What are your favourite old movies?

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Girl Crazy
Babes on Broadway
Babes in Arms
Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, and George Gershwin. ❤️
Space Balls
Young Frankenstein
Anne of Green Gables miniseries
Little Dorrit miniseries
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Godfather 1 and 2
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Star Wars 4-6 lol
Braveheart
 
7_Sorrows said:
The Long Long Trailer - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
Parent Trap - Hayley Mills
Pollyanna - Hayley Mills
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Hayley was my idol when I was a little girl. My poor mother. I dragged her to every Hayley Mills movie ever made. 😆
 
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Remember The Trouble with Angels, and Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows? I believe this was Haley Mills.
 
Here’s my favorite old movies:

The Song of Bernadette
The Nuns Story
Ben-Hur
King of Kings
The Cardinal
 
Those were the days when all wise nuns seemed like Rosalind Russell and train conductors actually held up trains for last minute goodbyes:

 
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The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady
 
The Sound of Music; 12 Angry Men; and Guess who’s coming to dinner-to name a few!
 
Limoncello4021 said:
Those were the days when all wise nuns seemed like Rosalind Russell and train conductors actually held up trains for last minute goodbyes:
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Limon, thank you for posting that. That’s one of my two favorite scenes in the movie. Those were the days. Three good actresses. They made those lines in a script come alive~!
 
Yeah, this got me nostalgic. There are several other long sequences on Youtube well worth watching, including those where Mary begins to have serious thoughts of her vocation. I also read the many comments and to a person people love this very funny yet very reverent movie. It is a winning combination, with great respect for the Church without being stuffy.
 
  1. Babette’s Feast.
    The lives of the pious Lutheran residents of a tiny village are forever changed by the selfless sacrifice of a French refugee.
  2. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, live action 1945)
    A breathtaking version of the fairy tale by Mme LePrince de Beaumont, with set design inspired by the artwork of Vermeer, Rembrandt and Gustave Dore.
  3. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
    Jimmy Stewart is a disabled police detective who finds himself in the grip of romantic obsession when he is hired to tail mysterious Kim Novak.
  4. Rebecca (Hitchcock, starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine)
    A shy young girl marries a brooding wealthy widower, and is haunted by his memories of his dead wife.
  5. It’s A Gift (W.C. Fields)
    IMO, far and away the most hilarious of the great man’s films. The masterpiece of this one is the setpiece in which Fields tries to sleep on the back porch, and is bedeviled by a nagging wife, a cacophonous milkman, shrieking neighbors and, of course, Baby LeRoy.
  6. The Song of Bernadette (Jennifer Jones)
    Need I explain? If you haven’t seen it, do so at once. Gladys Cooper as a tormented nun will make you hate her and weep for her simultaneously.
  7. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
    I have loved this magnificent film ever since the age of five, some fifty years ago now, and it is just as entrancing to me now as it was then. Sally Ann Howes is absolutely enchanting in the female lead, and Anna Quayle as the child-hating Baroness doesn’t get half enough screen time for her eccentric personality to shine.
  8. The Little Foxes (William Wyler)
    The evil Hubbard clan, headed up by Bette Davis, stop at nothing to satisfy their rapacious greed in turn-of-the-last-century Alabama. Patricia Collinge, as Davis’ fragile, alcoholic sister-in-law, will break your heart, and Davis gives what I consider her finest performance, her eccentric mannerisms all but vanished under the strict direction of Wyler. A five star film if ever there was one.
  9. David Copperfield (George Cukor)
    Still the best screen version of the Dickens novel. The scene where Aunt Betsey Trotwood(Edna May Oliver) tells off the wicked Murdstones and chases them out of her house is priceless.
  10. Random Harvest
    Amnesiac Ronald Colman marries Greer Garson and they have a child. He goes up to London one day and recovers his memory, completely forgetting his wife and baby son in the process. Excellent soap opera that would melt the iciest heart.
  11. Scrooge (Alastair Sim)
    The best ever version of Dickens’ Christmas Carol. The scene where the repentant Scrooge shows up to his nephew’s house on Christmas Day and is happily forgiven by all and sundry makes me tear up just thinking about it. The use of the tragic folksong Barbara Allen in key scenes is a stroke of genius.
  12. The Heiress
    Shy, plain-Jane Olivia de Havilland is swept off her feet by calculating Montgomery Clift, much to the dismay of her cold, cruel father Ralph Richardson. There is no cut-and-dried villain in this one: all three of the main characters are fully three-dimensional and have their pros and cons.The score by Aaron Copland is masterly and moving.
Hope I didn’t put people off with my huge list!
 
Limoncello4021 said:
Yeah, this got me nostalgic. There are several other long sequences on Youtube well worth watching, including those where Mary begins to have serious thoughts of her vocation. I also read the many comments and to a person people love this very funny yet very reverent movie. It is a winning combination, with great respect for the Church without being stuffy.
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I will go look for them.

I think this was the last movie made before the changes. That convent they used for the movie actually existed, maybe still does. It was in eastern Pennsylvania somewhere.
 
My list of favorites, in no particular order:

House of Games (Joe Mantegna, Lindsay Crouse) - battle of wits between a con man and a psychiatrist - wonderful film with a lot of twists and turns.
The Graduate (Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft) - timeless coming-of-age film despite its 60’s atmosphere. Plus the brilliant early Simon and Garfunkel songs.
Strangers on a Train - one of my favorite Hitchcock films.
Frenzy - another favorite Hitchcock.
Annie Hall - one of Woody Allen’s best.
Radio Days - another Woody Allen favorite.
Dead Poets Society - Robin Williams at his best and a must for every teacher.
Up the Down Staircase - not a great film in a technical sense but I love it anyway, also a must for teachers. Sandy Dennis is perfect in this role.
Fiddler on the Roof - need I say more?
Invasion of the Body Snatchers - best sci-fi film of all time in my opinion.
Foul Play (Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase) - I know it’s not a great film but I never miss it. A comedy-thriller.
12 Angry Men - A great cast. The 1957 original, of course.
The Corn is Green - great Bette Davis vehicle with a brilliant supporting cast, again a movie for teachers.
Inherit the Wind - Spencer Tracy and Fredric March at their best!
After Hours - a black comedy if ever there was one. Not for the timid!
The Out-of-Towners (Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis) - great comedy especially for New Yorkers.
The Verdict (both films): one stars Paul Newman (1982); the other is a little-known whodunit of 1946 starring Sydney Greenstreet. Both are fantastic.
 
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Scrooge (Alastair Sim)
The best ever version of Dickens’ Christmas Carol. The scene where the repentant Scrooge shows up to his nephew’s house on Christmas Day and is happily forgiven by all and sundry makes me tear up just thinking about it. The use of the tragic folksong Barbara Allen in key scenes is a stroke of genius.
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Is that the oldest one? If it is you’re right - that’s the best. It’s actually pretty scary when Jacob Marley pays his visit. The only other one that’s even remotely as good as this one is the version with George C. Scott.
 
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Yes, Mr. Blending so builds his dream house! Just three pieces of flagstone…

Charade, another really good Grant movie. Oh and that lovely Audrey Hepburn as well. 😉

Father Goose.

Arsenic and Old Lace.

I have a thing for Mr. Grant.

My favorite series: The Thin Man Series
I have a thing for William Powell as well!
 
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