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What are your favorite 'classic' movies from the 30's - 60's?

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January 28, 2018, 06:21 PM
mark123
What are your favorite 'classic' movies from the 30's - 60's?
I always though "Imitation of Life" was pretty good.
January 28, 2018, 06:22 PM
RichN
To Have and Have Not - one of my favorite Bogart movies.


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January 28, 2018, 06:29 PM
rat2306
quote:
Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
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Originally posted by rat2306:
Forgot one: Them!


Yup, Them! immediately came to mind.


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January 28, 2018, 06:34 PM
dgshooter
I’ve always liked “To Sir with Love”.
January 28, 2018, 06:47 PM
f2
a smattering...

The Petrified Forest (1936) - Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard

Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), Leo McCarey

The Roaring Twenties (1939) - James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart - last line: He used to be a big shot.

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941), Yasujiro Ozu

High Sierra (1941) - Heist film; Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino.

Cat People (1942), Jacques Tourneur

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945), Akira Kurosawa

Late Spring (1949), Yasujiro Ozu

Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953) aka Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, Jacques Tati

Mon Oncle (1958), Jacques Tati

Floating Weeds (1959), Yasujiro Ozu

The Housemaid (1960), Kim Ki-Young

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960), Mikio Naruse

The Naked Island (1960), Kaneto Shindo

Harakiri (1962), Masaki Kobayashi

Knife in the Water (1962), Roman Polanski

Charulata (1965), Satyajit Ray

Kwaidan (1965), Masaki Kobayashi

The Shooting (1966), Monte Hellman

Ride in the Whirlwind (1966), Monte Hellman

Play Time (1967), Jacques Tati
January 28, 2018, 07:23 PM
TwoRivers
Spartacus
Vertigo
The Birds
Most have been mentioned.
January 28, 2018, 07:30 PM
GWbiker
"The Best years of our lives" - 1946.

Three WWII Vets return home after the war and struggle with civilian life.


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January 28, 2018, 07:44 PM
sig operator
Was always a fan of the Clint Eastwood 'spaghetti western' trio.
The original 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'
As a teenager it was the 'Swiss family Robinson'
Disney's 'Fantasia' is as classic as it gets for me.
January 28, 2018, 07:46 PM
mr kablammo
I won't say that all of these are classics, but they should be watchable, at the least.  If the title is duplicated, refer to the earlier year.  Many are free on YT.

Li'l Abner
Private Snuffy Smith
I Married a Witch - Veronica Lake (!)
Sullivan's Travels - Veronica Lake.  Inspired 'O Brother' (!!)
This Gun for Hire - Veronica Lake
White Heat - James Cagney (!!)
Public Enemy - James Cagney (!!)
Scarface (!!)
Gun Crazy (!)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Basil Rathibone
Hound of the Baskervilles - Basil Rathibone (!!)
Various Sherlock Holmes movies
Bitter Tea of General Yen (!!)
Green Pastures
Stormy Weather (!)
Cabin in the Sky (!!!)
Creature from the Black Lagoon, I, II, and III
War of the Satellites
Attack of the Crab Monsters
It Conquered the World (young Lee Van Cleef in a Roger Corman monster movie)(!)
Champage for Ceaser - Vincent Price, Ronald Coleman
House of Terrors - Vincent Price, Basil Rathibone, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff (!)
Island of the Damned (!)
Lord of the Flies (!!!)
King of the Zombies (!)
Little Shop of Horrors (!)
Bucket of Blood
The Roger Corman and Vincent Price series of Edgar Allen Poe movies
Abbot and Costello 'meet the monsters' series.  Esp 'Invisible Man', I busted a gut laughing at this one.
The Golem, How It Came Into the World (!!)
Various Ronald Coleman movies.  Although I have seen only a few this gentleman seems to have been Cary Grant before Cary Grant.
The Captain's Paradise - Alec Guiness
Hidden Fortess - Kurizawa, Mifune (inspired Star Wars) (!!)
Rashamon - Kurizawa, Mifune (!!)
Throne of Blood - Kurizawa, Mifune (!!)
Breathless - french
The Bicyle Thieves - italian (!)
Life and Times of Col. Blimp (!!)
The Time Machine(!)


"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre.
January 28, 2018, 07:54 PM
GWbiker
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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Basil Rathibone.

Hound of the Baskervilles - Basil Rathibone (!!)


All of the Basil Rathbone/Holmes movies.

A perfect Sherlock Holmes, IMO.


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January 28, 2018, 08:17 PM
YooperSigs
John Ford.


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January 28, 2018, 08:53 PM
bettysnephew
The Razor's Edge 1946 original
The Thin man Series
The Topper Series



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January 28, 2018, 08:56 PM
Rightwire
12 Angry Men (1957)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Enemy Below (1957)
Spartacus (1960)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)
Mister Roberts (1955)
Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)




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January 28, 2018, 09:02 PM
MagnumU
Arsenic and Old Lace - Cary Grant - Dark Comedy

It Happened One Night - Clark Gable - Classic Rom Com

To Catch a Thief - Hitchcock, Cary Grant and Grace Kelly

North by Northwest has already been noted, excellent film.
January 28, 2018, 09:25 PM
amals
Many favorites already mentioned. I'll add:

Dial M For Murder
Vertigo
Rear Window
Notorious
Stage Fright
I Know Where I'm Going
My Man Godfrey
Wait Until Dark
Hatari!
Rio Bravo
El Dorado
All of the Sean Connery Bond movies
On The Waterfront
A Hard Day's Night
Help!
January 28, 2018, 11:00 PM
spunk639
The Frogmen.
January 29, 2018, 01:26 AM
GRIZZLYBEAR
To name a few off the top of my head I hadn't seen listed
The List of Adrian Messenger...Kirk Douglas, George C Scott
Garden of Evil...Gary Cooper
Sgt York ...Gary Cooper
High Noon...Gary Cooper
Taking of Pelham One Two Three...Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw
Twelve O'Clock High...Gregory Peck
Dirty Dozen...Lee Marvin
Wild Bunch...William Holden,Ernest Borgnine
The Professionals... Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin
Shane...Alan Ladd
January 29, 2018, 02:26 AM
flashguy
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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
They Were Expendable -- 278
The Longest Day -- <200
Decision Before Dawn -- n/r
Sands of Iwo Jima -- <200
Paths of Glory -- n/r
Bridge on the River Kwai -- n/r
Lawrence of Arabia -- n/r
Twelve O'Clock High -- <200
Hunde, Wollt Ihr ewig Leben? -- n/r
The Sand Pebbles -- 40+
Zulu -- n/r

(If you can't tell, I like war movies... Wink )

You forgot "The Dirty Dozen"! I'd add "Kelly's Heroes" but it was 1970. ("DD" had 302; "KH" had 511.)

The added numbers are the number of muzzle flashes in each rated movie; "n/r" means I haven't rated it.

(+1000 for "Forbidden Planet", Orguss)

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January 29, 2018, 05:59 AM
jehzsa
So many.

Here's one in particular that I don't see mentioned: The Agony and the Ecstasy

Has everything. Drama, comedy, romance, cinematography, bromance, nagging...


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January 29, 2018, 06:14 AM
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