Favourite old film.. 30s,40s,50s..

[Elderflower14]

Mum and I have just bought three old films from Music Magpie. From Here To Eternity, Heaven Knows Mr Allison and But The Wind Cannot Read.
My favourite old films are:
HKMA.
BRINGING UP BABY
HIGH SOCIETY
TO CATCH A THIEF
ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS..
What are your favourites?

Naughty Marietta - 1935

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Sound of Music
The King and 1
My Fair Lady
South Pacific
Calamity Jane

Rebecca
The Bishop's Wife (Loretta Young, Cary Grant and David Niven - my go-to Christmas film)
A Matter of Life and Death (another David Niven film)

Loads of great ones on here! Brief Encounter is my favourite.

I like Carve Her Name With Pride, which is based on a true story.

Also the Christmas film The Holly and the Ivy (with Celia Johnson from Brief Encounter) although some say it’s a bit “stagey”.

All About Eve
I Know Where I'm Going
The Manchurian Candidate
A Tale of Two Cities
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Trying to think of some that haven’t been mentioned.
The Marx brothers A night at the opera.
Hobson’s choice

The Ladykillers - the Alec Guiness version.

Rachel and the Stranger - William Holden, Loretta Young and Robert Mitchum getting in the way.

The private lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Bette Davis & Errol Flynn) 1939
The adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland) 1938
Some Like it Hot 1959
Cottage to let 1941
The Vikings 1958
National Velvet 1944

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So many great movies from which to choose. Virtually anything with the divine Cary Grant, from any decade.

So many Bette Davis movies, particularly if Claude Rains is in it, but especially "Now Voyager". I once read that someone claimed it had the best last line in a movie. And I hate to say it, but watching the smoking scene as a dim adolescent on late night TV, later got me smoking.

I have a copy of it, but am not game to rewatch it as I am terrified of being disappointed, as I have been in some books I used to love, but now disappoint me. Juvenile, I know.

Ealing comedy films in general.
Titfield Thunderbolt
Lavender Hill Mob

The life and Death of Colonel Blimp, A Matter of Life & Death, Black Narcissus, 39 Steps, White Heat, Modern Times, The Third Man.

Brief Encounter and any of Margaret Rutherford's Miss Marple!
Also:
The Leather Boys
A Taste of Honey
The Family Way
Room At The Top

Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Third Man
The Maltese Falcon
The Ladykillers (Alec Guinness version)
Laura
Green for Danger
Now, Voyager!
Anything directed by Hitchcock
Anything directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Anything starring any or all of Cary Grant, James Stewart, James Mason, Alistair Sim, John Mills, Alec Guinness
The classic musicals with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Oklahoma!

How could I have forgotten Casablanca!

His girl Friday (I also like both remakes, Font Page and Switching Channels)

Les enfants du Paradis, To Have and Have Not, The Women, and His Girl Friday.

I love National Velvet. It used to be on every Christmas eve but I haven't seen it for years.

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Pretty much anything with Cary Grant 🥰

I love gaslight. And all the musicals

The Women.
Laura.
Gaslight.
Rebecca.
Mr Blandings Builds his Dream House.
The Bishops Wife ( this is only watched at Christmas)

The 39 Steps with Robert Donat

I'd watch it weekly if I had time...

A Christmas Carol / Scrooge with Alastair Sim.

Great Expectations (David Lean version)

Blithe Spirit
Roxie Hart with Ginger Rogers
12 Angry Men
to kill a mockingbird
it's a wonderful life
Any Alistair SIM film

The Batchelor and the Bobbysoxer

"You remind me of the man, what man?"(pre-Labyrinth!)