In every old British movie ever

strangely unfinished ending

Inept, flustered and finger-wagging figures of authority.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 1:57 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...said the ilx mod

Police cars with a friggin' bell instead of a siren

^ On point

ding ding ding, you mean

Fire engine with one of those ladders with the big wheels on the back.

community 'spirit'

Impossible to have sex without resulting in pregnancy.

The word 'off' rhyming with 'wharf'

'Hallo, Madia Vale 231 please'

Paterfamilias (damping down tobacco in pipe): "Now look here, young John, you're 21 now, it's time for you to settle down and start thinking about your career. I mean are you serious about this Rosemary gel?"
John (also damping down tobacco in pipe): "I'm most frightfully fond of her, Papa."
Paterfamilias: "Well there's only one thing to be done, I'll put the wedding announcement in Times tomorrow."

'get me the ministry!'

Tea

Aside from Gracie Fields, absolutely no working class actresses under the age of 40

"I ain't never seen the likes!"

Aristocrat prefacing a vague threat with, "I want to make myself quite clear..."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/jan/02/features.features11

http://www.britishpictures.com/articles/quota.htm

old men in rustic wool sweaters

Oliver Reed

The concept of an afterlife that is entirely administrated and populated with white folks.

Sorry. By white folks.

The concept of an afterlife that is entirely administrated and populated by white folks.

Probably a bit more otm!

I love the way in A Matter of Life and Death that there are British and Americans that seem to be spending eternity bogged down with bitchiness and mutual xenophobia.

68 year old police constables

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Peasants with poor teeth

Bicycle related humour.

this is my new favorite thread

"It's queer I tell you, downright queer, the goings on up at the old manor."

ending credits screen somehow too large to fit into the tv screen

this applies to almost all films made after 1953, whether from the UK or elsewhere, and also to the opening credits, and the rest of the film

(actually I think Academy ratio was far more prevalent in the UK than the US for a decade or so afterwards?)

Just get a bigger TV.

Francis L Sullivan's jowls

villagers only nominally christian

a certain low, country cunning

straight men calling each other "dear"

closeup of rita tushingham staring into space with her huge eyes

Women named Rosemary, Beryl, Shirley, Lesley, Vivian

Men named Beverly, Wilberforce, Ian, Leslie, Vivian

"'ere, let's all go down to the local 'n sort this out!"

xp I love that in A Hard Day's Night, the TV executive's assistant is a man named "Adrian."

I know a guy named Adrian.

..............?

http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/351/943/351943054_640.jpg

Wrought-iron fences

Fox hunting, both for sport and keeping 'em out me 'en'ouses.

Central and West London only

Establishing shot of a dock along the Thames w/horse-drawn wagon noise in the background and a foghorn.

fog

In panoramic scenes, lots of factories, mills and old school power stations that are currently 'urban living spaces' in the background.

Jack 'awkins lighting his pipe and saying "mmmm, yes...."

I can't believe no one has put "steady on old chap" or "how dare you" or "good show" or "spiffing" etc...

double-decker buses

a chance encounter with a stranger in the compartment of a corridor coach train

housekeeper shaking her head and tut-tutting: "If I may be so bold, sire.. nothing good can come of this, mind you... nothing good at all"

In a similar style: Angry, slightly crazy landlady reprimanding the lead character for coming in after midnight