Old movies....

[DitchPanda]

Starting to get into these finally...when I was younger I didn't "get it".. but as I've aged I've come to appreciate the style and class of these older films. I'm talking 1960s and down. Last 6 months I've watched a bunch of Hitchcock's films...the third man..and tonight I'm watching the Maltese falcon. So far I've enjoyed all of it. I've seen countless old westerns in my life but I'm really not a fan. More into the horror\ mystery\ thriller who done it type stuff. Any recommendations?

[MN Fisher]

War of the Worlds - 1953

 

Surprisingly, some of the FX still look good today...better than some of the Skiffy films the last few years.

[throttleplate]

have you watched the original Psycho, Rosemarys Baby, Eyes without a face, What ever happened to baby jane, Village of the damned.

[TnRiver46]

Young Frankenstein 

[Jigfishn10]

Western - Rio Bravo (John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan)

 

WW2 - Either Tora Tora Tora, Midway or Kelly's Heroes

 

Holiday - White Christmas (Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye), We're no Angels (Humphry Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray)

 

Comedy - Has to be Caddy Shack (I know, not circa 1960) The Apartment was funny

 

 No category - To Kill a Mockingbird 

[Dwight Hottle]

Check out Clint Eastwood’s older movies. 

[Choporoz]

Anything with Jimmy Stewart,  Bogart, Hepburn (either/both), John Wayne, Sidney Poitier, Brando, McQueen, Grant Olivier....

 

Interesting....I look at those off top of my head and few actresses come to mind.  Not sure why not....need to think on it some more.  But there's more actors who will make me watch despite the genre, title, etc, than actresses that make me stop flipping channels.

Decades ago I committed to seeing all (nearly all?) movies in IMDB top 100 (it's now IMDB 250?).

    I think I got through all back then, or at least all i could find.  There were some very obscure foreign films that I never found.

  It was a great way to get exposure to different eras of movies, directors and actors without wading through a lot of really bad stuff.  Plenty didn't move me, but all in all it was a great starting point to find out what I liked and didn't like.

[Mobasser]

Old James Stewart westerns. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Or, Broken Arrow.

[NavyToad]

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and American Movie Classics (AMC) are the best channels for old movies. I prefer TCM over AMC because TCM is commercial free. AMC has started showing more modern (‘70s & up) with fewer “old” movies since they went to commercials.

I can scroll through TCM’s guide for the week and pick and choose which ones I’m interested in and DVR them to watch at my leisure. If you do this for awhile, you’ll figure out what/who’s good and what/who’s not. 
Hedy Lamar, Rita Hayworth, and Lana Turner blow doors on today’s hollywood “beauties” and Tracy, Bogart, and Cooper are the guy that todays stars wish they could be. I prefer a simple theme in movies and that is that doing the right thing always brings a happy ending. Right prevails and the good guy gets the girl! Too much nonsensical garbage coming out of hollywood nowadays. Ever get to the end of a movie and ask “what was that about”? When was the last time Hollywood made a Shawshank Redemption?

Sorry for the rant, but nothing coming out of Hollywood today is helping America IMO.

 

 

[BrianMDTX]

Oh my. The list is long lol. 
 

Casablanca

(Humphrey Bogart/Ingrid Bergman)

High Sierra

(Humphrey Bogart/Ida Lupino)

Key Largo

(Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall/Edward G. Robinson)

To Have And Have Not 

(Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall/Walter Brennan)

 

Public Enemy

(James Cagney/Jean Harlow)

White Heat

(James Cagney/Virginia Mayo/Edmund O’Brien)

Angels With Dirty Faces

(James Cagney/Pat O’Brien/Ann Sheridan/Humphrey Bogart/The Dead End Kids aka The Bowery Boys)

 

All About Eve

(Bette Davis/Anne Baxter)

The Letter

(Bette Davis)

 

The Philadelphia Story

(Katherine Hepburn/Cary Grant/Jimmy Stewart)

