What are your favourite old movies?

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East of Eden
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Casablanca
Young Frankenstein
Airplane
A Night at the Opera
Babette’s Feast
The Wizard of Oz
Shane
The Maltese Falcon
Rear Window
North by Northwest
Harold and Maude
True Grit (the original)
A Streetcar Named Desire
So Big
Rebel Without a Cause
My Fair Lady
The Music Man
Dr. Strangelove
The Day the Earth Stood Still (this scared the pants off of us in the 1960s!)
The Bridge Over the River Kuai
The Great Escape
 
Angels with Dirty Faces
Some Like it Hot
The original Sabrina
Being There
Any Monty Python fim
 
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A few not already mentioned:

Animal House
Field of Dreams
Bull Durham
Unforgiven
Airplane - and don’t call me Shirley!
Die Hard
 
7_Sorrows said:
The Searchers and most John Wayne movies before 1965
The Miracle Worker
White Christmas
The Holiday Affair
Double Indemnity
Gone With the Wind
Key Largo
Laura
and many many more. too many to list.
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how could i forget my favorite Alfred Hitchcock movies - Rear Window, Dial M
for Murder, the Man Who Knew Too Much, North By Northwest, Rope, Vertigo, The Birds

also The Thin Man series with William Powell and Myrna Loy

The River of No Return
Niagara
 
There’s a really good restaurant that I go to from time to time, about a block from that imposing Deer Hunter church, so i get to see the church every time I go eat.
 
Oh my, I categorize “old” movies as anything prior to 1960. I was born in 1957, but my favorite movies were all done before that, with one exception. So using YOUR parameters, here’s a short list;

Holiday Inn
Roman Holiday
White Christmas
Road to … ( all of them )
The Thin Man series
It Happened on 5th Avenue
Its a Wonderful Life
Our Town
Patton
 
Yeah I completely forgot about Man for All Seasons - one of my favorites.

I like To Kill a Mockingbird as well.

Thanks!
 
Fargo
Godfather I & II
Dr. Strangelove
The Shining
Psycho
The Grape of Wrath
Metropolis
Rosemary’s Baby

…just too much list really.
 
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Gertabelle said:
Meet Me In St Louis
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Another favorite of mine as well!! And yes, it is a riot.

“One live as two, two live as one, under the bamboo tree!”

Cool Hand Luke. Because Paul, that’s why. 🙂

@Tis_Bearself - I am another 1776 fan. Sad to say I do know pretty much the whole script. And the best experience I ever had was about 15 years ago when I was in Philly visiting family and a theater in Center City had a 1776 singalong done like “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”. It was AMAZING!!
 
I’ll have to find one of those singalongs. I understand 1776 singalongs are often done during Revolutionary War festival events.

It’s a little hard to watch the movie for me now because my husband and I related to the John and Abigail Adams scenes. We’d say “saltpeter” and “pins” to each other once in a while.
 
Rear Window
Anything Cary Grant
Penny Serenade
Vertigo (anything Hitchcock)
Meet me in St. Louis
Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Cheaper by the Dozen
Life with Father
Music Man
Dial M for Murder
How Green was my Valley
Song of Bernedette
the Nun’s Story
 
Yes, I’m aware. Tricky D (the auto-moderation function won’t let me write out his name without hiding the post…good thing we are not talking about Mr Clark of Bandstand fame) was not popular in our family.
 
I forgot about Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House! A must-see cautionary tale for anyone planning to buy or renovate a house.
Also love Fargo and anything by the Cohen brothers.
The Merchant and Ivory films from the 1980s-90s were uniformly excellent: e.g. A Room with a View
 
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