Your favourite old films...

Quality

Ok Girls,

Another movie question.

There are some old films not recent ones..... lets make the rule before the year you were born...

Films you want your daughters to see

Anyhow a few of mine are....

Diamonds are a girls best friend

Meet me in st louis

Gone with the wind

Breakfast in Tiffanys


My fair lady


And of course

The wiz of oz

But give me the ones which arent that common,,, but are ggggrrreeaatt""

Black Swan

Love Story
The Lion in Winter
Dr Zhivago (sp?)
The African Queen
Breakfast at Tiffanys
Moon River
The Pink Panther films

Fast_Mover

The Sound of Music.
I know it's common..but tis great! and you'll be surprised to hear that I know some people who havn't seen it!!:eek:

LadyJ

It's a wonderful life

Casablanca

Mary Poppins

Sound of music

12 Angry Men

Cool hand Luke

r3nu4l

4 girls and not one has said "Some like it hot"!!!

So is it only us guys that like that movie? I like it because it comforts me to know that sometimes it really is okay to dress up as a woman...:eek:

<_<
>_>

LadyJ

Haven't seen it actually!

Pighead

LadyJ wrote: »

It's a wonderful life

Casablanca

Mary Poppins

Sound of music

12 Angry Men

Cool hand Luke

+100!

Best old film ever. Its just so damn tense and even now when Pighead watches it he finds himself shouting at that loud mouthed fool to shut the fcuk up and listen to Davis.

WindSock

I came on to this thread to specifically say 'some like it hot'

Suuugaarrrrrr

takola

LadyJ wrote: »

It's a wonderful life

I keep meaning to see this movie and forgetting about it! So thank you for reminding me!

WindSock

And also

Hitchcocks:

The Birds

Psycho

Rebecca

North by Northwest

Vertigo


musical ones:

Sound of music

Wizard of Oz-has anyone ever done the pink floyd thing to it?

My Fair Lady

Sci Fi:

The Fly

Journey to the centre of the earth


Thats all I can think of at the moment. And all Disney ones to.

And The Shining, great movie. A feck it, there are heaps from the 70's

luckat

Some Like It Hot, definitely. Best film ever made.

Tony Curtis (a louche sax player with a gamey eye) and Jack Lemmon (his anxious friend the double-bass player, constantly dragged wailing into Curtis's schemes) witness the St Valentine's Day Massacre and have to go on the lam.

But it's 1929, the Great Depression is in full swing, and they owe money everywhere, and there's no work for impoverished musicians who have just pawned their coats.

Until, that is, they overhear their agent looking desperately for a sax player and a double-bass player for a *women's* band to play the season in Florida.

The two dress up as ladies (strangely convincing) and get on the train with the band ("My girls are all virtuosos, and I aim to keep it that way") - which includes Marilyn Monroe, a ditsy singer who always falls for louche sax players.

It just gets more complicated, and funnier, from there on until the perfect, perfect last line. Brilliant, brilliant, wonderful film.

r3nu4l

WindSock wrote: »

I came on to this thread to specifically say 'some like it hot'

Suuugaarrrrrr

\o/ Yay! I like the cut of your jib Windsock! Arrr!

It's incredibly funny, always has me in stitches

LadyJ

WindSock wrote: »

The Birds

Psycho

Rebecca

Agreed. Great films!

Oh an don't forget the original "Alfie" with Michael Caine. My
favourite film ever!

watna

r3nu4l wrote: »

4 girls and not one has said "Some like it hot"!!!

So is it only us guys that like that movie? I like it because it comforts me to know that sometimes it really is okay to dress up as a woman...:eek:

<_<
>_>

I was going to say that! You beat me too it.

I'd also say, Sound of Music, The Third Man and 12 angry men. Love them all!

Malteaser!

The King of I

Hello Dolly

Calamity Jane

Some Like it Hot

Easter Parade

High Society

Meet me in St. Louis

Annie

The list goes...my mum used to buy me loads of musicals when I was a kid and I used to just watch them over and over again, so I love them!!

luckat

Love Singing in the Rain too - especially the beginning, when the toothy star is describing a youth of wealth and glamour, intercut with images of two scuffy urchins being booted out of low dives where they danced for pennies.

Everything that Ghibli Studios has done - especially My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away and the dark Grave of the Fireflies.

The Japanese version of Godzilla, which is called Gojira - not one to watch again and again, but impressive even so.

French Connection 2, when a New York cop is captured in Marseilles by drug kingpins and addicted to heroin. Haven't seen French Connection.

Howard's End - about marriage; fine film.

Little Miss Sunshine.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Ragtime - about the 1920s in America, and a proud man who can't back down.

Rififi.

Scent of Green Papaya, a Zen film set in Vietnam.

La Reine Margot, about the St Bartholemew's Day Massacre, Good King Henry (Henri IV of France) and Catherine de Medici and her creepy sons.

Saoirse, with superb use of documentary footage and a brilliant score; apparently there's a subtitled version out now. Spot the 1916 leaders, not always spotted by the commentary.

Tampopo, about learning an art, in this case, how to make perfect noodle soup.

Time Bandits - every kid who comes to my house (if old enough not to be scared) watches this.

Nightwish

I dont think Little Miss Sunshine is counted as "old" - its only been out 2 years.

I love The Third Man - one of my favourite films ever.

luckat

Ooops, sorry, got carried away there and forgot about the "old".

Yes, The Third Man is a masterpiece. It's an example of how story and style can sweep away the pretentions of Hollywood flash.

gidget

Any of the old Shirley Temple movies or Laurel & Hardy films. One of my favourites would be To Kill a Mocking Bird.

