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OT: Favorite Old Movies

I won't give a list, just one of. Again, not an oldie. But every time, and I mean every time it's on TV I find a way to watch at least some of it. So many scenes, so much of the dialogue from this film are indelibly etched on my minds retina. "You were saying something about best intentions?"

 
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My favorite is Casablanca: here's looking at you kid. I also enjoy Gone With The Wind which I found to be very impressive. In 1948 as a young boy, my father took me to see John Wayne in the Sands of Iwo Jima. Because of that movie, I enlisted in the US Marine Corps in 1967.
 
HoopsHoppy said:
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”.
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Beemer said:
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)
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that aging is scary. Means it was 65 years ago when I was projectionist for two shows a day for two weeks taking leave from the army to make money replacing striking projectionists for the 15th anniversary showing of Gone With The Wind in downtown Atlanta.
 
TCM's 30 Days of Oscar allowed me to discover 2 gems I had never seen before:

Three Colors: Red. Best foreign language, I believe. Beautiful pic. Mostly talk, unlike the Bruce Willis film.

The Nun's Story. Lost to Ben-Hur, but really, TNS is better. Sort of a Hollywood version of a Robert Bresson spiritual study, but also kind of a horror movie.
 
Holiday, Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, I think 1939. Also with both of them Philadelphia Story from a year or so later.

I'm with many above, Bogart and Bacall; The Marx Brothers (especially Monkey Business); Hitchcock (especially Rebecca); the Thin Man movies.

They're not really movies, but I still love Bugs Bunny and the Little Rascals.
 
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Bigboote said:
Holiday, Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, I think 1939. Also with both of them Philadelphia Story from a year or so later.

I'm with many above, Bogart and Bacall; The Marx Brothers (especially Monkey Business); Hitchcock (especially Rebecca); the Thin Man movies.

They're not really movies, but I still love Bugs Bunny and the Little Rascals.
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I like all your choices. Hepburn and Grant in Bringing Up Baby is also a fantastically funny movie. The cast is amazing and well suited to their roles.
 
Bama fan said:
I like all your choices. Hepburn and Grant in Bringing Up Baby is also a fantastically funny movie. The cast is amazing and well suited to their roles.
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"Bringing Up Baby" and "The Producers" are two of my favorite all time comedies. I'm also very partial to this one, and if you've ever been a home owner that has embarked on renovation or one who has built a house you'll understand.

 
JordyG said:
"Bringing Up Baby" and "The Producers" are two of my favorite all time comedies. I'm also very partial to this one, and if you've ever been a home owner that has embarked on renovation or one who has built a house you'll understand.

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Another good one. Grant pretty much assures any movie is good.
 
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JordyG said:
"Bringing Up Baby" and "The Producers" are two of my favorite all time comedies. I'm also very partial to this one, and if you've ever been a home owner that has embarked on renovation or one who has built a house you'll understand.

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Bringing Up Baby is probably my favorite comedy, and I suspect that The Producers is my wife's favorite comedy. Mr. Blandings is very good as well.
 
JordyG said:
I won't give a list, just one of. Again, not an oldie. But every time, and I mean every time it's on TV I find a way to watch at least some of it. So many scenes, so much of the dialogue from this film are indelibly etched on my minds retina. "You were saying something about best intentions?"

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"...And you shall know that I am the Lord when I lay my hand etc, etc. Me too @JordyG. Darkly humorous.
 
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Most of you and your choices are too high brow for me - yes all great movies, but my tastes are more simple or simple minded. A truly great period piece however, that I watch every time I can, involves one of the great duos of "modern" movie making, John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. I chose this scene to get you flks ready for your NCAA game viewing in your favorite pub:

 
Another Wayne favorite because of it's dealing with some important issues (alcoholism being one) :

 
Last one for the day! Ah, the glories of going to the movies for a Saturday Matinee, two movies, cartoons for two bits,and a Bonomo's Turkish Taffy Bar (vanilla; chocolate and strawberry were gross) and one of my childhood idols:

 
Okay, shameless liar that I am: The most brilliant comedy actor of our time in the Iconic CaddyShack, even if it doesn't get any respect (see what I did there):

 
RockyMTblue2 said:
Most of you and your choices are too high brow for me - yes all great movies, but my tastes are more simple or simple minded. A truly great period piece however, that I watch every time I can, involves one of the great duos of "modern" movie making, John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. I chose this scene to get you flks ready for your NCAA game viewing in your favorite pub:

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The Quiet Man is one of John Ford's best movies, one that we watch often when it shows up on television as well. Of course, Ford made a bunch of great movies. Ford is regarded as probably the greatest American movie director of all time, the guy knew how to paint a pictures on the big screen that tell quite a story.
 
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Personal favorite great 50+ yo films: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Midnight Cowboy (1969), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Requium For a Heavyweight (1962), The Asphalt Jungle (1950). For overall quality the 1950s was the best decade because of the new competition from TV. Just 1957 alone produced at least 10 superior films (ex. Paths of Glory, A Hatful of Rain, Edge of the City, Twelve Angry Men, 3:10 To Yuma).
 
kinda funny how this one never seems to be even mentioned in most "best whatever" surveys, yet it's one of only a few films ever made that airs annually. and, unlike those other few, it can air 24 hrs a day, often for days on end, and on multiple bigtime networks. add up the total viewers over time - I triple dog dare you to find a more watched film. we luv it! (ps. same vintage as caddyshack above)
 
A whole genre of movies involving transporting prisoners cross country was born with the Nicholson flick:

 
inthisopinion said:
(ex. Paths of Glory, A Hatful of Rain, Edge of the City, Twelve Angry Men, 3:10 To Yuma).
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I have to second this one. I stumbled on to it just a few years ago, it had never been on my radar screen. I almost didn't pull the trigger as I wasn't a Kirk Douglas fan. He's really good here, it's not the movie I was expecting.
 
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