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?

12 angry men
Gone with the wind

Guess who's coming to dinner
Roman Holiday

Not old old but Regarding Henry. From 1991 with Harrison Ford. I went to see it at the cinema as I had a night off and that looked like the only decent film. I absolutely loved it. I left in floods of happy tears... Its firmly in my Top 5 films.

There was a good one on Talking Pictures today called 'The Smallest Show on Earth' that I've never seen before. A young couple (Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers) inherit a small cinema called the Bijou but find its falling down and has an Interesting range of staff . Great cast including Margaret Rutherford and Peter Sellers in supporting roles.

Highly recommended if it's on their schedule again.

Calamity Jane.

Gigi

The uninvited, quite spooky

Gone with The Wind
The Wicked Lady (1945)

Definitely Some like it hot,
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Love Blithe Spirit and My Fair Lady
Rear Window

Cool hand Luke.

Alert - Penny Serenade is on Talking Pictures at 1am this morning! Be warned it's an incredibly moving and sad film but well worth watching. Stars Irene Dunne and Cary Grant as a married couple with big dreams, unexpected joys and unexpected sadness.

Those little shoes!

And anything by Mel Brookes: the Producers, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles - so quotable!

All About Eve
Now, Voyager
Intermezzo
Harvey
Black Narcissus
Stagecoach
Strangers On A Train
Hans Christian Andersen (with Danny Kaye)
Billy Liar

The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1945 )

@ChequerBoard

Alert - Penny Serenade is on Talking Pictures at 1am this morning! Be warned it's an incredibly moving and sad film but well worth watching. Stars Irene Dunne and Cary Grant as a married couple with big dreams, unexpected joys and unexpected sadness.

Those little shoes!

You have just reminded me of a film I didn't mention, but absolutely love;

The Awful Truth, with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne as a divorcing couple. It is fabulous!

I have always loved:
Casablanca
The Big Sleep
Brief Encounter

Daisies in December, not a famous movie as far as I know, I was just watching TV one afternoon and it came on, this was 20 yrs ago and I still remember it.. Just a beautiful wee story...
A Matter of Life and Death is also a fave

Shadow of a Doubt starring Theresa Wright and Joseph Cotton. Fine performances, a genuinely creepy film, a wonderful reassuring small town atmosphere.

Dambusters, Shadowlands and 84 Charing Cross road.

The Ladykillers
Arsenic and Old Lace (with the lovely Cary Grant)
Some Like It Hot
Rebecca
The Ghost and Mrs Muir

Happy viewing x

The Red Shoes
Mildred Pierce
Sunrise
On The Town
Dead End

The Elephant Man-John Hurt, I always cry towards the end.

Gone with the Wind is my favourite film full stop.

But I also love The Wicked Lady (only the Margaret Lockwood/James Mason version though!)

Ive just seen that I commented on this thread last year, and with the same two films! At least im consistent.

Dr Zhivago