Classic old films

[stephec]

The Vikings

Clash of the Titans

The Guns of Naverone

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Enjoying this thread. Watched Hell Drivers tonight, quite good.

Incidentally, Colour Sergeant Frank Bourne (the handsome chap in Ron da Valli's avatar) was only 5'4" and the youngest colour sergeant in the British Army. At the time of Rorkes Drift he was 24 and had only been in the army for 6 years.

 

[swee'pea99]

True Grit.

Also True Grit.

 

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Zulu fans should have a look at Breaker Morant, a film set in the Boer War. An extremely good and understated film about Empire. Seek it out.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Wages of Fear, or Sorcerer, the 70's Hollywood re-make.
Two of the tautest films I have ever seen.
Midnight Express, about Turkish prisons and an American incarcerated there for drug possession.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Barbarella.

 

[GM]

Another vote for Midnight Express. Also Don't look now, and Serpico.

 

[MichaelW2]

Wages of Fear.

eeek nail-biting stuff.

 

[Gravity Aided]

And so ironic, at the end. More twists than a mountain road.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Talking of Kurosawa... this is a nice side-by-side juxtaposition of scenes from Yojimbo, with Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, which was inspired by Kurosawa's film.

 

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The Big Sleep.
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Edit: She's Dorothy Malone and she's still alive. Just wonderful.