What is your favourite "Non-brit-british-film"?

[Freddy]

</div><div class='quotemain'> Perhaps a mention should be made to The Elephant Man. Although with a total British cast,except Anne Bancroft,it was an American film,financed by Mel Brooks and directed by the avante garde David Lynch. An excellent film,ignored for their worthy glory by the Oscars and not shy of showing the squalor of the Victorian era. For an American film,it avoided the cliches and all the cast deserved a mentioning. If Mel Brooks ever deserved an Oscar for Best Film,this was the one. [/b]

thumbs_u
What a cast, Hopkins, Hurt, Geilgud, Hiller, Jones
et al.

Freddy

[Bobj]

[QB] [quote]Originally posted by SteveCrook:
[qb] Or at least to an area just outside Hollywood that they could make to look a little bit like Britain and then use some of the British actors resident in Hollywood.

Quite right I understand in the McCloud episode 'London Bridges' a scene that was supposed to depict a Buckingham Palace garden party was filmed at the Huntingdon Library in LA

[Clinton Morgan]

I've getting into the films of FW Murnau. Especially 'Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans' and 'Faust'. I've yet to see 'The Last Laugh' which I hear has only one intertitle.

[Clinton Morgan]

Darn! Misread the title of this thread. Oh well!

[Repo Man]

This is a real tough one, here are a few non Brit films i enjoy(this list has a decidedly French flavour to it)

400 Blows
Ikiru
Yojimbo
Diary Of A Chambermaid
Eyes Without A Face
Le Samurai

[sanndevil]

I remember I taped MRS MINIVER believing it to be a Brit film. When I played it back later, many little things led me to doubt it was actually filmed in the UK - just everything in the first few minutes didn't look British at all. Then a 'bobby' walked past wearing the old three-penny bit American cop hat! So much for it being set in the South of England!

[Jim]

</div><div class='quotemain'>Tony in Ottawa: One film I'm very fond of, which feels British but isn't, is "Pied Piper" (1942) starring Monty Woolley, who was actually an American but he had me fooled. This isn't set in Britain apart from the connecting scenes in a London club during the Blitz, but it does have a very good British feel to it. Among the "British" cast is a teenage Roddy McDowall, who is always a pleasure to watch, and at least he was born in Britain. From the déja vu department - as far as I remember, the scene with a column of French refugees on a country road being strafed by a German fighter turned up at least twice more in other films, in "The Foreman Went to France" (from the same year) and "Dunkirk" (from much later). To add to Steve's comment earlier in this thread - what a monstrosity Heathrow has become. I have this fantasy that one day someone will discover deep in the Heathrow complex a carload of skeletons - people who took a wrong turn and never managed to find their way out! [/b]

SPOT ON!!!! Unless you're familiar with the forest of signs around Heathrow, you ain't got a chance!!!! And the standard of driving leaves a lot to be desired as well!!!
:mad:

[DB7]

Something might happen here but nothing ever happens in Shrewsbury...

Penderel in James Whale's Old Dark House. (and never a truer word said)

Memorable for Charles Laughton's boisterous Mancunian - who he'd later resurrect in Hiobson's Choice.

[PAULBATTERSON]

Originally posted by Wilfried Mueller@Jan 4 2005, 06:04 PM What is your favourite so called "typical british" film which has been filmed/produced in another country? My absolute favourite is WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION with marvellous Charles Laughton and Marlene Dietrich in her best role. <div align="right">Quoted post</div>

[img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/devil.gif[/img] MY FAVORITE NON-BRITISH FILM IS "CURSE OF THE DEMON" WHICH IS A ADAPTATION OF A MR JAMES BOOK/ STAGEPLAY "CASTING THE RUNES" WHICH IS WELL WORTH WATCHING, A SUPERB LITTLE FILM... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/devil.gif[/img]

[Jeno solar brother]

The Third Man, this classic suspense mystery starring Orson Welles and other actors, is one of my favourite British movies not entirely filmed in the UK. It was filmed on location in Austria but the studio scenes have been shot elsewhere, most probably in England.

[DAVID RAYNER]

Paul, Curse of the Demon (US title) / Night of the Demon (UK title) IS a British film. It was filmed entirely in the UK.

[dylan]

Originally posted by Jeno solar brother@Jun 3 2005, 07:44 PM The Third Man, this classic suspense mystery starring Orson Welles and other actors, is one of my favourite British movies not entirely filmed in the UK. It was filmed on location in Austria but the studio scenes have been shot elsewhere, most probably in England. <div align="right">Quoted post</div>

Welles' scenes in the sewers were shot at Shepperton - he couldn't face the real thing. Guy Hamilton stood in for him in long shot in several Vienna location shots. 75 sets were constructed at Shepperton - other interiors were shot at the old Isleworth Studios.

[Gibbie]

A little too gothic for me, but Rebecca was shot completely in California. I was surprised.

One of my favourite American Euro movies is Foreign Correspondent. Interesting story to this American Hitchcock...

"Although Foreign Correspondent (1940) was filmed primarily in Hollywood, a second unit cameraman was sent to London and Amsterdam for location footage. Although he eventually reached Europe, his first ship was torpedoed and all his equipment lost."

One more recent that I would call an independent Hollywood Non-Brit British film is The Limey with Terrence Stamp.

[penfold]

Could The Adventures of Robin Hood be any more British??
And to the guy getting into Murnau...you will adore the Last Laugh..

[DB7]

Where does Murder by Death stand? There's something 'English' about the black humour and it was shot in the UK but its normally classed as a US production.