GREAT "SUNDAY AFTERNOON "FILMS

[johnnyowen]

i found myself watching a great film on sunday afternoon "this happy breed" with robert newton..john mills and celia johnson never seen it before and it occured to me that it was a perfect sunday afternoon film ...sprawled on the settee cup of tea few biscuits....any nominations for the perfect sunday afternoon film

maybe..the card with alec guinness
hobsons choice charles laughton
harvey...jimmy stewart.

[Lisa]

Hi Johnny, Good choice of films, seen them all and they are the best. Ealing Studios did some fantastic films. Dont know why, but I love the old black and white films. How about 'The Dam Busters' or 'Gaslight' or 'Rebecca'? Some of the best films came from the British film-makers. What biscuits did you have and do you dunk your biscuits?

[Lisa]

Hey Johnny, How did your birthday go? Did you have a good day? How old were you? Go on, tell us what you did........ Did you get our greetings?.......

[joetaylor]

Hi Johnny
I Like a good western on a sunday afternoon myself, Great John Wayne fan one of my Favorites is the Searchers

[tony38337]

Hi Johnny,

For me? A Night to Remember (Thank goodness without Leonardo di Caprio) Reach for the Sky, The Great Escape, An Inspector Calls, Was Charlie Chaplins Limelight an Ealing film?. At Christmas time there is only one, Scrooge a Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim. Yes Lisa Ealing made some brilliant films, there was the Lavender Hill Mob, another one I remember seeing when I was about 13 was a film called Make Mine A Million with Sid James and Arthur Askey, they invented a washing powder that was very powerful which they called Bonko, like a teaspn would produce a roomfull of sudds. I have never seen any refrence to that film since and I thought it was a really funny film.

Tony T fresh off his bikers weekend at Skegness.

[Lisa]

Hi Tony, Totally agree with all the films you mentioned. I forgot the names of most of them but loved Reach for the Sky as well. Cant beat the old black and whites. There's something quite nostalgic about sitting on a Sunday afternoon watching a good film while its pouring down outside after having eaten a good lunch. They tend to show all the oldies now during the week in the afternoons and I usually video them to watch on a Sunday while I tackle a mound of ironing. How did the Bikers' weekend go? Was the weather good to you? I can just see you all now in your leathers revving up. My dad was a motorbike fanatic and had a Triumph 600 twin but cant remember the name of it. He later added a sidecar to it which seated two people. It had leather seats and even little side windows that you could open. I think the windows were perspex. It was in the days when you could leave it in the street and there were no locks on the sidecar, just clips to hold the top down. My parents had a caravan in Carnforth on a farm and we spent most weekends and holidays there but the best part for me was sitting on the back behind my dad as I got to wear this lovely white leather crash helmet with a peak - very trendy. We'd often drive out to the countryside and have picnics and tea brewed from a primus stove. There was something about that tea - it tasted wonderful !!

[BABS]

HI JOE T,
I SEE YOU LIKE JOHN WAYNE,HE IS MY HUSBANDS FAVOURITE AS WELL ,HE LOVES WESTERNS.
HAVE YOU SEEN THE ONE WITH JOHN WAYNE IN ,I CARNT REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS CALLED,SOMETHING LIKE LOST BOYS.
IT IS ABOUT AN OLD CATTLE MAN THAT EMPLOYS A GROUP OF YOUNG BOYS TO TAKE A HERD OF CATTLE WITH HIM ACROSS THE COUNTRY,I MUST ADMIT I REALLY ENJOYED THE FILM AS WELL,NEEDLESS TO SAY IT WAS TAPED TO PUT WITH ALL THE OTHER WESTERNS.
JOE HAS ALL THE JOHN WAYNE FILMS ,BUT MY FAVOURITE IS
THE QUIET MAN,
AND THE ALAMO.

TO JOHNNY:

I THINK A GOOD FILM TO WATCH ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON IS THE "QUIET MAN".
OR "SINGING IN THE RAIN"

BABS

[johnnyowen]

the quiet man is a great film...what about kind hearts and coronets....and any old cowboy "b" movie with maybe audie murphy in it....and what about kez what a fantastic film..i agree with tomy about basil rathbone/sherlock holmes great afternoon films

thanks liza had a good birthday ..spent it with my son who leaves for australia on friday (oh dear i'm fillin up again)

[johnnyowen]

oh by the way..do we have any film buffs ? following on from me talking about great sunday afternoon films on the radio ..a listener called about a film she saw in the 50s with her mum..it was about 2 small boys who find a baby and decide to keep it as a pet...possibly set in scotland....this call came in just as i finished this morning and i wasnt able to help....anyone know what it was called......thanks

[BABS]

HI JOHNNY

DONT REMEMBER THAT FILM,BUT SOMEBODY WILL ON THE SITE.

