Name a great old school film that you love....

[Wetzelbill]

I will go with two, since I am starting this thread.

Lion In Winter
Giant

[intheflow]

1. The Philadelphia Story

And since you went with two, let me add Born Yesterday.

[Broken_Hero]

The Good The Bad and the Ugly

Fist Full of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Quite Man, The Longest Day....Mister Roberts, Kelly's Heroes...

[Wetzelbill]

11. Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns remind me of my nights out...

with a "Fistful of Dollars" I buy my first beer, "For A Few Dollars More" I start taking shots and from that point on, in descending order, the type of women I hit on are "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly." :)

[Broken_Hero]

20. ha, how is that working out for you?

or is it working at all?....:hi:

[Wetzelbill]

23. surprisingly not at all

although I am practically a saint nowadays. :)

[Broken_Hero]

24. A saint?

Okay...:sarcasm:




















:hide:

[Wetzelbill]

25. saints download porn, right?

:)

[haf216]

2. A Patch of Blue

[begin_within]

46. We just watched that 2 weeks ago - the acting was terrific, especially

Shelley Winters.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. 'Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House'

[Richardo]

37. .

:thumbsup:

It's on my all-time fave list.

[evlbstrd]

4. Count Spirochete.

A Navy education film.

http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.asp?ABBR=AVA20401VNB1&starDB=GRAHIST

[peekaloo]

5. .

:rofl:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. Don't forget Reefer Madness

:D

[evlbstrd]

26. They didn't show us that in boot camp.

Didn't really need to.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. The Ghost and Mrs Muir

Great film score!

[intheflow]

13. Oh yeah!

Great movie! Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison both at their sexiest. :D

[peekaloo]

8. North by Northwest

[mark0rama]

74. Rear Window

...since you got me thinking of Hitchcock.

[bertha katzenengel]

9. A Patch of Blue - Shelley Winters, Sidney Poitier

[haf216]

12. One of my all time favorites.

Oh I forgot about To Kill a Mocking Bird, a movie that actually did the book justice.

[swag]

10. "Rebecca" "The Innocents" "Mildred Pierce" "The Lady Eve"

[intheflow]

15. Rebecca!

What a wonderful movie. Everything about it was perfect. The best Hitchcock movie, imo, exquisite pacing, lighting, and acting.

[peekaloo]

14. Trog.

:eyes:

[enigmatic]

16. Here's 2

"The Crowd" (1928)

http://www.filmsite.org/crow.html

"A Face In The Crowd" (1957)

http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=16535

Both King Vidor as a director (The Crowd) and Andy Griffith as an actor (A Face In The Crowd) were never better..

[Wetzelbill]

21. you are hardcore

Just think, you are capable of moments like this or busting out some obscure song from some little known musician that is awesome. Then you go out and buy a Mr. Kennedy action figure. I am not sure if that makes you some kind of genius or some kind of clown. :)

I actually went to an ASUA President's cabinet meeting wearing a "Batista Is Unleashed" t-shirt and reading the Eddie Guerrero bio. There were actually people there wearing suits and ties. :)

[enigmatic]

22. that's what I'm talking about!

Never be embarassed by being a person of wide-ranging tastes, even if those tastes are frequently clashing with the public at large. Fly The Freak Flag, baby!:)

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

17. Rebel Without A Cause

James Dean died WAY too soon.

[Duer 157099]

18. Ca. Sa. Blan. Ca.

Hands down

[Robeson]

19. The Night of the Iguana....

...I like Lion in Winter, too...

[driver8]

27. The Caine Mutiny, Mrs. Miniver, The Thin Man Series...n/t

[WCGreen]

28. The THin Man movies....

Anything with Myrna and William is worth a repeat watch....

[bridgit]

78. LOVE The Thin Man series...

:hi:

[Neoma]

29. The Lady Vanishes

[Rowdyboy]

30. Just to be difficult, I'd choose "Harvey" and "The Philadelphia Story"

but then I've always been partial to Jimmy Stewart and Katherine Hepburn.

Your picks are flawless...."The Lion in Winter" is my all-time favorite movie of all time-I have no argument with you ... "Giant" is fabulous (I'm a huge Elizabeth Taylor fan) but I'd rank "Who's afraid of Virginia Wolfe" above it. Also, I'm nuts about anything with Audrey Hepburn or Grace Kelly.

[reyd reid reed]

31. Oh, I love Harvey

One of my favorites!!

