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Favorite classic films

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Someone had suggested doing a Friday 5 type thing on classic films.  I've not done the Friday 5 thing before so can't tell if I'm doing it correctly or not, but regardless, I'm going to put up a chance for others to tell me what their favorite classic films are.  You can list 5, or 10, or 1 or 3, I don't really care what number you want to list.  The only real requirement I would place on things is that if you are going to label something a classic it needs to be more than 20 years old.  Newer films may eventually be worthy of being called classics, but for now I'm more interested in older classics, from earlier eras (like, for example, the Black & White era).

So, list some favorite classics films and perhaps comment on other people's choices.

I've already listed one of my own favorites (12 Angry Men) in a previous article.  I'll list a few other choices later, and will try not to take other people's choices (though for those that have good taste in classic films, that may be inevitable).

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Reply #26 from Elemental Forums Top

Clock work orange.. such a commentary on violence  in society. It resonates more now than it did then IMHO.

Reply #27 from Elemental Forums Top

Favorite classic films?  These:

 

Children of Paradise (France, 1945)

Beauty and the Beast (France, 1946)

The Seven Samurai (Japan, 1954)

Ugetsu (Japan, 1953)

Ran (Japan, 1985)

My Man Godfrey (US, 1936)

The Seventh Seal (Sweden, 1957)

Trouble in Paradise (US, 1932)

The General (US, 1926)

Beauties of the Night (France, 1952)

Grand Illusion (France, 1937)

Duck Soup (US, 1933)

 

 

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Reply #28 from Elemental Forums Top

This person died a year ago...

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

i have so many favourite b&w movies..  but if i had to pick just a handful these would be my favourites.

You cant take it with you. (classic frank capra movie with jimmy stewart, lionel barrymore and of course Edward Arnold)

Sorry Wrong Number (barbara stanwyck is always so believable as a bitch)

Grand Hotel ( I guess its the fact that both barrymore brothers are in this that got me..)

Hands Across the Table ( Carole Lombard and Fred McMurray a movie that is not so well known, but a beautiful

love story)

Rear Window (jimmy stewart, grace kelly, raymond burr) this has to be my all time favourite hitchcock, i clean the house while listening to it,

I love it so much)

One way passage (Kay Francis and william Powell) a beautiful love story with two of my favourite stars...

My man Godfrey (a hilarious movie with carole lomard and william powell....this movie always makes me laugh.)

 

my list could go on forever...but those are my chosen gems xxxx

 

 

Reply #30 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting seanw3, reply 28
This person died a year ago...
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My condolences.  Is there somewhere we can send our notices of consolation?

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I would list many of the same ones from above.

However, my FAVORITE film (classic or otherwise) is: 

Some Like It Hot - 1959, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon (directed by Billy Wilder).  When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

also

Dead Ringer - 1964, Bette Davis, Peter Lawford, Karl Malden (directed by Paul Henreid).  The twin sister of a callous wealthy woman murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman.  Bette Davis plays both roles.  Fabulous.

Now, Voyager - 1942, Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid (directed by Irving Rapper).  Boston spinster blossoms under therapy and finds impossible romance.

To Catch A Thief - 1955, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis (directed by Alfred Hitchcock).  When a reformed jewel thief is suspected of returning to his former occupation, he must ferret out the real thief in order to prove his innocence.

The Birds - 1963, Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette (directed by Alfred Hitchcock).  A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness.

Pollyanna - 1960, Jane Wyman, Hayley Mills (directed by David Swift).  A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

The Parent Trap - 1961 - Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara (directed by David Swift).  Hayley Mills plays twins who, unknown to their divorced parents, meet at a summer camp.

True Stories - 1986, David Byrne, John Goodman (directed by David Byrne).  A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show. (quirky and fun!)

 

 

Reply #32 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting seanw3, reply 28
This person died a year ago...
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This thread* died a year ago.  Oops.

 

What a hilarious misunderstanding. But it could be true based on the level of necro that just happened.

Reply #33 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting seanw3, reply 32

Quoting seanw3, reply 28This person died a year ago...

 

This thread* died a year ago.  Oops.
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Well, four months between the post before mine, and mine.  But what's another eight months between friends?

What a hilarious misunderstanding. But it could be true based on the level of necro that just happened.
End of quote

 

A thread is only as moribund as the people who ignore it.  But when more people have it brought to their attention, the electricity crackles, and suddenly, "It's alive!"  Truly, it's sublime enough to make one weep for joy.

Reply #34 from Sins Forums Top

Man listing these classic films, really tells so much about your age.

