I am watching Roman Holiday...........what is your favourite "old" film?

[LottieMumofWilfJenkins]

I got an absolute bargain last week at a bring and buy sale. A still wrapped box set of Dvds of RH, To Catch A Thief and A Place In The Sun for £1!!
I havent seen RH before and am really enjoying it. I watched High Society this afternoon. I love the grace and style (excuse the pun!) of TCAT!!

Oh well, I love this topic...a few more:

-Mister Roberts (comedy/drama)
-Operation Petticoat (comedy)
-Ivanhoe (medieval cheese drama)
-The Manchurian Candidate (original)
-North by Northwest
-Shane

I also love to have an old "Prisoner" marathon now and again

the original Parent Trap is delightful! - what a nice reminder

The way we were
Love story
Yentl
Rebel without a cause
Giant
All the Hitchcocks especially North by Northwest
The Searchers
Red river

Old B&W Satyajit Roy films eg The World of Apu
Akira Kurosawa's Seven Sanurai
Yasojiro Ozu's Tokyo Story

Yes to most of above. I love Gregory Peck, he was so handsome. Love James Stewart films too. Great actors.

Was just talking to DH about how when we were kids we would watch all these old b and w films on TV and now they are hardly ever on. It's a shame.

Night of the Hunter is a brilliant film, as is Double Idemnity, the Sam Spade films. I love musicals too. On The Town in particular. On the Waterfront is a great film.

Mildred Pierce is fantastic too. Hasn't been on TV for years.

I love a classic film. Some favourites are:
All About Eve
Gentleman Prefer Blondes
Calamity Jane
The Thief of Bagdad
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Brief Encounter
Victim
The Court Jester
El Cid
The Vikings
The Great Race

The Philadelphia Story - the onscreen chemistry between Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart is so fantastic that you secretly hope that they'll dump the girls and wind up together.

Singin' In the Rain. The Court Jester. Arsenic and Old Lace. The African Queen. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Just to name a few.

To Kill a Mockingbird - "Miss Jean-Louise stand up, your father's passing".
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Roman Holiday

My favorites have been mentioned above - except for Whistle Down The Wind.....(sob)

Some Like It Hot
Ben Hur
Gaslight

White Christmas
Guys and Dolls
Some Like It Hot

Love all 3 of these best and couldn't pick a favourite

Marni Nixon actually did the singing for Natalie Wood in West Side Story.

Gone With The Wind
Brief Encounter
Ice Cold In Alex
The Great Escape

In that order.

How could I forget 'To Kill a Mockingbird', wonderful film.

Didn't know that about Marni Nixon singing for Natalie Wood in West Side Story, still my favourite musical though. My parents had the soundtrack LP for a musical called 'Kismet' I loved the music as a child but have never heard of it since.

Someone mentioned the film 'Shane', I absolutely totally and utterly can't stand that film, it is grounds for divorce proceedings in this house if dh watches it.

Bringing up baby, hilarious film!

His Girl Friday. Love it

Another vote for blithe spirit.

the parent trap (original)
Wizard of Oz
Calamity Jane

Oh I hope it rains big time tomorrow so I have a great excuse to hunker down and watch old films

National Velvet. I love it.

I adore 'old' films, lots that have been mentioned.

I love Bette Davies films (don't think The Old Maid has been mentioned).
Love Margaret Rutherford films, especially Murder at the Gallop and Murder at the Vicarage.
Gone with the Wind.
Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello films.
Love a lot of the Hammer House films, especially those with Peter Cushing.
Frankenstein
Carry on Screaming
Carry on Cleo
Carry on up the Kyber
The Doctor films (Doctor at Large etc)
So many I love.....

Oh yes, the Carry On and Doctor films are ace, and the original James Herriot film.

FoolishFay is that the one where DN goes up to heaven on an escalator? Love that film.

Mrs Miniver is another favourite, plus the old Disney films. Also love The Trouble With Angels; Bell, Book and Candle, and the St Trinian films. I have very fond memories of Saturday afternoons with XMIL, we used to watch old films together, drink tea, and eat homemade cake. A very gentle way to spend an afternoon, and the DDs loved it.

Any James Dean
Any Doris Day (but especially That Touch of Mink)
Singing in the Rain
Gone With the Wind
Another vote for Meet Me In St Louis
Two Weeks With Love (little known fact that Dirty Dancing was a remake of this film)
Yanks
D Day Sixth of June
Dambusters
The Longest Day (I have a huge crush on Richard Todd)
West Side Story, by the way, Natalie Wood did not sing "I Feel Pretty"
The Great Escape
Monsters Inc
The Goonies
Star Wars (not the "new" ones but the original trilogy)
Silent Running
Logans Run
Somewhere in Time (does anyone else remember this film btw)
Carry on films
Cocktail
Top Gun
No Way Out (Kevin Costner's best film)

That is just for starters.....

Officer and a Gentleman
This Happy Breed
Blues Brothers
Animal House
Yours Mine and Ours
Anything with Channing Tatum but particularly The Vow as he is laying on a bed naked stroking a cat. I nearly fell off the sofa...

I vaguely remember Somewhere in Time, Jane Seymour was in it?

Funny how our perception of 'old' changes, to me old is anything pre 80's.

I love Somewhere in Time.

I recently saw The Conversation with Gene Hackman. What a masterpiece.