ALL TIME FAVORITE "OLD" MOVIE (page 4)

little witch

Have any of you watched the film, Gaslight?

It was set in the victorian era. So many issues I have with that one. LOL.

We've come a long way baby!

Mulan

I love the old Andy Hardy movies, but they are never on TV anymore. Also the old Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn movies: Woman of the Year, Desk Set, etc.

The one I will watch everytime it's on is Christmas in Connecticut, with Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan, made about 1944. I would watched it every year at Christmastime, even when we were dubs. Last year, I bought it on ebay, so now I have it. It's a funny, warm, fuzzy movie. Just makes me feel happy. There is a remake of it with Dyan Cannon and Kris Kristofferson, but they ruined it.

How could I have forgotten Rebecca? That is such a good movie. Also My Cousin Rachel, starring a very young Richard Burton. Those are great movies, dark, sinister, and great acting.

little witch

"Dark, sinister, and great acting"

Yes indeed. I love the way they used close-ups, shadow and light, and sound effects in those old movies. No amount of technicolor buckets of blood can scare me (just grosses me out). But those old movies send shivers at times.

Like when they used a close up on Bela Lagousi's eyes and used light to emphasise evil....ewwwwwww creepy! (Dracula)

That was talent!

talesin

LW, 'Gaslight' was a great flick. Yeah, it was 'ahead of its time'. It led to the expression 'gaslighting', meaning, well, you know.

I, too, prefer the old style. The blood and gore of more recent movies is often too disturbing for me, and is imo, a quick way to get an effect rather than using skillful camera work and plot lines.

Mulan, I haven't seen My Cousin Rachel, will have to check it out. Always looking for 'new' flicks I have yet to view.

What was the one with Cary Grant,, was it "Suspicion" (?) where the wife thinks he's trying to kill her for her inheritance? That was a really good one.

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Mulan

Mulan, I haven't seen My Cousin Rachel, will have to check it out.

It was from a book by Daphne du Maurier, like Rebecca was. It was also a great read.

El Kabong

My favorites are:

On the Waterfront. (The best of the best)

Casablanca

The Bride of Frankinstein

The Big Broadcast of 1932. - (This is a very obscure movie. Stars Bing Crosby and most of the radio greats of the day. Pure camp plus great music from that era)

Stalag 17

It's a Wonderful Life. (Yeah, I know it was overplayed but I still love that movie).

A Night at the Opera (Ha ha ha, you can't fool me, there's no such thing as a sanity clause)

A Day at the Races. (Getta you ice cream, getta you tootsie-frootsie ice cream).

Animal Crackers. (One day I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know).

poppers

For sheer romance it is Casablanca and Wuthering Heights

For sheer hilarity it is Bringing Up Baby with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. Now you'll know where "gay" got its current connotation. Also include Arsenic and Old Lace with Cary Grant

For chuckles galore anything with W.C. Fields or the Marx brothers.

For insight into women The Women - also very funny

To relive my youthful days in front of the tv all of the Bowery Boys - just love Satch (Horace DeBussey Jones)

For sentimentality It's a Wonderful Life

For wartime action Audie Murphy starring as himself in To Hell and Back

For identifying with the angst of finding love Marty

Not an old production but my favorite adaptation of a romance the BBC tv production of Pride and Prejudice (yes, I do like Jane Austin - I am a hopeless romantic).

For an almost autobiographical rendering of the BB gun quest/event from my youth (again, this is not an "old" movie) A Christmas Story

Others will be added later as they come to mind

Makena1

Great topic, and so many wonderful old movies mentioned.

In addition to those listed by others, I would include:

Bad Day at Blackrock -Spencer Tracy

Life with Father - William Powell, and very young Elizabeth Taylor

El Cid - Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren

And just about any Tyrone Power Movie - Mark of Zorro, Blood and Sand, Captain from Castille, Witness for the Prosecution, The Sun also Rises, The Black Rose, Razor's edge and others.

copsec

Some of my favorites are

Gigi

Pennies From Heaven

The Harvey Girls

Meet me in St. Louis

Stefanie

Anything with the beautiful Audry Hepburn.

Also anything with Julie Andrews

ALL TIME FAVORITE "OLD" MOVIE

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