Classic movies you are just getting around to seeing.

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My Man Godfrey (1936) with William Powell and Carole Lombard. I had it PVR’ed for a year or more and finally watched it. Funny.
 
I am watching The Bridge on the River Kwai. It’s leaving Netflix on Sept. 1.
 
“Double Indemnity” with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck.

Here’s the synopsis:

In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on a train track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter’s best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Fred MacMurray is great in this role. I tend to think of him as the kind Dad in “My Three Sons,” but he is so good in this movie role!

For Steve McQueen fans, I really liked him in “Papillon.”

Here’s the synopsis for that movie, if you haven’t seen it:

A man (Steve McQueen) befriends a fellow criminal (Dustin Hoffman) as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

If you like the actor Joseph Cotten, he was also really good in “The Magnificent Ambersons,” with Agnes Moorehead, and “Shadow of a Doubt” with Teresa Wright.

Here is a synopsis for “The Magnificent Ambersons”:

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

Here is a synopsis for “Shadow of a Doubt”:

A young woman discovers her visiting “Uncle Charlie” may not be the man he seems to be.
 
Mary_Gail_36 said:
Why does Netflix always take away the good films? 😦 when I first started netflix a number of years ago there were lots of great classics. Now not so much.
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Just to clarify, I’m sure you can still get the DVD, but it’s leaving streaming on Thursday. Probably the usual thing – the studio only licensed it for streaming for a limited time.
 
MrZoom said:
Just to clarify, I’m sure you can still get the DVD, but it’s leaving streaming on Thursday. Probably the usual thing – the studio only licensed it for streaming for a limited time.
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Oh I realize that.

It was recently on Turner Classic Movies, and I missed it. Now I only have 3 days to catch it.

I wonder if my library has it. I need to check.
 
Last night TCM featured the silent film, “Intolerance”. It’s about 3 and a half hours long. I saw about 30 minutes worth. The part I saw featured a young mother who is falsely accused of being an alcoholic and her baby was taken into custody and placed in a children’s home.

To portray the children’s home being a terrible place, the baby was shown being left to cry in a crib, while nurses danced in the background.
 
Yesterday, TCM featured the film “Giant” with Rock Hudson, Liz Taylor and James Dean.

I have never been able to catch the whole film.

I’ve only seen a number of scenes. Yesterday I caught the last half hour.

It featured a drunken aged James Dean at a dais of an empty ballroom.

Then it featured a brawl between Rock Hudson and a diner owner who didn’t want to serve a Mexican family.

Rock Hudson had a little grandson at this point. If anyone saw the film, was the little boy Dennis Hopper’s character’s son?
 
Turner Classic Movies had an all-day tribute to Debbie Reynolds back in January, and I DVR’ed several of the movies. Just now getting around to watching them. I watched I Love Melvin last night, which reunited Debbie with her Singin’ in the Rain co-star Donald O’Connor. A rather lightweight and silly - but quick (76 minutes!) movie. I give it 3 out of 5 stars. Perhaps most memorable from the movie was the sequence where her character is in a football game musical number in a Broadway show – and she’s the football. :eek: A more conventional musical number, “Where Did You Learn To Dance”, was perhaps my favorite.
 
Recently, “The Night of the Hunter” was on demand on Turner Classic Movies.

I didn’t get to see it, just a couple of clips. But wow, Robert Mitchum was scary! I hope to catch it next time it’s on.
 
Recently I finally saw Singin’ in the Rain in its entirety. I think I had only seen the scene
where Gene Kelly is dancing in the rain. I really had no idea what the plot of the movie
was all about. I had heard Gene did not want Debbie in the movie because she was
not a professional dancer. I thought she was fantastic considering she only had a few
months training. She seemed to hold her own.
 
“The High And The Mighty”

This is like “Airplane!” but done in a serious, action-movie style from a bygone era. Ergo: Airport check-in clerks making openly chauvinistic comments, demeaning depiction of Asian women, passengers openly bringing firearms onto the plane, and so on. I just had to watch all of it to see for myself.
 
I finally saw The Night of the Hunter.

Robert Mitchum was one scary dude. And Shelley Winters did well in her role as the widow.

And the little girl who played Pearl could look just like Shelley Winters.
 
I love the Thin Man Series.

Tonight I watched China Seas, Wife vs. Secretary, Red Dust and Manhattan Melodrama
with the great stars Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, William Powell and James
Stewart. Class movies from the 1930’s!
 
randomuser said:
“The High And The Mighty”

This is like “Airplane!” but done in a serious, action-movie style from a bygone era. Ergo: Airport check-in clerks making openly chauvinistic comments, demeaning depiction of Asian women, passengers openly bringing firearms onto the plane, and so on. I just had to watch all of it to see for myself.
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I think this is the movie they were spoofing when they did “Airplane”.
 
High Society. This is a movie I’ve wanted to see for years, because it has Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby singing a brilliant song together. It’s also a remake of one of my top three movies, The Philadelphia Story.

Now, I was predisposed to love this movie. I’ve read more Sinatra bios than is reasonable, own CDs of him than anyone else, but when I watched it, and watched the original with Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant, I had to admit: the original is still better. Sinatra and Crosby’s “Did You Evah” song is BRILLIANTLY funny, but Stewart and Grant are brilliant funny throughout the entire original movie.

So, there it is.

I’ve also just watched two old westerns: The Unforgiven has Audrey Hepburn saying “ain’t”; and Vera Cruz, which was filmed entirely in Mexico.
 
Potter said:
High Society. This is a movie I’ve wanted to see for years, because it has Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby singing a brilliant song together. It’s also a remake of one of my top three movies, The Philadelphia Story.

Now, I was predisposed to love this movie. I’ve read more Sinatra bios than is reasonable, own CDs of him than anyone else, but when I watched it, and watched the original with Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant, I had to admit: the original is still better. Sinatra and Crosby’s “Did You Evah” song is BRILLIANTLY funny, but Stewart and Grant are brilliant funny throughout the entire original movie.

So, there it is.

I’ve also just watched two old westerns: The Unforgiven has Audrey Hepburn saying “ain’t”; and Vera Cruz, which was filmed entirely in Mexico.
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I am just not a Kathryn Hepburn fan, but I did think she was good in The Rainmaker with Burt Lancaster. Did Grace Kelly have Kathryn’s role in the remake? I have only seen pieces of these movies while switching channels.

I did finally see Come Back Little Sheba a few weeks ago. It was good. Perhaps I already posted that. I would like to see The Rose Tatoo in its entirety. I am a Burt Lancaster fan.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I am just not a Kathryn Hepburn fan, but I did think she was good in The Rainmaker with Burt Lancaster. Did Grace Kelly have Kathryn’s role in the remake? I have only seen pieces of these movies while switching channels.

I did finally see Come Back Little Sheba a few weeks ago. It was good. Perhaps I already posted that. I would like to see The Rose Tatoo in its entirety. I am a Burt Lancaster fan.
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Come Back Little Sheba is one of my favorites. Shirley Booth was so good in her performance. The part when he comes home drunk and belittles her breaks my heart.
 
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