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?

Most of my favourites have already been mentioned so I won't repeat them.
I love Ealing comedies, Powell and Pressburger, film noir, 1940s wise cracking comedies and pretty much anything with Cary Grant or Alec Guiness.

Films I like which I don't think have been mentioned yet:

Strangers on a train
The postman always rings twice
Seance on a wet afternoon
The night of the hunter
Gilda
Bunny Lake is Missing
Brighton Rock
To kill a mockingbird
Mildred Pierce
All about Eve

Hobson's Choice. Love it.

Oh!
Quatermass and the Pit! Cracking horror.

I adore CG too.
Bringing Up Baby makes me properly laugh... The first proper screwball comedy...

Another vote for Brief Encounter

Anything with Doris Day and Rock Hudson

Vertigo

Mandy .1954 I think about a little deaf girl very sad in parts.

Another vote for Wuthering Heights with Lawrence Olivier as Heathcliff

The Ghost and Mrs Muir
The African Queen

Witness for the prosecution
To have and have not
The big sleep
The third man
The leopard
Pandora and the flying Dutch man
Barefoot contessA
Room at the top

Yy gilda

Of course the sensational sunset boulevard

Casablanca

The wicked lady

The letter

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This Happy Breed

Mandy was probably the first film I ever saw as a child of 7 at the time (I’m now 77!). Mandy Miller was a wonderful child actress, with Jack Hawkins and Phyllis Calvert as her parents. It made a huge impression on me at such a young age.

I love Harvey with Jimmy Stewart, and watch it regularly.

The most fantastic film was on Talking Pictures a couple of weeks ago - 'The More the Merrier'. At first I thought it was a Preston Sturges film as Joel McCrea was the male lead, but no - George Stevens directed it.

It was set (and made) in wartime when there was a huge housing shortage in the US, and Jean Arthur had to sublet her apartment to Charles Coburn, who’s always wonderful. He then sublets half of his room to Joel McCrea, a young serviceman. High-jinks ensue, and of course McCrea and Arthur are destined to be together, but they spar and bicker deliciously for the whole film. Both such great actors. It was absolutely wonderful. I’d never seen it before - highly, highly recommend keeping an eye out in case it comes on again.

Nothing better than watching a Hitchcock movie on a Saturday afternoon.

BBC iPlayer always has a good selection of older movies. Sweet Charity & Pillow Talk are two recent ones I watched.

All about Eve with Bette Davis. Any of hers anyway.

Gaslight, Charles Boyer. Ingrid Bergman.

They just don't make them like that anymore.....

See I'm not the only one who loves hobnobs choice, the scene where he is walking home drunk is my favourite

hobsons choice-bloody autocorrect!

Hobnobs choice

The Glenn Miller story.

When he gets the sound.

There are loads of good black and white movies - many mentioned on here.

High Noon is a good one. A sheriff is about to leave town after he gets married when he hears that trouble is brewing. There's not much action but the premise of the film is the attitude of the people in the town. Stars Gary Cooper

Casablanca
Random Harvest
Brief Encounter
The Maltese Falco
Fallen Idol
The African Queen

High Society - what's not to love? It has everything, including Louis Armstrong. Although the original Philadelphia Story with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn is fab too, but I do like a musical. Talking of which, My Fair Lady also ticks a lot of boxes.