DOG-EARED DVDs

[Bernardo]

However well made a fim is, whatever the artistic merit, there are not too many movies that can be repeatedly watched. Ones that would be much thumbed if a book are not necessarily high in the critics esteem.

I am an avid collector of British police and detectives on screen and is my first love, BUT there are certain films that I watch repeatedly and why?

Errol Flynn's Robin Hood is one of mine, Where Eagles Dare is another and The Longest Day. Ah! I am beginning to recognise action films, but then there is Singing in the Rain.

What about your dog-eared DVD's? Title is interesting but the reason would be fascinating.

[wadsy]

I feel the same way about Flynn's Robin Hood, my all time favourite!



The Great Escape despite many viewings is another that I never tire of.



Lots more, mainly Action films, The Vikings, The Magnificent Seven etc.



The Ealing Comedies. The Will Hay films. So many.....!

[Mr Sloane]

With me its comedies and musicals Some like it hot, The Apartment. Hobson's Choice, Kind Hearts and Coronets Green for Danger( well light hearted if not comic)the Lady Vanishes Oliver! Cabaret ,Chicago Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Serious films Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and Manchurian Candidate (original)

[batman]

Hell is a City/Jigsaw/most Bond films/39 Steps/Brighton Rock/Dark Man/Pool of London etc etc

[dpgmel]

Probably too many to list but off the top of my head :



The Third Man



La Belle et la Bete



Gaslight ( Anton Walbrook version )



Dead of Night



Far From the Madding Crowd



Billy Budd



...and a relatively recent favourite of mine ( thanks to a kind forum member ) Daybreak



A Very Long Engagement

[CaptainWaggett]

If ever I turn down the opportunity to re-watch any of the following, you'll know it's time to switch the life-support machine off



The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Lady Vanishes

It's Not Cricket

Kind Hearts and Coronets

The Captive Heart

Whisky Galore

Millions Like Us

The Way Ahead

The Wizard of Oz

Night Train to Munich

A Girl Must Live

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp



PS dpgmel - aren't you confusing this thread with Most Depressing Films Ever Made ?

[Bernardo]

name='CaptainWaggett']If ever I turn down the opportunity to re-watch any of the following, you'll know it's time to switch the life-support machine off



The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Lady Vanishes

It's Not Cricket

Kind Hearts and Coronets

The Captive Heart

Whisky Galore

Millions Like Us

The Way Ahead

The Wizard of Oz

Night Train to Munich

A Girl Must Live

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp



PS dpgmel - aren't you confusing this thread with Most Depressing Films Ever Made ?

Like it!

[batman]

name='dpgmel']



...and a relatively recent favourite of mine ( thanks to a kind forum member ) Daybreak

Of course it is .... Max is in it!

[dpgmel]

name='CaptainWaggett']If ever I turn down the opportunity to re-watch any of the following, you'll know it's time to switch the life-support machine off



The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Lady Vanishes

It's Not Cricket

Kind Hearts and Coronets

The Captive Heart

Whisky Galore

Millions Like Us

The Way Ahead

The Wizard of Oz

Night Train to Munich

A Girl Must Live

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp



PS dpgmel - aren't you confusing this thread with Most Depressing Films Ever Made ?

You can tell it's a barrel of laughs round my place can't you

[Chevyman]

These are titles where I had to make an early replacement (VC to DVD)



Tinker,Tailor, Soldier Spy

Smiley's People

Titfield Thunderbolt

Brief Encounter

OH Mr Porter

Most of Alan Parker's work

Several Powell/Pressburger Titles



So far, I've not worn the DVDs out ..............I need time

[Fellwanderer]

name='CaptainWaggett']If ever I turn down the opportunity to re-watch any of the following, you'll know it's time to switch the life-support machine off



The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Lady Vanishes

It's Not Cricket

Kind Hearts and Coronets

The Captive Heart

Whisky Galore

Millions Like Us

The Way Ahead

The Wizard of Oz

Night Train to Munich

A Girl Must Live

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp



PS dpgmel - aren't you confusing this thread with Most Depressing Films Ever Made ?

I'd agree with The Good Captain regarding:



Whisky Galore

Millions Like Us

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp



and add



A Canterbury Tale

This Happy Breed



Naturally, failure to respond to the following would mean I was already beyond the help of a life support machine!



The Snow Goose

Walkabout

The Railway Children

At Dawning

[CaptainWaggett]

I'm tempted to add The Railway Children to my list but not if if it means cutting It's Not Cricket... I don't recognise At Dawning at all, Fell, except I see it has A Certain Actress in it and it's a short What's it like?

[Fellwanderer]

name='CaptainWaggett']I'm tempted to add The Railway Children to my list but not if if it means cutting It's Not Cricket... I don't recognise At Dawning at all, Fell, except I see it has A Certain Actress in it and it's a short What's it like?

It's an astonishingly good short, the best I've ever seen [not that I'm in the slightest bit biased, of course!] - the fact that A Certain Actress is on screen for about 90% of it may have helped



It's so short that saying almost anything would spoil it but in the final scene when the "escaping woman" goes home in a taxi, Jenny says not a word but her face expresses the whole gamut of emotions and I find it incredibly "arousing" - which may or may not be a euphemism!



Most of the shorts on the dvd are pretty good but none gets close to At Dawning.



At £17.99, it might be a tad expensive for most people as it is just a collection of a dozen shorts but I considered it worth every penny just for At Dawning - and I think it was £24.99 when I got my copy.

[CaptainWaggett]

Thanks Fell - sounds one for the Lovefilm list!

[gumby1987]

Casino Royale (1967)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Futtocks End

Jaws

Carry On Screaming

Duck Soup

Theatre of Blood

The Party

School For Scoundrels (1960)

The Green Man

Watership Down

The Ladykillers (1955)

Hoffman

Monty Python and the Holy Grail



Think that'll do... I think...

[Dandelion]

What A Carve Up

Bedazzled

Carry On Loving

The Love Match

Miss Robin Hood

The Ghost Train

Windbag The Sailor

[gumby1987]

name='Dandelion']What A Carve Up

Bedazzled

Carry On Loving

The Love Match

Miss Robin Hood

The Ghost Train

Windbag The Sailor

That's a fantastic list! Had forgotten Bedazzled and What A Carve Up

[RAREFILMFINDER]

All the Pirate films,El Cid,Ben Hur,King of Kings,Zulu .

Just a few of timeless films that can be watched again and again

plus many already listed.

I still watch Gladitor and Crash an saving Private Ryan and not to forget Robbery.

Only watched The Natural and the Babe again the other night.





lenny