 

Charade

(Audrey Hepburn/Cary Grant)

Roman Holiday

(Audrey Hepburn/Gregory Peck)

Sabrina

(Audrey Hepburn/Humphrey Bogart/William Holden)

 

Stalag 17

(William Holden/Peter Graves/Otto Preminger/Neville Brand)

Sunset Boulevard 

(William Holden/Gloria Swanson)

 

Anatomy Of A Murder

(Jimmy Stewart/Ben Gazarra/Lee Remick/Eve Arden)

 

Robin Hood

(Errol Flynn/Basil Rathbone/Claude Rains)

18 minutes ago, NavyToad said:

Hedy Lamar, Rita Hayworth, and Lana Turner blow doors on today’s hollywood “beauties”

My all-time actresses for both beauty (and grace no pun intended) were Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn. They could have kept me enthralled watching them read the Yellow Pages. 
 

Speaking of Hedy Lamarr, not only was she beautiful and an outstanding actress, she was highly intelligent. She designed a frequency-hopping system to prevent a radio-guided torpedo from being jammed. 

[NavyToad]

30 minutes ago, BrianMDTX said:

Oh my. The list is long lol. 
 

 

I started out making a list of actors/movies, but soon realized I could spend hours doing it that way and still forget half of the good ones.

In the ‘60s they used to show old movies all day Sunday on channel 20 out of D.C.. Got our TV guide out of the Washington Post. WaPo used to be good for SOMETHING. Ravens are lookin’ good!

[BrianMDTX]

48 minutes ago, NavyToad said:

I started out making a list of actors/movies, but soon realized I could spend hours doing it that way and still forget half of the good ones.

In the ‘60s they used to show old movies all day Sunday on channel 20 out of D.C.. Got our TV guide out of the Washington Post. WaPo used to be good for SOMETHING. Ravens are lookin’ good!

Good ol’ Channel 20! Saw many a “good” horror movie hosted by Count Gore de Vol lol. 
 

Yeah, you could literally spend all day making a list. Movies back then relied on dialogue a lot more than today. CGI is a wonder, but it gets stale quick. Just watch Cagney (as Cody Jarrett) melt down and go ballistically nuts at the prison mess hall table in White Heat. No CGI needed lol. 
 

And don’t get me started on “You just put your lips together and…blow”

[Darth-Baiter]

just the ones i remember, so they must have been good to me.

 

Wait until dark with Audrey Hepburn.

12 angry men

a Bridge too far

the great escape.  i think that was what it was called. 

[roadwarrior]

 

 

[N Florida Mike]

I watched a lot of them with my dad. 

I ended up watching mostly Westerns, war movies, and adventure movies in that order.

Probably my favorite movie from that era was The Searchers, with John Wayne. 

 

One of the greatest movie endings ever…

[Darth-Baiter]

i think i can sing the songs in White Christmas.  okay movie but my wife makes me watch it every Dec.

i just Remembered one.

 

Sky Riders.  my dad saw the movie and immediately came home, picked me up and took me to see it again.  i am gonna find it and watch it again for my pops.  i bet i was just full of stupid questions.  i was 8 maybe.  

[T-Billy]

7 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Young Frankenstein 

? You're Abby. Abby Normal!!!

[jbmaine]

 The best years of our lives.

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Official Trailer - Myrna Loy, Fredric March Movie HD - Bing video

[BrianMDTX]

1 hour ago, Darth-Baiter said:

just the ones i remember, so they must have been good to me.

 

Wait until dark with Audrey Hepburn.

12 angry men

a Bridge too far

the great escape.  i think that was what it was called. 

Those are all good. But 12 Angry Men is superb. Except for two minutes or so in the restroom and on the street at the end, the entire film is in the jury room. What a cast of great actors. 

