10 hidden goldeny film nuggets of the shiny piratey kind.
Here be buried treasure....
In fact there's an awful lot of buried treasure underneath the sands of youtube but I've decided to start small by digging out these ten;
1. Green for Danger (UK 1946)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=EF82CE0F2B4E901F
My favourite childhood film. Alastair Sim and Trevor Howard in the same movie! What more can a girl want. It's all tremendous fun.
2. Brighton Rock (UK 1947)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E4AC84D044024830
Richard Attenborough in his juvenile delinquency period. If this film had been made a decade latter they'd have got baby McCallum for the lead.
3. Ice Cold in Alex (UK 1958)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8E377024C2734D98
John Mills in all his little adorableness braves the desert and nazis for a glass of beer, in the greatest advert for carlsberg the carlsberg marketing division could ever hope for.
4. Strangers on a Train (US 1951)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8C3E361AE79DF0C0
Probably my most favourite Hitchcock movie- probably.
unless it's this one...
5. The Lady Vanishes (UK 1938)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndj8u-McKKI
or this one...
6. The 39 Steps (UK 1935)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5FFFC235B84E8B21
I'm a fan of Hitchcock's train period.I can't believe this film was made in 1935- it's just so modern.
There is however this non train Hitchcock movie...
7. Rebecca (US 1940)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3EF33081816B1F64
Recommended by dear Mr McCallum (he does show good taste) this film features Leo G. Carrol and a young George Sanders (Emory Partridge)....oh and Laurence Olivier is in it too.
8. The Man Between (UK 1953)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D76FD0FD3A49BD1B
I love James Mason- he's the Johnny Depp of his day. This film is an early 'spy who came in from the cold' and also features Claire Bloom. There's some fascinating footage of 1950s post war Berlin.
9. Odd Man Out (Anglo-Irish 1947)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2993E53BF5B95F08
James Mason in full Johnny D mode staggering across Belfast.
10. The Dam Busters (UK 1955)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1BE9DAC38AA624D0
Surely everyone in Britain must have seen this movie, however it doesnt seem to get much play outside the UK. Its everything a war movie should be.
There... I'm going back with a shovel to see what other gems I can uncover.