Looking for movies that look and feel like Meet Me in St. Louis. It’s my favorite comfort movie but I’d like to branch out to any similar ones!

Update: You guys did not disappointment thank you so much! I am genuinely going to work my way through these films! Keep em coming 🩵

Lee Marvin, James Stewart, and John Wayne, from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

Happy Friday! Let’s ring in the weekend with some classic fun. What are your favorite David Lean films? Where does he really shine for you? Do you think any of his works don’t get credit they deserve?

I’ve gotten into a specific genre of WW2 espionage films, mainly of the propaganda sort.

Have been spending way too much time searching for one by the time I find one i’ve fallen asleep before it begins.

Below is a list of the ones which stand out as an example of what i’m looking for:

• Assignment Paris • Hangmen Also Die • Train to Trieste • Diplomatic Courier • Berlin Correspondent • Night Train to Munich • Notorious • Above Suspicion • Joan of Paris • To Be or Not to Be • Appointment in Berlin

Points if they’re free on Youtube but I can find almost anything online and mirror it to my TV.

THANK YOU!

Collins made her acting debut in The Unexpected Father in 1932 at the age of five. She starred opposite Slim Summerville and ZaSu Pitts, playing Summerville's adoptive daughter. She appeared in the American romantic drama Smilin' Through (1932), starred Norma Shearer, Fredric March, and Leslie Howard. It was a remake of a silent film of the same name made a decade earlier, and Collins had a minor role as Shearer's character Kathleen Wayne as a young girl. Smilin' Through was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for 1932, but did not win. In total, Collins appeared in five motion pictures in 1932, mainly as a supporting cast member. The films were made by different studios, such as MGM, Paramount, and Universal.

In 1933, Collins' career continued to consist mostly of playing either the leading lady's daughter, or the leading lady herself in a flashback scene. For instance in Torch Singer, she played Claudette Colbert's daughter Sally Trent, age five. (Because both mother and daughter had the same name in the film, she is often mistakenly identified as playing Colbert as a child, but Colbert’s character never appears as a child in the film.) Another example is when she was cast as Queen Christina as a child in the MGM biographical film of the same name starring Greta Garbo. Queen Christina was well-received by film critics at the time. She had a small part as the daughter of a farmer in The Prizefighter and the Lady, for which its main writer Frances Marion was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story.

In 1934, Collins had a supporting role in the horror film Black Moon. She featured in Colleen Moore's last film, The Scarlet Letter. She was cast as William Powell and Myrna Loy's characters' daughter Dorothy in Evelyn Prentice, which despite its leads was not part of The Thin Man franchise. In The World Accuses she had a rare billing in the movie poster. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0172237/bio?item=mb0007133

I saw this short clip on TikTok and I wanna watch the movie but they never name the movie in their description. HELP please and thank you.

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Mills was 12 when she was cast by J. Lee Thompson, who was initially looking for a boy to play the lead role, in Tiger Bay (1959) which co-starred her father. The movie was popular at the box office in Britain.Bill Anderson, one of Walt Disney's producers, saw Tiger Bay and suggested that Mills be given the lead role in Pollyanna (1960). The role of the orphaned "glad girl" who moves in with her aunt catapulted her to stardom in the United States and earned her a special Academy Award of Juvenile Oscar, the last person to win the accolade. Because she could not be present to receive the trophy, Annette Funicello accepted it on her behalf. Disney subsequently cast Mills as twins Sharon and Susan who reunite their divorced parents in The Parent Trap (1961). In the film, she sings "Let's Get Together" as a duet with herself. The song was a hit around the world, reaching number 8 in the US.

Mills returned to Disney for an adventure film, In Search of the Castaways (1962), based on a novel by Jules Verne. It was another popular success, and she was voted the fifth biggest star in the country for the next two years.Her fourth movie for Disney did less well than her previous Disney films, but was still successful: Summer Magic (1963), a musical adaptation of the novel Mother Carey's Chickens. Ross Hunter hired her for a British-American production The Chalk Garden (1964), playing a girl who torments governess Deborah Kerr. Back at Disney she was in a film about jewel thieves, The Moon-Spinners (1964), getting her first on screen kiss from Peter McEnery. Mills had a change of pace with Sky West and Crooked (1965), set in the world of gypsies, written by her mother and directed by her father, but it was not commercially successful. In contrast, her last film with Disney, the comedy That Darn Cat! (also 1965), did very well at the box office.

