Things that were acceptable in old films

[Belushi]

YES!

Ask A Policeman is ace, I love Will Hay

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

and 30 years or more later - Sound of Music, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cabaret.

True. I don't know the numbers, but it seems that musicals were produced at a greater rate back in the thirties and forties, than they were in the sixties.

 

[Roadkill]

YES!

Ask A Policeman is ace, I love Will Hay

I watched it again recently, for the first time in years. It's a brilliant film.

Some of the stereotypes of Irish folk that come across in Oh Mr Porter! probably wouldn't go down too well these days, though...

 

[Belushi]

Some of the stereotypes of Irish folk that come across in Oh Mr Porter! probably wouldn't go down too well these days, though...

Heh, they showed that last year on BBC4. I keep meaning to make a pilgrimage to Streatham Cemetary where he's buried - its only ten minutes form me.

 

[Roadkill]

Heh, they showed that last year on BBC4. I keep meaning to make a pilgrimage to Streatham Cemetary where he's buried - its only ten minutes form me.

I didn't know he was in Streatham cemetery! I'd certainly go and see his grave. Aside from being a brilliant comic actor he was also a very talented amateur astronomer, apparently.

Meanwhile, a short clip from one of his lesser known films, but one of my favourites - a splendid bit of wartime propaganda called The Goose Steps Out. Will Hay teaches a school of Nazi spies a traditional English greeting: .

*e2a* Look out for a very young Charles Hawtrey...

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Leprechauns were more acceptable in old movies. I haven't seen a movie with a leprechaun in it for years, apart from that one horror movie where the leprechaun was a monster.

 

[8ball]

Terrorism:

 

[El Jefe]

driving pissed

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Leprechauns were more acceptable in old movies. I haven't seen a movie with a leprechaun in it for years, apart from that one horror movie where the leprechaun was a monster.

There were something like four sequels to that, including one where the leprechaun was in space.

 

[belboid]

Everyone singing around a piano.

James Cagney

 

[Roadkill]

Stopping the live action, to engage in a bit of singing and dancing.

The were past masters at that...

 

[Andrew Hertford]

Men having to hold women as they both run away.

Night scenes filmed in full sunlight, but with a lens filter to make it look dark.

 

[Andrew Hertford]

A white actor with brown stuff on his face, and a black beard, playing an evil arab.

 

[Roadkill]

A white actor with brown stuff on his face, and a black beard, playing an evil arab.

"Do? What are we going to do? We're British! We're not going to do anything until it's too late!"

I must admit, I do love Carry On Up The Khyber, especially the .

 

[Andrew Hertford]

Bungditdin?

 

[Orang Utan]

scared black folks with big eyes and teeth

 

[Roadkill]

Bungditdin?

... and his Burpas. Private Widdle, the Third Foot and Mouth, 'Tiffin' with the Memsahib, the Khazi of Kalabar - it's all good.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

There were something like four sequels to that, including one where the leprechaun was in space.

I think the leprechaun should fight it out with Chucky, like Alien v Predator.

 

[belboid]

probably ruins a few suggestions if we're being really picky

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

scared black folks with big eyes and teeth

Also, white people appearing in blackface isn't so acceptable, outside of Morris Dancing.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Terrorism:

 

[Orang Utan]

charlie chan

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

They didn't do sex scenes in old movies. The couple moved in for a kiss and then they cut away to a shot of waves crashing on a beach or a train going into a tunnel.

Having a kiss was making love

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The microphone (boom) showing at the top of the screen

 

[Andrew Hertford]

... and his Burpas. Private Widdle, the Third Foot and Mouth, 'Tiffin' with the Memsahib, the Khazi of Kalabar - it's all good.

 

[Orang Utan]

what was with that really hard passionless kissing with no tongues that they used to do? did people really do that or was it just the movies?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

what was with that really hard passionless kissing with no tongues that they used to do? did people really do that or was it just the movies?

and how come the women didn't come out looking like Coco the Clown? Must have had no smeary type lipstick back then

Anyway:

Writer and counsellor Corinne Sweet says it's precisely because we're so bombarded with sexual imagery these days that covered-up men just don't do it for us.

'In the 40's and 50's, seeing someone in pyjamas was a very intimate, risque image because of what it hinted at,' she says. 'Remember, this was the era when real kissing was forbidden, and actors had to keep one foot on the floor when doing a bed scene.

 

[Roadkill]

Doing business in the pub - although unfortunately the preceding near punch-up between the vicar and the local ne'er-do-well isn't in this clip from .

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

what was with that really hard passionless kissing with no tongues that they used to do? did people really do that or was it just the movies?

I think it was just the movies. I don't think french kissing got invented in the Sixties.

I think some of those sexy carvings on indian temples, have people with their tongues in each others mouths.

 

[19sixtysix]

Two men (Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy) always sharing a bed.