DeeDee

The Collector made quite a stir over here in the U.S. I saw it and it was very creepy. Little did I know, years later, I would become a big Terence Stamp fan!

smudge

I often run SATURDAY NIGHT OUT back to back with FOUR IN THE MORNING ; another little gem. They seem to me to have a very similar feel.

Probably because they ran them on consecutive weeks when I first recorded them off-air though !

SMUDGE

Welcome to my house. Enter freely, and of your own will...

Diane Blackwell

Ah - Four in the Morning - you and I must talk!

AndrewLA

THE COLLECTOR isn't quite a true British movie, though all the elements are from the Fowles book (sad to hear of his passing), and the casting was very up to date from mid-60s London. But most of the movie was shot in Hollywood by Robert Surtees and an American crew and editor. Only exteriors were done in England. And, of course, Wyler was the director. I like the movie, but it has a touch of "Hollywood Englishness" about it, which doesn't totally work for me. By the way, you can still see Kenneth More in here. There's a shot in a pub of Samantha Eggar talking to a man with his back to the camera. That's More.

THE WRONG BOX -- brilliant. Larry Gelbart spent a month on one of the web chat boards a while ago, and he recalled this as one of his all-time favorites (though with some reservations about Brian Forbes' "effete" style). He was living in London at the time (which he loved), wrote the script on spec with Burt Shevelove, and sold it quickly to Columbia. In one of his postings, Gelbart mourned the passing of a time like the early 60s when a literate, funny, period movie based on a relatively obscure novel could be put together so easily and cast so brilliantly. He thinks it is completely forgotten today. My sense is that THE WRONG BOX is much better remembered, and still popular, in England than the U.S.

Bryanb

ahh yes, she of Day of the Triffids. I quite like a war film she was in from 1959 Devils Disciple , i think??, which i haven't seen for a while.. starring her alongside Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Laurence Olivier...now there's a line up if ever i saw one.

Jack Gurney

Well, I think all the films listed are brilliant.

I could start blathering on about Butcher's quota quickies, but I'm new here, and I'm sure there's probably already a thread for that somewhere!! I can tell this is going to be fun.

"Whatever happened to Fay Wray?"

sizey

Don't forget "Bronco Bullfrog" proabably on of the best teenage movies ever made. Should be around.....

Diane Blackwell

Wasn't Bronco made in 1970? Or am I just wrong/a total pedant?

Jack Gurney

Yes it was, with a soundtrack by me old mates Audience (although to be honest the project probably [/i]commenced[i] in 1969 and took a long time to complete. The songs are from that year.

"Whatever happened to Fay Wray?"

Diane Blackwell

Ah right! I must admit that Bronco was a film I struggled with a little bit - the acting was just a little too basic for my tastes ...

sizey

I think it was being filmed in 1969, so I don't know then if it actually qualifies, but a major film no less, and a huge influence on "Quadrophenia" .

Can I chuck into the hat "The White Bus" by Lindsay Anderson.

Does "Up the Junction" qualify for this list? I can't understand why it hasn't had an official DVD release?

Diane Blackwell

I couldn't agree more. I think it's an excellent film - I'm sure Jarvis Cocker must have seen it before he wrote Common People .... or am I stating the bleeding obvious?

arty-dave

I like "Smashing Time" starring Lynn Redgrave and Rita Tushingham (1967) - Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.

Oh, and if anyone can supply this on DVD...

rjd0309

I have an excellent copy of this on DVD-R.

Robert

moonpie

Talking of Ian McShane and because today was the funeral of Mary Hayley Bell, I thought I would add 'Sky West and Crooked' (1966) to the list. One of my favourites.