STILL ON FILMS I WATCHED A FILM WHEN I WAS YOUNG WITH MY MUM ON THE DON CINEMA,"THE SLIPPER AND THE ROSE"I HAVE TRIED TO GET IT EVERYWHERE CARNT FIND IT. IT WAS A BIT LIKE CINDERELLA.

ANOTHER GOOD FILM IS "WILLOW" AND "THE THREE FUGITIVES"


BABS

[Lisa]

Hi Johnny, The film sounds familiar. I bet Tony will know which one it was or any of our knowledgeable folk on MM. Watch this space. Did anyone ever see a film called Mundo Cane (Its a Dogs Life)? It was a B film at a cinema (I cant remember the A film as Mundo Cane impressed me so much). It was a tour through many countries and it involved animals: turtles 'trying' to return to the sea, people eating insects in a Parissian restaurant and some cruel things too, but it was a fantastic film and I've never met anyone who ever saw it. Did I dream it?

[johnnyowen]

thanks...always fancied myself as a bit of a film buff but stuck on this one...and no idea about yours lisa sorry

[BABS]

HI JOHNNY, will be thinking of you tomorrow.

The film "kes" I got it on dvd the other week for my husband,I get a lot of the dvds off Play.com.when they are on offer cheap.

Another good Sunday film I think would be,

"A CRY IN THE WILDERNESS" WITH GEORGE KENNEDY IN IT.
Its about a man who lives with his young son ,and is bitten by a rabid animal.


babs

[roofingman]

Hi folks....Lisa you mentioned Mundo Cane but I think it had a great theme tune too which hit the charts at the time.......My favorites are....Punch and Judy man (Tony Hanc*ck)..Only 2 can play(Peter Sellars)..Sat Night and Sun morning (Albert Finney).......Billy Liar(Tom Courtenay)....10 Rillington Place (David Atenborough).....A Taste of Honey (Rita Tushingham)..Room at the Top/Man at the top (Lawrence Harvey)....Hell is a city (manchester)..Stanley baker.....Seance on a wet afternoon (Richard Attenborough)....Of Human Bondage (Lawrence Harvey--Kim Novak)....This Sporting Life (Richard Harris)..A kind of Loving (Alan Bates)..,,,,all the Best...Ian..Vancouver..(ex Longsight Lad)....

[Lisa]

Hi Ian, Thanks for reminding me about the theme tune. I wasnt dreaming it then? It did have a lovely theme tune, was it Johnny Mathis? All the films you mention have been shown here recently on afternoon tv and they are all great. I forgot about Of Human Bondage with Kim Novak as a prostitute, am I correct? That was a great film. How about Hayley Mills' films and the one filmed in Lancashire. All black and white greats. 10 Rillington Place still has the abilty to shock me, it still unnerves me and Richard Attenborough was brilliant in it. Thanks for those lovely memories, Longsight Lad.

[roofingman]

Hi Lisa...I think the English version of the song was..called "More""....loads of singers recorded it...I could even sing it but after a few pints at a pub where nobody knows me..haha..Hayley Mills..??...You are thinking of Whistle down the wind...Right..?? Of human Bondage was written by Somerset Maugham and altho he wrote fiction was actually based on True life.......I love the Movie...as I love all of them......My son Paul who lives in Oklahoma recites whole passages from Billy Liar complete with Lancs accent (born in USA) and his friends think he is crazy except his adoring wife who laughs and laughs.....Last week I went to Reno and travelled across Northern California down to Nevada..I know that Kim Novak is about 80 and I must have passed her ranch and the area she lives (in seclusion)...and I laways think of her brilliant performance and great c*ckney accent she acquired for the movie..I always pass thru a town in Nth California.called Klamath Falls..Its a lovely town..I read David Nivens book called "Bring on the Empty Horses (bestseller).and he mentions Klamath because it was the site of many of Errol Flynns pictures..(1939 era)..He also mentions That Robert Donat (a Manchester lad) was the most handsome of all the movie stars in Hollywood at that time......Ian...Vancouver...(Longsight lad ).....

