Classic Movies
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Two of my favorites:
"The Third Man" is a favorite (Orson Welles). My parents met in post-war, occupied Austria. My father was an Army plainclothes homicide investigator in Austria after the war(300 homicides in Salzburg, 1947!). This movie is set in that time and makes me think of them and how they met.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041959/
"The Best Years of Our Lives" (Samuel Goldwyn) is also set in post WWII America.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036868/?ref_=sr_1
"The Third Man" is a favorite (Orson Welles). My parents met in post-war, occupied Austria. My father was an Army plainclothes homicide investigator in Austria after the war(300 homicides in Salzburg, 1947!). This movie is set in that time and makes me think of them and how they met.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041959/
"The Best Years of Our Lives" (Samuel Goldwyn) is also set in post WWII America.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036868/?ref_=sr_1
I like old B&W movies usually comedy types...one I can watch over and over is "Libeled Lady" (1936) stars Jean Harlow (wow!)Myrna Loy (another wow!) William Powell (the guy is so cool!) and Spencer Tracy(a great actor).
I like Paul Newman and Steve McQueen movies the best. Cool Hand Luke, The Sting, The Hustler, The Cinncinati Kid, and the Thomas Crown Affair are some of my favorites. I also prefer any James Bond Film with Sean Connery.
The Seventh Seal is very good. In recent years, I’ve watched several of the Bergman classics for the first time. In addition to TSS, The Magician, Hour of the Wolf, Cries and Whispers, and the trilogy of Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light and The Silence. I think those are all of his I’ve seen so far. My favorite of these is Through a Glass Darkly.
"It's a Wonderful Life"/A Christmas Carol (with Alistair Sim as Scrooge)/Miracle on 34th Street (1947 version)
"The Long Hot Summer" (esp. Orson Welles' character)
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (Burl Ives was great as the Sherman tank type)
Liked Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan
Lots more...
"The Long Hot Summer" (esp. Orson Welles' character)
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (Burl Ives was great as the Sherman tank type)
Liked Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan
Lots more...
Mrs. Miniver with Greer Garson; African Queen with Bogart and Hepburn; Cary Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace
There are some classics that I feel belong on the list. Full Metal Jacket(first half) Clint Eastwood westerns and Dirty Harry. The Right Stuff is head and shoulders above all in my book. The space program when I was growing up captured my imagination. I wanted to be an astronaut in the worst way. The moon landings were the pinnacle of this country's greatness. I hope and pray we achieve something as equally grand in the future.
Casablanca, Maltese Falcon, The Mummy (Boris Karloff), anything Jimmy Stewart, and the Thin Man Series (my wife loves William Powell, I hate to tell her he's dead).
It's a sign of my age that I don't consider any movie that is newer than 1965 a classic.
It's a sign of my age that I don't consider any movie that is newer than 1965 a classic.
I have an obsession with older movies that is probably odd for my age (I'm 27). My favorites, in no particular order:
Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, The Killers, Psycho, Duck Soup, North by Northwest, Scarface, The Big Combo, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
I get accused of being an "old man" frequently.
Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, The Killers, Psycho, Duck Soup, North by Northwest, Scarface, The Big Combo, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
I get accused of being an "old man" frequently.
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