Hitch

Now, i don't know about you lot out there in cyber space, but a lot of my all time favorite British films are ones i watched with my Mum and Dad as a child/teenager!

In particular I remember watching Carry On Films, On The Buses and Norman Wisdom films.

I am so glad that my parents introduced me to this British comedy, as i honestly thing there is nothing that even comes close to it now. And This is a 21 year old saying this, so it is not a biased view!!

Anyone else been influenced by their parents?

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taffy1967

No my parents just tended to go with the flow and whatever was released this week was interesting to them.

I've just lost the will to live with what Hollywood vomits out these days and British Classics relate far more to me anyway.

So I guess it'll be my kids who'll blame me for getting them to appreciate the weird and the wonderful variety of films that got made here.

GRAEME

My dad always liked westerns and detective films and TV shows - so they were on when I was wee. My mum like musicals. All those rubbed off on me.

I've realy got into some of my dad's favourites that I remember being on but was too young to remmeber clearly: Public Eye, Sutherland's Law (which was my nickname at school!), Special Branch...

I've always loved westerns and it was one of the few things we had in common - although we tended to like them for different reasons and my dad was very indiscriminating in his taste - I like Ford and Hawkes and Delmer and Anthony Mann et al - but he watched all those gawdaful Audie Murphy things!

All men leak.

didi-5

My mum liked musicals and my dad war films, and that's rubbed off on me. However when I was living at home I was of the opinion that Fred Astaire films and Dad's Army were rubbish because my mum thought so - I soon found out otherwise.

For the last 20 years or so my viewing choices and likes and dislikes have been purely my own.

Steve Crook

Not so much in my taste in films, I didn't watch many films with my parents. They never had a TV until I had already moved out to go to college.

But when I started to develop my own interest in the old British films from the 1940s, they could help guide me towards some of the better one because those were the films they had watched as they were growing up.

Their taste in music, especially for jazz, blues and the music of the big bands like Glenn Miller & Benny Goodman, that was more of an influence because that was played a lot when I was young. And when added to the more contemporary music I listened to as I grew up meant that I've always had an appreciation of a wide range of styles.

Steve

smudge

Comedy was always a big thing in our house, so I have many recollections of the older sitcoms. Films not so much - I tended to educate myself in film; not being at all sporty, when everybody was out playing footy on Saturday afternoons I'd hunker down with a box of Jaffa Cakes and get stuck into the BBC2 matinee double bills. Then of course if I could stay awake there were the horror doubles later that night...

Smudge

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Simon Bermuda

I've inherited most of my father's cinematic enthusiasms: Bogart and Mitchum in anything, westerns with Wayne, Cooper, Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, not to mention the Spaghettis; and on the small screen, Benny Hill, Hancock and Steptoe, McGoohan in Danger Man. Even stuff like Public Eye, which seemed almost ludicrously low-key and masochistically mundane when I watched it as a youngster with my Dad, I am now, with maturity, far better equipped to appreciate.

Now starting to pass on some of these to my own kids, hoping to send them out into the world untainted by anti-B&W and anti-Academy Ratio prejudice.

batman

Westerns, comedies, film noir, crime films and TV cop shows were popular in our house when I was a kid .... and The Batcave is carrying on the tradition. My mother was a fan of musicals and those Rock Hudson/Jane Wyman type melodramas and they get an airing as well. My father also loved continental cinema such as Clouzot, Fernandel, Tati etc and that influence is quite strong too. My love of cliffhanger serials is my own vice!

"Aha Mr Aubergine ... that's where you're wrong!"

Mark O

Me mam's fave actress was Joan Crawford, that favouritism has rubbed off on me, and I'll watch anything with Queen Joanie in it, she wasn't a monster, just Joan!

Mark

James Fox

My father loved Westerns. "Red River," "Rio Bravo" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugy" are a few of his favorites...and mine as well.

Also my mother takes credit for my new British wife because "Yanks" and "Hanover Street" were favorite films of hers LOL

torinfan

My mom loved the "Are You Being Served?" series shown on PBS over here plus the occasional old Hitchcock or Carol Reed film. Nobody introduced me to Torin though but I do know I have seen his films and tv appearances for a long time, even before I became interested in his work.

He brings joy to me.

fluddite

My Da encouraged me to watch Odd Man Out and Treasure Of The Sierra Madre at an impressionable age. Thanks Da

A few years after that, one of our English teachers showed us a scatchy 16mm print of Le Salaire De La Peur, and I was hooked for ever. So - I blame the teachers....

Mr Sloane

Well that photo proves airbrushing is nothing new

will.15

And when the housekeeper wasn't around, she'd grab a broom amd do it herself.

James Fox

lol