Your favourite Old Hollywood films?

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I’m just getting into Old Hollywood films. I’ve only watched a handful so far, but right now my favourite is Bringing Up Baby (staring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant)

What’s your favourites?

Oooh this thread has inspired me to watch some old movies I've never seen before. Thank you all!! 🙏

I love this thread, I will be printing out these lists and working my way through them. Thanks so much x

Move Over Darling
Cheaper by the Dozen
Little Women (Elizabeth Taylor)

Sunset Boulevard

@MuckFuskWe're probably both thinking of the same version of The 3rd Man. I had to Google to double check but it's considered a British film albeit one with American influences.

I posted a ridiculously long list but there are so many great old films that I keep thinking of ones that I forgot to include.

Some, like To Kill a Mockingbird, have been suggested by others but I don't think anyone has mentioned All About Eve. That's a brilliant film.

I think I included a couple of Hitchcock films but they are all worth watching. He was an absolute shit in RL but knew how to make a film.

Something that is completely different from anything else on this thread is Freaks, the 1930s horror film. It was unusual because it employed people with disabilities and portrayed them as real people with feelings rather than as caricatures. It's classified as a horror but I don't think that does it justice.

I've got a soft spot for very early horror films. I think that the original Frankenstein is very moving, especially when the creature is trying to be accepted by humans.

For fast moving, wisecracking comedies, The Marx Brothers films hold up well.

Some like it hot. It’s hilarious and all the leads are brilliant.

Following on from @cariadlet fabulous list of British films I’d like to add;
This Happy Breed,
Two way stretch,
Up the junction
Smashing time
The Italian Job
The blue lamp
Pygmalion
The scarlet Pimpernal
The happiest days of your life.
Waterloo Rd
Im sure there are more I’ve forgotten but I love an old film. Talking Pictures is a great channel and I came across a new one called classic British films. I think it’s 450 on virgin.

Anything Hitchcock. Anything with Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor or Joan Crawford. Anything with Dirk Bogarde.

You've reminded me of another British film that I missed off my original list - The Servant with Dirk Bogarde and James Fox.

We’re watching Some Like it Hot now 😊

I'm not sure if it is Hollywood but A matter of life and death.
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane

A couple already mentioned, Harvey and Rebecca

The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant.

Great ones here glad to see to have and have not get a few mentions and room at the top.
Old Julie Christie film ,darling is also v good.

The lady killers is superb

Thank you for your suggestions! Please do keep them coming!

I think we’re opting for Rear Window for next time.

If you get into Alfred Hitchcock remember to look out for him appearing in the background at some point in all his films!

Lots already mentioned and
Mrs Miniver, Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon

Couldn't find Rear Window on Netflix, Prime, BBC iPlayer or YouTube, so we’re watching Gone with the Wind instead.

British not Hollywood but I liked Genevieve, especially where Rosalind gets drunk and shows them how to play the plumpet.

Sorry not read the thread yet.

Raffles with David Niven is really good.

How could I have forgotten 12 Angry Men?

Arguably the best film ever made, with the very very best acting (especially Lee J Cobb)

I hope you’re all tuned in to TalkingPicsTV

Trapeze?

Haven’t RTFT, but here’s a “British not Hollywood” one -

One I love and a lot of people haven’t heard of is Victim (1961), starring Dirk Bogarde. (The Servant is another good movie of his.) Bogarde’s character, Melville Farr, is a well-regarded barrister who’s soon to become a QC. However, he’s also a married, closeted gay man, albeit one who’s always “managed to resist his impulses,” and when a young man he was in love with kills himself because he was being blackmailed, Farr decided he’s going to take down the ring of blackmailers, regardless of the personal cost.

Fantastic performances all across the board. The part that’s stuck the hardest in my memory is when Farr finally loses his cool facade and tells his wife, “I stopped seeing him because I wanted him. Do you understand, because I WANTED him!”

White Christmas