DawnM Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 What old movies do you like? I watched two yesterday. I was bored. I hadn't heard of either of them before, but they were on TMC. Our Miss Brooks Palm Springs Weekend I really enjoyed them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 I watched The African Queen yesterday afternoon. Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn. I loved it. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel Mertz Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Anything with Katherine Hepburn in it. Casablanca Bing Crosby/Bob Hope movies The Long, Long Trailer (with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz) The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (Don Knotts) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 I love old movies! Here are some of my favorites: Meet Me In St. Louis The Children's Hour Life With Father Cheaper By The Dozen (the original) An Affair To Remember Three Coins In The Fountain Roman Holiday Sunset Boulevard Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? Bunny Lake Is Missing - this one is a chilling story of a child there one moment, and the next a figment of her mother's imagination. The Egg And I (based on the autobiographical book by Betty MacDonald, author of Mrs. Pigglewiggle) Yours, Mine, and Ours Mr. Smith Goes To Washington 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekland Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 To Sir, With Love is the first one that comes to mind, making it my favorite at the moment. I'm sure there are others. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 To Sir, With Love is the first one that comes to mind, making it my favorite at the moment. I'm sure there are others. This, too, and if you like it probably Goodbye, Mr. Chips, either version. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbel Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 So, so many. When I was in high school, my dad would take us all to a revival movie theater to watch Bogart (and other) movies. I grew to love them. A theater local to me shows older movies in the summer. Unfortunately they are one-night stands and so far we haven't made it to any. They're doing "Rear Window" next month but dang it, I already know we can't go. (I know we can find it to stream or get the DVD from the library, but it's fun to go to the theater.) We've been saying it's about time to watch "The Maltese Falcon" again. And "North by Northwest." 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol in Cal. Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 It Happened One Night. The Sound of Music The Dead Poets' Society Norma Rae A Walk in the Clouds 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Elf Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Off the top of my head Love, love, love: One Two Three Some Like It Hot Rear Window Arsenic and Old Lace 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 love old movies - generally prefer them to newer ones. I tend to lean towards comedies. bringing up baby (baby is a leopard) philadelphia story (I want the original, cary grant, katharine hepburn, jimmy stewart) big hand for the little lady. (you HAVE to watch all the way to the end. it's like the build up to an old joke.) teacher's pet. support your local sheriff (parody of westerns) boy's night out. (dd chose it for a girls night out movie.) the great race (the pie fight is still listed in the guiness book of world records) casablanca (fabulous lines - very quotable) we're no angels (humphrey bogart - christmas movie) his girl friday gigi exodus (Charlton heston) ben hur (Charlton heston) something happened on the way to the forum (taken from plays of plautus) gentlemen prefer blondes how to marry a millionaire (marilyn monroe was a great comedienne - she had great timing.) My fair lady to catch a thief (many hitchcock movies) some of dh's all time favorites: (all classics) city lights lawrance of arabia dr. zhivago (omar sharif. hard to believe there's a remake.) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Off the top of my head Love, love, love: One Two Three Some Like It Hot Rear Window Arsenic and Old Lace yes. there was an episode of remington steele I swear pierce brosnan was channeling cary grant from AaOL. reminds me - the original lady killers with alec guiness. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hen Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 we love old movies, too. My favorite is probably "Bachelor Mother" with Ginger Rogers. It's a comedy, she is really funny. We quote lines from that movie a lot. also, Philadelphia story, the old Thin Man series, Arsenic and old lace, How to marry a millionaire, The Quiet Man (John Wayne) -not a western. :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 (edited) There are several movies (that have been remade) that I enjoy the original version:The Parent Trap Yours, Mine & Ours Sabrina The Shop Around the Corner (basis for You've Got Mail) When I was in high school, I went through a Rodgers & Hammerstein movie stage. I still :001_wub: musicals. Edited July 10, 2017 by alisoncooks 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 How old? Is the 70s old enough? The Out-of-Towners Paper Moon Dog Day Afternoon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 I like old musicals - Singin' in the Rain The Seven Little Foys Anchors Aweigh Yankee Doodle Dandy I find the transatlantic accent in a lot of old movies to be distracting. It never used to bother me but for some reason now it does. To Sir, With Love is the first one that comes to mind, making it my favorite at the moment. I'm sure there are others. Years ago the movie rating included the rating M - For Mature Audiences. To Sir With Love was my first M rated movie. I felt so grown up. I was twelve. :D 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercyA Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 To Kill a Mockingbird Holiday Rear Window 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
***** Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 The old Jerry Lewis/Dean Martin movies Alfred Hichchock movies (remember The Birds?!) I still enjoy watching Rear Window in the summer, when it is dreadfully hot outside, just like in the movie. To Kill a Mockingbird Definately, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, as well as The Incredible Mr. Limpet Me and My Arrow Singing in the Rain West Side Story The Music Man The Singing Nun (the one with Debbie Reynolds, if the name of that was right) Spencer's Mountain Father Goose The Wizard of Oz And so many more, don't get me started, guess I am showing my age...! And I remember these were shown just about every summer, seems like many were on around midnight time and time again! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 I can only list favorites otherwise list is too long. Not necessarily in this order: Sandlot Cheaper by the Dozen & Sequel Dial M for Murder To Catch a Thief Most Hitchcocks: The BIrds, Indiscreet, Notorious, etc Life with Father with William Powell and Irene Dunne The Debutante Fried Green Tomatoes (not as old as the others) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 The original Village of the Damned is probably my favorite movie made before I was born. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekland Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 yes. there was an episode of remington steele I swear pierce brosnan was channeling cary grant from AaOL. If we're talking older (not "old") TV shows, Remington Steele is one of our favorites - much better mysteries than so many other shows (in our opinion, of course). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 (edited) Another one I thought of - The Trouble With Angels. It's an old Hayley Mills film about two friends going to a boarding school run by nuns. I want to say there's a sequel but I can't remember the title off the top of my head. ETA: after looking through the cast on IMDB to try to find leads to the sequel, I realized that it must have had a few uncomfortable days of shooting. Gypsy Rose Lee had a small part in the film, and the woman who played Mother Superior also played Ms. Lee's mother in the musical Gypsy. I wonder what Ms. Lee thought of Ms. Russell's portrayal. Edited July 10, 2017 by HomeAgain 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Another one I thought of - The Trouble With Angels. It's an old Hayley Mills film about two friends going to a boarding school run by nuns. I want to say there's a sequel but I can't remember the title off the top of my head. ETA: after looking through the cast on IMDB to try to find leads to the sequel, I realized that it must have had a few uncomfortable days of shooting. Gypsy Rose Lee had a small part in the film, and the woman who played Mother Superior also played Ms. Lee's mother in the musical Gypsy. I wonder what Ms. Lee thought of Ms. Russell's portrayal. Wasn't it the trouble with angels and where angels go trouble follows? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Wasn't it the trouble with angels and where angels go trouble follows? Yes, thank you! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garga Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 (edited) You Can't Take it With You. (Jimmy Stewart) The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (Teenaged Shirley Temple and Cary Grant) Monkey Business (Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers) I adore all three of those movies! They're all light comedy. Edited July 11, 2017 by Garga 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbel Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 You Can't Take it With You. (Jimmy Stewart) The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (Teenaged Shirley Temple and Cary Grant) Monkey Business (Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers) I adore all three of those movies! They're all light comedy. And they were funny without being crude or vulgar or crass, unlike most of today's comedies. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mothersweets Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Notorious (1946) - Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, and Claude Rains Suspicion (1941) - Joan Fontaine and Cary Grant Quality Street (1937)- a very young Katherine Hepburn http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029454/?ref_=nv_sr_1 this one is a lot of fun Rebecca (1940)- Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier I love old movies!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookbard Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Not as old as those above, but I loved the movies from the E.M. Forster novels - A Room with a View, Howard's End, Where Angels Fear to Tread. The 39 Steps - very early Hitchcock, based on the John Buchan book (but they changed the ending!) - is a good one too. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Tammy and the Bachelor (based on the book, Tammy Out of Time, which I own), with Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Nielson Good Morning, Miss Dove (based on the book by the same name, which I own), with Jennifer Jones The Miracle of the Bells (based on the book by the same name, which I own) with Frank Sinatra and Fred MacMurray Mrs. Miniver (based on the book by the same name, which I own), with Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, won six Oscars Auntie Mame (based on the same book...yaddahaddahadda), with Rosalind Russel, three Oscars Lassie Come-Home (ditto) National Velvet (ditto) Marnie (Sean Connery, Tippi Hedren) Sargent York. :001_wub: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elfknitter.# Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Ones I haven't seen mentioned are The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and The Quiet Man. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Mrs. Miniver (based on the book by the same name, which I own), with Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, won six Oscars A rather appropriate right now as a remake of dunkirk is coming out - and it touches on the english regular people side of sending out every boat in that part of england for the evacuation. . . 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 I love old movies. I watched them with my mom, then watched them with my children, and I watch alone. Some favorites: Arsenic and Old Lace My Fair Lady Oliver Auntie Mame (Rosiland Russel, not Lucille Ball) Meet Me in St. Louis Gaslight North by Northwest To Catch a Thief Bringing up Baby A Majority of One 12 Angry Men An Affair to Remember Whatever Happened to Baby Jane So many great movies. