In every old British movie ever

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

carry on up the how dare you steady on old chap oooh errr

"Wot's all this then?"

Bucolic areas of countryside that have now been built over with generic housing estates.

Sculleries

Deferential working class characters never having the balls to say "Outside now, you middle class cunt!" and seemingly happy to constantly defer with a shrug and a huff.

Shortly before going over the top/attempting escape from POW camp/boarding plane for suicide mission: "See you for cocktails in Piccadilly Circus"

Deferential working class characters never having the balls to say "Outside now, you middle class cunt!" and seemingly happy to constantly defer with a shrug and a huff.

Pretty true to life tho tbf, then and now

Shortly before going over the top/attempting escape from POW camp/boarding plane for suicide mission: "See you for cocktails in Piccadilly Circus"

Ha yeah, and the others are all like what a rube piccadilly circus is this motherfucker a spanish student now or

"I'll be going Dalston bruv"

Complete absence of anybody with disabilities, unless they were blind, handsome and part of some half-cocked plot device.

I am sorry that is not exclusively British. I will shut up and go to bed.

Window cleaners spying on schoolgirls

James Robertson Justice

Gang of boys in shorts playing with a stick - or something equally joyless - on the street, then stopping to pause suspiciously as a smartly dressed stranger approaches them.
"I say boys, could you tell me where I might find Mrs Brown's Boarding House."
(Silence)
"There's a farthing for the likely lad who can tell me!"

Guineas and A4 sized banknotes

Supercilious civil servants/ foreign office types - played by e.g. Richard Wattis or Colin Gordon.

A lot of harrumphing... by Cecil Parker et al

urchins

A still image later found on a Smiths release.

^ nice one

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?)

saw the BFI print of Never Let Go (1960) at SFF yesterday - they pulled the curtains across to close off the frame, but imdb says 1.66:1 -- however the closing titles have a big thick margin on either side. /toomuchtimeonilx

"Why how perfectly beastly of them, darling."

"Perishing cold, it is".