Crumble Froo

i think the only film i know done before i was born is Withnail and I. and i would like to think my kids (touch wood that one doesnt happen) didn't see that for a good while... god forbid they should ever turn out like me or my b/f.... :P

jos28

If I could only pick one it would have to be Brief Encounter.
Musicals : Oliver and Wizard of Oz

Oryx

Dunno when it was made but One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, and while Im on Jack Nicholson films the Shining as well.

Musicals: the original Willy Wonka, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Im still afraid of the childcatcher) and like everyone else The Wizard of Oz.

Some may have been made after I was born, but I am an auld wan.

Karl Hungus

All of them.

....shell....

to kill a mockingbird

missisippi burning???can never remember d right name

when a man loves a woman

DIRTY DANCING

wizard of oz

alice in wonderland

mary poppins

sound of music

quickbeam

Lots of good old films - some already mentioned:

Blazing Saddles
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Dog Day Afternoon
Dr. Strangelove
The Great Escape
Night Of The Hunter
Roman Holiday (suprised this wasn't mentioned yet)
Singin' In The Rain
Some Like It Hot
Spartacus
Twelve Angry Men

Marx Bros: Night At The Opera, Day At The Races, Duck Soup

Hitchcock: Dial M For Murder, Strangers On A Train, Psycho, The Birds

... to name but a few

The Godfather
Twelve Angry Men
The Producers (original version)
Some Like It Hot
It's A Wonderful Life
All Laurel and Hardy films
Airplane!

Pink Fox

The Nun's Story with Audrey Hepburn and Peter Finch

genie

Rebecca
The 39 Steps
Lawrence of Arabia

Bubblefett

It's a wonderful life
Star Wars original triliogy
Young Frankenstein
The Producers
Blazing Saddles
Brewsters Millions
Stir Crazy
Trading Places
Some like it Hot
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
All of the Monty Pythons
Airplane!

(my kids better have my sense of humour!)

Pink Fox

A Man for All Seasons.
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison with Robert Mitchem and Deborah Kerr.

shoos

There's something about sitting down to an old movie I find much more of a challenge than something that's been out in the last 30 years. I wonder what that is

When I do sit down to one I always really enjoy it too, need to do it more often.

My faves:

Some Like It Hot - very funny
It's a Wonderful Life
Harvey
Any Charlie Chaplin film, but I love City Lights

I also love Tony Hancock's BBC radio/television series, has anyone seen it? It's really funny, and the Hancock character is just brilliant. Something really soothing about the show as well, in fact I showed it to my boyfriend and he now puts it on at night to help him drift off to sleep - bless :P

Whispered

Darby O'Gill and the Little People.

Pink Fox

Any Greta Garbo film

Ah_Yeah

Mary Poppins!

Ginny

The Philadelphia story
Rear Window
Gone with the wind
Waterloo Bridge
The Wicked Lady
Calamity Jane
Any of the Harryhausen films
Not really too old but Labyrinth and The Princess Bride.

Aglomerado

Goodbye Mr Chips (Robert Donat version)
Some Like it Hot
A Night to Remember
Cool Hand Luke
The Grapes of Wrath
On the Waterfront
How Green was my Valley

Most of Hitchcock's stuff especially
Rear Window
Rebecca
Vertigo
Rope
Frenzy
(and of course, the Birds and Psycho!)

Bummppd

Cat on a hot tin roof!!!

Holly13

The Goonies!

Das Kitty

Has anyone mentioned The Apartment?

Wonderful film.

dark crystal

Ginny wrote: »

Rear Window
Gone with the Wind
Waterloo Bridge

Three of my favourites right there!

I would also add Top Hat, King Kong, Night of the Hunter, Barefoot in the Park, Bus Stop and The Way We Were.

OakeyDokey

The Wizard of Oz
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

kat.mac

Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
The Sting
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

... amazing films!

The producers its the funniest film ever made IMO, I am in hysterics laughing every time I watch it!

Black Swan

Black Swan wrote: »

Love Story
The Lion in Winter
Dr Zhivago (sp?)
The African Queen
Breakfast at Tiffanys
Moon River
The Pink Panther films

I think Moon River is a song from Breakfast at Tiffany's. Its not a movie afaik.:)

Key Largo
Roman Holiday
Sabrina (original Audrey Hepburn version)
Moonstruck

Pink Fox

Dark Crystal - I loved Waterloo Bridge too. BBC1 used to show black and white films like this at 2 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon in the 70s. It was lovely on a winter Sunday afternoon, after the roast dinner, to sit by the fire and watch a good romantic film.

dark crystal

Pink Fox wrote: »

Dark Crystal - I loved Waterloo Bridge too. BBC1 used to show black and white films like this at 2 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon in the 70s. It was lovely on a winter Sunday afternoon, after the roast dinner, to sit by the fire and watch a good romantic film.

Ah, Vivien Leigh was just so beautiful too. I spent ages trying to locate it on DVD and finally found an imported copy on Amazon. Pure Sunday afternoon bliss!

They just don't make 'em like that anymore.

gg2

Gone With The Wind
Dirty Dancing
The Champ (most heartbreaking film ever)
Love Story
Its a Wonderful Life

One I really want to see is The Way We Were.........

candy-gal1

To name just a few,

My Girl 1 and 2

Getting even with dad

Now and then

Ghostbusters

Groundhog day

Father of the bride 1 and 2

American Pie 1, 2 and 3




All oldies, classics and ones to watch over and over.

Das Kitty

Thanks for making me feel really old candy-gal!

Princess Peach

I'm mad for musicals! Love White Christmas, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Some Like it Hot.

Saw It's a Wonderful Life for the first time last year, it was brilliant!

Posy

Am I one of the few who doesn't call a film made in the 1980's an "old film?"