"Gorblimey, ain't you a sight for sore eyes and no mistake!"
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
"Don't mind if I do, guv'nor!"
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:27 (ten years ago) link
alec guinness
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:27 (ten years ago) link
"Well, I'll be!"
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:28 (ten years ago) link
"Blasted poor show what"
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:29 (ten years ago) link
rubble
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:29 (ten years ago) link
Donald Pleasance
Michael Horden
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
"I say! That man!"
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:31 (ten years ago) link
Lots of tweed
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:32 (ten years ago) link
And trilbys.
Incredibly oblique flirting.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:33 (ten years ago) link
"Terribly"
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:34 (ten years ago) link
People talking twice as fast as they did in real life
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:35 (ten years ago) link
"Lower Middleswallop, you say? Well you'll be wanting the 3.30 from platform 3 but better hurries along now, young sir, it'll be leaving in *pulls out fob watch* five minutes *winks*."
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:37 (ten years ago) link
"Planes going down sir! Five minutes we'll be in the drink""Hmmm, that rather puts a damper on things"
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:37 (ten years ago) link
"Charles and I went to the Savoy, had a frightfully gay time!"
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:39 (ten years ago) link
re: "Gorblimey, ain't you a sight for sore eyes and no mistake!"
Tony Hancock has a great variant on this in The Rebel - "Look what just got back from Ascot!"
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link
Derogatory terms for Germans.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:42 (ten years ago) link
regional accents that have died out since the advent of television
― but olives are valuable too (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:43 (ten years ago) link
bolshy Trade Unionists
― but olives are valuable too (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link
― but olives are valuable too (Noodle Vague)
Yeah, Southern working class accents in 40s/50s films are very odd, they almost sound Australian.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link
"What happened to Smudger?""He bought it, poor chap, Jerry came up on his tail, caught him unawares, old Smudger hadn't a hope." "Bally Jerry."
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:45 (ten years ago) link
bar bolshy Trade Unionists, total absence of class conflict
― but olives are valuable too (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:45 (ten years ago) link
oblique sexual tension
An almost complete lack of anything resembling profound emotion
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:46 (ten years ago) link
future cast member of 70s TV sitcom
― but olives are valuable too (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:47 (ten years ago) link
some of you shd be forced to sit down and watch some British movies btw
obv there's no profound emotion in Hitchcock, Powell and Pressburger, Lean etc etc
― but olives are valuable too (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link
Believe me I've watched enough of the fuckers to know how bad they were
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:50 (ten years ago) link
michael ripper as bavarian inkeeper
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:51 (ten years ago) link
Barracks containing cheeky Cockney, plucky Northener, dour Scotsman, comical Welshman, slow-witted West Country type etc
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
Male actor playing the part of an older woman.
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:53 (ten years ago) link
One extremely cocky American character.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:54 (ten years ago) link
John Mills, aged 32, playing a teenager
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link
Cranky landlady with shawl and slippers: "'Oo do you think you are creepin' araand the flat at two o'clock in the morning? Some of us 'ave gotta work in the morning'Man: (Unintelligible)Landlady: 'Will you take a look at yourself! Drinking and cavorting up til all hours of the night and still no rent for the last three weeks. I want you out of 'ere by morning'Man: (Falls gently down stairs)
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:57 (ten years ago) link
Inept, flustered and finger-wagging figures of authority.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:57 (ten years ago) link
old woman b&b owner type character
― Ste, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
Prissy curate forever clutching a bible
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
A guy in my year at school, age 15, looked like John Mills, aged 32, playing a teenager.
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 13:59 (ten years ago) link
newspaper or wireless prop intoducing key plot point
― Ste, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:00 (ten years ago) link
overly loud introductory orchestral music
Police cars with a friggin' bell instead of a siren
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link
ending credits screen somehow too large to fit into the tv screen
― Ste, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link
(might have imagined that one)
Abrupt jump between last scene and end credits.
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:02 (ten years ago) link
Shitty colourised version of b&w movie shown on TV on rainy Saturday afternoon.
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
bar bolshy Trade Unionists
Good description of approx 28% of my friends
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
strangely unfinished ending
― Ste, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link
Inept, flustered and finger-wagging figures of authority.― Matt DC, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 1:57 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Matt DC, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 1:57 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
...said the ilx mod
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link
^ On point
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link
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
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
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 turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link
"I'll be going Dalston bruv"
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 13 June 2013 00:16 (ten years ago) link
Complete absence of anybody with disabilities, unless they were blind, handsome and part of some half-cocked plot device.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 13 June 2013 00:37 (ten years ago) link
I am sorry that is not exclusively British. I will shut up and go to bed.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 13 June 2013 00:41 (ten years ago) link
Window cleaners spying on schoolgirls
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Thursday, 13 June 2013 08:16 (ten years ago) link
James Robertson Justice
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Thursday, 13 June 2013 08:59 (ten years ago) link
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!"
― If you tolerate Bis, then Kenickie will be next (ithappens), Thursday, 13 June 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link
Guineas and A4 sized banknotes
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 June 2013 07:56 (ten years ago) link
Supercilious civil servants/ foreign office types - played by e.g. Richard Wattis or Colin Gordon.
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 June 2013 08:23 (ten years ago) link
A lot of harrumphing... by Cecil Parker et al
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 June 2013 11:09 (ten years ago) link
urchins
― Oh maintenance (doo dah), Saturday, 15 June 2013 13:23 (ten years ago) link
A still image later found on a Smiths release.
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 15 June 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
^ 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
― pink, fleshy, and gleeful (sic), Sunday, 16 June 2013 00:29 (ten years ago) link
"Why how perfectly beastly of them, darling."
