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?

Double Indemnity is an excellent choice. I love Film Noir and it's one of the best.

I'm not sure that disliking Gone With the Wind is a particularly unpopular opinion.
When I started getting into films and wanting to watch classic films, I didn't watch it because it was so long.

Now I wouldn't watch it because in the clips I have seen, the characters seem insufferable. Plus the book it was based on is pretty racist and is responsible for popularising a lot of Southern myths about the Civil War (I listened to an interesting history podcast about it).

This is on the list, thank you! I’ve yet to see a Gene Tierney film.

High society

I’ve just watched it and LOVED it. Thank you so much for suggesting it.

Oh my goodness b- The Ghost and Mrs Muir is absolutely brilliant!

You’re in for a treat and Gene Tierney is so beautiful.

GWTW is definitely biased strongly towards the slave-owning Confederacy- which is not an acceptable stance today. I won’t deny it’s problematic.

But as a film it’s just stupendous. Vivienne Leigh is beyond brilliant and the sets, costumes, dialogue, scenery…I don’t think it’s been bettered.

And it’s quite hard-hitting about the horror of war too for its time.

An amazing piece of cinema.

It was a stunning film. Truly stunning.

I’m having an operation next week and am going to line up a few these. Just getting a list together now, to see if I can watch them while I am recovering.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
It happened one night
Brief Encounter
Double Indemnity
High Society
Paper Moon
How to Marry a millionaire
Meet me at St. Louis
12 angry men
Random Harvest
Now Voyager
Sunset Boulevard
Ninotchka

Thanks a million for this amazing thread x

You’re in for a real treat with that list. Wishing you a speedy recovery x

Thanks I’ll be back on here to let you know how I am getting on with them (hopefully)

Thanks again so much for this great thread x

Bet you don’t get through Random Harvest without a bit of a sob!

I have a soft spot for "The Littlest Rebel" because I watched it by accident as a child on our old B/W TV waiting for a children's programme to come on.
The pair of Shirley Temple and Billy Robinson is just lovely.

Captains Courageous…it’s a great film but terribly, terribly sad.

Slightly more modern- James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause.

I just came back to say I watched ‘The Ghost and Mrs. Muir’ after reading about it here and I absolutely LOVED it!! Thanks so much I have been thinking about it since and am definitely watching it again. 💕

Fantastic! Have you watched any others or will be watching any others?

Rebel without a cause and The wizard of Oz.

All the Fine Young Cannibals
Autumn Leaves

Im watching Double indemnity today!!

This thread was the most perfect timing thanks again x

LOVE that one. Barbara Stanwyck is one of my favourite actresses.

The quiet man

The Wind cannot read
A town like Alice
Rebecca
indiscreet

It’s just lovely - the ultimate romantic film!

Yes all of these. I also love The Philadelphia Story and It Happened One Night!

Update:

I’ve been enjoying a lot of silent movies too, so if anyone has any recommendations for silent movies - I’d really appreciate it.

My favourites, so far are Flesh and the Devil (1926), The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), The General (1927) and City Lights (1931).

I’m another die-hard Doris Day fan. My absolute favourite is ‘Love Me Or Leave Me’, one of her more serious roles in which she’s absolutely brilliant. the charisma just radiates through the screen.

I also love old noir - The Maltese Falcon is a great film and also all things Hitchcock.

Meet Me in St Louis is a Christmas favourite in our house - it gets an airing every year.