Classic Movies

Otherwise, Turner Classic Movies is always playing old movies in black and white or color....that's how I have seen most of my list.

Me too; a lot of movies I put among my favorites I've "discovered" on Turner Classic Movies. It's an excellent resource.

Me too; a lot of movies I put among my favorites I've "discovered" on Turner Classic Movies. It's an excellent resource.

i usually just leave that channel on, saves me time on finding a good movie on.

and i'll post a list of the classics i like, just need to get an organized selection of them.....

thought i put one here for now:

Arsenic and Old Lace.

lcbaseball22, If you want another good movies from the 1930's, you could watch Gone with the Wind. It is long (I think about 4 hours) but it's well done (in my opinion). Otherwise, Turner Classic Movies is always playing old movies in black and white or color....that's how I have seen most of my list.

Ah yes, I forgot this film came out at the very tail end of the 30's.

I've got it on my list to see actually (if only to see why so popular) just haven't got around to watching it yet...especially since it's so long.

Me too; a lot of movies I put among my favorites I've "discovered" on Turner Classic Movies. It's an excellent resource.

I see. I'm not sure if we get that channel or not. :hmm: I think it comes through our HDTV at least, but I may be confused with AMC and FMC.


I did some research earlier today and came across some links. There is this page on Wiki that discusses the 1930's in film and gives a partial list (it's short for an entire decade) and then at the bottom of the page there's an external link to IMDB's top rated 1930's titles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930s_in_film -

I found the info about the trend in the types of movies due to the Great Depression interesting. And then here is that IMDB chart, BTW-

http://www.imdb.com/chart/1930s

And here we have the Best Picture winners for the 1930's- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture#1930s

There is also this list put together by someone random I guess of the 1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die -

http://www.listology.com/flogged/list/1001-movies-you-must-see-you-die

That has like 80 films from the 30's listed. Wow, you know watching all these would be quite a feat I think. I mean considering I've only seen just about 600 films in my life so far :lol: I've thought of tackling the IMDB Top 250 list before...but this is 4 times that length. :no:

And AFI (American Film Institute) has their 100 Years...100 Movies list- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years%E2%80%A6100_Movies

There are 15 films from the 30's on that, and by decade this is the breakdown-

1910’s- 1
1920’s- 2
1930’s- 15
1940’s- 12
1950’s- 20
1960’s- 18
1970’s- 18
1980’s- 6
1990’s- 8

I'm not surprised to see the 50's as the heyday of films according to their list. I think the 50's and 60's were probably the best film decades. I thought it was funny though that my personal fav, the 80's, was the lowest besides the very early days of film :lol: Yeah, I suppose there wasn't too many critically acclaimed movies that decade, but there was a lot of fun ones. :p (ie. Top Gun, Animal House, Caddyshack, etc)

Another 1930's movie with Leslie Howard is The Scarlet Pimpernel, of 1934. All right, I'm a fan of the books, but the movie is anyway delicious.

And I'd add To be or not to be to the list on the 1940's. One of the funniest movies I've ever watched.

And I'd add To be or not to be to the list on the 1940's. One of the funniest movies I've ever watched.

Oh, speaking of...anyone seen Some Like It Hot with Marilyn Monroe? What's it about? This movie consistently places on lists and I always see it coined as "the funniest movie ever" For someone like me who's favorite genre is comedy it sounds like one I def have to check out :cool:

Some Like Hot? Of course you have to watch it. You'll roar with laughter.
Summary: two unemployed musicians (excellent Tony Curtis and absolutely wonderful Jack Lemmon) accidentally witness a mob murder and have to disappear to avoid being killed. The best camouflage they find is dressing as women and getting into a girl's orchestra that's beginning a tournée in Florida.

A wonderfully written comedy, and, indeed, a classic.

Some Like Hot? Of course you have to watch it. You'll roar with laughter.
Summary: two unemployed musicians (excellent Tony Curtis and absolutely wonderful Jack Lemmon) accidentally witness a mob murder and have to disappear to avoid being killed. The best camouflage they find is dressing as women and getting into a girl's orchestra that's beginning a tournée in Florida.

A wonderfully written comedy, and, indeed, a classic.

I watched it and did indeed roar with laughter. :tu: Although I feel a bit ashamed for enjoying it, such as "Sugar" being taken advantage of...

I watched it and did indeed roar with laughter. Although I feel a bit ashamed for enjoying it, such as "Sugar" being taken advantage of...

I don't feel that sorry for her. She was planning to marry for money.

I recently re-watched the Magnificent Ambersons. I love this film. I wish it was possible to see Welles original edit.

Interfering studio's! Why can't they leave genius alone?????

I've watched quite a few more classic movies, but these are the most recent I've seen, along with the links to my review/rating :)

Citizen Kane- http://www.cosforums.com/showpost.php?p=5459491&postcount=203 Anyone else feel like this film is all style and little substance? :whistle:

The Philadelphia Story- http://www.cosforums.com/showpost.php?p=5460054&postcount=206

The 39 Steps- http://www.cosforums.com/showpost.php?p=5460349&postcount=212


BTW, has anyone seen Doctor Zhivago?

My Aunt recently said it's her favorite film. I'd never heard of it before but I might watch it later if I have time. It's over 3 hours though...

Has anyone seen Doctor Zhivago?

Yes - It's quite epic. I like it, but don't love it. I am very interested in the Russian Revolution but not so much in the melodrama of the characters. I love Julie Christie in anything, so I have watched this film more than once.

I have never read the novel, so I don't know if it is a close adaptation. If you are going to watch it make sure its the original 1965 version and not the TV serial. I would recomend a veiwing - its just one of those films you should see at least once.

Yes - It's quite epic. I like it, but don't love it. I am very interested in the Russian Revolution but not so much in the melodrama of the characters. I love Julie Christie in anything, so I have watched this film more than once.

I have never read the novel, so I don't know if it is a close adaptation. If you are going to watch it make sure its the original 1965 version and not the TV serial. I would recomend a veiwing - its just one of those films you should see at least once.

Hmm, well the TV serial has Keira Knightley in it... :drool: But nah, it was the 1965 version I planned to watch as this is the version I suspect my Aunt was referring to and also the one that I see here won quite a few Academy Awards. Not sure about the story, but I'll give it a try.

The thing is, I've still yet to watch Gone With the Wind, an even longer film... :lol: Hmm, which "epic" to watch first :hmm:

I also haven't seen many of these, and none of the top 5 -http://www.afi.com/10top10/epic.html

My Dad loves Lawrence of Arabia. Meant to watch that awhile back but the redbox in our area didn't have it and I'd since forgot about it. :shrug:

I also haven't seen many of these, and none of the top 5 -http://www.afi.com/10top10/epic.html

I am not really into epic films, however I have seen nine of ten.

Out of this list I think All quiet on the Western Front is the best. Though I really like the remake of this also.

I like Spartacus aswell. The story, characters and acting is good.

Gone with the wind is a bit lighter than Doctor Zhivago (in terms of epic-ness not content), so it depends what you are in the mood for. I like Vivian Leigh and I think she plays a good Scarlet, the film has a lot of flaws though.

My Dad loves Lawrence of Arabia

I can't really comment on this, because I don't really like it. I think its because it so far from the real story.
I don't like Ben Hur or the Ten Commandments , because I don't like Hollywood making religous films. I just don't think they work.

I have never seen Reds, I own it but have yet to watch it.

So I did indeed watch Dr. Zhivago (it's a wonderful film) and here's my review if anyone's interested in my further thoughts- link (http://www.cosforums.com/showpost.php?p=5462366&postcount=233)

In addition, I've seen quite a few other classics since my last post in here (click the titles for links to the posts with my reviews)



It Happened One Night (http://www.cosforums.com/showpost.php?p=5471299&postcount=307)

Foreign Correspondent (http://www.cosforums.com/showpost.php?p=5465141&postcount=250)

I also have have seen 3 of the 4 "Bogie and Bacall" films...though to begin with I'd only planned to watch the first one I have listed below-


The Big Sleep (http://www.cosforums.com/showpost.php?p=5467787&postcount=278)

To Have and Have Not (http://www.cosforums.com/showpost.php?p=5468621&postcount=284)

Key Largo (http://www.cosforums.com/showpost.php?p=5471279&postcount=305)


And I don't know if these are old enough to be considered "classic movies" yet but...

