My mums favourite film that she always made us watch when it came on the telly was ..................Mrs Miniver.

And what was that one with the gut in hospital with TB and the nurse 'Smithy- ,,,,,,,,,,,,was it Twice Around the Daffodils'?

The film ratings were different back in my day and I can remember lying so that i could get into see Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid with some mates.  I'm sure you had to be 14 years or over to see it?  Or perhaps it was a A cert and needed an adult to accompany a minor?

It's so long ago, I can't remember 

Greer Garson.

Random Harvest, Soozy, I think? 

Or maybe I'm thinking of another Garson film?

ETA, with Ronald Coleman, I think.

The first X Film I saw as a kid (sneaked in through the Emergency Exit Doors at the Croydon Odeon' Bonnie and Clyde ........fantastic film.

Loved Butch Cassidy though

Oh and Bedknobs and broomsticks

That's the one 

Bobbing along, bobbing along at the bottom of the beautiful briny sea.

You and the rest of my school year, Soozy!   We were all at it, usually on a Sunday afternoon.  I think they didn't care so much because there was never a full house at that time of day.

It was a Sunday afternoon ..........the thing is Bonnie and Clyde was really popular ......the place was full - we were scurrying round trying to find a seat in a packed house  Half of us got chucked out ......it must have been pretty obvious - there were probably nine or ten of us  I found a seat and sat through it though 

  Well yeah, I suppose Croydon was a busier place than the suburbs of Orpington, so good on you getting a seat 

Right, bedtime for me.  Night 

Night Cosi

I saw The Abominable Dr Phibes at the Orpington cinema.

Nice thread - i'll need to read through it properly tomorrow.    The first film I remember seeing at the cinema was Blackbeard's Ghost  - I'd have been eight, it maybe wasn't the first, but it sticks in my mind because it was a whole family outing, including Dad who laughed his socks off at it.   All the Love Bug films, Ring of Bright Water, Old Yeller.... remember them all too.     

I was one of the wusses who didn't try to get in to see the Exorcist, but I remember loads of school friends fainting and running out of the cinema.

Soozy - I used to love the Georgie Fame song 'The ballad of Bonnie and Clyde' when I was a kid.   My mum used to clean a chippie with a 'sit in' area with a juke box and she'd take me with her during the school holidays.   I remember I'd get sat at a table while she worked, with a glass of orange juice, a Cadbury's creme egg and free plays on the juke box and I'd play it over and over.   Isn't it strange the little things that stick in your mind.

Sci fi stuff.

The Time Machine (1960s version as I'm not 14) was probably my fave and War of the Worlds (1950s version) [I do, however, rate the Tom Cruise version highly]

I remember writing 'my' stories at primary school and basically just retelling (obviously in a less articulate manner - as I was a little kid) the sci-fi films I'd seen on TV recently, as if they were my own compositions!   My teachers must have thought, "oh that rings a bell, it was on TV last week!"

Star Wars when I was a bit older

The Goonies

Indiana Jones

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Jurassic Park (I was 11, does that still count?)

Mary Poppins

Oliver Twist

Back to the Future

Just for you Kaffy

Soozy    I've got no speakers here though... I'll need to wait till I get home to listen