Classic old movies suggestions please

[les_taxi]

I have always been a big movie fan but am getting disappointed at many of the new movies these days,crap acting,all special effects etc:NoNo:

Need some suggestions of great movies from the past,I can look up on imdb but I'd rather hear members recommendations:xxgrinning--00xx3:

Just downloading "man for all seasons" as it won lots of awards,any more ideas?:)

[Steve.r]

How about any of the Norman Wisdom films all classics imo, and how about the old Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin films, they always made me laugh as a kid. Thats if you like a lighter type of film :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[grahamw48]

Ben Hur.

Still makes me teary now. :bigcry:

Norman Wisdom for a good laugh...especially for old gits like me, brought up in a black and white world. :)

Kelly's Heroes.

National Lampoon series. :Cuckoo:

Airport and Naked Gun series. :Rasp:

[stevie c]

for me it has to be once apon a time in america :xxgrinning--00xx3
or

the godfather trilogy :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[les_taxi]

Mr. Grimsdale! :icon_lol:

I'm thinking of older classics not comedy so much:xxgrinning--00xx3:

Eg rear window,it's a wondeful life,any really good film I might of missed.

[Arthur Little]

How about "Goodbye, Mr Chips" ... the original version ... starring Robert Donat? :rolleyes:

[burdock]

... the old St. Trinian's movie with George cole.

[Arthur Little]

... the old St. Trinian's movie with George cole.

Yes ... but, lest we forget :rolleyes: ... it was Alastair Sim as the headmaster in 'The Belles of St Trinian's' - and subsequent movies in the series - who was the real star ... and this late, lamented Scots' actor is accredited with being George Cole's mentor. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Steve.r]

... the old St. Trinian's movie with George cole. yes, i was thinking of those too

[Dedworth]

Yes ... but, lest we forget :rolleyes: ... it was Alastair Sim as the headmaster in 'The Belles of St Trinian's' - and subsequent movies in the series - who was the real star ... and this late, lamented Scots' actor is accredited with being George Cole's mentor. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

Arthur - Just for the sake of good order and knowing you would not wish to offend any politically correct, cross dressing handwringers lurking on this thread Alistair Sim played the Headmistress:)

[Dedworth]

Not old enough to be a classic (from 80's I think) but this one with Timothy Spall & Colin Firth used to make me laugh - Dutch Girls

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6tpp3_dutch-girls_shortfilms

[Tawi2]

To kill a mockingbird :xxgrinning--00xx3:
Seven Samurai ;)
True grit :) (not as old but a classic).

[alanp]

i just bought the Norman Wisdom box set from asda £20

[laurel]

Grapes of Wrath, To kill a mocking bird.......not so old Capricorn One

[Steve.r]

All the old Sir John Mills movies, I favorite of mine is 'I was Monty's double'

List of his fillms here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590055/

[Arthur Little]

Arthur - Alistair Sim played the Headmistress:)

:icon_sorry: ... you're absolutely right :rolleyes: ... it was the headmistress he played! :doh ...

[Arthur Little]

Just for the sake of good order and knowing you would not wish to offend any politically correct, cross dressing handwringers lurking on this thread ...

:icon_lol: ... well-spotted! The "transvestites" [:anerikke: whoever they might be] can rest easy. :D

[Dedworth]

On a WWII note

The Dambusters
Reach for The Sky
The Man Who Never Was
The Longest Day

a bit newer
Battle of The Bulge
The Battle of Britain
Patton
A Bridge Too Far

finally no doubt I'll find it on at sometime over Christmas - The Great Escape

[grahamw48]

My friend appeared in Platoon, Apocalypse Now, and Return to the River Kwai, all filmed in the Phils, plus a few others made there in the 80s and 90s.

Come to think of it, I enjoyed those movies too.

Oh, please add the Terminator movies to my list. :)

[les_taxi]

Plenty in there:xxgrinning--00xx3:
After footie I will try A man for all seasons:yikes: That reads wrong :icon_lol:

[Arthur Little]

:icon_lol: ... well-spotted! The "transvestites" [:anerikke: whoever they might be] can rest easy. :D

Indeed ... there's no reason now, for " such dressers" to get cross! :laugher:

[Arthur Little]

To kill a mocking bird.......

Gregory Peck starred in that film, didn't he? :xxgrinning--00xx3: Quite a coincidence when you think of the association between the main character's real life [adopted] surname and the movie's title!

