Old classic movies!

[HB1965]

Some Like it Hot is fabulous too.

If we want to get into the 50s and 60s I liked
Yours, Mine, and Ours
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
The Russians are Coming
Around the World in 80 days
My Fair Lady
South Pacific
The Sound of Music

 

[Millificent]

I saw The Birds for the first time when I was about 14 and babysitting another family's kids, that is, I was supposed to be the grown-up. Scared the shit out of me. I still can't watch that movie.

Love all his other films though.

The place:My parents house (I was still living at home, dating a particular someone)

The Setting:My bathroom. I was taking a shower, washing my hair.

Props:A mechanical pencil

Sound effects:For once, the squeaky door was edited out. The only other sound effect was an "eek! eek!" noise as the mechanical pencil made repeated contact with the shower curtain.

He laughed hysterically. He still laughs about it. I haven't yet decided if I'm going to forgive him.

 

[smidgeon]

Thanks for sharing the link - I'll definitely be checking it out as I love the old classics.

When I was a kid, if I had to stay home sick from school or sometimes during breaks, I would watch whatever old movie they'd show at 1pm (this was before cable). There was just something magical about the old films, especially the black and white ones. I'll still watch nearly anything with Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart... oh the list is too damn long, and it's probably a bunch of your favorites too.

I think I've seen all the movies HornyBabe listed, and I'd probably watch these over and over again:

Philadelphia Story
Now, Voyager
The General
To Kill a Mockingbird
Imitation of Life
Cheaper by the Dozen
It's a Wonderful Life (don't even say it...)
White Christmas ("Sisters... sisters...")
The Bells of St. Mary's
Going My Way
Singing in the Rain
My Favorite Wife
Roman Holiday
Operation Petticoat​

Criminey... there's still too many to list. I'll just stop now. I suddenly feel like going to watch an old movie...

 

[Millificent]

I love My Favorite Wife!

 

[smidgeon]

I love My Favorite Wife!

The scene that always sticks out in my head is the one where Cary Grant is getting into the elevator and the doors are closing just as he sees his favorite wife again for the first time... classic Cary Grant.

 

[HB1965]

Thanks for sharing the link - I'll definitely be checking it out as I love the old classics.

When I was a kid, if I had to stay home sick from school or sometimes during breaks, I would watch whatever old movie they'd show at 1pm (this was before cable). There was just something magical about the old films, especially the black and white ones. I'll still watch nearly anything with Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart... oh the list is too damn long, and it's probably a bunch of your favorites too.

I think I've seen all the movies HornyBabe listed, and I'd probably watch these over and over again:

Philadelphia Story
Now, Voyager
The General
To Kill a Mockingbird
Imitation of Life
Cheaper by the Dozen
It's a Wonderful Life (don't even say it...)
White Christmas ("Sisters... sisters...")
The Bells of St. Mary's
Going My Way
Singing in the Rain
My Favorite Wife
Roman Holiday
Operation Petticoat​

Criminey... there's still too many to list. I'll just stop now. I suddenly feel like going to watch an old movie...

I love all those too. Especially to Kill a Mockingbird. One of my all time favorites.

Atticus Finch: If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.


Also Inherit the Wind was a good one too

Philidephia Story is great, but I wasn't fond of the remake High Society

 

[LilyBart]

The place:My parents house (I was still living at home, dating a particular someone)

The Setting:My bathroom. I was taking a shower, washing my hair.

Props:A mechanical pencil

Sound effects:For once, the squeaky door was edited out. The only other sound effect was an "eek! eek!" noise as the mechanical pencil made repeated contact with the shower curtain.

He laughed hysterically. He still laughs about it. I haven't yet decided if I'm going to forgive him.

LOL! But you have a wonderful memory!

muahaha....

 

[LaynasJoy]

Writen on the Wind with ---Robert Stack, Lauren Bacall, Rock Hudson and Dorothy Lamour, They all should have gotten oscars for this movie especially Robert Stack and Dorothy Lamour...

The Best Movie Ever........

 

[HB1965]

Writen on the Wind with ---Robert Stack, Lauren Bacall, Rock Hudson and Dorothy Lamour, They all should have gotten oscars for this movie especially Robert Stack and Dorothy Lamour...