The Princess Bride (http://www.cosforums.com/showpost.php?p=5462925&postcount=244)

Raging Bull (http://www.cosforums.com/showpost.php?p=5466131&postcount=264)


I thought I'd also mention that I re-watched Rear Window (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047396/) (as you may notice in 1 of the links) and I feel compelled to quote my review :p

I must say it's even more brilliant than I remember since first watching a few months back. :cool:

Naturally the element of suspense is gone now...but you notice the little nuances that one might miss during an initial viewing.

Back when I saw it I was still just giving an overall "gut" rating so to speak...so here's my (updated score) using the new method-

Acting- 10
Script- 10
Visuals- 10
Sound- 9
Editing- 10

Total Score = 98%

That's a percentage point higher than last time and this time the only thing I docked for was some irritating music... But the flawless acting, story, cinematography (so unique) and editing (I noticed purpose in the scenes that I didn't before) make this a true masterpiece. I am shocked this film wasn't even nominated for Best Picture in what looks like a weak year (though I haven't seen any of the nominees)

http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/...wards_USA/1955

Anyways, Rear Window might be my favorite film now (I'd have to re-watch Shawshank Redemption and a few others to be sure)

If not, it's certainly in my Top 5! :D



Oh, and the past couple days I've been working on compiling a list of movies to watch. My current list consists of 145 films (actually 144 now after watching It Happens One Night :lol:) organized by decade...and there are quite a few more "classics" I'm considering watching. I'll probably find more to add to these, but to start with I compiled this by browsing the Top 50 lists for each decade on IMDB. And I'm not sure I REALLY want to see all of these, but I'm willing to give any a try at least. If you have some thoughts on any of these films please share :)

I'll list what I have up through the 80's since to me "classic" is pretty much anything before I was born and even in '89 I was only 2 yrs. old :p

1930's

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
It Happened One Night- DONE
Gone with the Wind
Duck Soup
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Thin Man
Bringing Up Baby
The Awful Truth
You Can't Take it With You
Frankenstein
Modern Times
City Lights
M

1940's

Double Indemnity
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Third Man
The Great Dictator
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Brief Encounter
The Best Years of Our Lives
Lifeboat
The Magnificent Ambersons
White Heat
Laura
The Lady Eve
Sullivan's Travels
The Lost Weekend

1950's

12 Angry Men
Sunset Blvd
Paths of Glory
The Bridge on the River Kwai
All About Eve
Singin' in the Rain
Touch of Evil
On the Waterfront
Witness for the Prosecution
High Noon
Ben-Hur
The Night of the Hunter
The Killing
Harvey
Stalag 17
Anatomy of a Murder
East of Eden
A Streetcar Named Desire
The African Queen
The Caine Mutiny
Roman Holiday
A Night To Remember

1960's

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Lawrence of Arabia
The Apartment
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Great Escape
Judgement at Nuremberg
For A Few Dollars More
The Manchurian Candidate
Cool Hand Luke
8 and a 1/2
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Wild Bunch
The Hustler
Inherit the Wind
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Lion in Winter
A Man for All Seasons
Rosemary's Baby
La Dolce Vita
Z
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
In the Heat of the Night
Seven Days in May

1970's

The Godfather
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Apocalypse Now
A Clockwork Orange
The Sting
Annie Hall
The Deer Hunter
Sleuth
Life of Brian
Dog Day Afternoon
The Conversation
Manhattan
The Last Picture Show
Patton
Deliverance
Days of Heaven
Young Frankenstein
The Man Who Would Be King
All the President's Men
Papillon
Barry Lyndon

1980's

Das Boot
Once Upon a Time in America
Full Metal Jacket
Blade Runner
Die Hard
Platoon
Ghandi
Stand by Me
Scarface
The Terminator
Glory
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Brazil
The Untouchables
This is Spinal Tap
Hannah and Her Sisters

Okay - I recomend the following - with the exception of the Woody Allen films, which I just wrote comments on anyway.


1930's

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (must see – true classic Stewart is fantastic)
Gone with the Wind (worth at least one watch for Vivian Leigh)
Duck Soup (everyone needs to see this film – it is the funniest film ever made – It needs to be watched and re-watched until its stuck inside your head forever)
All Quiet on the Western Front (good film – worth watching)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (my dads favorite – Errol Flynn is entertaining)
Bringing Up Baby (Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant – must see)


1940's

The Third Man (must see, must see – superb use of music and lighting. Carol Reed and Orson Welles – this film is a masterpiece)
The Great Dictator (never saw the end – but a good film)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (one of my all time favorites – Alec Guinness playing 8 roles (and wonderfully I might add) makes this another must see)
Brief Encounter (really sweet, well made film)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles masterpiece, which was unfortunately subjected to studio editing - but wonderful all the same)
White Heat (Cagney’s second best role after Yankee Doodle Dandy – one of the all time greatest gangster films)
The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder’s second best film)

1950's

12 Angry Men (near perfect film – everyone should watch at least once)
All About Eve (My favorite Bette Davis film. George Sanders is phenomenal in this)
Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly’s directorial début – really good film, especially the scenes with he and O’Connor)
Harvey (Stewarts third best film – but his second best performance – really endearing and wonderfully scripted)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Vivian Leigh at her best)
The African Queen (Bogart and K Hepburn are really fantastic it this)
Roman Holiday (enjoyable, not a totally stand out film – but entertaining)
A Night To Remember (a million times better than the titanic)

1960's

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick and Sellers in top form – really great film)
The Apartment (clever and entertaining)
2001: A Space Odyssey (must see – Kubrick’s masterpiece)
The Great Escape (good film – some really stand out performances)
Judgement at Nuremberg (disturbing, but very well made)
The Manchurian Candidate
Cool Hand Luke (also disturbing – but really great performances – a little heavy on the symbolism)
8 and a ½ (must see – my favorite Fellini)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (one most entrertaining films ever, Goldman’s script is fantastic and Newman and Redford are perfect together)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Again Vivian Leigh shines – Burton is also excellent)
The Lion in Winter (Hepburn and Peter O'Toole are phenomenal in this)

Rosemary's Baby (good if you like Polanski)


1970's

The Godfather (must see at least once)
Over the Cuckoo's Nest (really wonderfully made film – great adaptation)
Apocalypse Now (One of the best war films, Martin Sheen is so great)
A Clockwork Orange (pure genius adaptation of the novel – McDowell is the perfect alex, Kubrick captures everything odd and distorted in the book)
The Sting (Newman and Redford’s second co staring – wonderful from start to finish – a near perfect film, the look and music are ideal)
Annie Hall (not too gone on this – some really funny scenes – but its not my fav Woody Allen)
The Deer Hunter (another must see once – Walkin and DeNiro give wonderful performances)
Life of Brian (Second best python – after meaning of life)
Dog Day Afternoon (My favorite Pacino film)
The Conversation (yet to see – but really want too)
Manhattan (okay-ish)
The Last Picture Show (Perfect film – 10/10)
Young Frankenstein (second funniest Brookes film- Freeman is so, so good)
The Man Who Would Be King (Caine and Connery are really great in this – definitely recommended)
All the President's Men (One of my all time favorites – another near perfect film)
Papillon (good – Hoffman is particularly good)
Barry Lyndon (Least favorite Kubrick – but still a great movie)

1980's

Once Upon a Time in America (amazing score and some really great performances)
Full Metal Jacket (Scary and wonderful)
Blade Runner (watch the directors cut)
Ghandi (well made and wonderfully performed)
Stand by Me (very endearing film – I can even stand Dreyfus in this)
Scarface (scary – very scary – But its so great)
This is Spinal Tap (pure Guest genius – wonderfully funny)
Hannah and Her Sisters (okay – not Allen’s best)

Brazil – Terry Gilliam’s absolute best film – One of the best films ever made.

