Your favorite Victorian Era Movies?

[Colonel Tubby]

Plynkes
I didn't want to point that out. It is quite bad enough they have Doug McClure in them.

Are you trying to say that 'Warlord of Atlantis' of is pants? 

How dare you Sir! 

[Gluteus Maximus]

As well as the other obvious ones mentioned such as Zulu, The (1939) Four Feathers etc etc, I also enjoyed Khartoum and Young Winston. Some good action scenes in both. Sergeants Three was also very enjoyable, as was The Man Who Would Be King. Anything based on Kipling, in fact.

We doneed more Victorian films with gunboats in, though 

[colin_baillie]

I'm surprised that nobody on here ever mentions "Jules Vernes' Rocket to the Moon"!

For me this is THE Victorian Science Fiction movie. Phineas T Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbit from a massive gun barrel built into the side of a Welsh mountain, but money troubles, spies and saboteurs ensure that the plan is doomed before it starts.

It stars Burl Ives as Phineas T. Barnum, Troy Donahue as Gaylord Sullivan, Gert Fröbe as Professor Siegfried von Bulow, Lionel Jeffries as Sir Charles Dillworthy and Terry-Thomas as Captain Sir Harry Washington-Smythe.

Best bits... Professor Von Bulow's inventions, including a Prussian Helmet Cannon that nearly kills the Kaiser, and the highlight of the film... Terry Thomas' gas powered car that he "refills" using street light gas. Lionel Jeffries "I'm not sure I approve of a vehicle that relies on stolen gas?" Terry Thomas "That's not the point. It's very economical!"

[gloriousbattle]

I'm surprised that nobody on here ever mentions "Jules Vernes' Rocket to the Moon"!

Isn't that also the one where Terry Thomas is about to roll a huge boulder down on the heroine, and when Jeffries objects, Thomas replies, "It won't kill her, it'll just stun her a little."?

Great film!

[Ignatieff]

Isn't that also the one where Terry Thomas is about to roll a huge boulder down on the heroine, and when Jeffries objects, Thomas replies, "It won't kill her, it'll just stun her a little."?

Great film!

hmmmm.  Need to look that one up.  All Terry Thomas movies are tops

[Bako]

The Land That Time Forgot and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea are the only ones that come to mind at the moment for me.

[Gluteus Maximus]

hmmmm.  Need to look that one up.  All Terry Thomas movies are tops

He is (was?) the arch cad! A great comedy actor 

[Cory]

My favorite, mainly because it was the movie that introduced me to VSF when I was 7, is Disney's Island at the Top of the World. After all it mixes Victorian bravado with Vikings!

[Ignatieff]

He is (was?) the arch cad! A great comedy actor 

'Ding Dong!'

[archangel1]

..."Jules Vernes' Rocket to the Moon"!...

In the same vein, and just coming in at the wire (1901), First Men in the Moon, a real classic.

The Wrong Box, with Michael Caine, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, among others (amazing cast, including a Dame and a couple of Knights!)

One I haven't seen for decades - East of Sudan, with Anthony Quayle, although it unfortunately 'borrows' considerable footage from The Four Feathers.  Jenny Agutter's first movie. 

Just a bit too late for Victorian (1905) but definitely colonial, Northwest Frontier, with Kenneth More and Lauren Bacall.  I think the train engine is named after the Queen, though, Gawd bless 'er.

[Helen]

In order:

Far Pavillion,

Stardust, and

Utu.

Helen

[Fjodin]

Zulu
Man who Would be King
Gunga din
Khartoum
55 Days at Peking

but actually I like all colonial/victorian/acw movies/wild west This is my favourite time period (1860-1914)

[Ignatieff]

As well as the other obvious ones mentioned such as Zulu, The (1939) Four Feathers etc etc, I also enjoyed Khartoum and Young Winston. Some good action scenes in both. Sergeants Three was also very enjoyable, as was The Man Who Would Be King. Anything based on Kipling, in fact.

We doneed more Victorian films with gunboats in, though 

Prompted by this, I made the family watch 'Young Winston' again last night.  Apart from the Omdurman scenes its pretty weak.  Always a shame when you remember something as better than it was 

[Captain Blood]

'Zulu'

Nothing else comes close 

Although the Stewart Granger 'The Prisoner of Zenda' is a personal favourite of mine, and I do agree 'The Man Who Would Be King' takes some beating for Kipling-esque atmosphere.

[archangel1]

Archangel
1925-6 I think so a couple of decades out...

You may very well be right but I was going by this statement in a review - 'During a bloody revolt in 1905 India, a British army officer guides a young Hindu prince to safety on a dilapidated train.'

I can't remember where I've buried my copy to doublecheck.