:hi:

[Rowdyboy]

32. I have so many favorites...."Mr Blandings Builds his dream house"

and "Arsenic and Old Lace", "The Philadelhia Story" and the brilliant Bette Davis in "Jezebel".

So many classy, movies to select from. How sadly unlike the situation today.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

81. "Arsenic" on American Movie Classics tonight

It's funny every time I see it.

[Rowdyboy]

85. The real classics always are...I saw "Harvey" for the 1st time in decades

recently and laughed my ass off. Good comedy is truly eternal....

[haf216]

34. I forgot about Harvey......

And Roman Holiday, and everything else that Audrey Hepburn was in. That what so bad about these threads, too many to chose from so I forget most of the good ones.

[fudge stripe cookays]

33. "Now Voyager",

"All This and Heaven Too", "Ball of Fire", "The Party" with Peter Sellers, the original "Postman Always Rings Twice",

[last_texas_dem]

35. Sex and the Single Girl

Yeah, with a name like that it sounds like it would be a porn or something similar, but it's not; it's more of a romance with some screwball comedy added in for good measure. It's not exactly considered a classic, but I watched it enough while growing up that I wore out the videotape! It's got some big names in it, too, including Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, and Natalie Wood (and I can watch just about anything with her in it, just 'cause she's so purdy...).

Oh yeah, and I agree with the poster above who mentioned "The Lady Eve". That's another great romantic comedy from back in the day. It's funny, 'cause I don't really like movies of that genre that come out today, but I do like some of the old ones.

[flygal]

40. I asked for Sex ..Single Girl at a rental store about ten years ago

and the teen looked up and said snarky - We don't have those kinds of movies here. I said, you don't have CLASSICS LOL

[stanwyck]

36. Double Indemnity, Out of the Past,

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Mildred Pierce.
I love film noir.

[NYCGirl]

57. "Out of the Past" is my favorite movie of all time.

Others:

The Narrow Margin (not the remake!)
Force of Evil
Crossfire
Mildred Pierce
I Wake Up Screaming
In a Lonely Place
Kiss of Death (not the remake!)
The Asphalt Jungle
The Big Clock

[stanwyck]

60. Guess I need to update my NetFlix

queue. I don't know "The Narrow Margin". The remake of "Kiss of Death" was horrid. Thanks for the suggestions, NYC.

[NYCGirl]

73. You're very welcome. Noir is my favorite, too!

The original "Kiss of Death" is especially good because of Richard Widmark's amazing performance. And speaking of Widmark, he has two other great noirs:

Night and the City (also remade — but stick to the original)
Pickup on South Street

[CBGLuthier]

38. Way, way too many to list, but a small attempt

Metropolis
The Best Years of our Lives
The Thin Man
Stalag 17
Modern Times
The Music Box (Laurel and Hardy short)
What's Opera, Doc?

[Joe Fields]

39. My two: Grapes of Wrath and To Kill a Mockingbird

[XNASA]

41. 'Double Indemnity'

Wow!!!

[Cygnusx2112]

42. 12 Angry Men n/t

[NewJeffCT]

53. That would be my choice as well

I've always loved courtroom dramas. The remake on cable a few years back was pretty good, too.

[bikebloke]

43. A couple recent discoveries...

...for me anyway.

Stage Door
Before they were famous, Katherine Hephburn, Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller. It seemed Altmanesque.

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Bette Davis, who looked like she drank too much coffee. And Errol Flynn, who did a pretty good job. Astep away from his usual swashbuckler in tights roles. Though with tights.

[LSK]

44. Bringing Up Baby

Hilarious 30s slapstick comedy.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029947/

[jayfish]

45. Johnny Tremain. I Swear I Saw That Movie Every Year From 4th To 8th Grade.

Oh, not that kind of old school movie?

Jay

[begin_within]

47. Here are some old movies I consider to be "required viewing:"

8 1/2
The Bicycle Thief
The Exterminating Angel
Au Hasard, Balthazar (1966)
Intermezzo (with Ingrid Bergman)
Wild Strawberries
La Dolce Vita
Los Olvidados
The Grapes of Wrath (Henry Fonda)
The Seven Samurai
East of Eden (the James Dean one)
From Here to Eternity
Salt of the Earth (1954)
El Norte (1983)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
2001: A Space Odyssey
In The Heat of the Night
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
To Kill a Mockingbird
Psycho (1960)
Ship of Fools (1965)
To Sir, With Love
Lilies of the Field
Touch of Evil
Hud
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Laura (1944)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
It's a Wonderful Life
Sunset Boulevard
Rebel Without A Cause
The Yearling
All About Eve (1950)
Chinatown (1972)
Casablanca

[swag]

48. "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" "The Honeymoon Killers"

[noonwitch]

49. Lawrence of Arabia

great movie, but long.

