Your favorite "old" movies?

[apirateslifeforme]

I honestly can't say I watched too many old films to come up with a list like everyone else. I do however think Casablanca (while good) is way overrated. The same for, Rebel Without a Cause.

Ack! Those are my two favorite movies ever!

I also love Singin' in the Rain and Arsenic and Old Lace.

 

[FloraFauna]

"Portrait Of Jennie" with Joseph Cotten and Jennifer Jones. I love the whole atmosphere of this movie. It is a beautiful, but bittersweet story. I never get tired of watching this movie.

 

[N.Bailey]

A Hard Days Night.

such a good laugh!

It's so easy to see that you absolutely hated the Beatles.

 

[N.Bailey]

Ack! Those are my two favorite movies ever!

I also love Singin' in the Rain and Arsenic and Old Lace.

I'm usually a good one for blasphemy. People LOVE, The Big Lebowski (1998, not a classic), but I hated it too.

 

[erincon23]

Holiday (with Cary Grant and Kate Hepburn)
Sabrina (there are two versions -- an older one with Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn, earliest use of a car phone -- watch for it; and one with Harrison Ford and Greg Kinnear -- both are good)
I third? The Ghost and Mrs. Muir -- it was one a week ago, and WDWBarb, I completely agree with you
Bringing Up Baby (also with Grant and Kate Hepburn)

I also love all the old musicals -- State Fair, Oklahoma, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, lots more!

Erin

 

[fluffycow333]

I don't watch too many old movies, but I really like Inherit the Wind. I was surprised that I liked it but it was just like reading a book, all of the details and conversations were in the movie just as if it were a book.

Oh yeah and I liked Rear Window too.

 

[merryweather20]

I'm usually a good one for blasphemy. People LOVE, The Big Lebowski (1998, not a classic), but I hated it too.

I can do better than you can with blasphemy, I can't stand Audrey Hepburn. My Fair Lady is my favourite musical of all time, I've seen 8 or 9 productions, and I adore Sabrina (the new one with Harrison Ford). I bought the originals with Hepburn in them and I couldn't even get through then

Back to the movies list, someone above mentioned the old Doris Day comedies, I also like

Send me no Flowers
Glass Bottom Boat
Pillow Talk
Lover Come Back

In that vein, "I also liked I was a male warbride" with Cary Grant and "Mr Blandings Builds his Dream Home".



Jimmy Stewart:
Shop Around the Corner
Harvey

 

[WDWBarb]

I third? The Ghost and Mrs. Muir -- it was one a week ago, and WDWBarb, I completely agree with you

It's sooooo good to find other people who love this movie! It's actually been listed on here a few times now and I would have sworn that it was very obscure. When I was a kid, I lived in a house that was built by a man named Muir and it was supposedly haunted by his wife. That's what led me to seek out this movie and I absolutely fell in love with it. It's my under-the-blanket, snowy-day favorite!

 

[pigletliz]

Some of my favorites, in no particular order:

The Quiet Man
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
All About Eve
Laura
Sunset Boulevard
Desk Set
Miracle on 34th St
Gentleman's Agreement
Easter Parade
Best Year's of Our Lives
West Point Story
Stalag 17
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Shadow of a Doubt
Mrs. Miniver
The Cornis Green
Mildred Pierce

 

[Pooh's Pixie]

Some I didn't notice on other lists:

Wuthering Heights (1938 version)
Splendor in the Grass (Warren Beatty, Natalie Wood)
The Apartment (Jack Lemmon - fantastic)
The Deer Hunter
The Fighting Sullivans

 

[Chim Chiminy]

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Anything with Audrey Hepburn really.

 

[amg35]

These were mentioned, but need repeating:

Splendor in the Grass (sooo good)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (my all-time favorite. Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor never looked better, either!)
Singin' in The Rain (best musical, great comedy)
All About Eve (amazing)

not mentioned:
Notorious (Carey Grant and Ingrid Bergman)
Gaslight (mystery/suspense Ingrid Bergman)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (Betty Davis)
A Place in the Sun (Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift)
Suddenly Last Summer (Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift)

I don't consider Godfather I and II to be old yet! And (in my opinion) you really can't go wrong with a Carey Grant movie. Except maybe a couple.

 

[wdwiala]

Finally! Someone said Notorious! My absolute hands down favorite. Carey Grant and Hitchcock to boot. I would love to see a George Clooney remake of it.

These were mentioned, but need repeating:

Splendor in the Grass (sooo good)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (my all-time favorite. Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor never looked better, either!)
Singin' in The Rain (best musical, great comedy)
All About Eve (amazing)

not mentioned:
Notorious (Carey Grant and Ingrid Bergman)
Gaslight (mystery/suspense Ingrid Bergman)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (Betty Davis)
A Place in the Sun (Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift)
Suddenly Last Summer (Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift)

I don't consider Godfather I and II to be old yet! And (in my opinion) you really can't go wrong with a Carey Grant movie. Except maybe a couple.

 

[sms]

Backstreet
Imitation of Life
Pollyanna
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movies
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

 

[Pooh's Pixie]

Forgot to mention

Double Indemnity
Strangers on a Train

really any Hitchcock is great...

 

[Imzadi]

Here's a real oldie, that was quite as frightening as Psycho, in a different way.

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

It starred Joan Crawford & Bette Davis. The only special effects were horrible makeup & bad hairdos. You have to hand it to those two women. At a time when Hollywood glamour was so in, Bette Davis really was willing to make herself absolutely frightening.

 

[hellokitty86]

-"The Women" with Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer

-"Mildred Pierce"

-"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"

 

[charming23]

I have such a long list of favs

The Sting
His Girl Friday
Casablanca
Rebel without a Cause
Sound of Music
The Wizard of Oz
Citizen Kane
12 Angry Men
To Kill a Mocking Bird
West Side Story
A Sar is Born (The Judy Garland Version)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Bye Bye Birdie
Gone with the Wind
Oceans 11 (the rat pack one)

 

[Straitlover]

I love many of the ones already mentioned. A few that have not been mentioned so far:

Giant
East of Eden
From Here to Eternity
The Bishop's Wife
Father of the Bride (original w/ Spencer Tracy)

2 that were mentioned but deserve mentioning again :
Arsenic & Old Lace
A Place in the Sun

Any movie that has Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy or Montgomery Clift in it is a good one to me!

Just an FYI - TCM on the 19th has Inherit The Wind and Sunset Blvd playing. it's part of the Bob Newhart Guest Programmer evening.

 

[MuskratSusie]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the whole entire series: Anne of Green Gables

Other classic movies I love are as follows:

Doctor Dolittle (1967 version)
Singin' in the Rain
Sound of Music
Gone With The Wind
Young Frankenstein
The Long, Long Trailer
Wizard of Oz
My Fair Lady
Pollyanna
Swiss Family Robinson

I'm sure there are lots more, the list goes on, and on.