[Dedworth]

A good thread plenty of titles to fill up my LoveFilm wanted list with

[Arthur Little]

... starring Robert Donat? :rolleyes:

Donat also starred in the original film version of Scottish author, John Buchan's thrilling espionage tale, 'The Thirty Nine Steps'. The storylines in each of the other two movies ... in which Kenneth More - and later, Robert Powell - played the hero, Richard Hannay ... bore little resemblance to Buchan's book - as did the first. Personally, of the three, I best enjoyed the middle one ... in which a stuntman takes over from More in the scene where Hannay is portrayed leaping from a steam train and hanging onto the brownish-red girders of the Forth Rail Bridge to escape his pursuers. "Rivetting" stuff!!! :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[grahamw48]

Donat also starred in the original film version of Scottish author, John Buchan's thrilling espionage tale, 'The Thirty Nine Steps'. The storylines in each of the other two movies ... in which Kenneth More - and later, Robert Powell - played the hero, Richard Hannay ... bore little resemblance to Buchan's book - as did the first. Personally, of the three, I best enjoyed the middle one ... in which a stuntman takes over from More in the scene where Hannay is portrayed leaping from a steam train and hanging onto the brownish-red girders of the Forth Rail Bridge to escape his pursuers. "Rivetting" stuff!!! :xxgrinning--00xx3:

Or...'watching paint dry' ? :icon_lol:

[bornatbirth]

back in its day it was :D

[Sim11UK]

for me it has to be once apon a time in america :xxgrinning--00xx3:

Got to agree with you here stevie, nearly put this in the favourite movies thread the other day...it's in my top 10. Very violent at times & also comes with a great Ennio Morreconi score throughout. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[bornatbirth]

Got to agree with you here stevie, nearly put this in the favourite movies thread the other day...it's in my top 10. Very violent at times & also comes with a great Ennio Morreconi score throughout. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

being a fan of sergio leone, the film director of the good, the bad and the ugly trilogy.

for some reason i find the above movie his worse :Erm:

btw have you seen "once upon a time in the west" :D

how old do these classic movies need to be :Erm:

i do try getting the wife to watch old movies but for some reason always tries to grab the remote and change the channel if she thinks the movie is to old.

[Dedworth]

Got to agree with you here stevie, nearly put this in the favourite movies thread the other day...it's in my top 10. Very violent at times & also comes with a great Ennio Morreconi score throughout. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

I read this and thought of the music from Midnight Express but was confusing Morreconi with Giorgio Moroder. Anyway I used to like that film where naive drug smuggler Billy Hayes gets a dose of the baseball bat on his feet from the brutal Turkish Prison Guard who rightly or wrongly iirc gets a coat hook through the back of his head later.

[tomboo]

Cant see past Godfather I, and more recent Shawshank Redemption. There are not many movies id watch more than once, but those 2 i could watch many times

[Sim11UK]

being a fan of sergio leone, the film director of the good, the bad and the ugly trilogy.

for some reason i find the above movie his worse :Erm:

btw have you seen "once upon a time in the west" :D


That's it Sergio Leone, couldn't think of his name :xxgrinning--00xx3: Sorry you didn't like it.
Think I've seen a bit of "Once upon a time in the west" but didn't do much for me. :)

[Farmerg]

I don't know if its your cup of tea but when I think of classics, John Wayne films always come to mind especially True Grit....................ps The Lady Killers is definitely a classic!

[Arthur Little]

Definitely can't stand noisy, violent movies. :nono-1-1: But even less do I like the modern-day penchant for senselessly "kicking-off" - often literally - films [apparently] halfway through the performances as if they were advertising 'trailers' depicting rampageous shoot-outs :BlueTeamEnforcer: and/or brawls/punch-ups, :xxangry-smiley-038: *screeching car tyres, &c. ... *which I absolutely detest! What's wrong with a good, old-fashioned story? :rolleyes:

As Julie Andrews sang in 'The Sound of Music': "let's start at the very begin~ning ... it's a very good place to start!" And why on earth not? :rolleyes:

[KeithD]

Bambi & Watership down :rolleyes:

[Arthur Little]

Bambi & Watership down :rolleyes:

Nah ... they're tear-jerkers!!! :bigcry:

[Scouse]

Casablanca, and Brief Encounter for great stories, any Marx Brothers or Ealing Comedies for belly laughs.

Or fior more recent fare try Land and Freedom directed by Ken Loach.

