Films that aren't on the telly anymore

[Bigbox]

Bugsy Malone - i can't help but wonder if my kids would enjoy it

[droopsnoot]

Jukebag said:

Even very few horror films get shown, especially at Halloween. When was the last time they showed any scary film or classic Hammer Horror film like Horror of Dracula or any Frankenstein film?. Despite Halloween being a massive marketing ploy and money msker for the wasting money public and the kids, when it comes to TV there's always zilch of anything horror films.

Quite a few 70s horror films on the Horror channel from time to time, and Film4 ran a related group of more modern things around then.

The trouble I have is finding time to look through the EPG for all this stuff. I check certain channels, so there's loads I could be missing on the others.

[bristolracer]

Those magnificent men in their flying machines

Also Monte Carlo or bust (which imdb recognises by its American release name of Those daring men in their jaunty jalopies)

Both were always on at Christmas

[Halmyre]

droopsnoot said:

Jukebag said:

Even very few horror films get shown, especially at Halloween. When was the last time they showed any scary film or classic Hammer Horror film like Horror of Dracula or any Frankenstein film?. Despite Halloween being a massive marketing ploy and money msker for the wasting money public and the kids, when it comes to TV there's always zilch of anything horror films.

Quite a few 70s horror films on the Horror channel from time to time, and Film4 ran a related group of more modern things around then.

The trouble I have is finding time to look through the EPG for all this stuff. I check certain channels, so there's loads I could be missing on the others.

Scars of Dracula was on Talking Pictures last night, with Christopher Lee, a wonderfully busty Jenny Hanley and a Dennis Waterman who was so wooden you could have sharpened him and used him as a stake.

[fiju]

Bigbox said:

Bugsy Malone - i can't help but wonder if my kids would enjoy it

Even as a child I thought this was pretty gay

[markcoznottz]

Time bandits film 4 now

[droopsnoot]

theplayingmantis said:

Come to think of it National Lampoon stuff with the delightful Chevy Chase used to be always in some channel. Never see it now. Are they ticks away on Sky?

National Lampoons Vacation is on ITV4 tonight.

[williamp]

Sioence of the lambs.

Their portrayal of a transgender woman as a psycotic serial killer rather then someone who is fabulous isnt very woke these days..

[Halb]

Silence was on...probably within a year, I know I've watched it on the box with a smallish period. It's still an iconic film so isn't going to be off the radar.

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
It was on every Christmas and one of my favourites as a child. Haven't seen it on TV for many years.

[Johnnytheboy]

This topic popped in to my head earlier and I started thinking of a few, had a vague feeling I'd seen this thread.

One of my personal bugbears is seeing a film in the listings... oh, it's the crappy remake. To which end:

Ghostbusters

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Also on 50's sci-fi:

Forbidden Planet

[DodgyGeezer]

Red Sonja

Conan the Destroyer

Top Secret

[generationx]

Johnnytheboy said:

<<snip>> Ghostbusters

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Also on 50's sci-fi:

Forbidden Planet <<snip>>

I think quite a few are now so easily available that the main channels just don't bother now. For example Ghostbusters is on Netflix and has been for some time. But then again so is the remake of The Day... Forbidden Planet is a classic, I'm so glad I have it on DVD.

As an aside Frau GenX had never seen Ghostbusters so the other night we sat down with it, I even put it in German language for her.
(A) As previously discussed the performances are completely lost when played in a dubbed language
(B) She hated it and got bored after about half an hour. I was so close to packing her bags!

[RizzoTheRat]

when I was a kid they always showed one of the Christopher Reeve Superman films and Bridge on the River Kwai at Christmas, never see them these days.

generationx said:

(A) As previously discussed the performances are completely lost when played in a dubbed language

Of topic but do they change the wording a bit when dubbing it? I watched No Time To Die the other day in English but with Dutch subtitles and was surprised at how often the language was a simplified a bit in the subtitles.

[Johnnytheboy]

generationx said:

I think quite a few are now so easily available that the main channels just don't bother now. For example Ghostbusters is on Netflix and has been for some time. But then again so is the remake of The Day... Forbidden Planet is a classic, I'm so glad I have it on DVD.

That doesn't really explain why some contemporaneous films of similar success are on all the time and some aren't. e.g. the Indiana Jones films are on a lot.

I suspect the reason is down to ownership and rights, and some films being much more expensive than others.

I watch a lot of TPTV, which shows a lot of old movies with modern, often French, studio logos at the start. This and interviews with the TPTV people lead me to believe they buy old films in bulk for a fixed period, hence you often see the same one several times over a few months.

[MKnight702]

Ebo100 said:

When I was a kid I loved the old black and white films shown on bbc2 at 6pm. The Will Hay and Harold Lloyd were my favourites as well as Norman Wisdom. Never seen any of them on tv for years.

This, very much this. I enjoyed them as a child, especially the Ealing Comedies like Passport to Pimlico and Whisky Galore!, plus Will Hay and Abbott & Costello. I did try to get my children to watch a couple, my daughter did, but my son refuses point blank to watch anything in black & white.

[popeyewhite]

williamp said:

Sioence of the lambs.

Their portrayal of a transgender woman as a psycotic serial killer rather then someone who is fabulous isnt very woke these days..

Likewise Dressed to Kill with a male crossdresser (M Caine starring with the lovely Angie Dickinson) as a psycho. Shame cos it's a terrific movie.

[pquinn]

DodgyGeezer said:

Red Sonja

Conan the Destroyer

Top Secret

Conan the Destroyer has been on recently. I think on one of the ITV channels from the way it was shown more than once over a couple of weeks.

[DodgyGeezer]

popeyewhite said:

williamp said:

Sioence of the lambs.

Their portrayal of a transgender woman as a psycotic serial killer rather then someone who is fabulous isnt very woke these days..

Likewise Dressed to Kill with a male crossdresser (M Caine starring with the lovely Angie Dickinson) as a psycho. Shame cos it's a terrific movie.

So are we saying that non-CIS gendered (I believe is the correct term) can't be evil fkers?

[popeyewhite]

DodgyGeezer said:

popeyewhite said:

williamp said:

Sioence of the lambs.

Their portrayal of a transgender woman as a psycotic serial killer rather then someone who is fabulous isnt very woke these days..

Likewise Dressed to Kill with a male crossdresser (M Caine starring with the lovely Angie Dickinson) as a psycho. Shame cos it's a terrific movie.

So are we saying that non-CIS gendered (I believe is the correct term) can't be evil fkers?

I think it's probable someone would jump on the negative stereotype bandwagon, given current levels of sensitivity to such things and this thinking might have an undue influence on whether the film is broadcast...among those easily influenced.