Favorite Old Movies

09 January 2003, 05:25 PM

Fahrenheit

Favorite Old Movies

Cora's got me thinkin'...what old movies does everybody like? hmm?

Some of my favorites:

The Long Long Trailer
Auntie Mame
Gone With the Wind
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House
The Egg and I
His Girl Friday
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Friendly Persuasion
That Touch of Mink
Arsenic and Old Lace

09 January 2003, 05:54 PM

<CatDaddyChris>

Dead men dont wear plaid.

cat

09 January 2003, 06:03 PM

bailey

it's a wonderful life
the christmas story

love those. can't have the holidays without them. [Smile]

09 January 2003, 07:55 PM

Shawn

How old are we talkin here???

Yours Mine and Ours - 1968 Lucille Ball & Henry Fonda

Support Your Local Sheriff - 1969 James Garner, Harry Morgan

Ball of Fire - 1941 Gary Cooper & Barbara Stanwyck

Cool Hand Luke - 1967? Paul Newman

The Hustler - 1961 Paul Newman $ Jackie Gleason

The Sons of Katie Elder - 1965 John Wayne and Earl Holliman (who I adore)

GIANT - 1956 Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean

Just to name a few [Wink]

09 January 2003, 08:12 PM

lila997

Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Wizard of Oz
Rebecca
The Sound of Music
The Way We Were
What's up Doc?
Gone With the Wind
National Velvet
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Bringing Up Baby

[ January 09, 2003, 05:14 PM: Message edited by: lila997 ]

09 January 2003, 08:33 PM

Fahrenheit

quote:
Originally posted by Shawn:
How old are we talkin here???

Well I was thinking early 60s and before...B&W, Technicolor. I guess 1983 is old to some, though (bailey, I'm looking at you).

[Wink]

edited because geez, it wasn't even 1981 old...

[ January 09, 2003, 05:48 PM: Message edited by: Fahrenheit ]

09 January 2003, 08:45 PM

<Stace>

A lot of the classics
Gone With the Wind
Sound of Music and Wizard of Oz both sentimental favourites
Rear Window

and all time fave..
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor (damn, still can't decide who is sexier in that movie!)

09 January 2003, 08:55 PM

bailey

i'm 23, so 1984 is old to me. not that i'm calling any of you old. lol. [Big Grin]

09 January 2003, 09:00 PM

Fahrenheit

I had to edit it like 9 times to get the year right, so I guess at least I don't remember it like it was yesterday [Wink]

09 January 2003, 11:34 PM

The Xenatizer

Ok, my list also contains some really, really old flics even *I* wasn't born soon enough to have watched their premiere. [Wink]

Sorry for the lenth of the list, but believe me, I REALLY had to fight to keep it this 'short'.

Nosferatu (G 1922)
Greed (USA 1925)
Chaplin's Gold Rush (USA 1925)
Metropolis (G 1927)
'M' (G 1931)
Freaks (USA 1932)
Laurel & Hardy / Sons Of The Desert (1933)
39 Steps (GB 1935)
Fire Over England (GB 1937)
Bringing Up Baby (USA 1938)
The Adventures Of Robin Hood (USA 1938)
The Women (USA 1939)
His Girl Friday (USA 1940)
The Life & Death Of Colonel Blimp (GB 1943)
Henry V (GB 1944)
The Big Sleep (USA 1946)
Brief Encounter (GB 1946)
The Red Shoes (GB 1948)
Hamlet (GB 1948)
Strangers On A Train (USA 1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (USA 1951)
The Cruel Sea (GB 1953)
Rear Window (USA 1954)
On The Waterfront (USA 1954)
Ladykillers (GB 1955)
Richard III (GB 1955)
El Dorado (USA 1967)
Reflections In A Golden Eye (USA 1967)
Dr Strangelove (GB 1964)
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (GB 1965)
Alfie (GB 1966)
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (USA 1966)
2001 A Space Odyssey (GB/USA 1968)
Clockwork Orange (GB 1971)
Get Carter (GB 1971)
Frenzy (GB 1972)
Sleuth (GB 1972)
EQUUS (GB 1977)
Star Wars (USA 1977)
Apocalypse Now (USA 1979)
ALIEN (GB 1979)
Life Of Brian (GB 1979)
Excalibur (GB 1981)
Blade Runner (USA 1982)
Educating Rita (GB 1983)
Amadeus (USA 1984)
Witness (USA 1985)
Hannah & Her Sisters (USA 1986)
A Room With A View (GB 1986)
Henry V (GB 1989)
The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover (GB 1989)
Truly Madly Deeply (GB 1991)
Thelma & Louise (USA 1991)
Prospero's Books (GB 1991)

*
encyclopedic
The Xenatizer

09 January 2003, 11:46 PM

<Shane>

Dr. Zhivago and any Alfred Hitchcock movie.I love to try and find him when he does his one walk on scene in his movies.

