With Casino Royale on ITV last week for around the 67th time, it got me thinking how many film classics never get shown on terrestrial tv anymore. Lazy TV schedulers, rights issues, who knows?
Heres a few to get started, but bet you can name hundreds! We could send the list to BBC/ITV, marked ‘No more Goldfinger!’ 
Marathon Man
All the Pink Panther series with Peter Sellers
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
I suppose now that there is BBC i player/Sky/Prime/You Tube and so on it is easy to access films from here. I must admit this is where we get most films from now.
I like the Blake Edwards film ‘The Party’ from 1968 with Peter Sellers playing an Indian actor in Hollywood.
Watched ‘The Missing Postman’ with James Bolam recently. This was a two part TV production and is a DVD which we have. He gets to sleep with Barbara Dickson, so cannot be bad! I think this was on mainstream TV not long ago.
I agree there are not many films on mainstream at the right time for viewing unless you can record things.
I watched Soldier Blue last week, it was on Legend (Freeview) , enjoyed is probably the wrong word to use.
All the more poignant because of being based on the true story of the Sand Creek massacre in 1864 .
One of the earlier revisionist films.
Yes I know where you’re coming from. I’ve only seen it once on the box some years ago.
I can distinctly remember seeing the posters on the London Underground in 1970 although I was only eight.
Here’s a trio of my favourite Horror films dating back to the early seventies…
The Wicker Man with good helpings of nudity. Quite shocking back in the day…
Rosemary’s Baby really got my hackles up at the time…
And we went to the cinema to see The Exorcist, St John’s Ambulance were standing by to remove those who passed out…And there were a few…
I think that The Exorcist was very much hyped up by the media at the time. I vaguely remember stories about people committing suicide after seeing it and protesters outside certain cinemas. Possibly vulnerable people with mental health issues, I don’t know, I’ll try and find some valid information online this evening over a glass of something.
My mum very much discouraged me from reading the book but there was a copy being passed around at school so I did. I really don’t think it made much of an impression.
@OldGreyFox wow, The Wicker Man…how disturbing was that the first time! Especially if you didn’t know the ending! Christopher Lee’s favourite film apparently.
Only surpassed I think, by the Nicolas Cage remake… (joking 
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Enjoyed all three
3.10 to Yuma
The Fighting Seabees
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Born Free
School for scoundrels, and any Ealing comedy
Although the Exorcist was hyped up Chilli, Mrs Fox and me went to the cinema to see it when it was first released. We were both 22 at the time and it was the most frightening film we had ever seen (and I don’t frighten easily) Mrs Fox was so frightened she refused to be left alone in the house at night for ages after. We had to queue outside because it was so popular, and some religious bible thumpers were trying to dissuade us from going in. The film began with a woman swearing as she held a torch investigating strange sounds in the loft. Several people left the cinema as swearing wasn’t heard or accepted in a movie in those days.
I’ve seen it since and it seems tame now compared to other films in a similar genus.
Yes, I remember the controversy over one particular scene that would have been genuinely shocking back then, probably shocking to some this very day .
I enjoyed it very much.Although it wasn’t as popular as the previous Quatermasses .I met Nigel Kneale when he was on a lecture tour and I don’t think he liked John Mills in the part.He was a tad lugubrious about it all though. 
Yes,any Ealing comedy will do.
Yes we did the same Foxy me and hubby went to see it…scared us silly.
I remember at work I used to have to climb a flight of stairs with two turns in them and I was afraid to go up them alone for fear of what might be waiting for me around the corner.
I’ve never watched it again and to be honest it put me off watching supernatural movies
I watched Psycho again recently and didn’t find it at all scary, it was almost comedy in parts.
I remember one really scary film that had a 60 second fright break when the audience was invited to leave the cinema if they were of a nervous disposition, I think it may have been “Homicidal”.