To the lists of wonderful movies posted above, I'd like to add:

1940's
To be or not to be
The Three Musketeers

1950's
Somelike it hot
Scaramouche

1970's
Kramer vs kramer

1980's
Tootsie
Who Framed Roger Rabbit


Just my two cents

And I'm not sure I REALLY want to see all of these, but I'm willing to give any a try at least. If you have some thoughts on any of these films please share

I didn't add to your list when I wrote my comments- but I would definitely recommend "Badlands" (1973) if you haven't seen it.
Its Terrence Malick's best film and Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek are wonderful in it. It really launched Sheens career.
It’s based on a true story and like "Bonnie and Clyde" it is tackled in a very heartfelt way. The photography and use of music is superb. Its a very unique, well made film with a very special quality about it.

I didn't add to your list when I wrote my comments- but I would definitely recommend "Badlands" (1973) if you haven't seen it.

Thanks, as it so happens I'd actually already added this to my list...which is growing by the minute it seems, as for the last few days now I've been perusing the "1,001 movies to see before you die" titles :lol: :whistle: However, I am noticing that a large portion are foreign titles...

Speaking of, anyone seen any Ingmar Bergman films?

I've come across a LOT of his, but unfortunately they all seem to be in Swedish and I'd rather not watch an entire movie with sub-titles :shrug:

To the lists of wonderful movies posted above, I'd like to add:

1940's
To be or not to be
The Three Musketeers

1950's
Somelike it hot
Scaramouche

1970's
Kramer vs kramer

1980's
Tootsie
Who Framed Roger Rabbit


Just my two cents

I've already seen Some Like It Hot (loved it, a lot of hilarious moments :rotfl:) but those look like some other great suggestions...a few of which (as with the Badlands film that Perlida suggested) had already been added to my list shortly after I starting looking through those.

Thanks especially for reminding me about Tootsie :) I can't believe I forgot about this one!

I've been meaning to see it for a while now as Dustin Hoffman is one of my favorite actors. Now it's on my list I'll get to it sooner or later :lol:

So, for Christmas...in addition to a bunch of Hitchcock DVD's I got this Mystery Classics 100 Movie Pack (http://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Classics-100-Movie-Pack/dp/B000K6GM4W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1261932507&sr=8-1)

Now, I haven't opened it yet because I'm not sure whether I want to keep it or return it for something else or just get the money back... :shrug:

I was wondering if anyone has seen any of the movies and if they thought they were any good. I quickly looked up all the films on IMDB and it appears that most of 'em are "B" movies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_movie). Someone in their review went to the trouble of listing them all out with the scores and such...

With 124 hours of vintage motion pictures on 24 double-sided DVDs, this collection is a sure-fire crowd pleaser.

Based on viewer tabulation from a film data website, on a one to ten scale this collection's averaged out score is: 6.3

The following alphabetized program list includes individual ratings, years of release and main actors--

(7.1) Algiers (1938) - Charles Boyer/Hedy Lamarr/Alan Hale
(5.6) Baby Face Morgan (1942) - Mary Carlisle
(5.6) Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937) - John Barrymore/John Howard
(5.7) Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937) - Ray Milland/Guy Standing
(5.9) Bulldog Drummond In Africa (1938) - John Howard/Anthony Quinn (in a minor role)
(6.0) Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938) - John Barrymore/John Howard
(5.9) Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937) - John Barrymore/John Howard
(6.4) Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939) - John Howard/Heather Angel
(6.5) The Capture 1950 - Lew Ayres/Theresa Wright
(6.2) Cause For Alarm! (1951) - Loretta Young/Barry Sullivan
(6.5) The Chase (1946) - Robert Cummings
(7.4) D.O.A. (1950) - Edmond O'Brien
(6.3) The Death Kiss (1932) - David Manners/Bela Lugosi
(7.3) Detour (1945) - Tom Neal/Ann Savage
(6.5) Devil's Party (1938) - Victor McLaglen
(6.1) Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) - Boris Karloff/Ralph Byrd
(6.0) Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946) - Morgan Conway/Anne Jeffreys
(5.5) Dick Tracy(, Detective) - Morgan Conway/Anne Jeffreys
(7.0) Dressed To Kill ("Sherlock Holmes") (1946) - Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce
(6.8) Eyes In The Night (1942) - Edward Arnold/Ann Harding/Donna Reed
(6.7) Fear in The Night (1947) - DeForest Kelley (his film debut)
(???) Flowers From A Stranger ("Studio One") (1949 or '50) - Yul Brynner
(5.2) Fog Island (1945) - George Zucco/Lionel Atwill
(7.5) Gaslight ("Murder In Thornton Square") (1940) - Anton Walbrook
(6.5) The Great Flamarion (1945) - Erich von Stroheim
(6.0) Great Guy (1936) - James Cagney/Mae Clarke
(6.7) The Green Glove (1952) - Glenn Ford/Cedric Hardwicke
(6.1) Guest In The House (1944) - Ann Baxter/Ralph Bellamy
(6.4) Half A Sinner (1940) - Heather Angel
(7.4) He Walked By Night (1948) - Richard Basehart/Jack Webb
(6.3) The Hoodlum (1951) - Lawrence Tierney
(7.0) Impact (1949) - Brian Donlevy/Charles Coburn
(6.6) The Inner Circle (1946) - Adele Mara/William Frawley
(6.8) Inner Sanctum (1948) - Charles Russell/Mary Beth Hughes
(6.1) International Crime ("The Shadow") (1938) - Rod La Roque/Astrid Allwyn
(6.3) Jigsaw (1949) - Franchot Tone/Jean Wallace
(7.5) Kansas City Confidential (1952) - John Payne/Neville Brand/Lee Van Cleef
(6.9) The Kennel Murder Case (1933) - William Powell/Mary Astor/Eugene Pallette
(7.0) The Last Mile (1932) - Preston Foster
(5.2) A Life At Stake (1954) - Angela Lansbury
(5.9) The Limping Man (1953) - Lloyd Bridges
(6.2) Love From A Stranger (1937) - Ann Harding/Basil Rathbone
(6.0) The Man On The Eiffel Tower (1950) - Charles Laughton/Franchot Tone/Burgess Meredith
(7.3) The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950) - Lee J. Cobb/Jane Wyatt
(6.0) The Man Who Had Influence ("Studio One") (1950) - Robert Sterling
(5.7) The Mandarin Mystery (1936) - Eddie Quillan (as Ellery Queen)
(6.0) Midnight Manhunt (1945) - William Gargan/Leo Gorcey
(6.2) The Moonstone (1934) - David Manners/Phyllis Barry
(6.4) Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939) - Peter Lorre/John Carradine
(5.9) Mr. Wong, Detective (1938) - Boris Karloff/Grant Withers
(5.5) Murder At Midnight (1931) - Aileen Pringle/Alice White
(5.9) Murder at the Baskervilles ("Silver Blaze") ("Sherlock Holmes") (1937) - Arthur Wontner/Ian Fleming
(4.4) Murder By Television (1935) - Bela Lugosi/June Collyer/Hattie McDaniel
(6.0) Murder With Pictures (1936) - Lew Ayres/Gail Patrick
(4.6) The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934) - Bela Lugosi/Wallace Ford
(5.0) Mystery Liner (1934) - Noah Beery/George "Gabby" Hayes (in a minor role)
(6.1) The Mystery Of Mr. Wong (1939) - Boris Karloff
(7.4) The Naked Kiss (1964) - Constance Towers
(6.3) Nancy Drew, Reporter (1939) - Bonita Granville/John Litel
(4.5) Parole, Inc. (1948) - Michael O'Shea
(5.3) The Pay-Off (1930) - Lowell Sherman
(5.2) The Phantom Fiend (1931) - Ivor Novello
(???) Plan For Escape ("Studio One") (1952) - Peggy Ann Garner
(6.4) Please Murder Me (1956) - Angela Lansbury/Raymond Burr
(5.8) Prison Shadows (1936) - Edward J. Nugent
(6.4) Quicksand (1950) - Mickey Rooney/Peter Lorre
(7.0) The Red House (1947) - Edward G. Robinson/Judith Anderson
(6.4) The Scar ("Hollow Triumph") (1948) - Paul Henreid/Joan Bennett
(7.8) Scarlet Street (1945) - Edward G. Robinson/Joan Bennett/Dan Duryea
(6.0) The Second Woman (1951) - Robert Young/Betsy Drake
(5.3) The Shadow Strikes (1937) - Rod La Roque/Agnes Anderson
(6.8) Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon (1943) - Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce/Lionel Atwill
(6.2) Shoot To Kill (1947) - Russell Wade
(6.0) The Sign Of Four ("Sherlock Holmes") (1932) - Arthur Wontner/Ian Hunter
(5.8) Sinners In Paradise (1938) - Madge Evans/Bruce Cabot
(6.8) The Sleeping Tiger (1954) - Dirk Bogarde/Alexis Smith
(6.1) Slightly Honorable (1940) - Pat O'Brien/Edward Arnold
(6.2) Strange Illusion (1945) - James Lydon
(7.2) The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers (1946) - Barbara Stanwyck/Van Heflin/Kirk Douglas
(6.3) Strange Woman (1946) - Hedy Lamarr/George Sanders
(7.5) The Stranger (1946) - Edward G. Robinson/Loretta Young/Orson Welles
(6.4) A Study In Scarlet ("Sherlock Holmes") (1933) - Reginald Owen/Warburton Gamble
(6.5) Sucker Money (1933) - Mischa Auer
(7.0) Suddenly (1954) - Frank Sinatra/Sterling Hayden
(5.4) Ten Minutes To Live (1932) - A.B. Comatherie
(7.0) Terror By Night ("Sherlock Holmes") (1946) - Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce/Alan Mowbray
(???) There Was A Crooked Man ("Studio One") (1950) - Robert Sterling
(5.2) They Made Me A Criminal - John Garfield/The Dead End Kids(1939)
(4.7) Things Happen At Night (1947) - Gordon Harker/Alfred Drayton
(7.2) Too Late for Tears (1949) - Lizabeth Scott/Don DeFore/Dan Duryea
(6.9) Topper Returns (1941) - Joan Blondell/Roland Young/Billie Burke
(6.5) Trapped (1949) - Lloyd Bridges
(6.1) The Triumph Of Sherlock Holmes (1935) - Arthur Wontner/Ian Fleming (as Dr. Watson)
(7.9) Two Sharp Knives ("Studio One") (1948) - Stanley Ridges
(4.8) Whistle Stop (1946) - George Raft/Ava Gardner
(6.0) The Woman Condemned (1934) - Claudia Dell/Jason Robards Sr.
(6.9) The Woman In Green ("Sherlock Holmes") (1945) - Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce/Hillary Brooke
(6.7) Woman In The Shadows (1934) - Fay Wray/Ralph Bellamy
(7.5) Woman On The Run (1950) - Ann Sheridan
(5.8) The Wrong Road (1937) - Richard Cromwell/Helen Mack

