Favorite Films (lists up to participating site members)

[Mayerling]

Hello Jeff, Robert. Entirely agree about Will Hay. Seen this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b6TdwpUpXk

Cheers.
LC

Thanks Lynn, I'll take a look at Windbag later.

Hay was an interesting man in his own right - he was a distinguished amateur astronomer.

Jeff

[Mayerling]

Since I mentioned my growing liking for Mr. Hay and his crew, I have to also admit a growing liking for George Formby. But I have to see more of his films.

Formby, as you can expect, is in the "Ukulele Hall of Fame".

Jeff

[Robert]

Hi Jeff and Lynn

I do prefer Hay to Formby, though the latter isn't bad.

Formby made many films, and I heard that each of them featured a different actress as the romantic interest. This was because Formby's wife was determined that no attachments should develop. Fairly soon after she died he remarried, but died himself soon after.

He did of course play the uke, but the banjo-like instrument he played was apparently not a banjo but a banjolele.

[Mayerling]

Films set in Scotland in whole or part:

Macbeth (1949)
Macbeth (1969)
Mary of Scotland
Mary, Queen of Scots
The Ghost Goes West
Bonnie Prince Charlie
The Master of Ballentrae (1953)
Kidnapped (1935)
Kidnapped (1962)
Rob Roy
Mania
The Doctor and the Devils
The Greed of William Hart
The Body Snatcher
Greyfriars Bobby (1960)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1960)
Hatter's Castle
On Approval
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
I Know Where I'm Going
Terror By Night
Whiskey Galore / Tight Little Island
The Bridal Path
The Battle of the Sexes (1960 - Peter Sellers)
The Maggie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Jeff

[GUT]

Films set in Scotland in whole or part:

Macbeth (1949)
Macbeth (1969)
Mary of Scotland
Mary, Queen of Scots
The Ghost Goes West
Bonnie Prince Charlie
The Master of Ballentrae (1953)
Kidnapped (1935)
Kidnapped (1962)
Rob Roy
Mania
The Doctor and the Devils
The Greed of William Hart
The Body Snatcher
Greyfriars Bobby (1960)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1960)
Hatter's Castle
On Approval
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
I Know Where I'm Going
Terror By Night
Whiskey Galore / Tight Little Island
The Bridal Path
The Battle of the Sexes (1960 - Peter Sellers)
The Maggie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Jeff

G'day Jeff

What about Braveheart.

[Robert]

The Ghost of St Michael's (Hay)
Geordie
Ring of Bright Water (both Bill Travers)
The 39 Steps (especially the version with Robert Powell)

[lynn cates]

Dark Star

Hello All. I say, one of my favourite surreal comedies is absent. That would be John Carpenter's 1974 "Dark Star."

Anyone seen this cult classic?

Cheers.
LC

[Robert]

Hi Lynn

Yes and no. I went to the cinema but the screen never lit up. I came away thinking that it was truly dark.

[lynn cates]

must see

Hello Robert. Thanks.

Hmm, you MUST see this one. Quite humourous.

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

link

Hello (again) Robert. May have found a slightly edited version here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9-QlxDfuWw

Given your taste for cartesian philosophy, you'll appreciate the conclusion which relies on the cogito and observations about the external material world.

Cheers.
LC

[Joshua Rogan]

Dark Star was probably my favourite film for part of my childhood. Mostly due to the sentient bomb, and the orange alien life form.
Written by Dan O'Bannon, of course, who later wrote a slightly different version of an alien, in "Alien".

[Robert]

OK Lynn, I'll try to watch it when I can.

BTW, there was an extremely short Yiddish version of Cartesianism. Its sole proposition was 'Cogito ergo schtum' and the philosophy wasn't developed further.

[Mayerling]

G'day Jeff

What about Braveheart.

G'Day GUT,

You are right - I'm afraid I did forget Braveheart (so far the only film about Wallace and Robert the Bruce I know of). I also left off Laurel & Hardy's "Bonnie Scotland", which for the first half hour is in a Hollywood style Scotland, but spends the bulk of the film in India for odd plot reasons.

There was also a silent film called "Annie Laurie" which I believe starred Lillian Gish, but I can't fully recall it.

I did include several films connected to the West Port Murders of Burke and Hare (one, "The Greed of William Hart" starred Tod Slaughter, but for some reason the last name of Burke was changed). I forgot to include "Madeleine", a David Lean film that starred his then wife Ann Todd as Madeleine Smith.

Jeff

[Mayerling]

The Ghost of St Michael's (Hay)
Geordie
Ring of Bright Water (both Bill Travers)
The 39 Steps (especially the version with Robert Powell)

I never saw the Hay comedy and "Ring of Bright Water". I did forget The 39 Steps, but I just am familiar with the Donat/Hitchcock version.

Jeff

[Robert]

Hi Jeff

Another two : Tunes of Glory (John Mills and Alec Guinness)
The Wicker Man (Christopher Lee)