Martin Scorsese's List of British Films For Edgar Wright

Read out by Wright on the Empire Film Podcast episode “A Celebration of Cinema: Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino in Conversation”.

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Kind Hearts & Coronets (1949; Robert Hamer)
Station Six-Sahara (1962; Seth Holt)
Brief Ecstasy (1937; Edmond T. Gréville)
The Halfway House (1944; Basil Dearden)
Went the Day Well? (1943; Alberto Cavalcanti)
Nowhere to Go (1958; Seth Holt)
The Nanny (1965; Seth Holt)
Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945; Arthur Crabtree)
The Man in Gray (1943; Leslie Arliss)
So Long at the Fair (US re-release: The Black Curse; 1950; Terence Fisher)
Stolen Face (1952; Terence Fisher)
Four Sided Triangle (1953; Terence Fisher)
The Sound Barrier (US: Breaking Through the Sound Barrier / Breaking the Sound Barrier; 1952; David Lean)
This Happy Breed (1944; David Lean)
Guns at Batasi (1964; John Guillermin)
Green for Danger (1946; Sidney Gilliat)
The Mindbenders (1963; Basil Dearden)
To the Public Danger (1948 short film; Terence Fisher)
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947; Robert Hamer)
The Long Good Friday (1980; John Mackenzie)
A High Wind in Jamaica (1965; Alexander Mackendrick)
The Queen of Spades (1949; Thorold Dickinson)
Hew and Cry (1947; Seth Holt)
Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945; Robert Hamer)
The Blue Lamp (1950; Basil Dearden)
The Good Die Young (1954; Lewis Gilbert)
Mandy (1952; Alexander Mackendrick)
Vampyres (1974; Jose Larraz)
Uncle Silas (US: The Inheritance; 1947; directed by Charles Frank)
The Legend of Hell House (1973; John Hough)
Night of the Eagle (US: Burn, Witch, Burn!; 1962; Sidney Hayers)
The Flesh of the Fiends (US: Mania; 1960; John Gilling)
The Snorkel (1957; Guy Green)
The Taste of Fear (US: Scream of Fear; 1961; Seth Holt)
The Damned (US: These Are the Damned; 1963; Joseph Losey)
Plague of the Zombies (1966; John Gilling)
Quatermass (US: The Creeping Unknown; 1954; Val Guest)
Quatermass in the Pit (US: The Enemy from Space; 1967; Nigel Kneale)
Dr Jeckyll and Sister Hyde (1971; Roy Ward Baker)
The Devil Rides Out (1967; Terence Fisher)
The Asphyx (AKA: Spirit of the Dead / The Horror of Death; 1972; Peter Newbrook)
Underground (1928, silent; Anthony Asquith)
Shooting Stars (1927, silent; Anthony Asquith)
Sapphire (1959; Basil Dearden)
Whistle and I'll Come To You (BBC short film; 1968; Jonathan Miller)
Dead of Night (1945; Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer, & Basil Dearden)
The Enfield Haunting (TV, semi-doc series)
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987; Jack Clayton)
The Pumpkin Eater (1964; Jack Clayton)
The Innocents (1961; Jack Clayton)
The Seventh Veil (1945; Compton Bennett)
Yield to the Night (US: Blonde Sinner; 1956; J. Lee Thompson)

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In their chat later in the episode, as Wright and Tarantino talked about old British flicks they’d been watching and found on their own, Tarantino mentioned a movie that’s available on YouTube called Strongroom – from 1962. I watched it. He was right: it’s fantastic. Brilliant idea, really well executed.

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