How to Navigate through the Vintage Classics Collection?

Let’s exclude any titles by Hitchcock or Powell & Pressburger because you know those already… right?… Right.

WARNING:

These selections should ONLY be viewed if you’ve seen, know, and are familiar with The Third Man and Kind Hearts and Coronets.

If not, do so…

Then you may return to this memo.

So…Assuming you’ve seen The Third Man and Kind Hearts and Coronets (and if you haven’t I’m losing patience)… let’s assume further.

Dead of Night (Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer)

The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed)

The Go-Between (Joseph Losey)

I’m All Right Jack (John Boulting)

It Always Rains on Sunday (Robert Hamer)

The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick)

The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton)

The Maggie (Alexander Mackendrick)

The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick)

Pink String and Sealing Wax (Robert Hamer)

The Queen of Spades (Thorold Dickinson)

Richard III (Laurence Olivier)

The Servant (Joseph Losey)

The Sound Barrier (David Lean)

The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy)

Went the Day Well? (Alberto Cavalcanti)

Whisky Galore! (Alexander Mackendrick)

Let’s assume Even further…

The Belles of St. Trinian’s (Frank Launder)

Billy Liar (John Schlesinger)

The Blue Lamp (Basil Dearden)

Brighton Rock (John Boulting)

Cage of Gold (Basil Dearden)

The Criminal (Joseph Losey)

The Cruel Sea (Charles Frend)

Darling (John Schlesinger)

Death on the Nile (John Guillermin)

Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)

Frieda ((Basil Dearden)

The Gentle Gunman (Basil Dearden)

The Holly and the Ivy (George More O’Ferrall)

Hue and Cry (Charles Crichton)

A Kid for Two Farthings (Carol Reed)

A Kind of Loving (John Schlesinger)

The Man Between (Carol Reed)

The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg)

Mandy (Alexander Mackendrick)

Nowhere to Go (Seth Holt)

The Passionate Stranger (Muriel Box)

Passport to Pimlico (Henry Cornelius)

Payroll (Sidney Hayers)

Quatermass and the Pit (Roy Ward Baker)

Saraband for Dead Lovers (Basil Dearden)

The Small World of Sammy Lee (Ken Hughes)

Sparrows Can’t Sing (Joan Littlewood)

The Winslow Boy (Anthony Asquith)

At this point you’ve made a Good Start, you can move onto…

And Soon the Darkness (Robert Fuest)

Circle of Danger (Jacques Tourneur)

Circus of Horrors (Sidney Hayers)

Fright (Peter Collinson)

An Inspector Calls (Guy Hamilton)

The Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey)

The Weak and the Wicked (J. Lee Thompson)

Yield to the Night (J. Lee Thompson)

And…. (I think I missed a few…)

Actually, start anywhere you’d like… as long as you’ve seen The Third Man and Kind Hearts and Coronets.