Classic Movies

[terrygoldman123]

Old is good. B/W films are good too.

 

[youngpiper1]

Lady's man
I have always wanted to see casablanca
I love westerns true grit is one of my favorite.
I am not sure if these are classics but they have a 1950s theme

the outsiders, Tex,
The of course theres my musicals

West side story, grease

 

[tanless1]

Re: cat on a hot tin roof- allthough burl ives performance was outstanding.the one

Actor that nailed the character , according to tennesse williams, was Fred Gwynn...

Wish I could of seen that.

 

[redglow]

Captains Courageous on TCM right now.
Lionel Barrymore piping constantly. ::

 

[elpfeife]

Speaking of Lionel Barrymore, I submit You Can't Take It With You. Besides Barrymore it has Jimmy Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Eddie (Rochester) Anderson and Spring Byington. Definitely a favorite.

 

[bradical]

Watching Captan's Courageous on TCM here, too! Pipes galore with these fishermen.

 

[redglow]

Man, they dont make 'em like that anymore.
Beautiful ships, beautiful pipes...........

 

[f5rd2hy]

I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum.

They Live (1988)

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

It's an obvious one but Orsen Wells Citizen Kane is a favourite, also The French Connection, Taxi Driver and Alien are movies I'll re-watch anytime they're on the telly.
Another vote for Dirty Harry as well, awesome movie with a star turn from Clint and a great psychotic villain in Scorpio. Interestingly Frank Sinatra was originally cast as Harry Callahan but broke his wrist filming The Manchurian Candidate so couldn't do the film.
I love Frank and his music but I can't imagine anyone but Clint playing that role now.

Chris.

 

[burleyboy]

One of the best movies, I've seen recently was Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory. I even spotted a soldier smoking a pipe in the trench.

 

[f5rd2hy]

Was it indians?

Troglodytes.

 

[Akousticplyr]

12 Angry Men is one of those classics that if found while channel surfing I end up watching to the end. Also true of The Maltese Falcon, Judgment At Nuremberg, and (heaven help me) any of the Marx Brothers movies.

 

[unadoptedlamp]

I've been waiting for someone to invent a way to erase memories. Not because I have some kind of trauma, but because I'd like to delete some movies from memory to see them again new. If I could only live long enough to see the day...

Honey I Shrunk The Kids? Gold!

 

[saintpeter]

1958 Black & White...Spider versus the Earth. This one requires alcohol.

 

[sablebrush52]

A short list of favorites:
Intolerance - 1916
Birth Of A Nation - 1915
The General - Buster Keaton - 1925 (or just about any Keaton film)
The Gold Rush - Charlie Chaplin - 1925
The Circus - Charlie Chaplin - 1928
The Phantom Of The Opera - Lon Chaney - 1925
Metropolis - Dir. Fritz Lang - 1927
M - Dir. Fritz Lang - 1931
Faust - Dir.F. W. Murnau - 1926
Sunrise - Dir F. W. Murnau - 1927
Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin 1936
Alls Quiet On The Western Front - Dir Louis Milstone - 1931- both the sound and the silent versions
It Happened One Night - Dir. Frank Capra - 1934
Mr Deeds Goes To Town - Dir Frank Capra - 1936
You Can't Take It With You - Dir. Frank Capra - 1938
Mr Smith Goes To Washington - Dir Frank Capra - 1939
Arsenic and Old Lace - Dir. Frank Capra - 1944
It's A Wonderful Life - Dir. Frank Capra - 1946
The 39 Steps - Dir Alfred Hitchcock - 1939
Snow White - Walt Disney - 1935
The Man Who Knew Too Much - Dir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1934
The Lady Vanishes - Dir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1938
Foreign Correspondent - Dir Alfred Hitchcock - 1940
The Great Dictator - Charlie Chaplin - 1940
Citizen Kane - Dir Orson Wells - 1940
Lifeboat - Dir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1944
Strangers On A Train - Dir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1951
The Trouble With Harry - Dir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1955
Rear Window - Dir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1954
North By Northwest - Dir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1959
All of The Thin Man films
Sergeant York - 1940
The Wizard Of Oz - Dir. Victor Fleming, King Vidor, George Cukor - 1939
My Man Godfrey - Gregory La Cava - 1936
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame - 1923 and 1939 versions
Bringing Up Baby - Dir. Howard Hawks - 1938
The Philadelphia Story - George Cukor - 1940
Ninotchka - Dir. Ernst Lubitch - 1940
Just about every film Humphrey Bogart was in
I Was A Fugitive From A Chain Gang - Dir. Mervyn LeRoy - 1932
Just about anything James Carney acted in

and I'm just getting started...

 

[autumnfog]

I'm not sure they qualify as classics in this thread, but I have to mention Sergio Leone Westerns with Clint Eastwood.

 

[JMcQ]

Any Marx Brother's movie. Their comedy is timeless. And the movie, Giant with James Dean and Rock Hudson is such an epic film.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Modern Times, Citizen Kane, Dr. Strangelove, Young Frankenstein, Being There, It's A Wonderful Life, NxNW, and any from Jesse's list, half of which I haven't seen.

 

[sablebrush52]

Adding a few more on the quick:
The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
Nosferatu
Ben Hur - 1925 silent version, especially for the chariot race
Tol'able David - Dir Henry King
Dream Street - 1921 - Dir. D. W. Griffith
Orphans Of The Storm - 1921 - Dir. D. W. Griffith
Broken Blossoms - 1919 - Dir. D. W. Griffith
Sally Of The Sawdust - 1925 - One of W C Fields earliest performances on film - Dir. D. W. Griffith
Pandora's Box - 1929 - Dir. G. W. Pabst - Louise Brooks
Die 3 Groshen Oper - 1931 - Dir. G. W. Pabst
Der blaue Engle 1930 - Dir. Josef Von Sternberg - Marlene Deitrich's break out performance and another fine performance for Emil Jannings
Underworld - 1927 Dir. Josef Von Sternberg - The prototype for the gangster movies of the '30's
The Lost World - 1925 - Dir. Harry O Hoyt - full 2hr restoration - Willis O'Brian stop motion animation
Napoleon - 1927 - Abel Gance - final 5 1/2 hour restoration by Kenneth Brownlow
All of the Deitrich/Von Sternberg films are worth watching
Le Millionaire - Dir. Rene Clair
I Married A Witch - Dir. René Clair
La Belle et la béte - Dir. Jean Cocteau, René Clément
La Grande Illusion - 1937 - Dir. Jean Renoir
La Régle du jeu - 1939 - Dir. Jean Renoir

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Turner Classic Movies had a special on Orson Wells and his career that really helped me understand his art better. Since then I have been trying to watch as many of his flicks as possible.

TCM is where my TV stays tuned until I discover something else worth watching. I always learn something interesting about Hollywood or the artists in their between the movies chatter. Sometimes, I just leave the TV tuned to TCM while I am working in the studio, even though IO can't watch it, it is at least interesting to listen.