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Old 26-04-2008, 07:30 AM
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I remember crying my eyes out at The Day They Gave Babies Away, with Glynis Johns.

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Old 26-04-2008, 07:53 AM
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The 1956 film of A Town Like Alice.

First saw it on television in the 60s and remember the whole family being upset. It was the first time I'd seen my dad cry which made it even worse!
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morning Gazza, yes I did see it but for the life of me cant remember it.
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Old 26-04-2008, 08:25 AM
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ATLA is on Film4 quite often .... Peter Finch, Virginia McKenna, Japanese prisoner of war camp ... ring any bells?
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knew Viginia was in the film but no , not really will have to try and get hold of copy.
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Old 26-04-2008, 08:32 AM
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Available for a fiver from amazon.co.uk or from your local over-priced high street retailer.
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Old 26-04-2008, 08:37 AM
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great batman Im checking it out, didnt she die just recently, very nice woman married to Bill Travers , takes me back to Geordie.
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great batman Im checking it out, didnt she die just recently, very nice woman married to Bill Travers , takes me back to Geordie.
Bill died in 1994, but Virginia hasn't died recently - unless it was very quiet and nobody noticed which I would find hard to believe

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thought I heard she did last year, might be mistaken nice woman she is.
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I remember crying my eyes out at The Day They Gave Babies Away, with Glynis Johns.
That's often cited as the film guaranteed to get most people crying

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The end of The Elephant Man made me cry lots when I first saw it. I would have been about 14, and it was the first time I ever heard Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings.

Coincidentally, at school the very next day, our headmaster happened to be taking us for music, and he got out this big old-style gramophone. He said he was going to play a record and we were to say what we thought of it. It was of course the Adagio for Strings. I couldn't help but dissolve into tears, prompting lots of worried girls to fuss over me afterwards!
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The Elephant Man, saw this in my twenties and cried but I think the common weepy for men is the american film, Field Of Dreams. Hits close to home for a lot of blokes.

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Elephant man for me!

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One of two animated films; Plague Dogs or When the Wind Blows.
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Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc. Unrelenting and unflinching......
Bit of a Bay Window, what??
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