Seeing VP and TLB mentioned reminds me of Thunder Road.
Ah yes! I have it, have heard good things, but have failed to watch it yet.
As for forgotten, I also own Hot Rod, a little gem of a 1950 film all of 61 minutes long about young hot rodders trying to get a drag strip built. Great period-correct (of course!) 32 fords rodding around.
I’m looking for the trope of a watch (or other device) stopping time, not just having time stop. YMMV.
I saw the original Gone in 60 Seconds back in the '70s. It’s hard to call a movie “forgotten” when it’s had a big budget remake, but this one is close. As I understand, it was from car guys who tried to make a movie, not movie guys who decided to make a film about cars.
I was browsing my on-screen TV listings and saw this title, and the description was for the original, but when I turned to that channel, it was the remake. Don’t know whose mistake that was.
Start the Revolution without Me.
Head Office
Both hilarious and forgotten
As a kid I thought it was kind of funny but remember how much people hated it in pop culture.
A friend of mine actually was supposed to be in it. She was big part in a subplot that got cut from the film entirely–an American tourist couple have their vacation continually ruined by the fallout of events happening in the Hoffman/Beatty storyline.
Oh, my! I had forgotten about this movie until you brought it up. I saw it in theater and other than one swear word uttered, all I remember are vague scenes of a robot dog. I think I saw the dirtier version of the movie while living in Germany.
SNL writer Michael O’Donoghue make Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video (1979). A series of vignettes, but the only one I can remember was the swimming cats.
Sometime after it was filmed, O’Donoghue appeared in one of the sketches as (someone summoned from a crystal ball?), and as he faded away, Gilda (as I recall) said something to the effect of “Congratulations on ‘Mondo Video.’”
I love this movie. Hand’s down, the best car chase on film. If you are familiar with the locations (Long Beach and the greater South Bay area of LA) you’ll notice the route taken is entirely consistent in time and place, unlike the remake where Nicholas Cage’s Mustang is apparently equipped with a teleportation device.
Just another recommendation for Electra Glide in Blue. It’s probably been thirty years since I’ve seen it, but I liked it a lot.
I saw this at a showing on campus. It was notable because it had the Last Episode of Mr. Bill, that sadistic “gumby” that ran on SNL. Mr… Bill and his dog end up in the hospital, with Sluggo as his nurse/orderly, and dies.
They also had
The Church of Jack Lord (Dan Aykroyd and Terri Garr sing “Were you There when they Crucified Jack Lord?”)
Celebrity Deformities (the only one they showed was Aykroyd, who apparently has slightly webbed toes. He demonstrated this with a screwdriver.)
Underwater Mime Marcel Cousteau (He mimes, as a sign tells us, “Man Drowning”)
When Kevin Costner’s big-budget Waterworld flopped at the box office, people were calling it “Fishtar”, and Kevin’s gate (a reference to “Heaven’s Gate”.)
Okay, how about Gladiator from 1992 starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Brian Dennehy, and James Marshall. It’s about an illegal underground boxing competition and at the end Dennehy fights Marshall.
I saw it in a theatre when I was. I was impressed how the frogs didn’t actually do anything. A funny thing happened when we got home…
It had been raining (in San Diego! Can you believe it?) and the back yard was flooded. There were frogs all over the back yard. I think my sister’s friend was a bit freaked out by it. I thought it was 
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LASER Bra 2000!, ‘Looking Up Cheryl Tiegs’ Dress’, Sid Vicious singing My Way, Klaus Nomi singing opera… Plus the Jack Lord bit, and the Cargo Cult one. Man, I love that show. I saw it at a drive-in. I had it on VHS. According to Amazon, I bought it on DVD in 2010. I’ll have to see if I can find it since SWMBO nixed my video shelves and put everything into baskets.
That’s a bold claim. I’ve seen Bullitt, the original The Italian Job, and Rendezvous.
So have I. Gone in 60 Seconds is better (and the chase comprises half of the film.)
In fact, here it is…all 40 minutes of it:
Video won’t let me edit the post above, but just to be clear, all but a short bit at the start, that video is all car chase.
That one’s in the subcategory of “forgotten movies overshadowed by another non-remake movie with the same title.” See also:
Does that include TV shows? When I hear The Avengers, I still think of John Steed and Mrs. Peel.
Got a couple more that I enjoyed seeing and which I haven’t seen around in quite some time
The Black Stallion (1979). Based on the young adult books by Walter Farley, it starred Hoyt Axton, Teri Garr and Mickey Rooney, but the real star was the Arabian Stallion Cass Ole. A pretty basic story line (boy meets horse, ends up in a big race), but the cinematography was marvelous.
Popeye (19080) starring Robin Williams and Shelly Duval. It was widely panned as it was based on the old 1920’s-30’s “Thimble Theater” comic strips and not on the 50’s-60’s cartoons that most folks my age grew up with, so it was confusing to many, but I enjoyed it and it was a role that Robin Williams was born to play.