[marie fernandes]

:)Hi Ian, you have got us all thinking now about that old film.
I suspect you were like most of us "going to the flicks" every week. I used to go about 3 times a week. Essoldo near Belle Vue, Grand and Regal and the Palace (Farmside) Levenshulme, Corona and Savoy West Gorton, Cosmo in Clowes Street, etc.etc.
Did you get the Picturegoer every week like me and I used to get Film Albums from most of my aunties at Christmas. Lovely memories.

The film about the baby and two little children I remember well but up to now cant remember title. I always remembered the wee little boy with the strong accent who is treating the little baby like it was a pet, he says its a BABEE. Am I right in thinking Finlay Currie was in the film.?

marie

[marie fernandes]

Just been on Google to see if I could find the film among Finlay Curries. None of the titles rang a bell, but had a shock to see that this great actor, who I always remember in the D I C K E N S based films, made around 130 films and died in l968 in Buckinghamsire UK. I am still looking for info on the film with the baby.

marie

[marie fernandes]

:)Sorry Ian, it was Johnny who has got me intrigued about the film with the abandoned baby in it, based in Scotland. I am getting my Ps and Qs mixed up.

There is one film I want to buy if possible with James Stewart in which I remember when it first came out and all my grown up children have seen it with their children. I think its called, but not sure, "Its a wonderful world", they apparently have repeated it a few times on TV, but unfortunately I have missed it every time.
I will have to see if I can buy it maybe from HMV.

marie.

[wynwilliams]

marie, funny you should mention the film "Its a Wonderful World' my daughter was watching tv, a couple of days ago and it was about the best movies ever made and that movie was voted the best of all time, she kept saying you should know the actor in it, l did,nt ,but looked it up on the internet, it was JIMMY STEWART

[tony38337]

Lisa? I fail on this one, I seem to think It's a Dogs Life sounds familiar but not much more. The Hayley Mills film shot in Lancashire was "Whistle Down The Wind" I saw it in Blackpool with my cousin Bill in 1961

Tony T.

[johnnyowen]

eventually got to the bottom of the film about the two small boys and the baby it was called the kidnappers...no idea who was in it

[Alan]

Hi Johnny,

What about "The Family Way" with John and Hayley Mills. Not a great film but it was about the Northwest.

Alan

[johnnyowen]

let me give you another one !!! spring and port wine "you'll not leave this table till youve eaten that 'addock "

[joetaylor]

Hi Johnny
Just watched a great film this afternoon
Man Utd 2 Liverpool 0. LOL ;D

[johnnyowen]

FANTASTIC JOE....ITS THE PERFECT SUNDAY.....A COUPLE OF BEERS CORNED BEEF BUTTY AND UTD BEATING THE SCOUSERS

[joetaylor]

Yeah, bet Babs is not to pleased, after City's result at Wigan
but we wont say anything.

[Lisa]

Hi Johnny, Spring and Port Wine was recently on the tv in the afternoon and I just had to watch it AGAIN for about the 20th time !!! James Mason once tipped his hat to me in Mayfair in the 1960's while I was temping behind Park Lane. I smiled at him and it wasnt until I'd passed him that I remembered who he was. I didnt expect to see him in London of all places, but I often 'bumped into' well-known people on my travels all over Central London. It seemed to be a magnet in the 1960's for film stars. When my mum and dad used to visit me they could never get over how many well-known people lived in London. At the end of each day my mum used to ask me to remind her who we'd seen that day so she could tell all her friends when she got back to Manchester.

[marie fernandes]

:)hI Lisa, Shanthi my daughter who lives now in Switzerland used to live and work in Barnes. When I went to visit her which was quite often I used to see lots of famous people and like your Mum went home excited telling the tale. But my daughter was blase about it all, as she had famous people living all around her.
On one visit we went to Hampstead and this couple passed us.He looked unkempt but had expensive bike leathers on carrying a helmet. The girl had very bleached hair and lots of makeup. I said "Oh look at him what does he look like
My daughter piped up its that Bob Geldoff and Paula Yates. I think he looks a LITTLE BIT BETTER now he has got older, but not much.

marie ;D

[joetaylor]

Hi Tommy
Its gteat to support a team like United, must have been about 8 or 9 the first time i went to Old Trafford, shame i can't get there now, got to much on these days.
Joe