Old film recommendations please.

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I've just watched Gaslight, and started on A Night To Remember.

I was trying to remember ones my mother used to watch, I remember an old Hollywood music and dancing based one that had a swimming pool on the stage but can't really remember much about it, it was in colour not black and white.

But any other recommendations would be great. Trying to keep my mind occupied after a horrible break up.

I second Random Harvest, it's one of my all-time favourites. The Shop Around The Corner is the film that You Have Mail was based upon. Twelve Angry Men (Henry Fonda version) is gripping. Carve Her Name With Pride and The Man Who Never Was are two WW2 films based upon true stories.

Anything with Bette Davis pre-1960.
The original Imitation of Life. Claudette Colbert not Lana Turner.
Needless to say, Gone With the Wind.

The Enchanted Cottage
Leave Her to a Heaven
Laura

To Kill a Mockingbird
Splendor in the Grass
This Property is Condemned
Inside Daisy Clover.

The Third Man.

Amazing film.

Pollyanna, Hobsons choice . Half a Sixpence. A brilliant b/w British film starring Donna Mills , Hayleys sister Nurse on Wheel is a great nostalgic watch. My absolute favourite at Christmas Holiday Affair Vivenne Leigh and Robert Mitchum .

All of them!!
Love this Thread.

Also The Thin Man Movies
Anything Cagney
Also i loved the old Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films.

Leslie Howard in Pimpernel Smith. He played The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1934, then in Pimpernel Smith he's an archaeologist helping people escape from Nazi Germany.

A few more ..Moonlight Bay and By the Light of the Silvery Moon Doris Day Christmas Classics and Cheaper by the Dozen not the remake but the original ...fantastic got them all on DVD to keep . Ultimate fave Rear Window and dont forget The Sound of Music .

Roman Holiday,
Sabrina
A Night to Remember.
His Favourite Wife (on iplayer at the moment)
His Girl Friday
Bringing Up Baby
Black Narcissus
Meet Me in St Louis
Now, Voyager
Holiday Inn

Love this thread. I was obsessed with B&W films as a teenager..!

Some of my all-time faves:

Brief encounter
The Third Man
Rebecca (Hitchcock version)
Roman Holiday
Gone with the wind
Wuthering Heights (1939 version with Laurence Olivier)
To kill a mockingbird
Spellbound

Here's to lots of escapism OP

The Yellow Rolls Royce, covers the stories of all who own it, bittersweet.

Black Narcissus - powerful film.

Death in Venice.

Stagecoach. Action, scenery, music, and nearly all the characters grow and change in some way. And Thomas Mitchell thoroughly deserved his Oscar for his role.

Footsteps in the Fog

Manna from heaven at the moment to see these films.

Letter from an unknown woman
Rebecca
Gilda
All about Eve

Another vote for Footsteps in the Fog- really good victorian noir. Also The Lady Vanishes and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

Another vote for Charade.
Penny Serenade
My Fair Lady
Scrooge with Alastair Sim.
Some Like it Hot

Gigi
Sound of Music
Annie

All the ones above and I will add Blithe Spirit, An Inspector Calls and Paper Moon.

Happy heart mending

What a great thread.

My favourite is Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Cary Grant.

Also:

Rio Bravo (if you like Westerns)
Bringing Up Baby
Doctor Dolittle (the 1967 one)
Double Indemnity
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Apartment

Yy The Third Man, my all-time favourite
Grapes of Wrath
Look Back in Anger - Richard Burton in his prime
Room at the Top, A Kind of Loving and Billy Liar - when being Northern and working class began to be cool
The Manchurian candidate - v topical and another side of Sinatra
Mississippi Burning
The Commitments
Stand By Me
Chinatown
O Brother Where Art Thou
Fargo - anything by the Coen Brothers, really
Annie Hall - most of Woody Allen
Blue Velvet - the most accessible David Lynch.

Enjoy!

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman ON FIRE

The Quiet Man
And a few Doris Day films I have always loved...On Moonlight Bay and it's sequel By the Light of The Silvery Moon. Funny, sweet and some lovely songs.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is another cracker.

Dial M for Murder and Rope are two very watchable Hitchcocks as well as Rebecca.