Personally my personal old classic, is probably gone with wind, or even Dirty Dancing, not the Havana Nights one.

However, Casablanca is a good one. Of course, my term classic film are more, say we say modern like A Few Good Men, or Toy Story.

Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm into the sci-fi classics like Forbidden Planet, Day of the Triffids, original Body Snatchers, War of the Worlds and of course Metropolis.

Reply #36 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting Glazunov1, reply 30

 

My condolences.  Is there somewhere we can send our notices of consolation?
End of Glazunov1's quote

He did not die.  He got married, and has been scarce since.

Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Fistalis, reply 26
Clock work orange.. such a commentary on violence in society. It resonates more now than it did then IMHO.
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My all-time favourite movie....

Though to be more accurate it's "A Clockwork Orange" .... JAFOCHECK

Reply #38 from Sins Forums Top

Only b&w movie that I've watched was the movie adaptation of The Longest Day, was pretty good though

Reply #39 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Dr, reply 36

He did not die.
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Then I retract my condolences.

He got married
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And... they're back.

Reply #40 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting Classicvibe, reply 38
Only b&w movie that I've watched was the movie adaptation of The Longest Day, was pretty good though
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That is a 60s movie! (It is good).  Damn I am old.

Reply #41 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting leeboy26, reply 39
And... they're back.
End of leeboy26's quote

I will pass them along.  If he ever gets off his Honeymoon, he promised we would go to a Nats-Mets game (he is Nats, I am Mets).

Reply #42 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Fistalis, reply 26
Clock work orange..
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just finished watching it this evening........ first saw it in Sydney in the early seventies at it's press preview night.... was just 8| for it's time.... still have the vinyl of the soundtrack... love the music...

 

ummm.... sooo many.... but some that come to mind not doubling up too much on some of the great classics already mentioned, are....

 

Laurence of Arabia


Doctor Zhivago

 

Inn of the Sixth Happiness   1958

 

The 7th Dawn     1964

 

Harvey       (Jimmy Stewart one only)

 

To Kill a Mockingbird

 

Little Women                    (the original one, of course)  (well... the 1949 one not the 1933 )

Miracle on 34th Street...     (  "        "       "     "     "     not recoloured )   1947

Titantic                              (  "        "       "     "     "    b/w  with Barbara Stanwyck )

 

The Shiralee..... both the 1957 original with Peter Finch and the remake with Bryan Brown, 1987...

                           one of the few films where you can say the remake stands up well....

 

The Nun's Story      Audrey Hepburn / Peter Finch   1959

The Birds

Random Harvest    1942 (read the book first...lovely read-film stood up well)

Mrs Miniver            1942

War and Peace

Anna Karenina

Taras Bulba        1962

 

Cat Ballou   was about the best Saturday night film they played when I was at boarding school... cute movie... Blazing Saddles too...

 

and The Sound of Music seems to be an evergreen, with kids loving it still today....

in general.... love the Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn films  eg Desk Set 1957.... The Marx Bros.... Cary Grant / Grace Kelly Hitchcock films.... etc etc etc..

 

:|    so many more...

 

 

 

 

 

Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting sydneysiders, reply 42
just finished watching it this evening........ first saw it in Sydney in the early seventies at it's press preview night.... was just for it's time.... still have the vinyl of the soundtrack... love the music...
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I was in London .....10,000 miles from home on just the occasion of its 'preview' showing there....it was never released in the UK at the time as they wanted to cut it...and Kubrick said 'no'.

But then.....even the book was 'cut' in the US....;p

Reply #44 from WinCustomize Forums Top

its like music there is just to many good one´s to list but two crossed my mind immediatly and that is "Condorman" and "Fire and Ice"

Reply #47 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Some oldies in my collection

kellys Heroes  *frick'n hillarious movie*

the dirty dozen 1 & 2

the enemy below

death on the nile

the original casino royale

the 18 bronzemen

 

 

Reply #49 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Comedy/Funny

1. The Secret War of Harry Frigg.... starred Paul Newman, Tom Bosley, Andrew Duggan.

2. Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday.... starred Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed, Strother Martin, Kay Lenz.

3. Tough Guys... starred Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Eli Wallach.

4. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World... starred Spencer Tracy, Buddy Hackett, Milton Berle.

5. Animal House... starred John Belushi, Donald Sutherland, Stacey Keach.

Reply #50 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting ElanaAhova, reply 16
Which Dune.. several movie versions.... (just curious..)
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Personally I fail to recognize any except the first one.

But let's see, how about Buckaroo Banzai.  Truly a classic, even in color.