what would you recommend...

[MB]

I can remember watching The Marx brothers as a child and enjoying it too.



So too, Harold Lloyd and a bit of Charlie chaplin, Laurel and Hardy (especially funny I always thought) etc.



I think it is admirable that you are trying to broaden her taste and introduce her to something other than the usual.

Of course, these days they can just watch 'kids' programmes all the time and I'm sure they are missing out slightly on seeing hints of the adult world.



I did persuade my two to watch 'Tarka the otter' and 'Swallows and Amazons'.

[David Challinor]

Thanks for all the recommendations...this morning Lucy saw her first Hitchcock... The Birds `(1963) courtesy of BT Vision. Now, for anyone who thinks she's too young for this '12' you don't know her...we spent some of the afternoon making paper-planes and colouring them in as blackbirds etc, Lucy doing all the noises. Of course, when viewing the film, she got slightly restless during the scenes in which the main characters are firmly established, falling in love etc. as I did when I first saw it (when I was 8 or 9) but the attack scenes really delivered, and it was better than I remembered it. What attracted her was seeing a trailer where Tippi Hedren waits for Cathy at the school prior to the kids being attacked.

She liked the film, and could enjoy a version of the Day of the Triffids next. World-in-peril stuff (halfway thru she said "its a bit like War of the Worlds" which she's familiar with in comic-book form).I enjoyed it more than I thought I would – I haven't seen it in years – BUT it still ranks alongside The Italian Job as one of the most disappointingly inconclusive endings in mainstream cinema.

[penfold]

As she has the attention span for features, then Chaplin's The Kid is a terrific film, with a co-star her age....most Chaplin shorts have fairly adult themes - most would go over her head , probably - drugs in Easy Street, alcoholism in The Cure, and so on - but they might lead to awkward questions you might not expect; but The Kid....genuinely funny, genuinely dramatic, genuinely moving. My godson saw it when he was seven, and asks for more silents every birthday....the Brownlow documentaries this time. He was 12 last week....

[Steve Crook]

I don't see any mention of The Thief of Bagdad yet, the 1940 Technicolor version with Sabu as the hero and Conrad Veidt as the villain. I showed it to my nieces (8 & 10) recently and they loved it



Steve

[Sleepin_Dragon]

Norman Wisdom films, 3 and 5 year olds here adore them, and so do i!!

[Gypsy]

My 7 year old niece watched "School for Scoundrels" with me a couple of weeks ago and adored it, especially Terry-Thomas/Raymond Delauney. "Hard cheese" has now entered her vocabulary and is used at every opportunity

[The_Gronk]

The Man Who Fell to Earth. I watched it for the first time in ages the other night and I'd forgotten how unusual it is.



Watch the original quick as apparently it's being remade.

[Marky B]

name='Wicked Lady']To Kill a Mockingbird



I saw it as a little girl and it had a HUGE impact on me.



I'm still looking for a man like Atticus Finch..........*sigh*

My favourite book.

Ta Ta

Marky B

[bhowells]

Dont think you can go wrong with Mary Poppins, also agree with Ring Of Bright Water I thorughly enjoyed as a child. The live action verion of 101 Dalmations with Glenn Close isnt too bad either.

[Captain Casper]

"Those Magnificent Men.." A great film and one I loved from an early age.

[Bernardo]

Have the silent films and early talkie two reelers now had their day? That's what entertained me in the early years. Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Keystone Cops, I don't really need to list them in this forum do I?

[torinfan]

The original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Annie (1980), Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jack the Giant Killer.

[batman]

Prancer with Sam Elliott

[Lord Lionheart]

The Wizard of Oz

The Red balloon ( very visual and mostly silent, even if it is French)

The singing ringing tree

The Selfish giant was another good one at this time of year

Doctor Who and the Daleks movie with Peter Cushing

A christmas Carol. There was an animated version that used to be shown in the UK every Christmas

Raymond Briggs' The snowman

[EHV_Emmetts]

My great-nephew really enjoys Shaun The Sheep. My niece has bought him many of the episodes on DVD - and more for Christmas.

[penfold]

name='Lord Lionheart']

A christmas Carol. There was an animated version that used to be shown in the UK every Christmas

If you mean Richard Williams' Oscar Winner, it's available on youtube (and seemingly nowhere else. Magnificent, but scary - especially Marley's Ghost. I wouldn't recommend The Singing Ringing Tree. That scarred a whole generation....



[ame=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-hA5T1G7rxg&feature=related]YouTube - A Christmas Carol part 1[/ame]