Recommend to me old films!

[Susu49]

Watching Casablanca for the first time...I love old films but don't feel I've seen that many of them.

Can you please give me your recommendations?

Off the top of my head, ones I've loved in the past include The Ladykillers and pretty much anything with Alistair Simm!

Night of the Hunter is also fantastic.

North by Northwest. It is a thriller but also quite funny.

Arsenic and Old Lace (b/w two elderly ladies bump off sad, lonely men!)

Blythe Spirit

The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen, Mia Farrow is wonderful, it's quite a dad film).

Streetcar Named Desire.

On The Waterfront

Murder By Death - stellar cast, absolute silly nonsense, I love it!

Thank you - a few more added to the list!

Friday's film will be Charade, which is on Talking Pictures at 11.10 🍿

Father Goose
Houseboat
Operation Petticoat
All starring Cary Grant

@Metheven

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g Hobson's Choice is a wonderful film. I had to read the play for CSE English Lit (showing how old I am), surprisingly I enjoyed it, then saw the film years later.

YES, a gem. Directed by David Lean.

Wonderful Charles Laughton , the 'tyrannical' father outmanoeuvred by his daughter ( Brenda de Banzie). Also stars John Mills - marvellous in his role, and a young Prunella Scales. Not a duff actor or a wasted second in the whole film.

Gone with the Wind - all 3hrs 44 mins of It. 1939!
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland

Love in the Deep South - American Civil War

Once seen you'll never forget it.12 major awards. Just wonderful.

Yes to Hobsons Choice, the bit where the father's walking home drunk is hilarious

Dead of Night - 1940s British anthology horror. Totally atmospheric and creepy!

A stolen life - Bette Davis
Young at heart - Frank Sinatra and Doris Day

Footsteps in the Fog

Any of the old, British made ‘Gainsborough Pictures’, including ’The Wicked Lady, ‘Fanny By Gaslight’.

Hangover Square, 1945

The Picture of Dorian Grey, 1945

Margaret Rutherford in anything, but wonderful as Miss Marple in ‘Murder, She Said’, ‘Murder Most Foul’ or ‘Murder Ahoy’.

There were a lot of terrific movies, that are now virtually forgotten, that won the Academy award for Best Picture. One such is "The Best Years of our Lives," about three veterans returning home after World War II, and trying to adapt back to civilian life.

It's probably now considered overly sentimental, but I saw it a couple of times when I was fairly young, and it certainly stayed with me.

Chinese Silent Movies

The Goddess- found it on YouTube Modern Chinese Cultural Studies

Laborer's Love

Gentlemen prefer blondes
Rebel without a cause
Cool hand Luke
Gone with the wind
The birds
The king and I

I grew up watching old movies and those are some of the happiest memories I have from my childhood. I have a large collection doubt I will ever get rid of.

Some of my favorite are:

1. Midnight (1939) - Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche

Please, watch this one. Nobody ever mentions Midnight but this is without a doubt THE BEST ROMANTIC COMEDY EVERY MADE. It really is. Script by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett is the most wonderful piece of art. Every sentence is perfect. Watch it and share love because it is amazing in every way. And the chemistry between two leads is out of this world. And Francis Lederer is beautiful to look at. I'm swooning already.

1. The Women (1939) - Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer

All women cast directed by wonderful George Cukor. Must see it just for the wardrobe and fashion show scene in the middle. It has nothing to do with that awful remake with Meg Ryan. It is a product of its time, but screenplay is top notch. Hell would freeze in Hollywood before anybody makes something like this again.

1. Christmas in Connecticut (1944) - Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan

Best Christmas film no one ever mentions. A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.

1. The Maltese Falacon (1941) - Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor

This has been my favorite film ever since I was 10. It is perfect noir, and it is hard to believe that is was John Huston's directorial debut.

1. The More the Merrier (1943) - Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea

Another wonderful romantic comedy nobody mentions. Jean Arthur rents half of her apartment to Charles Coburn and then he rents his half to Joel McCrea and plays Cupid with them. The best moment: the two of them at the stairs (shivers through my spine)

And some of the films other have mentioned: The Philadelphia Story, Charade, Notorious, Arsenic and Old Lace, Northy by Northwest...

If you like comedies, everything written by Preston Sturges, guy way amazing and he invented lipstick (Palm Beach Story, Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, Christmas in July).

And evertything by Powell and Pressburger because they made most beautiful films ever made. The Red Shoes (1948) should be in a time capsule if Earth ever cease to exist because it is so beautiful to watch.

And can I say I envy you? I would love to see all those wonderful films for the first time. In the meantime, I love showing them to friends who have never seen something so old. The look on their faces is usually priceless.

The Green Man
-The Lavender Hill Mob
-Two Way Stretch
-I'm Alright Jack
-The Rebel (Tony Hancock bizarreness)
-Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple (but she's great generally)
-Some earlier Carry On films (Sergeant, -Teacher, Constable, Cabby, Regardless) are not the sexist cliches the series is known for.
-George Formby in small doses

This was basically my unexpected TV film viewing as a 90s child (I'd never heard of The Goonies, much to DP's horror ).

The Bishop's Wife

Philadelphia Story
The Man Who knew Too Much
The Ghost and Mrs Muir

Stella Dallas. An old black and whte film. It makes me cry every time.

Also, Goodbye Mr Chips. (Martin Clunes) Goodnight Mr Tom. Big. (Tom Hanks) Ghost. I cry at all of them.

And if you want something seriously spooky..... A Carnival of Souls

it's wonderful

I loved Alistair Simm in A Christmas Carol

Another film I've just thought of is "The lion in winter" with a young Peter O'Toole, even younger Anthony Hopkins and Katharine Hepburn as Henry II. Richard the Lionheart and Eleanor of Aquitaine. I have no idea how accurate it it is, but my word is a dynamic powerhouse of writing and all the actors live up to it. Stunning.

I have always regretted that I wasn't able to ever see it on the stage. Superb writing.

Key Largo
Dark Passage
African Queen
To have and have not
Sabrina
In a lonely place
The big sleep
The Maltese falcon
Dead reckoning
High Sierra
The petrified forest
(Big Bogart fan here....)
Also gone with the wind
Notorious
Roman holiday
North by northwest
Suspicion
An affair to remember
The philadelphia story

Treat yourself to the beautiful Liz Taylor and gorgeous Monty Clift in A Place in the Sun.

I see The Heiress and From Here to Eternity have also been covered - those three are top Monty Clift movies for sure, although in my opinion he was most beautiful in the terrible Indiscretion of an American Housewife. Red River, the Western made with John Wayne, is probably the only western I've ever enjoyed.

If you like big beautiful 1950s clothes, technicolor, and melodrama check out Magnificent Obsession, All that Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, and Imitation of Life.

Giant, starring Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean, about a Texas oil dynasty.

The Deer Hunter, with Deniro, Walken, Streep, and John Cazale. In fact, anything with Cazale (Fredo in the Godfather), he only made 7 or 8 movies before dying young of cancer and every one was nominated for a best picture Oscar.

The Conversation
Stalag 17
A Face in the Crowd
Best Years of Our Lives
Coalminers Daughter

And something more recent, if you haven't seen it, I would suggest Boogie Nights because of the fantastic script and several memorable scenes, especially the attempted drug sale towards the end.