Favorite Classic Films?

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Classic films are always the best, Jimmy Stewart is too sick.

12 Angry Men
North By Northwest
It's a Wonderful Life
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Raging Bull
The Deer Hunter
Godfather 1 and 2
Taxi Driver
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Seven Samurai
A Clockwork Orange
Marathon Man (IS IT SAFE??!!)

 

The Best Years of Our Lives. Awesome movie.

 

My favorite Bogie movie--To Have and Have Not- - The African Queen maybe 2nd, he,s one of the best


Another TMC fan-
jjack
-Hell, Im old enough to have seen Easy Rider in the Theater

BTW-The Best Yrs Of our lives was on just a day ago ( in ny/nj) on TMC

 

Someone already mentioned the expressionist b/w movies from the 1920s... F.W. Murnau made nice ones, indeed... BTW, you can get his 1922 Nosferatu on veoh.com for free with English title cards in it... Among classic silent movies, I haven't read the title of a fave of mine... (or I overlooked it when skimming through the past entries... ): Fritz Lang's Metropolis (not the trashy version with Giorgio Moroder's music, but rather the original one). This month, the complete reconstructed version with original music played by orchestra will have its world premiere...

Wonderful message given in it:

"The mediator between head and hands must be the heart!" (epigram at he movie's beginning)

Full movie with original music by Gottfried Huppertz (orchestra version):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAuSEdPbqmo"]YouTube- Metropolis (1927) restored version [part 1/12]
(Part 1 of 12)

Fritz Lang also made other neat masterpieces, such as M (1931) - a.k.a. Murderers Among Us, starring Peter Lorre as a child-murderer who gets hunted by other criminals who consider his deeds being so vile, they could slander their reputation (also a portrayal of early 20th century organized crime in Germany, known as "Ringvereine"). The criminals take action, since the police is unable to detain the murderer. The movie made one tune very popular, since the Peter Lorre character always whistles it: "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt".

Here is a very cool self-made movie trailer for M by Mário Cameria with Peter Lorre whistling, plus Grieg's original theme edited into it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIj3Bk0bhL8"]YouTube- "M" Fritz Lang movie trailer


Oh, yes, and there was Die Frau im Mond (1929), a.k.a. By Rocket to the Moon - a nice foreshadowing of the landing on the moon, also the first movie featuring a pre-launch countdown before blast-off into space... that movie also inspired a certain German rocket scientist with a somewhat mixed reputation, who later became famous for building the Saturn V - however earlier was infamous for building the "Aggregat 4" (A4), better known as V2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaVLaD4vfBc"]YouTube- Woman in the Moon (1929) The Launch - Part 1
(Frau im Mond, Part 1)

Wiggling toes of a Fritz Lang fan,

~*Ganesha*~

 

One of my favorites is THE GHOST SHIP, produced by Val Lewton. Lawrence Tierney in an uncredited role.

 

Some favorites of mine by Lang are SCARLET STREET, THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE, and CLASH BY NIGHT.

 

Just watched 'Lets Scare Jessica To Death' from 1971 - So GOOD! Think I'll make a thread dedicated to it.

 

Metropolis (1927)
Easy Rider (1969)
Hair (1979)

 

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I like the movie "Sorry, Wrong Number" from 1948

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040823

Although alot of movies in the 30s i love!!!!!!

 

Day of the Triffids

 

Has anybody seen Salome's Last Dance about Oscar Wilde. One of the coolest really strange old movies I've seen.

 

i never get tired of 'the third man'

 

Philadelphia
Maytime=Nelson Eddy and Jeanette McDonald
The Third man
Arsenic and Old Lace
All the old Fred Astaire movies
The Tarzan movies with J. Weismuller
Tortilla Flats
And just about everything mentioned previously
Oh yeah-Snake Pit
Jean Tierney-wow!
White Cargo with Hedy Lamar

 

The Stranger (1946) with Orson Wells as the Nazi fugitive Franz Kindler and Edward G Robinson (Mr. Wilson) as the Nazi hunter working for the War Crimes Commission :2thumbsup:


Hotwater

 

I love all the old movies and tcm .

To kill a mockingbird

the God father 1&2

Casablanca

cool hand luke

outlaw Josey wales

deliverance

the wild one

psycho

what ever happened to baby Jane

where eagles dare

 

Tobacco Road
God's Little Acre
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Mrs Miniver.
Frankenstein-B. Carloff