There are some pretty famous actors on that list and based on the scores almost all seem to be decent at least...so I dunno. One thing that is unfortunate is Gaslight (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036855/) isn't the version I linked there with Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotton...it's an earlier one with some unknowns :sigh:

Oh well, it still might be worth it. So can anyone tell me more about any of these? :whistle: I'd appreciate your thoughts :)

I don't see Oliver Twist mentioned anywhere?

amazing.

So, for Christmas...in addition to a bunch of Hitchcock DVD's I got this Mystery Classics 100 Movie Pack

Did you return this yet? I wouldn’t if I were you – when would you ever have the opportunity of owning these films again?
You might find one or two gems in the pack.
I haven’t seen many – I am not really a fan of mystery unless its film noir.

I can comment on the following:

(7.0) Dressed To Kill ("Sherlock Holmes") (1946) - Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce
Last Rathbone appearance as Holmes (I think) – I don’t remember it being too good, but I can’t remember much of the plot – it was about music boxes or something similar.

(6.0) Great Guy (1936) - James Cagney/Mae Clarke
ok – Cagney plays a good guy. Good performances – worth a watch.

(7.4) The Naked Kiss (1964) - Constance Towers
Good – but very melodramatic in parts. Morality v's justice type thing.

(6.0) The Second Woman (1951) - Robert Young/Betsy Drake
mystery-noir-ish, not quite Hitchcock – but still very good.

(7.0) Suddenly (1954) - Frank Sinatra/Sterling Hayden
Good- slightly disturbing. Ok performance by Sinatra.

(6.5) Trapped (1949) - Lloyd Bridges
b-movie. Lloyd Bridges is good.

(5.8) Sinners In Paradise (1938) - Madge Evans/Bruce Cabot
Another b-movie. Directed by James Whale, definitely not his best film - nothing special.

Did you return this yet? I wouldn’t if I were you – when would you ever have the opportunity of owning these films again?
You might find one or two gems in the pack.


Heh, good point...but I have actually. I returned it and bought DVD's of Forrest Gump, The Prestige, and Love Actually instead... :whistle:


So, the film I just saw is appropriate for this thread...anyone else seen the following?



The Pride of the Yankees (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035211/)-

So, I just discovered this in our DVD drawer the other day...still in the plastic wrap even! :err: I think I got it as a present along with some other baseball movies years ago, but I never watched this one for some reason. Perhaps because it was an old B/W film and I wasn't too fond of those at the time. :lol: Well, silly me...I shouldn't have watched it long before now, it's a wonderful movie. I'm not surprised it was nominated for 11 Academy Awards. It's not a baseball movie perse though, it's the story of Lou Gehrig's life, and he just happened to be a ballplayer. Gary Cooper actually bears a strong resemblence and his performance is terrific. Same with Teresa Wright who plays his wife. Oh, and it was a treat to see the "Babe" himself in the movie. I think events are somewhat fictionalized and/or embellished at times but it's entertaining, lots of wonderful scenes that will evoke a range of emotions...mainly joy, laughter, and tears, both uplifting and sad :(

Acting- 9.5
Script- 9
Visuals- 9.5
Sound- 10
Editing- 10

Total Score = 96%

Other classics I've seen since my last post:

Anatomy of a Murder (http://www.cosforums.com/showpost.php?p=5473674&postcount=355)

Harvey (http://www.cosforums.com/showpost.php?p=5473846&postcount=360)

2 on Christmas Eve- It's a Wonderful Life and White Christmas (http://www.cosforums.com/showpost.php?p=5474318&postcount=363)

And the first 3 (Duck Soup, Bringing Up Baby, and Dr. Strangelove) of this post- http://www.cosforums.com/showpost.php?p=5476227&postcount=385

Oh my! Am I really old enough for Back to the Future and Princess Bride to be considered classics?! :scared: Tell me no, tell me no! :no:

As for some of my favorites.

To Have and Have Not... Bogie and Bacall. :cool:
Casablanca
Operation Petticoat
Philadephia Story
House Boat
Father Goose
Arsenic and Old Lace
Some Like it Hot
Young at Heart
From Here to Eternity
It Happened One Night
Bringing Up Baby
African Queen

So many more! Can't think of them all at the moment though lol.

lcbaseball22, I saw that you mentioned African Queen. I believe that movie is still on moratorium, not on DVD in the US. I'm not sure about elsewhere except for South Korea. That's how I got it on DVD. My sister is stationed out there with the Air Force and she found me a copy.

I went back to more modern movies for a while, but I saw a couple classics this last week. Both were slightly disappointing but not bad...



12 Angry Men (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/)-

Hmm, well it's very simple yet unique compared to other court dramas I've seen. However, I think I prefer actual courtroom trials where we get to see the back and forth between the lawyers and such. The performances are great and there are quite a few memorable scenes, but I couldn't help feeling the movie was a bit clunky and predictable...re-voting again and again until they all sided with Henry Fonda. :shrug: Oh, and even for such a short film there is at least 5 minutes of dialogue I could label "filler" that had no importance in the scheme of things.