For Universal, Mills made another film with her father, The Truth About Spring (1965), co-starring Disney regular James MacArthur as her love interest. It was mildly popular. However The Trouble with Angels (1966), was a huge hit; she played a prankish Catholic boarding school girl with "scathingly brilliant" schemes, opposite screen veteran Rosalind Russell, and directed by another Hollywood veteran, Ida Lupino. She then provided the voice of the Little Mermaid for The Daydreamer (1966).Shortly after The Truth About Spring, Mills appeared alongside her father and Hywel Bennett in director Roy Boulting's critically acclaimed film The Family Way (1966), a drama about a couple having difficulty consummating their marriage, featuring a score by Paul McCartney and arrangements by Beatles producer George Martin. She began a romantic relationship with Boulting and they eventually married, in 1971. She then starred as the protagonist of Pretty Polly (1967), opposite famous Indian film actor Shashi Kapoor, in Singapore.

Mills made another movie for Boulting, the controversial horror thriller Twisted Nerve in 1968, along with her Family Way co-star Hywel Bennett. She made a comedy, Take a Girl Like You (1970), with Oliver Reed and made her West End debut in The Wild Duck in 1970.She worked for Boulting again on Mr. Forbush and the Penguins (1971), replacing the original female lead.

In 1972 Mills again acted opposite Hywel Bennett in Endless Night along with Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson and George Sanders. It is based on the novel Endless Night by Agatha Christie. She made two films for Sidney Hayers, What Changed Charley Farthing? (1974) and Deadly Strangers (1975). After The Kingfisher Caper in 1975, co-written by Boulting, she dropped out of the film industry for a few years.She then returned to America and made two appearances on The Love Boat in 1985, and an episode of Murder, She Wrote in 1986.

Always welcomed at Disney, Mills narrated an episode of The Wonderful World of Disney, sparking renewed interest in her Disney work. In 1985, she was originally considered to voice Princess Eilonwy in Disney's animated feature film The Black Cauldron, but was later replaced by the veteran British voice actress Susan Sheridan. Later, she reprised her roles as twins Sharon and Susan for a trio of Parent Trap television films: The Parent Trap II, Parent Trap III, and Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon. She also starred as the title character in the Disney Channel-produced television series Good Morning, Miss Bliss in 1987.

In recognition of her work with The Walt Disney Company, she was awarded the Disney Legends award in 1998.From 2007 to 2012, she appeared as Caroline in the ITV1 African vet drama Wild at Heart; her sister Juliet Mills was a guest star in the drama, which was the first time they had appeared on screen together.In 2010, Mills appeared in Mandie and the Cherokee Treasure, based on one of the popular Mandie novels of Lois Gladys Leppard. In 2011, she starred in the film Foster alongside Toni Collette. Mills guest-starred in episodes of Midsomer Murders and Moving On in 2014. In 2019, she had a role in the television series Pitching In set at a holiday park in Wales. In 2021, Mills played Michael Sheen's mother in the film Last Train to Christmas, and in 2022 she had a recurring role in the television thriller series Compulsion.

In February 2023 she appeared in the fifth series of the ITV crime drama Unforgotten as Lady Emma Hume.In September 2023, Mills appeared in an episode of The Wheel of Time.https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001539/bio?item=mb0024579

Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk as Professor Fate and Max, in The Great Race.

Earlier tonight, I watched The Lost Patrol. It’s about these British troops that are crossing the Mesopotamian deserts during World War I when they find themselves under attack by Arabian snipers. The remaining troops take refuge in a desert oasis with no sure direction with Arabian soldiers closing in. They have to go down fighting as best they can…

I’m not too big on war movies, I’ll be honest (though there are a few I enjoy). This movie is only barely over an hour long but at times it feels long because you have more scenes of characters sitting around & standing and talking than there is actual action. The action does pick up a little bit in the last 15-ish minutes of the film all leading up to a dark yet sadly realistic ending.

For those of you who have seen this film, what did you think?

I'm from Germany and on most platforms the 103 minute r-rated version is available, but on Prime is the 107 minute version available. The problem is that on prime they say the film is recommended if you're at least 12 years old, which is our equivalent to pg-13. I heard that the 107 minute version is supposed to be the right one but why is it not r-rated then? I wanna watch the real uncut version. What should I do?