What are some of your favorite old movies?

[VoteDemocratic2004]

I just rented "Phantom of Paradise" with Paul Williams in it. I use to love Paul Williams yeah I know I am a dork.

I am a big movie buff so here goes "My list":

Phantom Of Paradise
There's a Girl In My Soup
Long Long Trailer
With Six You Get Egg roll
Yours, Mine and Ours
Georgie Girl
Gregory's Girl
To Sir With Love
Purple Rain
Easy Money
Goodfellows

Any of John Hughes movies!

[NewHampshireDem]

1. Seven Samurai

and just about anything else by Akira Kurowsawa.

I also like old film noir, like "Double Indemnity" and "The Big Sleep." (Of course, I like new film noir too.)

Also, one of the all-time greats is "Sullivan's Travels" by Preston Sturgis ... you MUST see it if you never have.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034240/combined

[TheDebbieDee]

2. Here are a few of mine......

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Used Cars
The Great Escape
Silver Bullet
Fright Night

[Union Thug]

3. Here are a few from diverse genres

Nights of Cabiria
Through a glass darkly
Obsession
Silent Running (this one takes a sentimental idiot like me to enjoy)
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Knife in the Water
Repulsion

[Lucky Luciano]

4. I watched MR Smith Goes to Washington

yesterday for the first time. All DUers should see this 1939 classic! It is the story of an innocent man that falls into the job of senator and he takes on a political machine that has many b*sh philosophies.

[Union Thug]

5. Frank Capra classic

I agree, this film is quite good. See Meet John Doe, as well.

[Southsideirish]

6. Any of the great "noirs" with Bogie, Edward G. Robinson, Robert

Mitchum, etc.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. Hmmm

A Captive in the Land
Mind Walk
(and to show I don't just go for drama) Blazing Saddles

[Tardisian]

8. Holiday

with Cary Grant & Katherine Hepburn. The Nun's Story (Audrey Hepburn). Pat & Mike (Tracy/Hepburn). Anything with Ann Miller dancing. Anything with the singing team of Howard Keel & Kathryn Grayson.

[Union Thug]

10. Was it Bogie and Hepburn in ...

Riverboat? I think that's what it was called. Great film!

[left is right]

12. African Queen

[Union Thug]

13. YES African Queen.. Thank you!!!

[Union Thug]

9. OH! here's a couple other must see films..

Roeg's "Walkabout"
Roeg's "Don't Look Now"

[Union Thug]

11. Here are a couple of GREAT russian films for you..

The Thief (FANTASTIC MUST SEE)
Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears (sentimental, funny)
Irony of Destiny (THE CLASSIC shown in Russia at New Year)

[fudge stripe cookays]

14. Murder By Death

(I LOVE Neil Simon!!)

So Proudly We Hail!
The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Party (Peter Sellers- hysterical!)
American Dreamer (JoBeth Williams)
Romancing the Stone

[EstimatedProphet]

15. Wow-those are really "old" movies

John Hughes? I was an adult when he was making movies! They aren't old!
How about Citizen Kane? The original Lost Horizon? King Vidor's movies?
You damn kids, with your newfangled new movies, always in my yard...Go on! Get out of here!

[lpbk2713]

16. When I think "old movies" I think like 60's and beyond.

Maybe something like.........

High Noon
Bridge on the River Kwai
North by Northwest
Father Goose
From Russia with Love
Goldfinger
Failsafe
Inherit the Wind
Giant
The Longest Day
The Old Man and the Sea


Almost anything with Cary Grant or Spencer Tracy.

[dudeness]

17. jacque tati's

mon oncle..

[nuxvomica]

23. I've never seen that one but I loved "Playtime"

There is a scene with a chair in that movie that is hysterical. Tati was a comic genius.

[Bjornsdotter]

18. Bringing Up Baby and...

....Arsenic and Old Lace
Blithe Spirit
any of the old Sherlock Holmes Mysteries
any of the Marx Brothers movies

Cheers,
Kim :toast:

[djeseru]

19. A lot of Hitchcock...

...like Notorious, Rear Window and Spellbound but my all-time favorite is The 39 Steps with Robert Donat.

Others would be:
To Kill A Mockingbird
Laura
Singin' In The Rain
The Philadelphia Story

Probably dozens of others but I can't think of 'em on the spot...

*sigh* And I was in high school when Purple Rain and all the Hughes films came out...still trying to not look like Molly Ringwald...

[Sabriel]

20. Two old Kirk Douglas movies

Paths of Glory (possibly the best war movie ever)
Lonely Are the Brave

[Khephra]

21. "M"

and most of the German silent horror films.

[Mizmoon]

22. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane

not that old, but old to me.