10 January 2003, 01:20 AM

<xenacrazed>

Mama xc has one of those Starz/Encore cable packages & i get to go & hog -er use it to tape
"old" movies, most i've never seen before. Just
saw Casablanca not too long ago for the first time.

Dr. Zhivago

Casablanca

Harvey

Arsenic & Old Lace

It's A Mad Mad Mad World

Walking Tall (the original)

To Catch A Thief

List Of Adrian Messenger

They Might Be Giants (George C Scott is excellent)

Picnic At Hanging Rock (xc is obsessed with this)

Bunny Lake is Missing

The President's Analyst

Anything with Godzilla & all those '30s-'40s Universal horror films with Karloff/Lugosi/Chaney/
Creature from Black Lagoon

Annie Hall

Far From A Maddening Crowd

Logan's Run

Fahreinheit 451

10 January 2003, 03:00 AM

Cora

Started writing out my list.. then my computer re-started itself. then my dad started asking me why I dont seem to care about school. so yes I am not really in a mood to start writing the list again, it will have to wait until tommorow [Frown]

10 January 2003, 01:20 PM

Shawn

quote:
Originally posted by The Xenatizer:

On The Waterfront (USA 1954)
...
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (USA 1966)
...
ALIEN (GB 1979)
...
Witness (USA 1985)
...
Thelma & Louise (USA 1991)
...
encyclopedic
The Xenatizer

Had to second a few of those. I forgot to mention and Harry Dean Stanton movie and don't forget to..

"Be careful amoung te English." [Wink]

[ January 10, 2003, 10:20 AM: Message edited by: Shawn ]

10 January 2003, 02:49 PM

Sara

Gone With the Wind
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Carousel
Guys and Dolls (gotta love Sinatra & Brando)

The Harvey Girls...I doubt if anyone has ever seen this one, it has Judy Garland in it. Great flick. [Smile]

10 January 2003, 03:36 PM

Fahrenheit

quote:
Originally posted by Sara:
The Harvey Girls...I doubt if anyone has ever seen this one...

*raises hand* [Big Grin]

10 January 2003, 05:55 PM

Prof. Lurker

Let's assume old = before 1985.

A condensed list:

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Mary Poppins (1964)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1967)
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Tommy (1975)
Mad Max (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)

10 January 2003, 06:10 PM

Fahrenheit

The Day the Earth Stood Still

When Worlds Collide

The Women... "I am an old woman, my dear...I know my sex."

[ January 10, 2003, 03:11 PM: Message edited by: Fahrenheit ]

11 January 2003, 07:52 PM

<Belle>

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory

The Rabbit test

The Hunger (Cat hates it and got mad that I am posting it, but I saw it a least 40 times!)

The Christmas Story (love this at holidays)

Also Lila's so right with--
-The Sound of Music
-The Way We Were

And xenacrazed I forgot about
-Logans Run

Thats all I can think about for now!

[Cool]

12 January 2003, 12:29 AM

lila997

Thought of a few more...

All About Eve

Dark Victory

My Fair Lady

The Red Shoes

17 January 2003, 08:53 PM

Fahrenheit

Desk Set

17 January 2003, 10:04 PM

beauTifully tragic

woman of the year

17 January 2003, 11:03 PM

Brian

Favorites because of personal memories associated with them, not necessarily because I think they are all-time Oscar material:

The Buccaneer - 1951 - with Yul Brynner

Journey to Shiloh - 1960s - James Caan, I think, and Paul Peterson.

To Kill A Mockingbird - early 1960s - Gregory Peck... and also was the first movie for a long time well respected big name actor... a memorable part where he was on screen for about two minutes and never spoke a word... any guesses as to whom?

the entire Sherlock Holmes series with Basil Rathbone.