The Best Movie Ever........

Yeah that was a great movie. Everytime I here the title I think of this song though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EXRPxC-5bE

 

[LilyBart]

Thanks for sharing the link - I'll definitely be checking it out as I love the old classics.

When I was a kid, if I had to stay home sick from school or sometimes during breaks, I would watch whatever old movie they'd show at 1pm (this was before cable). There was just something magical about the old films, especially the black and white ones. I'll still watch nearly anything with Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart... oh the list is too damn long, and it's probably a bunch of your favorites too.

I think I've seen all the movies HornyBabe listed, and I'd probably watch these over and over again:

Philadelphia Story
Now, Voyager
The General
To Kill a Mockingbird
Imitation of Life
Cheaper by the Dozen
It's a Wonderful Life (don't even say it...)
White Christmas ("Sisters... sisters...")
The Bells of St. Mary's
Going My Way
Singing in the Rain
My Favorite Wife
Roman Holiday
Operation Petticoat​

Criminey... there's still too many to list. I'll just stop now. I suddenly feel like going to watch an old movie...

Clearly my brain needs a kick-start tonight. Thanks for reminding me to add the following to my Netflix queue:
Philadelphia Story
To Kill a Mockingbird (terrified me as a child...but not to the degree The Birds did)
Singing in the Rain
Roman Holiday

And yes, smidgeon, I'll watch Its a Wonderful Life with you any day. My whole family hates it. I live with scrooges.

Can we add Breakfast at Tiffanys?

 

[smidgeon]

Can we add Breakfast at Tiffanys?

Of course!

And as soon I posted, I thought of another half dozen movies or so (Wuthering Heights, It Happened One Night...). Then I started poking around on the site and found another favorite: His Girl Friday.

Now I'm not sure whether to thank or curse Betticus...

 

[LilyBart]

Of course!

And as soon I posted, I thought of another half dozen movies or so (Wuthering Heights, It Happened One Night...). Then I started poking around on the site and found another favorite: His Girl Friday.

Now I'm not sure whether to thank or curse Betticus...

Oh...I think this thread is going to be fun!

I've been thinking about your "stay home sick" comment and you're right...so many good movies we watched in the prehistoric days before DVDs.

I have a lot more to add. But right now, I need to finish watching "Larry the Cable Guy."

 

[00Syd]

This isn't exactly a classic, but I was thinking about it earlier.

There is this crazy swinging sixties movie called "Smashing Time" which is great because it was made in 1967 and is both celebrating and making fun of the pop culture of its time while its still popular.

But... maybe thats just me. I am so obsessed with 60s youth culture that for all intents and purposes its not even an obsession anymore, but an academic study.

 

[DarkhairedLady]

i think anything with bette davis is absolutely fabulous!! but my favorite of hers..is one of her earlier works- Human Bondage. it's really great..has a very dark obsessive theme to it and she's wonderfully bratty in it.

i just recently finally got hold of a copy of Sunset Bolevard (bad spelling i'm sure) it's really good as well.

 

[Netzach]

I saw The Birds for the first time when I was about 14 and babysitting another family's kids, that is, I was supposed to be the grown-up. Scared the shit out of me. I still can't watch that movie.

Love all his other films though.

I have to agree that scares me more than anything else I've seen. Hellraiser is a laughable field of daisies romp by comparison - Audition? Marathon Man? Whatevs. That film took something so mundane, something I even like (I like birds) and made it totally horrifying.

 

[00Syd]

i just recently finally got hold of a copy of Sunset Bolevard (bad spelling i'm sure) it's really good as well.

I can't agree more, Sunset Boulevard is an amazing film. I was so blown away when I first saw it. Gloria Swanson is such perfect casting. Not only is she an amazing actress, but was actually a forgotten film star herself, from the silent era.

That movie really reveals a dark side to the human instinct for survival.

 

[LilyBart]

I have to agree that scares me more than anything else I've seen. Hellraiser is a laughable field of daisies romp by comparison - Audition? Marathon Man? Whatevs. That film took something so mundane, something I even like (I like birds) and made it totally horrifying.

I think the only other movie that had a more frightening impact on me was The Deer Hunter. But I at least had reasons for that one frightening me. The Birds was just damn scary.

