What are your favourite old movies?

[yankeesouth]

Casablanca
His Girl Friday
Shane
Stagecoach

Many more but those come to mind first.

 

[bobperk]

How could I forget those!?! Especially A Bronx Tale! Thanks!

 

[fredystairs]

Our Man Godfrey 1936 William Powell
Glory 1989 Civil War story about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry

 

[BartholomewB]

Drama: The Godfather
Comedy: The Sting
Thriller: Frenzy
Comedy thriller: Family Plot
Western: The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Comedy Western: Cat Ballou
Musical: The Blues Brothers
Biblical: Jesus of Nazareth
Science Fiction: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

[Added later]
Animation or cartoon: Snow White
(with thanks to @OsculeturMeOsculo for jogging my memory)

 

[HolySpirit]

I was gonna say, “1999 is old?”

I’m speechless.

 

[LittleWay16]

Rebecca-1940 (drama/suspense? Hard to describe)
Singin in the Rain-1952 (musical/comedy)
The Thin Man-1934 (mystery/comedy)
Charade-1963 (mystery/comedy/suspense)

 

[drz888]

The Sound of Music (1965)

 

[BartholomewB]

Snow White.

Back in the twentieth century, a guy I knew ranked that as the best movie ever made in any genre. But he earned his living in the cartoon business, so maybe he was prejudiced.

 

[EricF]

At the risk of excommunication, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Blues Brothers.

 

[LittleWay16]

I can’t help but enjoy that one as well.
“Send wire to main office… tell them I said ow”.

 

[BartholomewB]

Frederick Frankenstein (on train): Pardon me, boy, is this the Transylvania Station?
Boy (on platform): Track 29. Can I give you a shine?

 

[Edmundus1581]

Our Man Godfrey 1936 William Powell
Glory 1989 Civil War story about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry

With your avatar, I was expecting “A Man for all Seasons”.

It’s up there twith “To Kill a Mockingbird”

 

[gcshapero]

Trying to stay beneath the 1960’s…

-It’s a Wonderful Life
-Rebel Without a Cause
-12 Angry Men
-A Night at the Opera
-Singin’ in the Rain
-Some Like it Hot
-The Ten Commandments
-The Miracles of Our Lady of Fatima
-April Love
-Gidget
-The Music Man
-West Side Story
-The Wild One
-The Quiet Man
-The Good the Bad and the Ugly

 

[Edmundus1581]

More recent…

The Princess Bride
The Three Amigos

 

[Loud-living-dogma]

So many good ones here! My personal favorite movie “The bells of St. Mary’s”, also notable for being mentioned in the Godfather…

 

[Chaz_G]

My wife loves ‘The Bells of St. Mary’s!’

 

[Chaz_G]

Arsenic and Old Lace
Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein
Forbidden Planet
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Sand Pebbles
Casablanca
Key Largo
The Maltese Falcon
The Sting
The Great Escape

If we’re going up to 1999 then I’ll add
That Thing You Do
LA Confidential

 

[LittleWay16]

How about “Going My Way”?

 

[Augustinian]

Dirty Harry
Cobra (1987)
Death Wish 3
Idiocracy
Super Fly (1972)
Ben Hur (Heston)
Kelly’s Heroes
Dirty Dozen

 

[exnihilo]

The Searchers might be my favorite.
Rio Bravo
Hatari - it’s such a unique movie
The Spaghetti Westerns
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Godfather I & II
The first four James Bond