Aibu to ask what your favourite old film is?

[Funkyslippers]

Just saw Easter Parade is on today. Would love to try watching some old films but not sure I'd like them. Which ones are good for novices like me?

I like the original psycho film and I can always watch JAWS ( the first one ) even though I’ve seen it a thousand times .lol

High society! I was watching it for the first time with the first person I ever fell in love with and I remember that evening feeling “in love” for the first ever time and it was such a lovely warm feeling that the film is my favourite old film now.
The relationship didn’t work out in the end but that evening was a happy memory!

The Ladykillers. Poignant and hillarious at the same time!

The Cruel Sea is also a great classic and very sad. I've watched that (and Ladykillers) probably 10 times or more!

Oh I’ve just remembered another old time favourite of mine ,
Scott of the Antarctic ( John Mills ) .
I just love that film .

To Sir, with Love especially if you've watched Blackboard Jungle before it.
The Blondie and Dagwood series of films

I read it as black and white films. I’m going to add...

Giant
Niagra
Gone with the wind
The great escape
Carve her name with pride
Houseboat
Please don’t eat the daisies

Thursa,
You have just reminded me of “Gone with the wind”.Thanks
Who doesn’t love that film .
So many Great movies.
Oh and the Wizard Of OZ as well .

Ohhh thank you for this topic🙂. I'm getting ideas. I love Doctor Zhivago.

We watched My Fair Lady last night; teens loved it.
Crimson Pirate
African Queen
Anything with Fred and Ginger.
Half a sixpence

@mumsfatblackcat

It has to be Charade. I was the understudy to the child who played Jean-Louis. He had to go back to school and some of the scenes were shot using me, the stamp market for example. I rediscovered all this during lockdown. I am still in love with Audrey Hepburn.

Oh wow! Did you get to meet Cary Grant? He's my idol! ♥

Ooh, so many great old films.

Jane Eyre (1943)
The Women (1936)
I Know Where I'm Going (1945)
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Now Voyager. (1942)
Old Acquaintance. (1943)
All this And Heaven Too (1940)
Dracula ( 1931)
Dragonwyk (1946)
The Ghost And Mrs Muir (1947)
You Can't Take It With You (1938)

Thanks for all your suggestions. My dad loved all the old classics, particularly musicals and I wish I'd watched more with him when I was young.

I watched Easter Parade yesterday, very good. I've seen Some Like It Hot, Meet Me In St Louis, The African Queen and the 30's version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde which I don't know if anyone mentioned here but it's really good. I'm particularly intrigued by Night of the Hunter, sounds excellent. Will check out lots of the other too

The Bishop’s Wife.
Singin’ In The Rain.
It’s A Wonderful Life.
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.
The Third Man.
The Philadelphia Story.
Meet Me In St.Louis.

Yes yes to Father Goose!
Operation Petticoat - the pink submarine, Cary Grant and Tony Curtis, holding an engine together with a girdle
Ice Cold in Alex I forgot, love that.
Meet Me in St Louis is lovely.
On the Waterfront and Streetcar Named Desire are both astounding.

Cape Fear (the original with Robert Mitchum as the baddie)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Passport to Pimlico

Guess it depends on your definite old..

Gaslight is my all time fave
Passport to pimlico is good
Any of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes

But other more recent but older include

Chinatown
Turn of the screw
Rebecca
Remains of the Day
Colour purple

Some like it hot

On the Beach
The Ladykillers
The Man In the white Suit
Passport to Pimlico

James Dean in East of Eden or Rebel without a cause. Reminds me of watching them as a teenager in the 80's.

My faves are Laura, it's a wonderful life, north by northwest, 39 steps original (loved Robert donat). But there were some other films I use to watch that I can't remember the names it was a posh detective and his wife I think. Must go and Google.

I love the films like journey to the centre of the earth and the time machine. Also Zorba the greek is a favourite, influenced me to travel round Greece.
War of the worlds.
North by northwest
Guns of Navarone
Jason and the Argonaughts
Brief encounter
The godfather a more recent favourite.

Agree with the love of Hitchcock films including Strangers On a Train, love the technicolour Doris Day films and Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot and The Odd Couple ( what was the director's name? ), the Bette Davis melodramas David Lean's films.

Just started watching an old film I never heard of on Talking Pictures: The Lost Moment with Susan Heyward set in Venice, seems to be based on a Henry James story.

Films set in Venice are a whole category in themselves like Don't Look Back or Katherine Hepburn in Summertime in 1955 filmed in Venice where she falls in the canal. I used to enjoy watching Italian films when I went to the cinema, can't remember any titles right now.

I don't think the musical showboat has been mentioned. Look up John Mill's films. All of them are good. Swiss family Robinson was one of my DD's favourites. I liked The family way. All of Marilyn Monroe films. The misfits was hers and Gable's last film. Look up kitchen sink dramas. Sparrows can't sing with Barbara Windsor is a look into life in the past. So is The 14 with June Brown in. I always check out what's on Talking pictures.