[trackfan]

50. The Crowd - best silent drama.

[Va Lefty]

51. Angel on My Shoulder

Some great moments between Claude Rains and Paul Muni

[Love Bug]

52. Any Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie

Gold Diggers of 1933
Casablanca
The Women
Mildred Pierce
Pretty much any musical

[Pierre.Suave]

54. two of mine...

Blues Brothers

and

A Fish Called Wanda

[leftofthedial]

55. Hell is for Heroes

Debbie Does Dallas

[Jokerman]

56. "His Girl Friday"

Carry Grant and Rosalind Russell at their best.

[NYCGirl]

58. "Sullivan's Travels", "The Lady Eve", "The Palm Beach Story,"

and just about every other Preston Sturges film I didn't name above.

[GumboYaYa]

59. To Kill a Mockingbird

I love that movie.

For foreign films, The Bicycle Thief.

[bettyellen]

61. Ball of Fire, Hobson's Choice

and the old french Beauty and the Beast and Children of Paradise. and Atalante.

[Mutley]

62. "To Sir, With Love"

[timtom]

63. Geez, there're so many...

To Be or Not To Be (1942)
The Invisible Man (1933)
The Marx Brothers (Cococanuts, Duck Soup, Night at the Opera, Monkey Business, The Big Store)
The Snake Pit (1948)
The Graduate
The Loved One

Okay, I'll stop for now. (I could name literally hundreds more)

[blondeatlast]

64. Bedazzled (the original with Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore).

Still plays fresh and that wonderful dry humor.

[Left Is Write]

65. There are way too many to choose from.

So I'll go with What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?

[Briarius]

66. Nosferatu

the first dracula movie!

[Dr Fate]

67. All of the above- old movies are the best. n/t

n/t

[Calliope]

68. The Shop Around the Corner

Harvey, Swing Time, Philadelphia Story

[hotforteacher]

69. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

[benny05]

70. Born Free

And Elsa makes it.



Love the soundtrack too.

[benny05]

71. Surely, this isn't the thread killer, LOL nt

[Sacajawea]

72. A Man For All Seasons......I loved Paul Scofield in that movie!

[UTUSN]

75. Fanny n/t

[Arkham House]

76. Shadow of a Doubt...

Hitch's masterpiece, and an unparalleled look at small-town America, circa 1942...

[smtpgirl]

77. Old School films

Butterfield 8
Gaslight
Rope
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Rebel Without a Cause
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Spartacus
North By Northwest
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Fox
Roman Holiday
Bullitt
The Sand Piper
The Fox
The Apartment
Strangers on a Train
The French Connection
Serpico
The Godfather (All)
Goodfellas

[OzarkDem]

80. Butterfield 8

also The Long Hot Summer

[bridgit]

79. Dark Passage, Laura & Sunset Boulevard are three...

i like the old b&w stuff allot :thumbsup:

[Benfea]

82. Seven Samurai

Best action movie ever.

[Lethe]

83. Vertigo

i really like this film. Jimmy Stewart just plays the part of the nice guy pushed too far.

[u4ic]

84. M

[Maccagirl]

86. Chariots of Fire

a modern "old school" film.

[PhilYerHead]

87. Here's 26 of them

A Hard Day's Night
Bedazzled
Charlie Varrick
Dumbo
Elephant Man
From the Four Corners
Godfather, Part II
Horsefeathers
In The Heat Of The Night
Joe
Klute
Lust For Life
Mr. Majestyk
No Way Out
On The Waterfront
Patton
Quest For Fire
Remember the Night
Save the Tiger
Touch Of Evil
Underneath, The
Vanishing Point
Winter Kills
X (1963)
You Can't Take It with You
Zardoz

[Heidi]

88. "To Kill a Mockingbird."

:thumbsup:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

89. A Man for All Seasons

The Ruling Class
Night of the Hunter
A Clockwork Orange
To Kill a Mockingbird
Twelve Angry Men