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.

Arsenic and Old Lace
Some Like It Hot - DD likes this one, she's 20, so there's definitely a new audience out there to enjoy them.

Diana Dors in Yield to the Night (1956) bearing similarities to the Ruth Ellis murder case, although written two years before. She proved what an amazing actress she was, not just a “Blonde bombshell”. I watched it earlier this year, and found it quite moving.

I love classic films and regularly impose them on my children. Some favourites are:

The Apartment
The Philadelphia Story
Some Like It Hot
Sunset Boulevard
Citizen Kane (Yes, I know - but it really is good)
To Catch a Thief
North by Northwest
On the Waterfront
All About Eve
400 Blows
Argents de Poche
Jules et Jim
West Side Story
Rita
Singing in the Rain
Sabrina (the original one - can you tell I love Billy Wilder?)
Breakfast at Tiffanys
To Kill A Mockingbird
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
To Sir With Love
The Graduate
Thomas Crown Affair (the original with Steve McQueen)
Funny Face
Charade
Born Yesterday (the original one)

Rio Bravo (if you like Westerns)

Oh yes, but I tend to fast forward over most of Angie Dickinson's scenes. They just slow things down and distract from the plot. The relationship that matters is the one between Chance and Dude.

Sudden Fear starring Joan Crawford. So good, so gripping!

Angels with Dirty Faces starring James Cagney.

High Noon starring Humphrey Bogart.

Lavender Hill Mob. My fav Ealing comedy.

Like everyone else Rebecca. Is this the most thrilling film ever? Yes it is!

Again like everyone else Brief Encounter.

I need to add another that I don't think has been mentioned.

A Place in the Sun starring Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift.

Ive no idea of a film with a swimming pool.
However there was the Brady Bunch variety hour.
They used to sing/dance in front of a pool. There was even synchronised swimmers. It's very cringey.

Old films, It happened one night ( it won an Oscar) , Mildred Pierce, Citizen Kane , 70s Disney , The ugly daschund and One of our dinosaurs are missing ( they're not cartoons but they're feel good films)

Oh and The prime of Miss Jean Brodie which features a young Maghie Smith.

Any film with Rock Hudson 💞 I love Pillow Talk with Doris Day.
Sorry about your break up. Hope you are ok

Where Eagles Dare
Gone with the wind
Rebecca
The Lady Vanishes
Bridge on the River Kwai
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The man who would be king.

High Noon was Gary Cooper. I was reminded of it the other day when Trump tried to recreate a High Noon moment by facing down the BLM demonstrators (handily already cleared from the streets by the National Guard) on his walk to the Church, followed by an entourage including Ivanka carrying a Bible in her designer handbag. Fake Hollywood. He said v early on that he'd like to play himself in a film of his life.

Humphrey Bogart was The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca.

Anything with Robert Mitchum in it, especially Hang the Gallows High, which later had a different title that I can't remember.

Sorry guys, the Bogart film I like is High Sierra not High noon. Doh!

Saturday Night & Sunday Morning
A Taste of Honey

(for gritty kitchen sink drama).

Marnie.
Breakfast At Tiffany's.

The Ladykillers.

10 Rillington Place.

And of course, Brief Encounter. ("I seem to have got something in my eye.")

@MissSarahThane Oh yes. Her and her bloody stockings. Get back to Dude and Colorado.

Get back to Dude and Colorado.

And Stumpy! Mustn't forget Stumpy!

Whistle Down The Wind

Sunset Boulevard
Chinatown
On The Town
Singin' in the Rain
Rear Window

Doris Day and I think it is Gordon McCrae in On Moonlight Bay and By the Light of the Silvery Moon. Pure, blissful escapism.

Night of the hunter
North by northwest
The 39 steps
An inspector calls
Cape fear (the older one)
Rebecca (Hitchcock version)
Notorious
Citizen Kane
To kill a mockingbird

Are you thinking of High Society OP??
All Hitchcock films
Harvey
Mr Smith goes to Washington (I love James Stewart!)
Roman Holiday

Wait until dark (Audrey Hepburn plays a blind lady, it’s amazing)
Charade

I’m going to watch one of these tonight. I find old films really comforting. I think it’s to do with the clothes and the manners!

How green was my valley
Seven Bride for Seven Brothers
Its a wonderful life

Sky West and Crooked (Hayley Mills, think)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
They Drive by Night

Love all of these.
Marx brothers for crazy genius too.