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?

A few of them have already been said but I also love Sabrina with Audrey Hepburn

I also remember watching Mandy as a very young child and it really affecting me. Particularly the moment where she says ‘Buh’ if that’s even a true memory of it! It was 50 years ago. I would love to see it again.

I watched a lot of old films as a child and teenager.
Still do

Rebecca
This Happy Breed
Imitation of Life
Rebel Without a Cause
Some Like it Hot

Lots of the ones already mentioned.

Plus
Little Women
The Unfinished Dance
The Court Jester
Topper (plus the sequels.)

Lots of great stuff mentioned. What about 'I'm no Angel'? Young Cary Grant and Mae West! Jeanine Basinger has written some great books on 30's to 60's films that always leave me with much longer 'to watch' lists: www.abebooks.co.uk/9780819562913/Womans-View-Hollywood-Spoke-Women-0819562912/plp

I watched a corker the other night, I'd recorded it ages ago. Night Song with Merle Oberon and Dana Andrews (and Hoagy Carmichael and Joan Barrymore!) A blind piano player, false identities all over the place, a mini piano concerto composed specifically for the film, actual Rubenstein and Ormandy playing it, witty dialogue, tragic scenes of despair and longing, everyone looks amazing, the entire thing is completely preposterous but it's done with such conviction and beauty it just sweeps you up in a marvellous Hollywood cloud.

I love most films already mentioned on the thread.

I like any film noirs as well especially ones with Joseph Cotton. That bloke couldn't stay away from beautiful but deadly women.

@imnotwhoyouthinkiam The Court Jester! Such a great film.
”The pellet with the poison’s in the flagon with the dragon…”

On The Town
Love Me Tender
Brief Encounter
White Christmas

Oh It's a Wonderful r Life

Gone with the wind

A lot already mentioned, but also
A tree grows in Brooklyn

Christmas in Connecticut

🎶 "Do not forsake me oh my darling" 🎶

It happened one night
Kind hearts and coronets
All about eve

And loads more...

Thanks for the thread @Elderflower14 I love an old film and am always looking for suggestions.

@HotTopicsWithImogen that sounds great! There’s a whole sub-genre of old films with actual musicians in them - most of whom can’t act for toffee when they’re given a few lines. The main exception I can think of is the bandleader Xavier Cugat, who had quite a big film career in the 40s, but even he wasn’t exactly a riveting screen presence.

It’s great that BBC2 are showing old films on a Saturday again but I do wish they’d put something slightly more left-field on occasionally - when I was a kid they used to have all sorts of old, unusual movie musicals on every weekend and my mum and I used to watch them together. I think that's where my love of old films came from, the more obscure the better.

Listening to Boom Light just now, they played the theme from High Noon, then Xavier Cugat's 1 2 3 Kick, what a coincidence!

How could I have forgot Imitation of Life off my list?
My sister has told her daughters if they don't cry like Sarah Jane did at her funeral she will be most miffed!

With Halloween coming up I’m definitely going to be rewatching The Innocents. I’m not one for modern gory horrors but this is just so creepy and scary with the atmosphere. First time I saw it I had to sleep with the lights on.

It’s brilliant. So is James’ The Turn of the Screw, of which it’s an adaptation, if you’ve not read it. I first read it in a busy student library in broad daylight and was so petrified, I moved my seat so I could put my back to a wall!

Ooh, I actually haven’t read it! Have just downloaded it onto my iPad library app. I find scary books scarier than films! I’m going to need to read it in daylight only 🫣😂

Many already mentioned but I love
Goodbye Mr Chips, such a great film.

Saw it recently and I'm in my late 50s... I thought it was fabulous... 😄

Have you seen The Crimson Pirate with Burt Lancaster? He, along with his co-star Nick Cravat, was a circus acrobat before turning to acting. Your swash will be well and truly buckled.

I also love the Greer Garson version of Pride and Prejudice, it really does justice to the wit of the book.

@wastingtimeonhere I was going to say Passport to Pimlico, North by Northwest and Arsenic and Old Lace!

Loved the Ealing comedies.
Don't know the name of it ..bank robbers buried the cash got jailed and found their loot buried in confines of a newly built police station.

Gone with the Wind
Sissi (the trilogy)

Random Harvest