What are your favorite classic films? Talking pre-1960 here...

[Evil Chris]

A few of my faves include:

The Third Man (1949)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Rebecca (1940)
Frankenstein (1931)

[CDSmith]

Angry Red Planet (1959)

[Harmon]

Your Mom (1917)

[NaughtyRob]

All the old Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis films especially The Caddy and Geisha Girl.

[cthulhu_waves]

Mine is this!

[fitzmulti]

The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) {not that recent crappy one! LOL!}

[rhon23]

Auntie Mame (1958) with Rosalind Russell
Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)

[MaDalton]

that christmas movie with James Stewart

[2MuchMark]

[2MuchMark]

Angry Red Planet (1959)

Hi CD,

Cool!!! I had never heard of this movie before. it looks awesome!



I love classic sci-fi like this.

[LeeD]

All quiet on the western front
High Noon

Really all I could think of, haven't really watched many old movies.

[Choopa_Pardo]

Double Indemnity
citizen Kane
Gone With The Wind
The Wizard of Oz
Scrooge (1951)
Casablanca
SEVEN SAMURAI
On the Waterfront
Vertigo
Grapes of Wrath
Rear Window
Rope
Strangers on a Train
The Searchers
North by Northwest

what a great era for film making.

[S P A N N O W]

I definitely agree with those (above) and submit...

Metropolis (1927)
&
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

[Paul Markham]

Citizen Kane
Gone With The Wind
The Wizard of Oz
Casablanca
SEVEN SAMURAI
On the Waterfront
Vertigo
Grapes of Wrath
Rear Window
Strangers on a Train
North by Northwest
Maltese Falcon
Some Like It Hot
Ben Hur
Bridge On The River Kwai
12 Angry Man
High Society
Harvey
The African Queen
The LadyKillers
I'm All Right Jack
Two Way Stretch (1960)

Thanks Choopa for the list, just a few we don't agree on. Plus a few you missed.

[kronic]

The Seven Year Itch (1955)

[Choopa_Pardo]

Citizen Kane
Gone With The Wind
The Wizard of Oz
Casablanca
SEVEN SAMURAI
On the Waterfront
Vertigo
Grapes of Wrath
Rear Window
Strangers on a Train
North by Northwest
Maltese Falcon
Some Like It Hot
Ben Hur
Bridge On The River Kwai
12 Angry Man
High Society
Harvey
The African Queen
The LadyKillers
I'm All Right Jack
Two Way Stretch (1960)

Thanks Choopa for the list, just a few we don't agree on. Plus a few you missed.

quite a few I forgot, thanks! I was just going off memory.

[sperbonzo]

Citizen Kane
Gone With The Wind
The Wizard of Oz
Casablanca
SEVEN SAMURAI
On the Waterfront
Vertigo
Grapes of Wrath
Rear Window
Strangers on a Train
North by Northwest
Maltese Falcon
Some Like It Hot
Ben Hur
Bridge On The River Kwai
12 Angry Man
High Society
Harvey
The African Queen
The LadyKillers
I'm All Right Jack
Two Way Stretch (1960)

Thanks Choopa for the list, just a few we don't agree on. Plus a few you missed.

Yes, and throw in "The Thin Man", with William Powell and Mirna Loy. One of the funniest movies ever....



Oh wait, and "Best Years of Our Lives".



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[Scott McD]

Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, Monkey Business. All absolute classics from the Marx Brothers and still movies i can watch now and laugh my ass off!

[lucas131]

documents from 2nd ww

[thegreatestporn]

Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, Monkey Business. All absolute classics from the Marx Brothers and still movies i can watch now and laugh my ass off!

Agreed, any Marx bros movie is good.
Also,
The Ghostbreakers (1940)
The Road to Morocco(1942)
Both are great Bob Hope movies. Hope and Bing Crosby did a bunch of "The Road to ..." movies too. All are funny.

[Nasty]

Fantasia - 1940

[purescotty]

Lots of good ones listed, one I can think of that just makes the mark at 1960 is 'The Apartment'

[rogueteens]

[Robbie]

I like all the old comedies. Marx Brothers, Abbott & Costello, Hope and Crosby, Lewis and Martin, The Bowery Boys, Three Stooges...when I was a kid we only got 3 channels on the antenna on our t.v. (the 1970's) And those old movies would play on the local UHF station all the time.

[thegreatestporn]

Don't forget the old B scifi's.
Horror at party beach
Revenge of the creature
The she creature
Teenagers from outer space

Mystery science theater introduced this genre to me. Good stuff

[purescotty]

[Sunny Day]

So many movies, so little time

I like all the old comedies. Marx Brothers, Abbott & Costello, Hope and Crosby, Lewis and Martin, The Bowery Boys, Three Stooges...when I was a kid we only got 3 channels on the antenna on our t.v. (the 1970's) And those old movies would play on the local UHF station all the time.

