Author Topic: Favorite classic films? (Read 1875 times)

Perd Hapley · « **on:** December 27, 2018, 03:09:26 PM »

I'm defining classic as pre-1970.

I've been watching a lot of Bogart, Jimmy Stewart, Carey Grant, and Hitchcock films lately.

Which ones do you like?

Pb · « **Reply #1 on:** December 27, 2018, 04:49:07 PM »

Casablanca!

charby · « **Reply #2 on:** December 27, 2018, 04:59:44 PM »

Queen Christina

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Christina_(film)

JN01 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 27, 2018, 05:02:05 PM »

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Forbidden Planet
Key Largo
Modern Times
High Noon

Ben · « **Reply #4 on:** December 27, 2018, 05:18:02 PM »

Any particular genres?

If you haven't seen it yet, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes. I also just watched The Hidden Fortress. John Wayne also did some great older non-Westerns. The Quiet Man comes to mind.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #5 on:** December 27, 2018, 05:25:12 PM »

One we just watched last night was "It Happened on Fifth Avenue." I really enjoyed it, and I realized I need a lot more Gale Storm in my life.

MechAg94 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 27, 2018, 05:27:36 PM »

The Carey Grant movies I have seen are entertaining. Operation Petticoat and I Was a Male War Bride come to mind. Looking at his IMDB movie list, I have not seen most of his movies.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly since High Plains Drifter was made after 1970. Clint was Tarantula! in 1955. That is nearly a classic monster movie. Most of Clint's best were later than 1970.

Rio Bravo with John Wayne. Probably a bunch of others, but that is one I will sit and watch quite often.

The Longest Day.

Kingcreek · « **Reply #7 on:** December 27, 2018, 05:28:30 PM »

Cool hand luke
Two mules for sister Sarah
True grit

MechAg94 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 27, 2018, 05:28:33 PM »

My Dad and I watch Tremors Christmas night since it came on. That is one that is fun to watch, but too new for this thread.

T.O.M. · « **Reply #9 on:** December 27, 2018, 05:42:47 PM »

Pre-1970...

Goldfinger and From Russia With Love
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (a favorite of my dad)
West Side Story
Disney's Davy Crockett
Pretty much all of the Eastwood and John Wayne westerns.

Andiron · « **Reply #10 on:** December 27, 2018, 06:58:52 PM »

Quote from: Ben on December 27, 2018, 05:18:02 PM

Any particular genres?

If you haven't seen it yet, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes. I also just watched The Hidden Fortress. John Wayne also did some great older non-Westerns. The Quiet Man comes to mind.

Hatari!

My favorite movie as a kid.

bedlamite · « **Reply #11 on:** December 27, 2018, 08:49:31 PM »

Plan 9 from outer space!

K Frame · « **Reply #12 on:** December 27, 2018, 08:59:04 PM »

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Shootist (1976 but a stone cold classic)

The Searchers

Psycho

Vertigo

Rear Window

Thunderball

It Happened One Night

The Maltese Falcon

Dr. Strangelove

The Best Years of Our Lives

Mrs. Miniver

It's a Wonderful Life

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Winchester '73

High Noon

The Bridge Over the River Kwai

Sunset Boulevard

City Lights

Stagecoach

Duck Soup

A Night at the Opera

The Thin Man

The Grand Illusion

Citizen Kane

The Seventh Seal

Judgment at Nuremburg

The Great Dictator

The Grapes of Wrath

Key Largo

Gas Light

Arsenic and Old Lace

Patton

Lawrence of Arabia

Heat of the Night

Planet of the Apes

To Kill a Mockingbird

HankB · « **Reply #13 on:** December 27, 2018, 10:02:49 PM »

Saw most of these as a kid - they've generally held up very well. I included the years since some have been remade - poorly!

Forbidden Planet (1956)

The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)

Zulu (1964)

The 10 Commandments (1956)

To Hell and Back (1955)

The Horse Soldiers (1959)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Destination Tokyo (1943)

Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944)

Sink the Bismarck! (1960)

Ben-Hur (1959)

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Spartacus (1960)

Sergeant York (1941)

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Comrade X (1940)

Stalag 17 (1953)

The Great Escape (1963)

Battleground (1949)

Horatio Hornblower (1951)

El Cid (1961)

The Buccaneer (1958)

The Three Musketeers (1948)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

The Sea Hawk (1940)

Khartoum (1966)

Cleopatra (1963)

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #14 on:** December 27, 2018, 11:06:03 PM »

On Carey Grant, he was great at what he did, and he was in a lot of great movies. He excelled at the Howard Hawks fast-talking, comic dialog, and physical comedy.