It was interesting enough to recommend though and I guess as a portrayal of jury deliberation it's quite fascinating and stands alone. :lol: I don't think it's fair to compare this to the great courtroom dramas like To Kill a Mockingbird, Anatomy of a Murder, A Few Good Men, etc

Acting- 9.5
Script- 8
Visuals- 9
Sound- 8.5
Editing- 8

Total Score = 84%



Double Indemnity (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036775/)-

I loved Some Like It Hot so much I thought I'd give this a try. I knew it would be a very different style of film and from what I understand Billy Wilder was indeed more known for his comedies, but I'd heard this was not only the quinessential ones but perhaps the very best of film-noirs. I'm not sure I agree but it was an enjoyable watch hightened by some witty dialogue and great performances from Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson. I felt like the lead actor was perhaps mis-cast though. Fred MacMurray was alright, but I think a more talented actor like Humphrey Bogart would have been a better fit and his film noirs (The Big Sleep and The Maltese Falcon) exceed this :shrug:

Acting- 9
Script- 8.5
Visuals- 8
Sound- 8
Editing- 8

Total Score = 83%

Two films I would definitely recommend are a pre code film made in the 30's with Barbara Stanwyck called 'Baby Face' and a Raul Walsh western made in the 50's called 'Westward the Women.' Both films are fascinating and amazing in their maturity. My favourite Alfred Hitchcock fil is 'Shadow of a Doubt'. It was the first film I saw as a young girl that made me look at people.

Well, with all the new movies coming out that I want to see I'm not sure how much time I'll continue investing in catching up on the classics I've missed, but I hope to at least see the following...

The Godfather
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Sunset Blvd.
The Third Man
The Teasure of the Sierra Madre
City Lights
Singin' in the Rain
2001: A Space Odyssey
All About Eve
The Great Dictator
The Apartment
The Bicycle Thief
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
On the Waterfront
Touch of Evil
High Noon
Ben-Hur
Witness for the Prosecution
Gone with the Wind
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sleuth
Stalag 17
The African Queen
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Barry Lyndon
All Quiet on the Western Front
Sullivan's Travels
White Heat
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Lawrence of Arabia
Laura
From Here To Eternity
Days of Heaven

Screwball Comedies

The Awful Truth
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Pillow Talk
The Seven Year Itch
Ball of Fire
Holiday
You Can't Take it With You
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Adam's Rib


And if I have time...

Paths of Glory
M
Modern Times
The Great Escape
The Seventh Seal
Cool Hand Luke
The Manchurian Candidate
Wild Strawberries
The General
8 and 1/2
The Gold Rush
Diabolique
The Night of the Hunter
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Killing
Judgement at Nuremberg
The Wild Bunch
The Best Years of Our Lives
Nights of Cabiria
The Hustler
The Kid
Rosemary's Baby
Patton
Brief Encounter
The Conversation
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A Place In the Sun
The Searchers
Footlight Parade
42nd Street
The Gold Rush
The Magnificent Ambersons
Meet Me In St. Louis
Meet John Doe
Sound of Music
The Lost Weekend


Most of those are found on the IMDB Top 250. Are there any I'm missing that you guys would consider "essential" watches?

My favourite Alfred Hitchcock fil is 'Shadow of a Doubt'. It was the first film I saw as a young girl that made me look at people.

Yeah, it's a great one. Not my absolute fav (Rear Window is) but it's up there. :tu:

Oh, and your post just reminded me that there are quite a few Hitchcock films left that I need to find time for too :lol: I still plan to watch The Man Who Knew Too Much, Trouble with Harry, Lifeboat, The Wrong Man, Frenzy, and Saboteur.

Are there any I'm missing that you guys would consider "essential" watches?
Even though I don't consider it as great as others do, I would say it is essential to see Scarface, the one released in 1983.

Even though I don't consider it as great as others do, I would say it is essential to see Scarface, the one released in 1983.

Has this reached "classic" status? Not really was I was looking for, but ok. :shrug: You see all of the movies I listed (with the exception of The Godfather and Days of Heaven) were like pre-1975 and most are from the Golden Age of Hollywood (about the 1930's through the 1950's)

Has this reached "classic" status?It's a cult favorite, yes.

That said, it's a cartoon compared to the masterpiece that is the original film (the 1932 Howard Hawks film, which is truly one of the greatest films ever made). The original is very much a 'classic' film, and still the best film I've seen this year so far (and it will remain high, very high on that list towards the end of the year no doubt).

It's a cult favorite, yes.

That said, it's a cartoon compared to the masterpiece that is the original film (the 1932 Howard Hawks film, which is truly one of the greatest films ever made). The original is very much a 'classic' film, and still the best film I've seen this year so far (and it will remain high, very high on that list towards the end of the year no doubt).

Hmm, I've known of this other version for a while now but I didn't realize Hawks directed it. Well, for the most part I have liked all of his films. Bringing Up Baby and The Big Sleep are masterpieces...To Have and Have Not and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes were pretty good...and His Girl Friday was, well tolerable. :lol: So while I have no desire to watch the 1983 version with Al Pacino I might add this one to my list. :p

In addition, I remembered that there are 2 Audrey Hepburn movies I want to see (Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany's) as well as The Philadelphia Story remake with Grace Kelly (High Society) Also, because I like Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and Humphrey Bogart so much (and these are arguably the 3 best actors of all time) I might watch a few more of theirs too such as Sylvia Scarlett, Broken Arrow, and The Caine Mutiny...respectively :) Oh boy, so many movies to watch but so little time :lol: I should have started in with the classics years ago...

I firmly believe that everyone should watch one of Anthony Mann's westerns. My favourite on is The Naked Spur with James Stewart and Robert Ryan. Fascinating film.

The Philadelphia Story remake with Grace Kelly (High Society)

"High Society" is ok - but not a patch on "The Philadelphia Story". I think Grace Kelly has a great look, but I always find her too removed in film and she is no where near Hepburn's standard. Her performance in this is so whispy and light, nothing compaired to the strong performance Hepburn gave as Tracey. Frank and Bing are not close to Stewart's or Grant's either. There is not a trace of Hepburn and Grant's great chemistry present between Bing and Kelly.
I don't mind musicals, but I feel there is a lot of the sincerity lost because of the numbers in this film. Maybe it’s because I love the language of "The Philadelphia Story" so much and hate to see it tampered with.

"High Society" is ok - but not a patch on "The Philadelphia Story". I think Grace Kelly has a great look, but I always find her too removed in film and she is no where near Hepburn's standard.

Who is?

Who is?

No one comes to mind :lol:

Another rewatch of "The Magnificent Ambersons". This film was so ahead of its time, not only for the pioneering techniques used by Welles, but for the dialog and almost feral performances. I have never seen such realistic and untamed emotion as portrayed by Agnes Moorehead. I think this has now become my favorite film of all time. I get so caught up in it the more I see it.
I wish there was a way to see it in its entirety with its original ending, but the original rushes are lost or destroyed. I feel like something very important is missing from the world because of the butchering of this film.
I still believe it manages to get its message across very well and the character development, though shorter than Welles intended, is still there and remains believable. However it is the performances particularly of Tim Holt and Agnes Moorehead, all the better when they are in a scene together, that captivate you and make this such a standout piece of film.

"High Society" is ok - but not a patch on "The Philadelphia Story". I think Grace Kelly has a great look, but I always find her too removed in film and she is no where near Hepburn's standard. Her performance in this is so whispy and light, nothing compaired to the strong performance Hepburn gave as Tracey. Frank and Bing are not close to Stewart's or Grant's either. There is not a trace of Hepburn and Grant's great chemistry present between Bing and Kelly.
I don't mind musicals, but I feel there is a lot of the sincerity lost because of the numbers in this film. Maybe it’s because I love the language of "The Philadelphia Story" so much and hate to see it tampered with.

To each their own but I'm not too fond of Katharine Hepburn. :shrug: She was a great actress but she doesn't entrance me like Grace Kelly, who was a very fine actress herself. It's a shame that Prince Rainier took her from us, forcing to retire from acting at the early age of 26. :sigh: Who knows where she would've ended up but she'd already compiled an impressive body of work, most notably as Hitchcock's leading lady.
As for the others, well I figure that Bing Crosby is no Cary Grant...but I've seen him in a couple movies and he's no slouch. I have no frame of reference for Sinatra, but yeah he probably doesn't compare to James Stewart. :lol: Since it had quite possibly the best lead cast in film history, The Philadelphia Story will surely be hard to top...and I don't care for musicals much, but I still want to see how the 2 compare. :p

^ fair enough, but I think you should watch "The Philadelphia Story" after "High Society" to really compare Hepburn and Kelly's performances.
Have you watched "Guess who's coming to dinner"? Hepburn and Tracey are wonderful in this. She plays a much warmer character.

