the Sky Platform in the UK/Ireland.

[JohninDublin]

On 9/18/2021 at 6:36 AM, Bluesofa said:

I remember I'm All Right Jack.
Did the Boulting Brothers produce this other film you're struggling with?
Perhaps it's in the list of their films in the link below? I hadn't realised they were identical twins.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulting_brothers  

Bit of trivia for you. John's brother Roy, Married Hayley Mills. He was 33 years older than her. Mz Mills is herself not averse to age gaps in either direction. Her current partner is 20 years younger than herself. She's 75.

[Bluesofa]

The Admirable Crichton (1957)  1hr 33mins   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050100/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0    

A comedy drama set in 1905.
A Lord and his family and servants are shipwrecked on a deserted island where the survival of the fittest swaps the class system from one extreme to the other.
Cast includes Kenneth More, Cecil Parker, Diane Cilento, Sally Ann Howes.

 

[WrightT]

On 12/9/2021 at 10:19 PM, JohninDublin said:

Bit of trivia for you. John's brother Roy, Married Hayley Mills. He was 33 years older than her. Mz Mills is herself not averse to age gaps in either direction. Her current partner is 20 years younger than herself. She's 75.

Continuing the Bolting/Mills lineage. Their son Crispian Mills was the lead singing / Guitarist with 90's indie band Kula Shaker. More recently he's worked with Simon Pegg on writing and directing films Slaughterhouse Rulez and the earlier A Fantastic Fear Of Everything.

[WrightT]

An old Classic British B/W movie I've kept missing over the years on the BBC, Channel 4 or Talking Pictures, is the Ealing Studios "Went the Day Well?". From 1942. Adapted from a Graham Greene story. Jack Higgins later book / film "The Eagle has Landed" in the mid 70's copied some of the themes. A few clips are available on YouTube, but I've never seen the whole movie. If anyone knows of a source please divulge.

Fully agree on the Kubrick / Sellers Dr. Strangelove. Absolute classic, make a point of watching it when I have a Kubrick nostalgia weekend.

Another of my nostalgic favorites is Nigel Kneale's Quatermass. To young to have seen the original BBC TV versions in the 50's, the remade B/W films with Brian Donlevy and Andrew Kier are IMO well worth a revisit. Plus the John Mills late 70's TV series / film; but that's in colour, so not within context.

[Bluesofa]

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) 1hr 43mins  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056194/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 \

A Black & White film about a young offender sent to borstal for theft, who ends up as a long-distance runner while serving his time.

I'm sure it's the first time I've ever seem the film.  The main stars were listed as Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Alec McCowen. James Bolam, Julia Foster.
Uncredited in the film were all these who became famous later on: John Thaw, Frank Finlay, Derek Fowlds, Arthur Mullard, James Fox, Edward Fox.

Available on torrent.

[angelalucas]

 

Yeah there are so many old British films but I would like to suggest some old movies which I have watched I think you must see them :

1.) The Last King of Scotland
2.) Interstellar 
3.) Titanic
4.) John Wick 
5.) GoodFellas 

Sometimes I think how this cinema world changed so fast first movie was made without any voice, only expressions were there, then we covered a huge era from black & white to colors, and then the era of VFX, animation, and the green screen came, the things are changes so fast in coming years so much new technology we will witness, Thanks cinema to be a part of our life.