What's your favorite classic film?

[bif]

[dweller]

1. The Misfits

Last Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable film


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[callous taoboy]

11. I watched The Misfits recently for the first time and it was excellent.

[ItsjustMe]

2. Too many to list

But today my film will be "12 Angry Men"

[ultralite001]

10. Good choice...

That is all...

[ratchiweenie]

3. Maybe Fellini's La Strada? or Seven Samuri? So many greats. How can you choose?

[catbyte]

4. Tough question!

I think "All About Eve" edges out "To Have and Have Not" and "The Philadelphia Story" by a nose. But my favorite holiday movie is "Christmas in Connecticut." So many to choose from!

[wendyb-NC]

15. Those are wonderful movies

[brush]

5. "Casablanca" or course. "Pulp Fiction", "Shawshank Redemption."

"The Godfather" and "Godfather ll." "The Young Philadelphians."

That's enough, but I could go on.

[agingdem]

6. Auntie Mame

even more current today then it was in 1958...Rosalind Russell..simply the best

[PA_jen]

8. YES!!!

[Lulu KC]

19. Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes!

It was the first movie I ever saw in a theatre. I was four years old and sobbed when we had to leave. "I want Auntie Mame!" I watch it every year. Love the book, too.

[PA_jen]

7. Good Question. Hard pick.

My Top 5

His Gal Friday

Desk Set

The Nun's Story

Amadeus (I think it is considered a classic)

Take A Letter Darling. (Rosalind Rusell & Fred McMurray) It is a must see and deeply underrated

[Cartoonist]

9. The Maltese Falcon

A Hard Day's Night

[TlalocW]

12. A Night at the Opera

Groucho Marx giving a speech to open up the new opera season
"Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons and necking in the parlor. (Signals to the conductor) Play, Don." (Conductor looks insulted)

[slightlv]

13. Does it have to be a Noir Classic?

If not, I really have an attachment to the "B" movies! I love "Them" and "War of the Worlds" and "It Came From Outer Space." Had a real treat the other night when TCM played "Forbidden Planet" with Leslie Neilson. And I'd be hard pressed to not pass up a ToHo Godzilla movie!!!

[wendyb-NC]

14. Bringing Up Baby

I enjoy the silly, screwball, fantastic scenes and story line.

[catbyte]

18. That's one of my favorites, too.

The scene where Susan (Hepburn) brings the wild jaguar on a leash into the jail and tells him, "Stop slapping at me!" never fails to crack me up.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

16. The Searchers

John Wayne was a rightwing SOB, but his performance in this movie was his best. This was also one of John Ford's finest films, and many of today's top directors say this film greatly influenced them. To me, this is a cinematic Norman Rockwell painting. There is as much narrative going on in the background as there is in the foreground.

[Tetrachloride]

21. The Cowboys

[Grumpy Old Guy]

22. Another good one.

[BHDem53]

17. The Kid

The General The Kid Brother

[Lulu KC]

20. Only one?

I love so many, and watch certain ones every year, but if I had to pick what I think is the most brilliant, it must be Charlie Chaplin's City Lights.

[ificandream]

23. "Casablanca" would be my top pick ...

Another is "Witness For the Prosecution." I also love Pre-code films in general.

[bif]

24. Mine would have to be "Amarcord" by Fellini

Such a beautiful film!

[Stuart G]

25. "Some Like it Hot" 1959 , & "The Producers" 1967 (2 Films) Comedies both (funniest ever!)

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Some Like It Hot.. Writer & Director - Billy Wilder

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Tony Curtis,
Marlyn Monroe
Jack Lemon

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The Producers ...writer, Director- Mel Brooks

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063462/

Zero Mostel
Max Bialystock(as Zero)
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Gene Wilder
Leo Bloom

Dick Shawn
L.S.D. - Lorenzo St. DuBois

Kenneth Mars
Franz Liebkind
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[Montauk6]

27. I may be petty about "The ProducerS" but...

I refuse to watch the musical remake, ever since I'd heard they omitted Lorenzo. That's sheer blasphemy, IMHO.

[Ziggysmom]

26. The Wizard of Oz 🌪

And A Charlie Brown Christmas ❤️ Love all the Peanuts films!

[Montauk6]

28. If the hammer is pulled back, so to speak, I'd go with "Paths of Glory"

But my honorable mentions are (and just a handful)

Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
Stormy Weather
High and Low
Pressure Point
In The Heat of the Night
The Nutty Professor
West Side Story
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Godfather
Enter the Dragon

Special Mention: I recently saw, for the first time, the "non-hazy" director's cut of "Heaven's Gate," and MAN!!! did that film get a bum rap. I really enjoyed it... In fact, I was more impressed with it than with "The Deer Hunter" (nonetheless, still a great film)