No one comes to mind :lol:

How 'bout Ingrid Bergman? :p Which reminds me...Gaslight and For Whom the Bell Tolls (of which I've read the novel) look good too :lol:


^ fair enough, but I think you should watch "The Philadelphia Story" after "High Society" to really compare Hepburn and Kelly's performances.

You mean watch it again? I might...

Have you watched "Guess who's coming to dinner"? Hepburn and Tracey are wonderful in this. She plays a much warmer character.

No I haven't, but I might add that to my list. The other Hepburn films I'm considering are as follows...

The African Queen (because it stars Humphrey Bogart)
Adam's Rib (because I've read this is really funny)
Holiday (because it stars Cary Grant)
Sylvia Scarlett (it was briefly featured on the Cary Grant documentary on my DVD of North By Northwest and it looked good)


Back to Grace Kelly, the other of hers I was planning to watch besides High Society was High Noon...but has anyone seen the 2 for which she garnered a Best Actress win (The Country Girl) and supporting nom (Mogambo)? Are those worth watching aside from her presence? :whistle:

The African Queen (because it stars Humphrey Bogart)
Adam's Rib (because I've read this is really funny)
Holiday (because it stars Cary Grant)

These are great - Adam's Rib is a personal favorite - not because it is a masterpeice or anything, but because of the relationship between Hepburn and Tracey on screen.
I haven't seen "Sylvia Scarlett".

but has anyone seen the 2 for which she garnered a Best Actress nomination (Mogambo) and a win (The Country Girl)? Are those worth watching aside from her performances?

Haven't seen Mogambo, but The Country Girl is good. It's a change for Kelly and that's probably what won her the Ocsar - a lot of people felt Garland should have won, and I agree. It's probably my favorite role of Crosby's and William Holden is very good in it also.

So what other legendary pre-1970's directors are there besides like Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra, Billy Wilder, and Howard Hawks?

Also, perhaps you guys could name what you consider like the top 3 films from the directors listed above and/or others you know of.

For me it would be this...

Alfred Hitchcock

1. Rear Window
2. Psycho
3. Vertigo

There's so many great Hitchcock's, it's hard to choose...but those are probably the safest bets and his three most reputable :lol:

Frank Capra

1. It Happened One Night
2. Arsenic and Old Lace
3. It's a Wonderful Life

Billy Wilder (only seen 2 so far)

1. Some Like it Hot
2. Double Indemnity

Howard Hawks

1. Bringing Up Baby
2. The Big Sleep
3. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

So what other legendary pre-1970's directors are there besides like Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra, Billy Wilder, and Howard Hawks?

Also, perhaps you guys could name what you consider like the top 3 films from the directors listed above and/or others you know of.

For me it would be this...

Alfred Hitchcock

1. Rear Window
2. Psycho
3. Vertigo

There's so many great Hitchcock's, it's hard to choose...but those are probably the safest bets and his three most reputable :lol:

Frank Capra

1. It Happened One Night
2. Arsenic and Old Lace
3. It's a Wonderful Life

Billy Wilder (only seen 2 so far)

1. Some Like it Hot
2. Double Indemnity

Howard Hawks

1. Bringing Up Baby
2. The Big Sleep
3. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

My 3 favourite Hitchcock's are
Shadow of a Doubt,
Notorious,
The Trouble with Harry.

Other films I would recomment to start with are.

John Ford
The Searchers
How Green Was My Valley
Drums Along the Mohawk
Mr Roberts
The Calvery Trilogy=Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Rio Grande
And a special place in my heart for The Horse Soldiers.

Anthony Mann
The Naked Spur
The Far Country
Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

William Wellman
The Ox-Bow Incident
Westward The Women...This should be seen by every Feminist Study group.
The Story of G I Joe

George Cukor
The Women
The first part of Gone With the Wind
Born Yesterday

Micheal Curtiz
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Casablanca
Mildred Pierce
The Sea Hawk
White Christmas, Sorry he directed so many good ones, but pick any one of them and you have a classic.

I also like a director from the 50's called Delmar Daves. He directed really out of the mainstream westerns and dramas that he also wrote a lot of screenplays for,
The Last Wagon,
Jubal
3:10 to Yuma, the original.

^ Cool, I may have to check out the work of some of those other directors. BTW, I just came across this neat list that is sorted by such :cool:

http://beyondthecanon.blogspot.com/2009/12/canon.html

^ Cool, I may have to check out the work of some of those other directors. BTW, I just came across this neat list that is sorted by such :cool:

http://beyondthecanon.blogspot.com/2009/12/canon.html

I would recommend every movie on that list. There are some I haven't seen, but I do plan on seeing them. I would say I've seen about 80% of them. He doesn't have 'The Producers'. the original with Gene Wilder. That's one funny movie and to quote Mel Brooks, 'It rose below vulgarity'.

Also, perhaps you guys could name what you consider like the top 3 films from the directors listed above and/or others you know of.
Pre 1970's?

Carol Reed
The Thrid Man
The fallen idol
Odd Man Out

Orson Welles
The Magnificent Ambersons
Citizen Kane
The Trial

Billy Wilder
The Lost Weekend
Some like it hot
The Apartment

Stnaley Kubrick
Lolita
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Roy and John Boulting
Brighton Rock
I'm All Right Jack
The Family Way

George Cukor
The Philidelphia story
Adams rib
A Star Is Born(1954)

Stanley Kramer
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Judgment at Nuremberg
On the Beach

Mike Nichols
The Graduate
Catch 22
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (the archers)
Black Narcissus
The Red Shoes
A Matter of Life and Death

Billy Wilder
The Lost Weekend
Some like it hot
The Apartment

Ok, I'll have to give those other two a watch. Any other great ones of Frank Capra or Howard Hawk that I might not necessarily know about due to 'em not making the IMDB Top 250? Oh, and the same question goes for Grant, Stewart, and Boghart movies. There are just so many and I'm not sure which are more likely to be a waste of my time... :lol:

Does anyone have a favorite old movie? I really like Lady Hawke ...

Ooh, great thread, I love love love Ladyhawke! (I also have a thing for Matthew Broderick before the '90s set in, hehe.)

Anyway, let's see, my favourite film movement is French New Wave. I can't get enough of Truffaut and Godard. I also love the Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni. So since we're talking about directors and their three top films to see, I'll go ahead and do the same.

François Truffaut
The 400 Blows
Fahrenheit 451
Confidentially Yours (for the Hitchcock fans, though not one of my personal favourites)

Jean-Luc Godard
Breathless
Masculin Feminin
Band of Outsiders (for people who won't like the other two suggestions)

Michelangelo Antonioni
Blow Up
l'Avventura
The Passenger

Ok, I'll have to give those other two a watch. Any other great ones of Frank Capra or Howard Hawk that I might not necessarily know about due to 'em not making the IMDB Top 250? Oh, and the same question goes for Grant, Stewart, and Boghart movies. There are just so many and I'm not sure which are more likely to be a waste of my time... :lol:

As for Howard Hawk's have you seen To Have and Have Not? That's the movie where Bogie and Bacall met. I love them. He did The Big Sleep also with them, and it was pretty good, but not as good as To Have and Have Not.

I loved the cast of To Have and Have Not. Bogie and Bacall of course... Walter Brennan, Hoagy Carmichael, etc.

As for Howard Hawk's have you seen To Have and Have Not? That's the movie where Bogie and Bacall met. I love them. He did The Big Sleep also with them, and it was pretty good, but not as good as To Have and Have Not.

I loved the cast of To Have and Have Not. Bogie and Bacall of course... Walter Brennan, Hoagy Carmichael, etc.

'You know how to whistle, don't you Steve? You just put your lips together and blow'

I also like 'The Thing from Outer Space' AKA 'The Thing'.