Comedies, film noir
My vote is WC Fields or Bogart

[JFK]

I like all the old comedies. Marx Brothers, Abbott & Costello, Hope and Crosby, Lewis and Martin, The Bowery Boys, Three Stooges...when I was a kid we only got 3 channels on the antenna on our t.v. (the 1970's) And those old movies would play on the local UHF station all the time.

used to love the Bowery Boys

[2MuchMark]

Not a pre-60's movie (1963) but deserves honourable mention anyway:







so funny..

[Grapesoda]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Dangerous_Ground

[GregE]

Surprised that no one has mentioned this one yet.

[Sunny Day]

Movies

There are a few revival cinema houses left. Most show a movie once on Friday or Saturday night. There was one that had the movie at 7 & 9 pm plus several showings on Saturday & Sunday.
When Ben Hur played, I told my son I don't care what's happening, we're going to the movies. To see Ben Hur on TV is not worth watching. You have to watch the chariot race on the 50 foot screen.

[Sunny Day]

Stooges

Not a pre-60's movie (1963) but deserves honourable mention anyway:







so funny..

That movie was 3 hours long. But the 3 Stooges got 30seconds? WTF? They must have cut something out.

[CaptainHowdy]

[thegreatestporn]

There are a few revival cinema houses left. Most show a movie once on Friday or Saturday night. There was one that had the movie at 7 & 9 pm plus several showings on Saturday & Sunday.
When Ben Hur played, I told my son I don't care what's happening, we're going to the movies. To see Ben Hur on TV is not worth watching. You have to watch the chariot race on the 50 foot screen.

Agreed, my folks took me to see Ben Hur at a small cinema house when I was a teenager. Very glad they did. It was weird having an intermission at a theater.

[Evil Chris]

I forgot: A Touch of Evil

(I'll watch anything by Orson Welles, he was head and shoulders above anyone else then, or now in film-making)

[fitzmulti]

Almost shocked that noone posted LOLITA up in here...LOL!

[Evil Chris]

Almost shocked that noone posted LOLITA up in here...LOL!

Classic one, but not pre-1960.

[Inter-Sex]

My favorite classic movie =

"How The Internet Killed The Magazines from 1871: By P. Markham"

[Choopa_Pardo]

Almost shocked that noone posted LOLITA up in here...LOL!

I would have but Lolita was made in 1962.

[romancexcore]

Touch of Evil
White Heat
The Public Enemy
Rope
Sunset Boulevard
Strangers on a Train

[newB]

The two most notable are Stalag 17 and Bringing Up Baby, but pretty much all of the classics starring Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Danny Kaye or William Holden.

[John-ACWM]

Many from the Hitchcock classics.

[Shotsie]

A lot of posters here that would really enjoy this one:

[sperbonzo]

Shit, along with "the Thin Man" and "The Best Years of our Lives", I forgot "Giant", and (yes, I admit it), "Gone with the Wind"


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[baddog]

Anything with WC Fields

[scubadiver626]

3 stooges
twilight zone!

[Sunny Day]

WC is the best

Anything with WC Fields

Fields is the absolute best, but he was never on TV. Just the Marx Brothers and Hope/Crosby. Never much Hitchcock. A lot had to do with who owned the movie rights.

Oddly enough the company that owned Playtex also owned a large chain of TV stations and rights to a huge movie library. That's why I got to see Hope/Crosby and the Marx Brothers.

Fields got second wind when I was in college and suddenly the movies theatres would run his movies.

There were 5 classic Hitchcock movies, Rope being one of them that were tied up in legal issues until Hitchcock died.

On the other hand, some movies are out of copyright. There's a couple of brothers here in town that own a couple of art theatres. They teamed up with a guy who had a collection of films out of copyright and converted them to VHS. Mostly film noir or 60's sci-fi. They sold well. One of the brothers told me it was all in the artwork on the box cover. They paid an artist to do really colorful art and people snapped them up. I guess they had tried simple B&W shots from the movies and no one would buy them.

[Imortyl Pussycat]

some like it hot, kitty foyle, lamp post, gone with the wind, wizard of oz, bell book and candle, jane eyre, and on and on

[Trixie]

Oooh, already mentioned three of my big faves:

The Third Man
Sunset Boulevard
Strangers on a Train

All About Eve is another favorite of mine. And fucking Jailhouse Rock.

Also love Robert Mitchum movies:
The Night of the Hunter
Thunder Road