Channel 4 - Ultimate film list

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For those who missed it this weekend the BFI and Channel 4 have researched which films were the most popular in the UK. Not by box office which is weighted to more recent releases but by actual attendances.

Needless to say the results were a little surprising. Clockwork Orange at 54, Carry on nurse at 48, Spring in Park Lane (???) at 5!!

Full list here.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 29 November 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

How did Star Wars get so many more viewers than either of the sequels? Is is solely down to the advent of video?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 29 November 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Star Wars was rereleased sometime in the 90's. Plus films ran for longer before being pulled, the provinces not getting first run features for weeks or even months after it's initial release.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 29 November 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Also there were a lot more cinemas too. One of the reasons 80's films fared so badly, caught between the boom of the 40's to 60's, and to a lesser extent 70's and the renaissance in the 90's.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 29 November 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

was a good list as far as matinee watching dole scum was concerned because it was kinda skewed towards old films. great, but a bit odd, to see things like The Blue Lamp and Random Harvest in the top 40.

(chart was based on cinema admissions, tickets not takings, so included lots of films from back when nobody had tvs, the kind of stuff that channel 4 will show in the afternoon)

(um, 20 pages of list at 5 films per page. snore.)

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

What was most amazing was bare statistics of how many people went to see the filsm near the top end. 35m people went to see Gone With the Wind, which in 1940 must have been a good 2/3s of the population.

I've never seen Gone With the Wind. Is it any good? C/D?

John Cleese can fuck off though.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I can believe it. Scarlett o hara was cast after a 'pop idol' type audition process. and so on. It was a big film when films were big, so a big thing amongst big things. (i.e. very big)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

is it clear whether ppl going to see it more than once counted more than once? considering how a lot of it was guesswork, i spose they must have.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding - WTF?!?!?!?!!?

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.poster.net/neagle-anna/neagle-anna-photo-anna-neagle-6203991.jpg

Does it make me a bad perosn if i think she's HOTT?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It makes you a weird person - either that or Herbert Wilcox

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

... now Vivien Leigh on the other hand, wow!

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.nga.gov.au/Exhibition/KarshShmith/Images/LRG/107535.jpg

meh

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Alan, it was done on admissions, so one person going twice would be the same as two people going once, yes.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

No, they wrote down everyones name and address.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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