'You know how to whistle, don't you Steve? You just put your lips together and blow'




Was you ever bit by a dead bee? :cool:

As for Howard Hawk's have you seen To Have and Have Not? That's the movie where Bogie and Bacall met. I love them. He did The Big Sleep also with them, and it was pretty good, but not as good as To Have and Have Not.

I loved the cast of To Have and Have Not. Bogie and Bacall of course... Walter Brennan, Hoagy Carmichael, etc.

Yep, and I've seen The Big Sleep too. I mentioned them both on the previous page actually :lol:

Hmm, I've known of this other version for a while now but I didn't realize Hawks directed it. Well, for the most part I have liked all of his films. Bringing Up Baby and The Big Sleep are masterpieces...To Have and Have Not and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes were pretty good...and His Girl Friday was, well tolerable. :lol: So while I have no desire to watch the 1983 version with Al Pacino I might add this one to my list. :p

Was you ever bit by a dead bee? :cool:

Ugh, I found that to be such an annoying running gag...


So I'm looking through the IMDB filmography for Capra, Hawks, and Wilder...seriously, did these guys make bad movies? :lol: Just judging by the scores, but they're like all around 7.0 or higher it seems...so what about these?

Frank Capra

Lady For A Day
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Gary Cooper)
Lost Horizon
You Can’t Take it With You
Meet John Doe (Gary Cooper)

Howard Hawks

Man’s Favorite Sport
Monkey Business (Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe)
Full House
I Was a Male War Bride (Cary Grant)
Air Force
Ball of Fire (Gary Cooper)
Sergeant York (Gary Cooper)
Only Angels Have Wings (Cary Grant)
Come and Get It
Ceiling Zero
Barbary Coast
Twentieth Century
Red River
Rio Bravo

Billy Wilder

Sabrina (Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn)
The Spirit of St. Louis (James Stewart)
Ace in the Hole
Love in the Afternoon (Gary Cooper)
One, Two, Three
Irma La Douce (Jack Lemmon)
The Fortune Cookie (Jack Lemmon)
The Front Page (Jack Lemmon)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

None of those crack the Top 250, but they all look like they might be great and quite a few of 'em star some of my favorite actors too. It seems you never know with the classic movies....especially comedies. One of my favorites (It Happens Every Spring) I never would have given a second thought to watching if it hadn't been about baseball... :cool:

I think I'll stick with trying to finish up the classics from the Top 250 first, but after that I may look into some of these others, which it seems you can't really go wrong with. Oh, and I can't believe I forgot about Kubrick! :lol: After Hitchcock he's probably one of the most famous directors (10 films in the Top 250) Can't say I've been too impressed by his movies, but he's growing on me. I'll have to watch some more of his classics to form a better opinion there.

Can't say I've been too impressed by his movies, but he's growing on me. I'll have to watch some more of his classics to form a better opinion there.Try out The Killing (which is thoroughly impressive as a piece of filmmaking, as well as among Kubrick's filmography, which is distinctly different and more straight forward from the films he made after it) and 2001 A Space Odyssey (probably the finest sci-fi film ever made, fascinating and deeply provoking on a visceral level). I still need to see Barry Lyndon and Paths of Glory.

Try out The Killing (which is thoroughly impressive as a piece of filmmaking, as well as among Kubrick's filmography, which is distinctly different and more straight forward from the films he made after it) and 2001 A Space Odyssey (probably the finest sci-fi film ever made, fascinating and deeply provoking on a visceral level). I still need to see Barry Lyndon and Paths of Glory.

Yeah, the one I'm most interested in seeing IS The Killing actually. In addition, I have some interest in Lolita, 2001 A Space Odyssey (I figure if I don't like this my general dis-like of sci-fi will be pretty well confirmed :lol:) Barry Lyndon, and maybe a couple of his war movies. The one I really don't have much desire to see is A Clockwork Orange... :shrug:

I have to admit his filmography is impressive. He only made 13 feature films and 10 are in the Top 250?! :wow:

I really don't have much desire to see is A Clockwork Orange

Don't write off "A Clockwork Orange" it's not a perfect adaptation - but it’s a great film. Malcolm McDowell is ideal as Alex, one of his best roles. Visually it is stunning, the use of colour and music unsurpassed. It's a true reflection of Krubrick’s genius.

So I'm looking through the IMDB filmography for Capra, Hawks, and Wilder...seriously, did these guys make bad movies? Just judging by the scores, but they're like all around 7.0 or higher it seems...so what about these?

Howard Hawks

I Was a Male War Bride (Cary Grant)
I forgot about this film – It’s one of my favorites, Quick and clever dialogue – Cary Grant Shines, his paring with Ann Sheridan is inspired. This film is a must see.


Billy Wilder

Sabrina (Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn)
Sweet enough, but nothing too outstanding. Not Audrey Hepburn’s greatest role.

The Spirit of St. Louis (James Stewart)
I am not really into biographical films, not really a fan of this one

Ace in the Hole
- Haven’t seen yet

Love in the Afternoon (Gary Cooper)
I really like this film – probably my favorite Hepburn role. It’s not overly complicated or challenging, and Gary Cooper doesn’t exactly throw himself into the role, however there is something wonderfully true and fresh about a plot that has been done to death.

One, Two, Three- Have never seen this, but really want to.

Irma La Douce (Jack Lemmon)
Really like this also. I find it fairly original and very heartfelt for a comedy. MacLaine is great, she has a knack for playing unfortunate naive wretches, who are matter of fact and romantic all at once.

The Fortune Cookie (Jack Lemmon) & the Front Page (Jack Lemmon)
-have yet to see

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
I am not a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes films – was not too interested in this. Its well made and fairly unique.

I love classic films! :love:

Some of my faves are:
Sound of Music
Breakfast at Tiffanys
My Fair Lady
The King and I
Mary Poppins

I'm a big Julie Andrews fan n I also like Audrey Hepburn! :cool::tu::tu:

two words:

Sabrina. Fair.

Gone with the Wind
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Waterloo Bridge
Funny Face
Roman Holiday
Sound of Music
In Name Only

I really love some of these classics...

Gone With the Wind - EPIC!
Breakfast at Tiffany's
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - hilarious!
The Wizard of Oz

I got the Universal Legacy Series DVD (http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Mockingbird-Universal-Legacy/dp/B0009X7664/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1293363639&sr=1-2) (to go along with the Hitchcock ones I already own) of To Kill A Mockingbird for Christmas. So excited to watch it again! :D I've only seen it a couple times but I recall thinking Gregory Peck's performance was one of the best I've ever seen. :tu:

Furthermore I am interested to see if I still find it to be one of the best book to film (and the book is quite amazing) adaptations I've seen.

Doctor Zhivago!

Let's see what classic movies do I like? I'm not too into classic movies, but thanks to Netflix I've been watching a few.
The Wizard of Oz
All About Eve
It Happened One Night
A Streetcar Named Desire
Annie (I feel like it's not old enough to be considered a classic, but it's a classic to me)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (my dad is a big John Wayne fan and I've seen this one more times than I count...I thoroughly enjoy it, so that's a good thing)
West Side Story
William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet

I watched an Affair to Remember last night, I'd not seen it before but you know what, they don't make leading men like Cary Grant anymore.

Wonderful bittersweet movie.

My favourite old classic movies are mention below:

1. Star Wars
2. Citizen Kane
3. The Godfather
4. Rear Window
5. The Third Man

My all-time favorite is Gone With The Wind, but I also enjoy these other classics:

The Wizard of Oz
Rear Window
Psycho
Rebecca (Hitchcock much? :lol:)
Random Harvest
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Star Wars Trilogy

Just watching Dial M for murder :) classic hitchcock :)

Just how old does a movie have to be to be called "a classic"?? I am just wondering if LotR can be called a classic...

Favorite Classics:

Singin' in the Rain
The Graduate
Casablanca
An American in Paris
An Affair to Remember
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Just how old does a movie have to be to be called "a classic"?? I am just wondering if LotR can be called a classic...

Well, it has been over a decade since they filmed them, so...

