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You can never have too much of Blazing Saddles, 1974..... directed by Mel Brooks and starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder.

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Blackadder the 2nd. 1986. Some more comedy to cheer me...







F: Your mother is alive and well and living in Droitwich. It is not her
I brood over. I’m sad because, my darling, our poverty has now
reached such extremes that I can no longer afford to keep us. I must
look to my own dear tiny darling to sustain me in my frail dotage.

K: But father, surely…

F: Yes Kate, I want you to become a prostitute.

K: Father!

F: Do you defy me?

K: But indeed, I do. For it is better to die poor than to live in shame
and ignominy.

F: No, it isn’t.

K: I’m young and strong and clever. My nose is pretty. I shall find
another way to earn us a living.

F: Oh, please… go on the game. It is a steady job and you’d be
working from home.

[Alex_UK]

Well, Bob...

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Ghosts of Berkley Square, 1949 I think. In fact 47.

Great stuff for its time

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My Favorite Brunette, 1947. romantic comedy film and film noir parody, directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour.

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Antz, 1998. the voices of Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez, Sylvester Stallone, Christopher Walken, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Danny Glover and Gene Hackman.






Antz premiered on September 19, 1998, at the Toronto International Film Festival,[11] and was released theatrically in the United States on October 2, 1998, by DreamWorks Pictures. It grossed $171.8 million worldwide on a budget of $42–105 million. The film received positive reviews, with critics praising the voice cast, animation, humor, and its appeal towards adults.

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Blow Out, 1981. neo-noir psychological political mystery crime thriller film written and directed by Brian De Palma.[3] The film stars John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow and Dennis Franz.







Roger Ebert's four-star review in the Chicago Sun-Times noted that Blow Out "is inhabited by a real cinematic intelligence. The audience isn't condescended to...we share the excitement of figuring out how things develop and unfold, when so often the movies only need us as passive witnesses." Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 85% based on 52 reviews, with an average grade of 7.7/10, with the critical consensus reading "With a story inspired by Antonioni's Blowup and a style informed by the high-gloss suspense of Hitchcock, De Palma's Blow Out is raw, politically informed, and littered with film references".

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49th Parallel, 1941. This was the third film made by the British filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It was released in the United States as The Invaders.






Screenwriter Emeric Pressburger remarked, "Goebbels considered himself an expert on propaganda, but I thought I'd show him a thing or two". Powell persuaded the British and Canadian governments and started location filming in 1940, but by the time the film appeared, in March 1942, the United States, which had been trying to stay out of the war in Europe, had been drawn into taking sides against Germany.

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49th Parallel, 1941. This was the third film made by the British filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It was released in the United States as The Invaders.






Screenwriter Emeric Pressburger remarked, "Goebbels considered himself an expert on propaganda, but I thought I'd show him a thing or two". Powell persuaded the British and Canadian governments and started location filming in 1940, but by the time the film appeared, in March 1942, the United States, which had been trying to stay out of the war in Europe, had been drawn into taking sides against Germany.

Great film, it's a bit like Did the Day go Well in subject matter.

Also (your film) music by Vaughan Williams I believe?

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Great film, it's a bit like Did the Day go Well in subject matter. Music by Vaughan Williams I believe?

yes, went the day well is a classic too...

now its another Powell and Pressburger film, this time post war and 1948,s The Red Shoes. stars Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook and Marius Goring.





In 2017, a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine saw it ranked the 5th best British film ever.