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Your Favourite British Films Name your favourite British film or make a case for an underrated classic.


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Old 03-01-2008, 05:46 AM
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Charters and Caldicott, the bumbling friends in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, were not added just for comic relief. They were symbolic of a peculiarly British obstinacy in the face of Nazi aggression, says Matthew Sweet
My favourite Charters & Caldicott moment is in the somewhat similar Night Train to Munich (1940).

Stuck in Europe and in the face of Nazi agression you have the following delightful exchange:
Charters: I bought a copy of Mein Kampf. Occurred to me it might shed a spot of light on all this... how d'ye do. Ever read it?
Caldicott: Never had the time.
Charters: I understand they give a copy to all the bridal couples over here.
Caldicott: Oh, I don't think it's that sort of book, old man.

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I also love this film...
To be honest its very hard not to isn’t it! When I was a small child I used to look forward to the Sunday afternoons when it was most often shown so I could enjoy this lovely flowing pleasant English gem. It was not until I got older and studied the British 1920’s silent films and early 1930’s sound films of Mr Alfred Hitchcock that I discovered it was one of his films that I loved because it was a great film rather than because I new it was directed by himself.

Excellent I must get the DVD out and watch it soon indeed.
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I love the exchange where the undercover nasty protests his Englishness and therefore his innocence by saying “I went to Oxford!” . Michael Redgrave nevertheless clobbers him with a chair and when asked “why did you do that?” answers “Well, I went to Cambridge”.
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...It is also Hitchcock's guilty farewell to his homeland - the work of a man who suspected that war was coming, and had already decided to sit it out in Hollywood drinking orange juice....
I'm sure I heard somewhere that Hitchcock was actively encouraged to go to Hollywood to promote the British cause. Foreign Correspondent certainly helped bring home the reality of the 'European' war to the US.
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My favourite British film and one I enjoy more each time I see it.

And it gives me the excuse to post a picture of my favourite actress of the period: Linden Travers
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My favourite British film and one I enjoy more each time I see it.

And it gives me the excuse to post a picture of my favourite actress of the period: Linden Travers
You have impeccable taste, sir, both in films ... and in film actresses!

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You have impeccable taste, sir, both in films ... and in film actresses!

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Cheers Bats, but surely it's nothing to do with taste - just stating the obvious?
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Or the bit where they are trying to find out the Test scores and complain when the person on the end of the phone doesn't know.

"How can you be in England and not know the Test score"

(or something like that)
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The bit when they get back and it's off due to flooding
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Guardian piece on The Lady Vanishes:
Mustard and cress | By genre | Guardian Unlimited Books
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More about Charters and Caldicott, but a nice article

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Annoyingly, you can't purchase a R2 DVD of this film at the moment. I wonder why!
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Annoyingly, you can't purchase a R2 DVD of this film at the moment. I wonder why!
If you Night Train To Munich, yes you can ....

NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH RARE OOP PROMO UNCUT DVD on eBay, also, DVDs, DVD, Film TV (end time 29-Jan-08 23:50:31 GMT)

I have bought a couple of films via this seller, the quality of the prints have been pretty good.

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Ah, no. I meant TLV, but thanks. I've just received a copy of NTTM I bought off Silver Sirens - Dedicated to Joan Greenwood and Margaret Lockwood.
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You can get R2 copies of The Lady Vanishes from ebay, online retailers and in the shops. I bought a dvd from HMV last week with both TLV and The Secret Agent on it for £3. The TSA print is a bit ropey but the TLV print is excellent.

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