Is the film…… ‘The Rise and Fall of the Challinor Empire’….oops, should have been ‘Roman’…….

in the film tommy widderington was played by charlton heston, challinor by norman wisdom.

No mentions of Emannuelle?? ..and other posters who moved swifter than Bruce Lee after watching Enter the Dragon at the Odeon ??

Titfield Thunderbolt

No Mr I- me neither, zero interest
Also managed to swerve all the Harry Potter shite too

Kes - Brian Glover is superb as the sadistic PE Teacher

Kind Hearts and Coronets (Ealing comedy) Alec Guinness plays all the characters - amazing film

The Birds (Hitchcock) - absolutely terrifying - often think of that when I'm back home, when I see some of them massive gulls in Morrisons Car park- scare the shit out of me!

The Exorcist for me was scary, i was in my early 20s, you never knew what to expect after the camera panned along the corridor and the door when it opened into Regans bedroom.

12 Angry Men.

My youngest daughter was laughing at the number of black & white films in my collection and said she couldn't possibly watch a film without colour. I asked her to give 12 Angry Men just ten minutes and then she could turn it off if she wanted to. She bought the DVD the very next day.

Regarding the film "Flame" starring Slade, agree with the poster who mentioned it as to just how good it is.

The dodgy manager of the group at the start of the fillum is based on Sharon Osbourne's father Don Arden. I'm surprised the makers weren't sued, especially as the character was called Ron Harding, but maybe he saw it as a tribute.

Arthur As key the Ghost Train

I think black and white films have an atmosphere all of their own…I really enjoy them.

Me too, but we are the generation who got both so maybe that's a factor.

An interesting story about a relatively modern film being made in monochrome is the Mel Brooks film "Young Frankenstein". Apparently he was always dismayed when he viewed the "rushes" during early production as they just didn't look right.

In the end, he rounded-up as many cameramen and directors of photography from the 1930/40s as he could, and paid good money for them to come out of retirement and become part of the crew. He was satisfied only after they came on board. One of his recruits told him it was all about the studio lighting being very different for B&W productions compared to colour.

The film does look great, and also contains the funniest version of the song "Putting On The Ritz" that you will ever see - which also caused a dummy-spitting incident between him and Gene Wilder. Wilder came up with the idea, but Brooks hated it. Wilder insisted, and they didn't speak for a while because of it. Brooks has gone on record since by admitting he was wrong, and it is probably the funniest part of the film.

The Alamo

Hang 'Em High.

I've never seen Gene Hackman in a shit film, and his performance in the excellent Unforgiven was the dog's bollocks. Lex Luther in the Superman films was also a highlight of his.

Apparently a bit of a twat to work with though...

I have a recipe for roast gull….apparently you pluck the bird, clean it out, wrap it in grease proof paper after seasoning it with salt, black pepper and rosemary.
Cook in a hot oven for 25 minutes, remove and eat the grease proof paper.

Schlinder's List a great film of its type when first shown to a stunned audience a lesson of mans inhumanity that we should never forget.

Watership Down. You’ve read the book, seen the film, now eat the pie.

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Kind Hearts and Coronets (Ealing comedy) Alec Guinness plays all the characters - amazing film

pnly spoiled by not having a real ending though for me.

yes atmosphere and not relying on colour to keep the audiance happy. some films are better in colour but many are not if you watch new colourised versions of em on you tube. Getting peole to watch em is the hardest part and once you do many detractors get hooked.

Have you noticed desert scenes look really so much hotter in black and white films. Odd but true.

when lawrence of arabia came out i,m convinced they put the heat up in the palace cinema in huddersfield when they showed it. big queues in the interval for drinks if i remember right.

The Smallest Show on Earth had a desert scene in it and the cinema owners turned up the heat to generate the sale of drinks. Another excellent British film

Which is exactly why certain pubs have "free" salted peanuts on the bar every Sunday.

A bloke called William Castle was the master of gimmicks to promote his cheap B-films in the USA, and fitted an electric buzzer under seats in cinemas showing his film "The Tingler" that made the seat tingle during certain scenes.

In the cheesily brilliant "House on Haunted Hill" he rigged a wire from the back of the screen to the rear of the cinema. When a skeleton appears in a certain scene, a plastic one came flying down the wire to scare the audience even more.

Both of these B&W flicks starred Vincent Price in the early part of his career, and I would recommend "The House on Haunted Hill" over its modern remake any day of the week.

I like pretty much all the Cohen Brothers films.
French Connection
Jaws
Usual Suspects
Goodfellas
I used to love Marvel Comics as a kid but the superhero films bar the first Ironman leave me cold. Being mid 60’s probably does that I suppose.

The classic scene in ‘Ice Cold in Alex’ where the ice fresh Carlberg’s are poured out makes a tee totaller thirsty.

Summer Holiday

Went to see that when it came out with the kids from our end I was10. Queued up to get in and after the first part where they modernised the bus we got sick and walked out
Remember going to see Swiss family Robinson a bit earlier at the Odeon and everyone got a free lapel badge with their ticket…..10 minutes into the film we noticed three lads shucking along the seats demanding the badges (ie thieves)
My younger brother, a year younger than me, said little, but was a very quiet kid till roused and we could see where it was going as he was a proper ginger…..we kept our badges.
What I want to know was what they were going to do with the badges …..They’re probably great grandparents of aa extended crime family of Gumby’s.

bet raymond chandler wished he had thought that one when he was alive.

Apparently they all got rat arsed filming the scene.

Papillon .War of the Worlds Tom Cruise .I am Legend..all worth a watch..

Goodfellas

The inside man

Most things with Denzel Washington in are to be fair, but Remember The Titans is probably my favourite with him in

The Warriors--up there with low budgets.

Turned on the telly yesterday and just starting was ‘The One that Got Away’ with Hardy Kruger, don’t know why but it draws me in and when he nearly stole the Hurricane it was very disappointing when he got a revolver struck in his ear,I wanted him to get away.

Warriors. Great film, I’d forgotten about this one. Quite Shakespeare like in its plot.

Private Ryan

Ryan’s privates….a jazz film…I’m er informed

Horror at it's finest mr j..and what about them rottweiler's Gregory Peck had to fend off in The Omen?? it put me off owning a dog for life.

Planet of the Apes with Charlton Heston..top notch.

have owned 5 rotties across the years from the mid 70,s until june last year. the first one knowbidy knew what breed it was. never had a bad one although the ownership of them took a dive after the devil dog thing came out in one of the morning rags. a case at the time of the right dog in the wrong hands like other breeds have had to suffer over the years. actually mu first saved a couple of lives by sniffing out blokes who had collapsed at different times on freezing nights on his late night pee walk.

I know i'd come round quick if i had one sniffing round me if i was flat out on the floor..or is it just best to play dead? .....And the size of their heads never scared you??

No mentions of Braveheart?..all supporters of Longshanks, no doubt.

no never thought about it. a case of give a dog a bad name for me. the only breed i,m a bit wary of are japanese akita,s and thats more to do with who seem to own em round my way.

Filmed in Ireland starred an American with a phoney Scottish accent and factually inaccurate, including the blue war paint.

I never noticed,i was so engrossed in the battle scenes...each to their own,eh.

The Last Picture Show.

With a saucy Cybill Shepherd.

Charlton Heston is more wooden than the Park benches.