I think old films are like old computer games. You remember them being better than what they actually are. Psycho, for example, is slow, boring and about as scary as a gun fight with Stephen Hawking.

Well, it has been over a decade since they filmed them, so...

I think old films are like old computer games. You remember them being better than what they actually are. Psycho, for example, is slow, boring and about as scary as a gun fight with Stephen Hawking.

Well in that case:

LotR
Labyrinth
Sisi (all of them, perfect Christmas films)
Mary Poppins
the Sound of Music
Star Wars (it has taken me a while to like these)
My Fair Lady

Psycho, for example, is slow, boring and about as scary as a gun fight with Stephen Hawking.

Blasphemy! It's one of the best psychological thrillers ever made and the Godfather of slasher films.


So I see it's been quite a while since I last posted in this thread. Hmm, let's see...what classic movies have I seen in the past year?

****

Singin' in the Rain
The Killing (Kubrick)
You Can't Take it With You (Capra)
Sergeant York (Hawks)
Charade
Adam's Rib
Ball of Fire (Hawks)
The Lady Eve
Les Diaboliques
The Godfather: Part II
Touch of Evil
Platoon
Sleuth

*** 1/2

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Awful Truth
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
To Be Or Not To Be
The Innocents
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Scarface (1932- Hawks)
Meet John Doe (Capra)
Wild Strawberries
Gone with the Wind
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Frenzy (Hitchcock)
Witness for the Prosecution (Capra)
From Here To Eternity

***

The African Queen
Days of Heaven
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Thin Man
The Godfather
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock)
Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick)
Holiday
Roman Holiday
Sullivan's Travels
Badlands
The Shop Around the Corner
The Birds (Hitchcock)
Night of the Hunter

**1/2

The Wrong Man (Hitchcock)
I Confess (Hitchcock)
Stage Freight (Hitchcock)
The Third Man
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Saboteur (Hitchcock)
The French Connection
Marnie (Hitchcock)
Bell, Book, and Candle
The Postman Always Rings Twice

**

The Seventh Seal


I unfortunately haven't discovered many more Hitchcock greats, but I have found out how great 1941 was, to an even greater extent. :cool:

Just take a look at this list of classics released that year-

Suspicion (Hitchcock)
Maltese Falcon (Huston)
The Lady Eve (Sturges)
Ball of Fire (Hawks)
Sullivan's Travel's
How Green Was My Valley (Ford)
Meet John Doe (Capra)
Citizen Kane (Welles) - not a favorite, but its achievements cannot be brushed aside
Sergeant York (Hawks)

1. Gone with the Wind
2. It's a Wonderful Life
3. The Silent Man
4. Star Wars Trilogy
5. Harry Potter Series
6. Casablanca
7. Wizard of Oz

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a classic!

Um,
-Star Wars
-Wizard of Oz.
-Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles
-Heathers
-Gone with the Wind
-Somewhere in Time

How old is old? Someone mentioned some that were made in the 80s - the John Hughes teen films are classics, but I'm not sure if they're old!

12 Angry Men
Annie Hall
Sleeper
All The President's Men
Dr Strangelove
Easy Rider
Hannah and her Sisters
The Graduate
Brief Encounter

Blasphemy! It's one of the best psychological thrillers ever made and the Godfather of slasher films.


What passes for horror these days caters to those whose imagination needs to be spoon-fed lashings of gore. What makes Psycho so scary is what Hitchcock doesn't show and the imagination fills in.

Just saw 'In the heat of the night' recently. Was worth the watch. Definitely a classic in my eyes.

In need of a classic film for a movie night with some friends; something both guys and girls would enjoy...and preferably one I have not yet seen either (yes, that one's probably the most difficult parameter :p :lol:) For a complete list (according to my Flickchart) of my viewings...

1930's

It Happened One Night
The Wizard of Oz
The Lady Vanishes
The 39 Steps
The Thin Man
Duck Soup
Bringing Up Baby
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Scarface
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Drácula
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Gone with the Wind
City Lights
Modern Times
My Man Godfrey
The Awful Truth
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
You Can't Take It With You

1940's

The Lady Eve
Arsenic and Old Lace
Shadow of a Doubt
Foreign Correspondent
It's a Wonderful Life
The Pride of the Yankees
Spellbound
Casablanca
The Philadelphia Story
Dumbo
Laura
Rebecca
The Big Sleep
The Maltese Falcon
Notorious
Double Indemnity
Saboteur
The Third Man
His Girl Friday
Gaslight
The Bishop's Wife
Pinocchio
The Grapes of Wrath
Bambi
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Lifeboat
Citizen Kane
Rope
Key Largo
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Suspicion
Sullivan's Travels
The Shop Around the Corner
To Be or Not to Be
The Magnificent Ambersons
Gilda
Adam's Rib
The Pride of the Yankees
Ball of Fire
On the Town

1950's

Rear Window
Some Like It Hot
Strangers on a Train
Vertigo
North by Northwest
Touch of Evil
Anatomy of a Murder
To Catch a Thief
The Ten Commandments
Dial M for Murder
The Night of the Hunter
The Killing
Singin' in the Rain
Witness for the Prosecution
The Bridge on the River Kwai
12 Angry Men
The Seven Year Itch
Sunset Blvd.
From Here to Eternity
Harvey
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The African Queen
Sleeping Beauty
I Confess
Lady and the Tramp
Cinderella
Roman Holiday
Peter Pan
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Alice in Wonderland
High Noon
The Seventh Seal
White Christmas
On the Waterfront
Wild Strawberries
Stalag 17
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sabrina
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers
The Wrong Man
Monkey Business
Pillow Talk

1960's

The Graduate
Psycho
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Apartment
West Side Story
Bonnie and Clyde
Charade
101 Dalmatians
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Doctor Zhivago
The Jungle Book
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Lolita
Frosty the Snowman
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Romeo and Juliet
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Goldfinger
A Charlie Brown Christmas
2001: A Space Odyssey
Rosemary's Baby

1970's

Animal House
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Jaws
Network
Chinatown
Star Wars
Halloween
Escape from Alcatraz
Sleuth
Blazing Saddles
Harold and Maude
Days of Heaven
The Godfather Part II
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
The Conversation
The Sting
Rocky
The Godfather
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Grease
The Bad News Bears
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Rescuers
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Charlotte's Web
Taxi Driver
Barry Lyndon

The Wizard of Oz! One of my favorite movies growing up.

The Wizard of Oz! One of my favorite movies growing up.

Seen it multiple times and I'm pretty sure my friends have too...

What about "Meet Me in St Louis"? It's another Judy Garland Musical and it's good fun.

If you like swashbuckling, I'd suggest the 1934 version of the The Scarlet Pimpernel, with Leslie Howard, the 1948 of The Three Musketeers, with Gene Kelly, or The Prisoner of Zenda.

If you like swashbuckling, I'd suggest the 1934 version of the The Scarlet Pimpernel, with Leslie Howard, the 1948 of The Three Musketeers, with Gene Kelly, or The Prisoner of Zenda.

Hmm, those could be good since 2 of my 3 friends used to do fencing. In fact they dressed up as the 3 Musketeers for a themed danced.

Thanks!

EDIT:

And can anyone comment on this one? Director was Michael Curtiz so I figure it must be good...and the score seems to reflect this also-

The Sea Hawk (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033028/)

Hmm, those could be good since 2 of my 3 friends used to do fencing. In fact they dressed up as the 3 Musketeers for a themed danced.

Thanks!

EDIT:

And can anyone comment on this one? Director was Michael Curtiz so I figure it must be good...and the score seems to reflect this also-

The Sea Hawk (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033028/)

The Sea Hawk is a good Errol Flynn movie. My favorite one of his is The Adventures of Robin Hood. Both of them have pretty good sword fights.

Some of the classic movies I've seen :).

Back to the Future trilogy
The Shining
ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Wizard of Oz
Airplane!
Naked Gun trilogy
Who framed Roger Rabbit?
Stand by Me
Notorius (1946)
Strangers on a Train
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
A Christmas Story
Ghostbusters
It's a Wonderful Life
Field of Dreams
Star Wars