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What are your favourite classic films?

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WeeAgnes · 06/06/2026 11:16

I’m watching the 1946 adaptation of ‘Great Expectations’.
Wonderful casting.
I always seem to catch it when it’s shown on TV. I’ve seen it quite a few times now!

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AllaMova · 06/06/2026 11:23

So, so many!

Ninotchka
Holiday (the 1938 version)
The Shop Around the Corner
Witness for the Prosecution
Rebecca
It’s a Wonderful Life
Sunset Boulevard
Some Like it Hot
It Happened One Night
Bringing Up Baby
Mildred Pierce
How Green Was My Valley?
Now, Voyager
Lifeboat
Camille
The Ghost and Mrs Muir
History is Made at Night

WeeAgnes · 06/06/2026 11:25

I also love 'Gone With the Wind' but at nearly 4 hours long, that's a labour of love!

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Seagroves · 06/06/2026 11:26

I love that film OP, although John Mills always seems to play parts that are way too old for him!

My favourite is The Wicked Lady.

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Needtosoundoffandbreathe · 06/06/2026 11:27

North by North West
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Philadelphia Story and High Society
The Lady Vanishes

Lots more too

HelenaWilson · 06/06/2026 11:43

Casablanca
The Third Man
Stagecoach

Lots of others, but those are probably my top three

ETA
This Happy Breed
The Blue Lamp
for a couple more classic British films

SerendipityCat · 06/06/2026 11:48

A few off the top of my head -

TheThird Man
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Cruel Sea
Hobson’s Choice
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
A Kind of Loving
Forbidden Planet
Rebecca

AlternativeView · 06/06/2026 12:21

Any Ealing comedy recently re watched the wrong arm of the law.
What a gem !
The original lady killers is genius.

GoodkneeBadKnee · 06/06/2026 12:25

Random Harvest
Rebecca
Gone with the Wind
The Heiress (LOVE this one!)
Mildred Pierce
Imitation of Life

To name a few.

KoalaBlue1 · 06/06/2026 12:27

I just watched Rear Window again. Loved it
The Man Who Knew too Much, and anything with Doris Day
Love most Hitchcock movies
The Quiet Man with John Wayne
Rebecca
Dial M for Murder
love the Sound of Music

elQuintoConyo · 06/06/2026 12:31

Oh yes, The Heiress is outstanding!

One of my favourites is Harvey with James Stewart.

Bell, Book and Candle, also JS with Kim Novak and Jack Lemon.

Blythe Spirit.
Arsenic and Old Lace.
Black Narcissus.
The Wicked Lady (already mentioned).
A Matter of Life and Death.

GoodkneeBadKnee · 06/06/2026 14:27

Black Narcissus 😍

SapatSea · 06/06/2026 15:45

The Razor's Edge (Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney)
The Old Maid ( Bette Davis)

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