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Old 18-10-2004, 09:49 PM
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Have any of you good people got a list of classic/famous British films that you've never seen for one reason or another? For example(to name but many!) "The 49th Parallel" is on this week which is really exciting for me because that's one on my list I've never seen.....can't wait. scarf Regards, Decks.

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Good film Decks, I'd put it ahead of many of the latter pnp's which while accomplished can be humdrum. Many talk of them with so much reverence you actually wonder if they 'enjoy' the film as entertainment. Bit like the bloke who restores a sports car but never drives it in the way intended.

Conversely, 49th Parallel never lags, so much so that it's akin to a submariners road movie. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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Good film Decks, I'd put it ahead of many of the latter pnp's which while accomplished can be humdrum. Many talk of them with so much reverence you actually wonder if they 'enjoy' the film as entertainment. Bit like the bloke who restores a sports car but never drives it in the way intended.

Conversely, 49th Parallel never lags, so much so that it's akin to a submariners road movie. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif[/img] [/b]
I often tell those academic types who over-analyse the films that sometimes it's just best to "sit back and enjoy it". That's certainly what I like to do.

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Black Narcissus, Colonel Blimp, 49th Parallel, The Wicker Man to name a few.
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I'm almost envious. You have such great pleasures ahead of you when you do see them.

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Jack Cardiff worked on Errol Flynn's "WILLIAM TELL" in 1953 as director and cinamatographer. I believe there is a 30 min Cinemascope cut somewhere's. I would love to see it. Maybe if there are other bits that didn't make the cut still about somebody could do a full 90min film. Use the technology that kept Oliver Reed in "GLADIATOR" after he died. I bet old Jack would be up for it, after all he's just finished a film and he won't want to be sitting around twiddling his thumbs. When you see what can and is being done these days the idea is not that fanciful. I mean cinema is the fantasy business. Isn't it?.
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In the same vein Hackett, I would love to see the bits that Orson Welles "directed" in "The Third Man", but I have a feeling Carol Reed done a good job of disposing of them! Regards, Decks.
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Did Orson direct any? I thought that was just a bit of egotistical self-promotion?
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btw Decks, how can you judge if a film is great without having seen it? scold clap
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I know Charles Laughton was involved as an actor in the aborted "I CLAUDIUS" 1937, but did he have to abandon a film he was directing?. I recall seeing some footage of a German sub being sunk in a documentary by Barry Norman. I think it was one of Norman's "HOLLYWOOD GREATS" series. I'm sure Alexander Korda produced or I may be confusing it as Korda produced "I CLAUDIUS". The clip of the drowning German submariners is very harrowing and has always remained in my memory.
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It seems that on return to Shepperton, Welles directed Robert Krasker on quite a few sequences,which Reed did not use and the footage subsequently disappeared. This has been widely reported and one can only assume it's correct. Regards, Decks.
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One can only go on the reputation of a film until seen, i.e. like yourself DB7, you have the reputation of being the one.......a right one! hysteric Regards, Decks.
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  • <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Atlantic (1929) - just about the first British talkie, and a compendium of how not to do it, or so I've been told. I'd love to see it but I doubt if I'd want to shell out good money to own a copy.









  • <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The Night of the Party (1933). In his book \"A life in the movies\" Michael Powell uses a four-letter word in his description of it which I won't bother to repeat. And he was the guy who made the film for heaven's sake! I believe the script was forced on him, he knew it was rubbish but had been backed into a corner. We can thank our lucky stars that it didn't scupper his career right from the start.
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Try Blackmail (1929) instead of Atlantic. It's a better story and has an equal claim to be the first British talkie.

The Night of the Party is the most formulaic of the Quota Quickies that I've seen so far - but even that has its redeeming features in the final courtroom scene with the screaming queen played by Ernest Thesiger. Powell nearly gave up on it but did a bit more work on it - but yes, it was a poor story and he felt he was made to do it as a part of a package. Luckily it wasn't bad enough to seriously damage his reputation. There's a contemporary review on the PaPAS site.

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Have any of you good people got a list of classic/famous British films that you've never seen for one reason or another? [/b]
Not great, but Alec Guinness' The Horse's Mouth is one I must try watching again. I've tried watching it twice in an evening and on both occasions nodded off. Not a good sign. sleep
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