On my definition of "classic films," maybe I should have said Golden Age movies. Not that there aren't good movies after that, but there's a difference. I'm really loving the old ones lately.

Ben · « **Reply #15 on:** December 27, 2018, 11:16:12 PM »

Quote from: fistful on December 27, 2018, 11:06:03 PM

On my definition of "classic films," maybe I should have said Golden Age movies. Not that there aren't good movies after that, but there's a difference. I'm really loving the old ones lately.

They are some of my favorites as well. It's amazing what they could do with clean and intelligent dialogue, minimal special effects, and limited background music. I always trot out Treasure of the Sierra Madre as a prime example because I absolutely love the bar fight scene, which is almost quiet. You just hear some grunts and what sounds exactly like "real world" punching - just normal level noise on impact. Absolutely realistic, and to me, 100X better than any acrobatic stuff in modern movies.

French G. · « **Reply #16 on:** December 27, 2018, 11:32:15 PM »

Zardoz!

TommyGunn · « **Reply #17 on:** December 27, 2018, 11:44:57 PM »

It had to happen ........

freakazoid · « **Reply #18 on:** December 28, 2018, 06:13:30 AM »

WAY to many to really list. Some that others haven't listed yet:
Journey to the Center of the Earth - 1959
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - 1954
The Mysterious Island - 1961
Jason and the Argonauts - 1963

RocketMan · « **Reply #19 on:** December 28, 2018, 08:36:21 AM »

Quote from: freakazoid on December 28, 2018, 06:13:30 AM

WAY to many to really list. Some that others haven't listed yet:
Journey to the Center of the Earth - 1959
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - 1954
The Mysterious Island - 1961
Jason and the Argonauts - 1963

One of my favorite sci-fi films when I was a kid.
"The Haunting" from 1961 was a great horror movie.

Sindawe · « **Reply #20 on:** December 28, 2018, 12:22:53 PM »

Kelly's Heroes
Dirty Dozen
Battleground
Where Eagles Dare
North by Northwest
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Bringing up Baby
The African Queen
War of the Worlds

Outlier since it does not fit the date limit, but still a classic in my book since it was my first introduction to the works of John Hurt.

The Naked Civil Servant

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #21 on:** December 28, 2018, 12:56:16 PM »

Quote from: Ben on December 27, 2018, 11:16:12 PM

They are some of my favorites as well. It's amazing what they could do with clean and intelligent dialogue, minimal special effects, and limited background music. I always trot out Treasure of the Sierra Madre as a prime example because I absolutely love the bar fight scene, which is almost quiet. You just hear some grunts and what sounds exactly like "real world" punching - just normal level noise on impact. Absolutely realistic, and to me, 100X better than any acrobatic stuff in modern movies.

We don't need no stinking badges!

Bringing Up Baby is awesome (even though Carey went gay of all a sudden). I was really surprised to see Hepburn play the ditz, and then at the end she turns into gangster moll, which is even better.

230RN · « **Reply #22 on:** December 28, 2018, 04:13:58 PM »

One (1) (count 'em, uno) of my favorites was Destination Moon.

There. One.

Ben has repeated a lot of the cinematic techniques I admired, and as I scan through OTA TV channels, I seem to have a tendency to stop at anything in black and white. Don't know if it's the camera or lighting work, or the dialog, or the usually careful plotting without too many plot holes, or a combination, but I usually stop and watch through the whole thing.

Seinfeld:

https://youtu.be/GQAJuRcBHug

But Destination Moon was just one (1) of my favorites.

JN01 · « **Reply #23 on:** December 28, 2018, 08:25:34 PM »

Buster Keaton was a comic genius, most of his films are very entertaining.

Andiron · « **Reply #24 on:** December 29, 2018, 01:32:54 PM »

Atom tickets is my go to lately for movie theater stuff. The had a couple screenings of White Christmas this year. I don't really go to the movies anymore, but the re-screens of classics are fun.

Looking forward to this one in April-

https://www.atomtickets.com/movies/ben-hur-60th-anniversary-1959-presented-by-tcm/282658

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Author Topic: Favorite classic films? (Read 1875 times)