[Pete/London]

The inclination to turn off b/w films should be resisted as there are some real gems,the original Lavender Hill Mob, 1946 Great Expectations, Alexander Korda films such as The Four Feathers, David Lean films,Lawrence of Arabia.

Also like watching French films, having to read the sub titles a chore though,as they dont normally overdo the crash bang wallop that you see with US films.

[Sim11UK]

This is classic comedy...1953 'Monsieur Hulot's Holiday'. Jacques Tati :xxgrinning--00xx3:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_92Cm8gl7Ls

[aposhark]

being a fan of sergio leone, the film director of the good, the bad and the ugly trilogy.

for some reason i find the above movie his worse :Erm:

btw have you seen "once upon a time in the west" :D

how old do these classic movies need to be :Erm:

i do try getting the wife to watch old movies but for some reason always tries to grab the remote and change the channel if she thinks the movie is to old.

"once upon a time in the west" is my favourite Sergio Leone film. Great soundtrack too :Jump:

[aposhark]

i have always been a big movie fan but am getting disappointed at many of the new movies these days,crap acting,all special effects etc:nono:

Need some suggestions of great movies from the past,i can look up on imdb but i'd rather hear members recommendations:xxgrinning--00xx3:

Just downloading "man for all seasons" as it won lots of awards,any more ideas?:)

films - some ideas

12 angry men
rebecca
citizen kane (1941)
casablanca (1942)
the godfather (1972)
gone with the wind (1939)
lawrence of arabia (1962)
on the waterfront (1954)
it's a wonderful life (1946)
sunset boulevard (1950)
the bridge on the river kwai (1957)
some like it hot (1959)
all about eve (1950)
the african queen (1951)
psycho (1960)
one flew over the cuckoo's nest (1975)
the grapes of wrath (1940)
2001: A space odyssey (1968)
the maltese falcon (1941)
dr. Strangelove (1964)
bonnie and clyde (1967)
apocalypse now (1979)
mr. Smith goes to washington (1939)
the treasure of the sierra madre (1948)
the godfather part ii (1974)
high noon (1952)
to kill a mockingbird (1962)
it happened one night (1934)
midnight cowboy (1969)
the best years of our lives (1946)
double indemnity (1944)
doctor zhivago (1965)
north by northwest (1959)
west side story (1961)
rear window (1954)
king kong (1933)
the birth of a nation (1915)
a streetcar named desire (1951)
a clockwork orange (1971)
butch cassidy and the sundance kid (1969)
the philadelphia story (1940)
from here to eternity (1953)
amadeus (1984)
all quiet on the western front (1930)
m*a*s*h (1970)
the third man (1949)
fantasia (1940)
rebel without a cause (1955)
vertigo (1958)
stagecoach (1939)
the silence of the lambs (1991)
the manchurian candidate (1962)
an american in paris (1951)
shane (1953)
the french connection (1971)
ben-hur (1959)
wuthering heights (1939)
the gold rush (1925)
city lights (1931)
modern times (1936)
giant (1956)
duck soup (1933)
mutiny on the bounty (1935)
frankenstein (1931)
patton (1970)
the jazz singer (1927)
my fair lady (1964)
a place in the sun (1951)
the apartment (1960)
the searchers (1956)
bringing up baby (1938)
yankee doodle dandy (1942)

[grahamw48]

I haven't been to the pictures for at least 20 years !

Now when they tell me the price it's like being punched in the face. :yikes:

Same reason I can't bring myself to get on a bus.

[les_taxi]

I read this and thought of the music from Midnight Express but was confusing Morreconi with Giorgio Moroder. Anyway I used to like that film where naive drug smuggler Billy Hayes gets a dose of the baseball bat on his feet from the brutal Turkish Prison Guard who rightly or wrongly iirc gets a coat hook through the back of his head later.

I'm glad I dident post this til now:xxgrinning--00xx3:
Just watched Midnight express fantastic and I would have seen your "spoiler" Deworth:doh

[Dedworth]

I'm glad I dident post this til now:xxgrinning--00xx3:
Just watched Midnight express fantastic and I would have seen your "spoiler" Deworth:doh

It's a good film Les, I just watched National Geographic - Great Escape Revenge on the Gestapo (dodgy torrent download) about how the RAF Police after the war tracked down and strung up 13 Nazis who murdered the great escapers. Halfway through Rock & Chips now on the BBC I player

[les_taxi]

I feel like a some comedy now so I might watch a re-run of that old classic Liverpool v wolves never fails to raise a smile:icon_lol:

[les_taxi]

you have got me downloading Great Escape Revenge on the Gestapo now :icon_lol:

[Dedworth]

I feel like a some comedy now so I might watch a re-run of that old classic Liverpool v wolves never fails to raise a smile:icon_lol:

I read the match report - Stevie Mee and Torres failed to impress -key man Jamie Carragher was missing probably still hung over after Christmas in his Dads Croxteth boozer "The Jolly Giro"

[les_taxi]

For me watching Liverpool is a comedy for most Liverpool fans its a horror movie:icon_lol:

Amazing how genres can change just like that:icon_lol:

[Dedworth]

you have got me downloading Great Escape Revenge on the Gestapo now :icon_lol:

It's good but I thought I'd seen it before - after you watch it have a look at C4 The Great Escape The Reckoning

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-great-escape-the-reckoning/video/series-1/episode-1/the-reckoning

[fred]

If you like gangster films.. apart from the Godfather trilogy which were truly great take a look at Angels with dirtyfaces starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien!!!

http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Cagney,%20James/Annex/Annex%20-%20Cagney,%20James%20(Angels%20With%20Dirty%20Faces)_05.jpg

[fred]

Best film Ive seen recently is true romance.. I posted my favourite scene in another thread but worth posting again in case you missed it Les..
They just dont make actors like Dennis Hopper anymore...May he rest in peace.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqccyUpnZwA

[stevewool]

cant beat some old black and white films , laurel and hardy films were so funny and the silent movies were all great , best time to watch them is very early in the mornings , just when you want a pick me up makes you smile even laugh too, some of those stunts they did in the old movies , its a wonder that no body was killed

[grahamw48]

What happened to all the black and white silent comedies ?

I just love them, but they're never shown on TV now.

Has someone bought them all up and hidden them in a cupboard ?:Erm:

[Piamed]

Great Expectations, Oliver Twist (Musical), David Copperfield, My Fair Lady, Baby Jane, West Side Story, Once Upon a time in america, A funny thing happened on the way to the forum:xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Sim11UK]

A funny thing happened on the way to the forum:xxgrinning--00xx3:

Are you going to tell us about it? :D Happy New Year Toks :)

[Ako Si Jamie]

Duel

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mnIiuW8r4vc/TOAyTUFgG6I/AAAAAAAAAVA/q0JkkAkQK5I/s1600/281-duel.jpg

Also

Where eagles dare
Stand by me
Shawshank redemption

[les_taxi]

just seen 12 angry men for the first time-awesome!:xxgrinning--00xx3:

Saw Godfather 1 brill

Next classic is "wait until dark" 1967 that's for Monday night :)

Watched Piranha :( biggest pile of rubbish ever

[grahamw48]

'Wait until Dark'.

Is that about a blind lady (A.Hepburn?).

If so, I saw that in Harrogate in about 1969....frightened the life out of me...great film! :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[les_taxi]

'Wait until Dark'.

Is that about a blind lady (A.Hepburn?).

If so, I saw that in Harrogate in about 1969....frightened the life out of me...great film! :xxgrinning--00xx3:

Yes it is the same one
Did you see it at the Odeon or Abc?

[grahamw48]

ABC ! :xxgrinning--00xx3:

I lived at home in Knaresborough with the parents then, but used to travel to York 6 days a week on the train for my work. :)

[sparky]

Harvey

as old films go its a great one:xxgrinning--00xx3:

[South-east boy]

El CID (which was on TV just last Saturday),
Spartacus,
The Magnificent 7 films,
American Graffiti.

And for some not so old but good foreign films (if you don't mind subtitles!):
Jean De Florette & Manon des sources (Manon is the 2nd part to JDF),
Le Bossu,
Curse of the golden flower (amazing cinematography, costumes & colours),
Red Cliff.

I've got tons of movies at home, but most are more recent films.

[les_taxi]

Just watched wait until dark great film and I did jump:)

[grahamw48]

Just watched wait until dark great film and I did jump:)

Hahaha!

Glad you enjoyed it...still got the fear factor eh ? :icon_lol:

[les_taxi]

OK just watched Mutiny on the bounty (1935) awesome:xxgrinning--00xx3:

[grahamw48]

Yes I know the one. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

Also that reminded me of Treasure Island the movie...saw it maybe 1959, just after we came back from Malaya.

The one with the classic Long John Silver and a mad Ben Gunn .

Frightened me too as a little kid, but brilliant adventure story. :)