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Black & white movies, silent films, classics, B-Movies... Help me make a fun list for summer

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helena

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Summer's coming and we like to crank up the AC, close the curtains, and watch good movies. I'd like to make a list mostly (hopefully) from instant watch Netflix and Amazon. Our library has a lot of older titles too.

 

Last week we watched some of the Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney movies, this week we watched the original King Kong.

My kids are 11 and 14.

 

Any suggestions?

 

 

I'm so ready for summer. :D

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*Lulu*

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(The original) Sabrina

 

Roman holiday

 

Arsenic and Old Lace

 

Harvey

 

Inn of the sixth happiness (some of the portrayals of the Chinese are stilted by white actors portraying Asian characters, but the over all message of the film is enough to redeem the film for me. IIRC, it is not anywhere near the racism in Breakfast at Tiffany's, for example)

 

The man who shot liberty valance

 

Operation petticoat

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I have always loved these movies. I watched all of them by the time I was 11.

 

12 Angry Men

The Thin Man (and sequels)

Bringing Up Baby

(I agree about Arsenic and Old Lace, we loved that one :))

Murder He Says (cracked us up when we were younger)

Vertigo

The Birds

It Happened One Night

Singing In The Rain

Rear Window

To Kill a Mockingbird

All About Eve

Mr Smith Goes To Washington

The Philadelphia Story

Duck Soup

Buster Keaton movies

Yankee Doodle Dandy

42nd Street

His Girl Friday

Meet Me In St Louis

Topper

Night At the Opera

Harvey

Destry Rides Again

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

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Wild Strawberries is a favorite! I don't know about Netflix, but it's at my library.

 

 

Wow, Wild Strawberries!

 

I wonder if we are the only two people on the forum who like Wild Strawberies?

 

Recently my son (still 8) and I watched The Seventh Seal together. He liked it. But Ingmar Bergman is not to everyone's taste.

 

HuluPlus has the whole Criterion Collection (including Wild Strawberries, Breathless, Seven Samauri......)

 

Bill

 

 

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Bringing Up Baby

Arsenic and Old Lace (there is a Remington steele episode I SWEAR pierce brosnon is channeling cary grant from arsenic and old lace.)

The Philadelphia Story (one of my favorites -but at your kids ages they might be bored.)

the lady killers with alec guiness.

Harvey

. .1776, the great race, the court jester, English National Opera production of the Mikado with Eric Idle as koko.

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Some of our favorites:

Arsenic and Old Lace

Auntie Mame (Rosiland Russel version not Lucille Ball)

Meet me in St. Louis

My Fair Lady

North by Northwest

Rear Window

Bringing Up Baby

Cheaper by the Dozen (the origianl not Steve Martin-although that is fun too)

The Music Man

Shirley Temple movies are always fun.

Herbie the Love Bug

 

And how could I forget

High Noon

Young Frankenstein

Silent Movie

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Metropolis

Nosferatu

Meet Me in St. Louis

Roman Holiday

Inherit The Wind (if interested in looking at the evolution vs. creationism debate court case)

Shirley Temple films

Penny Serenade

Cheaper By The Dozen (original) followed by Yours, Mine, and Ours

An Affair To Remember

The Shop Around The Corner

The Canterville Ghost (Margaret O'Brian, not Jodie Foster)

Godspell

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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Bringing up Baby

I was a Male War Bride

the Tammy movies (Tammy and the Bachelor, Tammy and the Doctor, etc.)

Shag the Movie (actually from 1989, but it's so cute)

The Long Long Trailer

Follow That Dream (if you have boys, they may never view the multiplication tables the same again :D )

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Any Bing Crosby movie! I loves me some Bing Crosby!

 

Holiday Inn (with Fred Astaire)

Going My Way (if you don't cry at the end of this movie, you are dead inside!!!)

The Bell's of St. Mary

Any of the "Road" movies with Bob Hope (GENIUS!)

Blue Skies (with Fred Astaire)

 

To Kill a Mocking Bird

Inherit the Wind

Meet Me in St. Louis

 

 

I've got more, but I don't have time right now. I'll try to update later.

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You need a dose of good ole Westerns too.

We love some spaghetti westerns: Terence Hill in My Name is Nobody + They call me Trinity. Droll, grimy and funny.

Add The Magnificent Seven and True Grit, the original ("Not bad for a one eyed fat man.") The remake is well done too.

 

We have watched several of the films in Movies as Literature and I enjoy their selection too.

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Here are some that we've enjoyed...

 

Stagecoach

High Noon

Maltese Falcon

Man Who Came to Dinner

CT Yankee in King Arthur's Court

It's a Mad, Mad, mad, Mad World

Rear Window

Mr. smith Goes to WA

Some Like it Hot

The Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines

Spirit of St. louis

Ben Hur

Mr. blandings Builds His Dream House

City Lights

Gunga Din

North by Northwest

Trouble with Angels

King Kong

Night at the Opera

The Longest Day

The Great Escape

Sergeant York

How the West Was Won

Bringing Up Baby

Friendly Persuasion

Great Locomotive Chase

Tarzan

Around the World in 80 Days

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Captains Courageous

Cheaper by the Dozen

Follow Me Boys

Monkey Business

Adventures of Robin Hood

Court Jester

 

Sorry for typos...i'm in a hurry. Also, not all are b&w but all are older. And these were all from Netflix. Hope this helps.

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the assassination bureau with Diana rigg. (comedy). the madwoman of challoit with Katharine Hepburn. if you want some history - the lion in winter (and for fun trivia - Peter O'toole also played Henry II in Becket). How to steel a million with Audrey Hepburn.

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Wow, Wild Strawberries!

 

I wonder if we are the only two people on the forum who like Wild Strawberies?

 

Recently my son (still 8) and I watched The Seventh Seal together. He liked it. But Ingmar Bergman is not to everyone's taste.

 

HuluPlus has the whole Criterion Collection (including Wild Strawberries, Breathless, Seven Samauri......)

 

Bill

 

We may be a small club, but those with the most refined of taste usually are ;)

 

Seven Samuari ... another good one ... and the inspiration behind the name of our rescue tortoise, Ronin.

 

It's been years since I watched The Seventh Seal and I'm jealous that your son liked it. My youngest is 7 and she isn't a Bergman fan. I put on films at bedtime, and anyone who wants to stay up may do so, but only if they watch with me ... she usually stays up because anything is better than going to bed. Anything except Bergman, that is. I love that she's so adamant that she'd rather go to bed than sit through something she hates, but .... to hate Bergman? She may as well change her religion!

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