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 13:08 (six years ago) link
"Perishing cold, it is".
― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 July 2018 12:53 (five years ago) link
Future cast members of the Carry On franchise turning up in peripheral roles
― remind me not to read the comments on that one (Matt #2), Monday, 17 May 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
Empty London streets save for a lorry with Smith & Sons Lincoln 347 written on side.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 17 May 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
Backfiring Morris Minors or Ford Anglia/Cortinas.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 May 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
Awkwardly shoehorned-in appearances by Trad Jazz combos and/or beat groups.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 May 2021 21:38 (two years ago) link
Mona Washbourne
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 May 2021 21:42 (two years ago) link
"It's queer I tell you, downright queer, the goings on up at the old manor."
There were a lot of 'queers' in the Ralph Richardson film that was on today.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 17 May 2021 21:48 (two years ago) link
Music Composed by WILLIAM ALWYNPlayed by THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by MUIR MATHIESON
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 November 2023 17:30 (six months ago) link
"'En it marvellous?"
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 1 March 2024 23:21 (two months ago) link
Bucolic countryside with a vicar cycling down a country lane.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 2 March 2024 00:13 (two months ago) link
Terry-Thomas
― henry s, Saturday, 2 March 2024 01:11 (two months ago) link
Xp Also "bleedin' marvellous innit"
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 2 March 2024 02:28 (two months ago) link
"Hard cheese old man"
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Saturday, 2 March 2024 09:11 (two months ago) link
“Coming soon on Talking Pictures TV…”
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 2 March 2024 10:36 (two months ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Maddern#Partial_filmography
I was reading this list of roles played by Victor Maddern and more or less every one is distinctly 'old British movie', eitherf just job titles like 'British N.C.O.', 'First Tram Conductor', 'Shop Steward', or people named stuff like 'Joe Biggs'. My choice for the two most evocative of old British movies - 'Grouchy Soldier Clearing Rocks' and 'Sailor fishing for bike'
― soref, Saturday, 2 March 2024 12:22 (two months ago) link
Always looked about 55, even in his 20s.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 March 2024 12:27 (two months ago) link
but simultaneously always looked somehow boyish even when he was in his 50s
https://downstairslounge.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/maddern.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 2 March 2024 12:35 (two months ago) link
https://scontent.fman4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/89861621_3014621605258794_3114549483778605056_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=dd63ad&_nc_ohc=BLwOCc7loD8AX_U9Av8&_nc_ht=scontent.fman4-1.fna&oh=00_AfDIwkgeQzo4JVJmA4_BxnSnacF7Kcky6EyhlIfJWnPWrA&oe=660AA620
I feel like you don't get guys with faces like this anymore
always handy to be good friends with a pianist
― Morris O’Shea Salazar (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 2 March 2024 12:37 (two months ago) link
Xp D&B bloke DJ Voltage would look like that without the beard imo
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Saturday, 2 March 2024 12:42 (two months ago) link
Groups of grubby kids playing on crater scarred wasteland and bombed out buildings.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 2 March 2024 13:39 (two months ago) link
xps improved childhood treatment of adenoids?
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 2 March 2024 13:42 (two months ago) link
https://focus.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/thumbor/HIHF1zTTvVO1uTRXgnqbB67Q0Lw=/0x0:1500x828/1280x853/prod-mh-ireland/c00903c8-951d-11ed-91ed-0210609a3fe2.JPG
Sam Kydd
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 2 March 2024 14:07 (two months ago) link
Drawing rooms
― airport convention (Matt #2), Saturday, 2 March 2024 14:17 (two months ago) link
Cigarettes in a cigarette case
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 2 March 2024 14:25 (two months ago) link
This sound perfectly heard from inside a house
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtkXC6R20vY
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 2 March 2024 14:30 (two months ago) link
Including my mother, who was an extra in The Blue Lamp. She was supposed to have the only line ("ere, look what Queenie's found!"), but because she turned out to be a) too quiet and b) too posh, they gave it to one of her classmates instead.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 2 March 2024 14:37 (two months ago) link
I watched The Uncle on Talking Pictures TV the other day and it reminded me of something I associate with old British movies which is a particular way that adults talk to children, this mixture of kindly, amused and ironic. I feel like you don't see adults talk to kids this way often in modern movies or tv (or possibly real life? idk, I don't encounter children very often these days) - there seem to be fewer conversations between adults and children in movies generally (maybe there are fewer child actors these days, or at least more restrictions involved in using them?), but when they do appear the adults are more likely to be either trying to address the kid 'on their level', or in a polite but disinterested way, either way it lacks this slightly elliptical, mocking quality. I feel like I remember from my own childhood that adults would talk to you in this way that you see in old movies, this sense that they were all in on some private joke that seemed obscure to you?
― soref, Saturday, 2 March 2024 17:56 (two months ago) link
Now picturing various scenes in Great Expectations.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2024 18:05 (two months ago) link
(xp) Good one
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 March 2024 18:59 (two months ago) link
“run along now”
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 3 March 2024 01:37 (two months ago) link
🖼I feel like you don't get guys with faces like this anymore
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 3 March 2024 01:44 (two months ago) link
a chance encounter with a stranger in the compartment of a corridor coach train
― felicity, Thursday, 9 May 2024 22:26 (four days ago) link
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"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 May 2024 22:56 (four days ago) link
In a similar style: Angry, slightly crazy landlady reprimanding the lead character for coming in after midnight
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Thursday, 9 May 2024 23:58 (four days ago) link