And I like birds too. Especially the families of birds that live in my yard. (A sign of old age, btw, when you start to worry about the familial issues of your backyard birds.)

 

[DarkhairedLady]

I can't agree more, Sunset Boulevard is an amazing film. I was so blown away when I first saw it. Gloria Swanson is such perfect casting. Not only is she an amazing actress, but was actually a forgotten film star herself, from the silent era.

That movie really reveals a dark side to the human instinct for survival.

agreed!! she was so over the top with her acting..but yet it suited the role she was playing.

'i am big. it's the pictures that became small' i love that line!!

 

[Netzach]

I think the only other movie that had a more frightening impact on me was The Deer Hunter. But I at least had reasons for that one frightening me. The Birds was just damn scary.

And I like birds too. Especially the families of birds that live in my yard. (A sign of old age, btw, when you start to worry about the familial issues of your backyard birds.)

I love the Deerhunter, though I didn't find it frightening so much as incredibly excruciatingly sad. The Deerhunter of its day in that regard and one of my favorite films of the forties is "The Best Years of Our Lives"

 

[LilyBart]

I love the Deerhunter, though I didn't find it frightening so much as incredibly excruciatingly sad. The Deerhunter of its day in that regard and one of my favorite films of the forties is "The Best Years of Our Lives"

I agree with your thoughts about "The Best Years of Our Lives" overall. However, for me, anyway (and this will reveal my age), "The Deer Hunter" came out as many of my friends fathers and/or older brothers were coming home from Vietnam. At the same time, there was an influx of Asians (some, but not all Vietnamese) coming to my college. I still remember walking around a corner in college and facing an Asian man, the day after seeing the movie. My very young heart stopped for a moment. All because of "The Deer Hunter."

I grew up in Washington, DC - the ultimate melting pot - and never felt any ambiguity about any race. Except for that one minute. That day. The day after the release of "The Deer Hunter."

Maybe this is why I think war is bad.

 

[Miki647]

I LOVE The Thin Man movies. Also, Arsenic and Old Lace, and of course, every Christmas, Its a Wonderful Life is a must-see. I made my kids watch it last Christmas...They sat there quietly, (which is a miracle), watched the whole thing, and then said that they didn't like it. HA! I'm sure I saw some secret eye-wiping going on...Why do teenagers act so jaded?

 

[EmpressFi]

The scene that always sticks out in my head is the one where Cary Grant is getting into the elevator and the doors are closing just as he sees his favorite wife again for the first time... classic Cary Grant.

that scene was replayed in the modern version of the parent trap..but yes.. I love that scene.. the look on his face is priceless

 

[00Syd]

Oooh ooh, "In like Flint" and "Our Man Flint"

Any other James Coburn fans?

 

[Betticus]

I saw The Birds for the first time when I was about 14 and babysitting another family's kids, that is, I was supposed to be the grown-up. Scared the shit out of me. I still can't watch that movie.

Love all his other films though.

Was this the queue for the "Dear Penthouse" letter that some very lucky boy you babysat would later write?

 

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I saw The Birds for the first time when I was about 14 and babysitting another family's kids, that is, I was supposed to be the grown-up. Scared the shit out of me. I still can't watch that movie.

Love all his other films though.

You know that the birds was originally filmed in 3D though released only in 2D because of a decline in commercial enthusiasm for 3D movies. Imagine that, I don't have to, I saw part of it at Universal Studios when I was in Florida. They have an Alfred Hitchcock Theatre there, people actually walked out in the first few mins. Totally, completely, freaked. I was brave ( read closed eyes ) .

My name online is immediately derived from the du Maurier novel in same, who as it happens also wrote the Birds. There is some sleep inducing trivia for you Lily !

I love love love old B & W movies. Nothing like a cold rainy Sunday afternoon , curled up & a movie just once in a while. Non sexual hedonism at it's finest .

Greer Garson was an amazing actress, would watch most anything she is in, though I'll admit ( and this shows how le tragic things are getting around here lately ) I am wellllllllllllllll excited to have picked up a copy of Vincent Price in The House of Wax recently. Just waiting for the right mood to strike & perhaps a little rain : smiles :