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzie in Ma Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Bringing up Baby is one of my all time favorites Bridge Over the River Kwai African Queen Casablanca 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted July 11, 2017 Author Share Posted July 11, 2017 Not as old as those above, but I loved the movies from the E.M. Forster novels - A Room with a View, Howard's End, Where Angels Fear to Tread. The 39 Steps - very early Hitchcock, based on the John Buchan book (but they changed the ending!) - is a good one too. I have seen all of those EM Forster movies but it has been a long time. I should rematch them. A Passage to India is my favorite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 . It's an old Hayley Mills film I used to love Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap. I'll still watch that movie if I happen to come across it while flipping channels. My mom and I used to enjoy watching An Affair to Remember. I loved it when it was used in When Harry Met Sally ("Men just don't get this movie"). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Ones I haven't seen mentioned are The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and The Quiet Man. I love the Quiet Man. Haven't seen The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in a long time, but I have good feelings when I think about it, so it must have been good, lol. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cecropia Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 I only picked films pre-1970: Romeo and Juliet (1968) The Invisible Man (1933) Nosferatu (1929) Lili (1953) The Lion in Winter (1968) Hello Dolly (1969) The Magnificent Seven (1960) The Great Escape (1963) Harvey (1950) Spartacus (1960) just about any Charlie Chaplin film where he plays The Tramp and many of the those mentioned by others in this thread. Also love The Twilight Zone series. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 I used to love Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap. I'll still watch that movie if I happen to come across it while flipping channels. My mom and I used to enjoy watching An Affair to Remember. I loved it when it was used in When Harry Met Sally ("Men just don't get this movie"). never saw whms - but that exact line was used in you've got mail in reference to it. maybe I don't get it either . . . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel Mertz Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 I second Auntie Mame (with Rosalind Russell) Also: The Absent-Minded Professor (Fred MacMurray) Flubber Son of Flubber Herbie the Love Bug (and sequels) Gus (Don Knotts) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 never saw whms - but that exact line was used in you've got mail in reference to it. maybe I don't get it either . . . Wait, it wasn't whms, it was the one with Tom Hanks where they meet at the top of the Empire State Building just like in An Affair to Remember. Grrr. Brain fart...off to google. Sleepless in Seattle. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Wait, it wasn't whms, it was the one with Tom Hanks where they meet at the top of the Empire State Building just like in An Affair to Remember. Grrr. Brain fart...off to google. Sleepless in Seattle. I love Sleepless in Seattle. :-) This scene: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegoat Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 On the Waterfront Bridge Over the River Kwai Dr Strangeglove Chinatown The Party Being There An American Werewolf in London 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Bridge Over the River Kwai Dh found this while flipping channels not long ago. I sat down only to watch the part where they whistle the famous tune. That's really the only part of the movie I like :) but I'm not a fan of war movies anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegoat Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Dh found this while flipping channels not long ago. I sat down only to watch the part where they whistle the famous tune. That's really the only part of the movie I like :) but I'm not a fan of war movies anyway. I watch war movies with dh sometimes, but usually they aren't my favorite. I always feel like BOTRK isn't really about war though - its more of a psychological movie. The ending where the Alec Guinness suddenly realizes what his attachment to order has made him do is wonderful IMO. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Wait, it wasn't whms, it was the one with Tom Hanks where they meet at the top of the Empire State Building just like in An Affair to Remember. Grrr. Brain fart...off to google. Sleepless in Seattle. yeah - I got the name mixed up too. but it was still tom hanks and what's her name. . . . (I really can't remember it.) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoutingmom Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 Lots of the above.... All's quiet on the Western Front (I've seen 2 versions... both were good...) I Was a Male War Bride (light comedy) Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoutingmom Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 Oh, and The Inspector General Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wishes Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 I second, third...fourth anything with Katherine Hepburn Father was a Fullback (love Maureen O’Hara and Natalie Wood too!). I just realized Fred MacMurray was in this. I think he was in Follow me Boys - I remember a twelve-year-old (or so) Kurt Russell in that one. The Birds The Bad Seed (so melodramatic in parts but so good!) Arsenic and Old Lace gets yet another vote! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 We LOVE old movies. Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart movies are favorites. We loved The Thin Man film series with William Powell and Myrna Loy. They are very old (first one was 1934) but very witty. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 I'd totally forgotten about it - but came across it as I was flipping channels. the conehead movie. (currently on cable. if you record it it's free.) based on the 70's SNL conehead skits. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 Oh, and The Inspector General Sent from my SM-T530NU using Tapatalk another Danny Kaye movie - the court jester. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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