OT: Favorite Old Movies

[RockyMTblue2]

At this time of year so many eyes are on sports so various "cable" stations put the lowest royalty programming on that they can and this includes the All Movies All Day channels. AND I love that. The classics come out of the "reel room" and being the total movie-aholic I am I gorge on this stuff. So I was wondering if we could share some of our favorites? Here is one of my Cold War favs, The Russians Are Coming:

 

[Bama fan]

My favorite cold war spoof is Dr Strangelove, or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Brilliant , even today.

 

[CL82]

You might be interested in a discussion on the Men's BB board.

the-boneyard-greatest-movie-of-all-time-tournament

You can see my whole list in that thread but for the purposes of this thread I'll add...

 

[Scud49]

For a Few Dollars More - classic spaghetti western with Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef:

 

[RockyMTblue2]

My favorite cold war spoof is Dr Strangelove, or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Brilliant , even today.

Mine too. Have it on CD. "Of course the women would have to be.... they would be required to do prodigous .... You're going to have to answer to the Coca Cola Company Mister....I can walk!"

 

[Jingo]

My favourite film noir is, "I Wake Up Screaming" w/ Victor Mature, Betty Grable & Carole Landis .. and my favourite L&H is "Chump At Oxford .. I probly have 200 pre-1955 fillums [as they say in Bvooklyn] on my hard-drive .. let's throw in "Champagne for Caesar" while we're at it Ronald Coleman, Celeste Holm, Art Linkletter, Vincent Price et al

 

[willtalk]

This is one of my favorite movies because in my opinion it is the most historically accurate depictions of that time period.

 

[Bama fan]

This is one of my favorite movies because in my opinion it is the most historically accurate depictions of that time period.

Almost exactly as I remember that very night! Accurate as all get out!

 

[Fairfield Fan]

Some of my very favorite are David Lean films:

Lawrence of Arabia
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Doctor Zhivago

Burt my all-time favorite old movie is:

Casablanca

 

[TerpWomenFan]

The magnificent seven 1960
Shaft (original)

 

[vtcwbuff]

Anything with Bogart/Bacall

The Man Who Would be King

 

[Blakeon18]

The Producers...Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder

 

[augustaTC]

The Searchers

 

[HoopsHoppy]

For pure laughs and a cameo cast that didn’t stop - 1864 Walter Matthau movie “A Guide for the Marrued Man”. A movie that ran the gamut from slapstick to sadness and everything in between “Forrest Gump”.

 

[HoopsHoppy]

Oooops, that’s 1964 - I’m old but movies aren’t.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

So if I had started a song/music thread you'd have been all over it. How about ICONIC Movie Theme Scores. Like this one:

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Or This:

 

[formerlurker]

A few years ago I watched this movie with my parents while visiting them in Florida. I was expecting the worst until they pointed out all of the places in the Bronx that they used to hang out in as kids. Nostalgia aside, this is a great flick!

 

[Waquoit]

My rule is that an old movie should be older than me. Old movies should mean older than the 1960's, preferably in black and white, that way I don't feel so old myself. Casablanca is my favorite. If you haven't seen it you are missing out. It's not a long, sappy melodrama. It's smart and funny and keeps moving. The Thin Man is another good one. An ex-cop and his socialite wife solve a murder mystery. But their chemistry and joi de vivre make it much more.

 

[Aluminny69]

This is one of my favorite movies because in my opinion it is the most historically accurate depictions of that time period.

Not more accurate than this!!

 

[Aluminny69]

Definitive Film Noir:

 

[the Q]

The Searchers

Amazing movie.

One of the rare westerns I like

 

[the Q]

For me “on the water front” is a classic.

And The Godfather counts as an old movie for me.

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

I have to apologize beforehand but I love Movies and have over1500 DVD's or video tapes in my collection! So here is just a fraction of my favorites : NO SP{ECIAL ORDER
1962 To Kill A Mockingbird Gregory Peck
1969 True Grit John Wayne
1962 How The West Was Won Huge Cast
1967 In The Heat Of The Night Sidney Portier & Rod Steiger
1960 Inherit The Wind Spencer Tracy, Fredric March & Gene Kelly
1951 Halls Of Montezuma Richard Widmark
1952 High Noon Gary Cooper & Grace Kelly
1939 Gunga Din Cary Grant, Victor <Mc:Laglen & Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
1941 The Maltese Falcon Humphrey Bogart
1956 Moby Dick Gregory Peck
1945 A Walk In The Sun Dana Andtrews, Lloyd Bridges, Richard Conte
1939 Stanley & Livingstone Spencer Tracy
1943 Sahara Humphrey Bogart
1944 The Purple Heart Dana Andrews
1959 Pork Chop Hill Gregory Peck
1955 Mister Roberts Henry Fonda, James Cagney
1944 Going My Way Bing Crosby &Barry Fitzgerald
1957 The Enemy Below Robert Mitchum & Curt Jurgens
1967 Camelot Richard Harris & Vanessa Redgrave
1960 The Alamo John Wayne, Richard Widmark, & Laurence Harvey
1956 Around The World In 80 Days Huge Cast

 

[Beemer]

I'm taking my mother to see our favorite old movie, "Gone With The Wind" tonight. It's a special screening for its 80th anniversary (wow)