Laura is on the Fox Movie Channel right now. What a wonderful, wonderful movie.
List your favorite classic Hollywood movies here (so that I can learn of more things to watch). Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I don't know if it's old enough to be classic, but The Great Escape is one of my favorites. It brought together so much talent.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I don't know of the technical definition, Dag, but 1963 is good enough for me. I think (and I could be wrong) that classic Hollywood is technically the 1930s to the 1950s, but I'm not positive.
I almost titled the thread, "Good Old Movies," though, so 1963 is fine for me.
*adds it to list of must-sees this summer*
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Our Man in Havana
Rare, rare movie to find due to politics and economics.
I have a copy.
Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :
Notorious and The Big Sleep.
And Rear Window. Casablanca?
Can you tell I love old movies?
Oh, and Captain Blood Just to throw a swashbuckler into the mix. Posted by Sartorius (Member # 7696) on :
I just saw Breakfast at Tiffany's for the first time and loved it despite wanting to shake Audrey Hepburn and tell her to stop being so stupid.
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
I just saw Casablance for the first time last night. I missed the first half, but the second half was so very awesome.
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
Best Classic. Hands Down. Gone With the Wind.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
You Can't Take it with You Vertigo
(I love James Stewart. Just love him.)
Posted by The Silverblue Sun (Member # 1630) on :
Philadelhpia Story
Mr. Deeds goes to Town
Charade
Giant
Citizen Kane
All about Eve
Sunset BLVD
Posted by Corwin (Member # 5705) on :
Cool hand Luke Posted by ChaosTheory (Member # 7069) on :
The Man Who Came To Dinner
Any Laurel & Hardy movies
Lolita
I agree with 'The Philidelphia Story'
The Beutiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
The Palm Beach Story
Sullivans Travels
Lady Eve
Christmas in July
(in case you can't tell I'm a Preston Sturges fan)
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Most any Marx Brothers movie. Most any Buster Keaton movie. All Charlie Chaplin movies.
NOTE: Any movie I remember seeing first run at the theater is NOT a classic. Hence when Fox, AMC or Turner Classics play something like ALIEN I turn the channel.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
I recommend anything that was mentioned so far, plus:
Adam's Rib Arsenic and Old Lace Harvey Charade Some Like it Hot Roman Holiday
And more, as soon as I come up with them. And I love soo many that people said already!
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
I love all the Gene Kelley musicals....Briagadoon, Singing in the Rain, American in Paris, On the Town, etc....
Actually, I love musicals in general, just Gene Kelley more than others.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Gone with the Wind
And anything with Audrey Hepburn.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Both what romany said, and what Eru said! And ESPECIALLY what Eru said. Eru, I actually typed that, and then edited it out afterwards, because I was afraid my friends would make fun of me for being obsessed with Audrey. Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Many of the ones I would list have been mentioned (Tracy/Hepburn movies, Bogart movies, Marx Bros., Chaplin, various Hitchcock, etc.) Let me also suggest: Ruggles of Red Gap My Man Godfrey Bringing up Baby Cheaper by the Dozen (original version) Belles on their Toes Double Indemnity The Bishop's Wife
Posted by FoolishTook (Member # 5358) on :
The Rainmaker (1956) with Katharine Hepburn.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
I thought of you when I added that, Raia. Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
I feel special!
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, or any musical with Howard Keel (7 brides for 7 brothers, Kiss Me Kate, etc)
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
Howard Keel! I love him!
That said, my favourite classic movie would probably be... maybe... Citizen Kane. Then again, I like a lot of movies produced before 1960, and musicals especially.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I second most of the Marx Brothers Movies and 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington', Roman Holiday and Harvey, and The Great Escape.
Also: The Third Man is a total classic.
I think I've seen The Philadelphia Story but I always get it mixed up with another movie.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
quote: I think I've seen The Philadelphia Story but I always get it mixed up with another movie.
High Society? It's a (fairly bad) remake of The Philadelphia story. The music is fun, but the movie itself isn't worth much. It has Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, and Frank Sinatra in it, as well as Louis Armstrong. The original is Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart. Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
His Girl Friday There have been several different versions of this story, but this is by far the best. I think it's Cary Grant's best perfomance. And the movie invented overlapping dialogue, used to good effect in Gilmore Girls.
The Women. An all-female cast, basically a 2 hour catfight. Very fun.
I can't believe no one has mentioned The Maltese Falcon. A great and very influential film.
Most films by Hitchcock are either classics or at least good.
More later.
[ May 28, 2005, 05:40 PM: Message edited by: Morbo ]
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
Carrie is my friend. I adore Howard Keel and cried a little when he died.
Posted by bunbun (Member # 6814) on :
I saw the Women about 2 months ago--what a stitch!
Also, I must recommend the King & I--it's one of my all time favorites. For Howard Keel, I like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, which is absolutely hysterical, and not always because they meant it to be.
Posted by ChaosTheory (Member # 7069) on :
Possibly the best movie ever...not to mention that it had the most expensive stunt of the silent movie era...The General (1927) Starring Buster Keaton. This movie was so amazing, it truley is ambrosia for the old movie watcher.
Posted by Astaril (Member # 7440) on :
Whoa! What are the chances? Chaos, The General is my one of my alltime favourite movies! I was thinking as I read this thread that I was going to have to suggest it. I adore Buster Keaton. Sherlock Jr. is another favourite of mine.
I second The African Queen as well.
Also, Birth of a Nation (silent) is worth watching for the sheer amount of innovation that went into its making. It's extremely controversial (the KKK are the 'good guys') but if you read up on the background to it, it was a really interesting, enormous landmark in film history.
Edit: As well, The Court Jester or anything else with Danny Kaye is great.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
I just watched "The General" on DVD on my computer while waiting for my father at the Doctors office. Silent movies played on the computer are a great way to spend time waiting. You don't need the sound.
History channel had on a special that told the apparently true story they used to base the movie. I didn't get to see it.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Astaril...It's nice to know that there's something redeeming about Birth of a Nation. It sure wasn't the story, the acting, or the hero-worship of the KKK.
What a mess.
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
Some Like it Hot Deserves a mention. As does old Brando flicks like A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront.
Posted by Astaril (Member # 7440) on :
Well no, Birth of a Nation isn't tops in all categories. It actually was (and still is) blamed for a large resurgence of the KKK that occurred just after it came out. Have you seen Intolerance, Bob_S? Griffith made it in response to the blame/trouble he got for BoaN. It's got a rather different theme. Also fantastic technique-wise.
In any case, his use in BoaN of parallel editing, montage, close-ups, huge battle scenes and other techniques were really incredible and/or brand new for the time, and changed a lot of the ways in which film-making/directing was done. Griffith (and especially BoaN) was an *enormous* influence on Soviet cinema as well. And the acting was in fact considered pretty well done by a lot of people, with whom you obviously disagree...
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