[12poundbass]

I’ll probably get slaughtered for this, maybe it’s my age (39) but I can’t watch old movies. It seems like the acting was horrible back then, maybe it’s over acting, maybe it’s the production, editing, I don’t know. For me, mid 80’s is as old as I’ll go and that’s pushing it.

 

Alright everyone, I admitted it, let me have it! ?

[DitchPanda]

17 hours ago, throttleplate said:

have you watched the original Psycho, Rosemarys Baby, Eyes without a face, What ever happened to baby jane, Village of the damned.

I've seen all but eyes without a face...only thing I know by that name is the Billy Idol song

41 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

I’ll probably get slaughtered for this, maybe it’s my age (39) but I can’t watch old movies. It seems like the acting was horrible back then, maybe it’s over acting, maybe it’s the production, editing, I don’t know. For me, mid 80’s is as old as I’ll go and that’s pushing it.

 

Alright everyone, I admitted it, let me have it! ?

I'm also 39 and I'm really starting to get into the old movies...can't explain it but something just clicked one day.

 

2 hours ago, BrianMDTX said:

Good ol’ Channel 20! Saw many a “good” horror movie hosted by Count Gore de Vol lol. 
 

Yeah, you could literally spend all day making a list. Movies back then relied on dialogue a lot more than today. CGI is a wonder, but it gets stale quick. Just watch Cagney (as Cody Jarrett) melt down and go ballistically nuts at the prison mess hall table in White Heat. No CGI needed lol. 
 

And don’t get me started on “You just put your lips together and…blow”

that is one thing I've always loved about Tarantinos movies...they are extremely heavy and reliant on dialogue. Its harsher and more rough than old movies but he really goes all in on it.

[BrianMDTX]

53 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

I’ll probably get slaughtered for this, maybe it’s my age (39) but I can’t watch old movies. It seems like the acting was horrible back then, maybe it’s over acting, maybe it’s the production, editing, I don’t know. For me, mid 80’s is as old as I’ll go and that’s pushing it.

 

Alright everyone, I admitted it, let me have it! ?

Not everything appeals to everyone. I loved Laurel and Hardy and the Three Stooges, but was never a big Marx Bros. fan (even though they all were very talented). 
 

What can be interesting in watching some unedited (censored) Pre-Code films from the 1930’s. It is surprising to hear so much sexual innuendo, ladies in skimpy lingerie, etc. that were in films prior to the Hays Code. 
 

And Fx? Watch Public Enemy with James Cagney. They used real Thompson submachine with live ammunition. Almost killed him! 

[12poundbass]

22 minutes ago, BrianMDTX said:

Not everything appeals to everyone. I loved Laurel and Hardy and the Three Stooges, but was never a big Marx Bros. fan (even though they all were very talented). 
 

What can be interesting in watching some unedited (censored) Pre-Code films from the 1930’s. It is surprising to hear so much sexual innuendo, ladies in skimpy lingerie, etc. that were in films prior to the Hays Code. 
 

And Fx? Watch Public Enemy with James Cagney. They used real Thompson submachine with live ammunition. Almost killed him! 

I liked the Flintstones, Dukes of Hazard, Three Stuges, and the Munsters. Do those count? 

48 minutes ago, DitchPanda said:

I'm also 39 and I'm really starting to get into the old movies...can't explain it but something just clicked one day.

Maybe I’ll come around. I used to listen to rap almost exclusively when I was young. Then I thought one day “am I going to listen to this when I’m in my 50’s-60’s?”?

So I started listening to country, got sick of almost all of the mainstream country, and started listening to older country and bluegrass. 

[BrianMDTX]

12 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

I liked the Flintstones, Dukes of Hazard, Three Stuges, and the Munsters. Do those count? 

They aren’t “classic films” lol, but if you like them, that’s all that matters. Of the four, I liked all but the Dukes of Hazzard. Except for Catherine Bach’s Daisy Dukes lol. 

[A-Jay]

Always gave me chills . . . 

A-Jay