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Post by spiderwort on Mar 16, 2018 22:15:53 GMT
I enjoy films in this realm, whether it be those with one boarder or those with many. They can come in all styles, periods, and genres, in only part of the story, or throughout it.
A few of my favorites:
The L-Shaped Room (1962)
Picnic (1955)
Come Back, Little Sheba (1953)
The Lodger (1944)
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 16, 2018 22:28:37 GMT
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE -- Ma Bailey (Beulah Bondi) runs a boarding house in Pottersville
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY -- the whole Cohan family once lived in a theatrical boarding house
TRUE GRIT (1969) -- Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) first encounters Le Beouf (Glen Campbell) in a boarding house
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Post by taranofprydain on Mar 16, 2018 22:31:19 GMT
Stage Door is one of my favorites.
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 16, 2018 22:36:36 GMT
THE SHOOTIST -- Lauren Bacall runs a boarding house which habors John Wayne.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Mar 16, 2018 22:41:14 GMT
The Invisible Man
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Post by spiderwort on Mar 16, 2018 22:50:33 GMT
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE -- Ma Bailey (Beulah Bondi) runs a boarding house in Pottersville YANKEE DOODLE DANDY -- the whole Cohan family once lived in a theatrical boarding house TRUE GRIT (1969) -- Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) first encounters Le Beouf (Glen Campbell) in a boarding house Great choices, matt. And they made me think of THE SHOOTIST, but you beat me to the punch listing it. That was a stellar swan song for the Duke. I don't know why I like these kind of stories so much, but I do. |
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 16, 2018 22:52:43 GMT
And worth liking, Spider.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 16, 2018 23:02:03 GMT
An interesting thread topic and some great examples, I also really like the confined social drama of boarding house lives as in, The L Shaped Room, thanks spiderwort The Birthday Party (1968) is a brilliant British drama film directed by William Friedkin, based on the 1957 play The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter. The screenplay for the film was written by Pinter as well. The film, and the play, are considered examples of Pinter's "comedy of menace" . The film was a passion project for Friedkin, who had been a huge fan of the play, it was his second feature film. The setting is a rundown seaside Boarding House, West Sussex, England. The main protagonist is a lodger in his late 30s named Stanley, played by Robert Shaw, who has been staying at the boarding house, oneday he is visited by two unexpected additional guests, both menacing and mysterious strangers, Goldberg (Sydney Tafler) and McCann (Patrick Magee)... Stanley and landlady Meg a superb performance from Dandy Nichols
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 16, 2018 23:09:29 GMT
If a "Bed and Breakfast " is close enough there is the one in Groundhog Day  The coffee is always hot and the shower is always ....  |
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 16, 2018 23:12:28 GMT
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (?)
The Effect of Gamma Rays (etc) has a boarder, at least for a while
The Gypsy Moths
Since You Went Away
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Post by OldAussie on Mar 16, 2018 23:21:06 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 16, 2018 23:25:16 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 16, 2018 23:26:29 GMT
Wise Blood
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 16, 2018 23:30:05 GMT
Dom na Trubnoy (1928) aka The House on Trubnaya is an excellent Soviet silent film directed by Boris Barnet. A country girl Parasha arrives in Moscow city and finds residence at the boarding house on Trubnaya Street. The highly creative social comedy is a story about the boarding house and its inhabitants... 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 16, 2018 23:30:37 GMT
M. Hulot's Holiday has plenty of inter-action between the residents at a holiday resort
also Enchanted April
Shirley Valentine.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 16, 2018 23:37:24 GMT
Matewan (19870. Mary McDowell's character operates one that caters both the hero (Chris Cooper) and the villains. Found it odd how they always ate meals together despite being at gunpoint on the same day.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 16, 2018 23:38:26 GMT
This Property Is Condemned
The Molly Maguires (?)
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Post by telegonus on Mar 17, 2018 0:41:56 GMT
The Day The Earth Stood Still
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 17, 2018 19:07:45 GMT
"The Old Dark House"
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Mar 17, 2018 19:34:25 GMT
I don't believe that was a boarding house |
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