Your favorite "old" movies?

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Can I vote for some "new classics" like Planes, Trains, & Automobiles .. Tommy Boy .... Dumb and Dumber .... Christmas Vacation ... Big ...

No...

well


okay but just this once.

 

[a paper star]

Wow an Old Movie Thread and I didn't even know about it!
I haven't read most of the list so if these are already listed just ignore them.
Anything with Judy Garland, but my picks would include: Meet me in St. Louis, Easter Parade, Summer Stock, A Child is Waiting
Sabrina- with Audrey Hepburn, Humphery Bogart and William Holden
The Diary of Anne Frank (actually I think this one is coming on TCM tonight)
Love With the Proper Stranger- with Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen
The Major and the Minor
Sunset Boulevard (both of these are directed by Billy Wilder)
Imitation of Life (I've only seen the one with Lana Turner but it's still good)
West Side Story

Seriously if you get Turner Classic Movies all of these play and they show more that are un-cut and commerical free!

 

[dzorn]

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Brigadoon with Gene Kelly

It's my favorite.

Denise in MI

 

[dzorn]

LOOOVE classic films. Love, love, love.:

Some Like it Hot
Rear Window
Father of the Bride (w/Spencer Tracy & Elizabeth Taylor)
Father's Little Dividend
Bringing Up Baby
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse
Abbott & Costello's Hold that Ghost
Abbott & Costello's The Time of their Lives
The Philadelphia Story
Where the Boys Are
It's a Wonderful Life
How to Marry a Millionaire
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Singin' in the Rain
White Christmas
The Bells of St. Mary's
All of the "Road" Movies w/Bob Hope & Bring Crosby (Road to Utopia, Road to Bali, etc.)
The Thin Man

I use to watch Abbott & Costello all the time when little.

Oh and just about anything with Cary Grant or Gene Kelly.

Denise in MI

 

[CookieGVB]

Rebecca

 

[N.Bailey]

First off, I'm not really a fan of the classic movies. I've seen few that I get the hype about. Jimmy Stewart however, had some fantastic films and my top 2 of all time are:

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
It's a Wonderful Life

I also loved, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

I've not seen a lot of the films mentioned.

EDIT: Seeing post 2 made me edit to add, The Godfather. I wouldn't have considered that a classic, but if it is, I concur!!!!

 

[Art 1]

Casablanca.

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

I use to watch Abbott & Costello all the time when little.

Oh and just about anything with Cary Grant or Gene Kelly.

Denise in MI

I have see all the Abbot and Costello ones, and most of the grant and kelly movies, even a lot of the laurel and hardy ones.

what is the Denise in MI one? its not listed on imdb.

 

[NotUrsula]

I love many of the films already mentioned, but as a subcategory I'll throw in a couple of what I consider classic period pieces. Not costume dramas, but movies that inadvertently captured a certain period in time/place.

The Women - much of it is set in a 1930's Reno divorce ranch. Half of the 1939 female A-list was in it.

Mrs. Miniver - as many have mentioned, an excellent film, but it is also a very good window onto life in England during WW2.

The High & The Mighty - a nail-biter set on an early 1950's overnight flight from Hawaii to San Francisco on board a DC-4 airliner. A perfect time capsule of the golden age of air travel (and it has good plot tension.)

The Best of Everything - essentially a soap, but one that focuses on the life of women in the white-collar workplace in the late 1950's. It seems bizarre to modern eyes, but it was a huge hit, and my sister (who worked in NYC in the same industry at the time) says that the office situations are not really that far out there.

 

[Birdman1511]

I also vote for Casablanca.... greatest movie of all time.


Second - Rebel Without a Cause

 

[catgirl]

I love Wuthering Heights and Splendor In The Grass, both so heart wrenching

Another that is not the list is The Other, was a very strange movie. My cousin & I just loved this movie when we were young, looked forward to seeing it, seemed to be on late night tv when we were tweens.