Favorite Classic Films?

I absolutely love classic films! I actually have a particular interest in Bette Davis, as she's my all-time acting hero, and own all but a handful of her movies. My favorite classic films in general are probably:

The Seventh Seal
All About Eve
The Children's Hour
Bringing Up Baby
The Song of Bernadette
Harvey
Now, Voyager
Casablanca
Dr. Zhivago
Dark Victory
The Little Foxes
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

And a billion others, I'm sure.

 

I just love anything with Bettie Davis

 

The Thirty-Nine Steps [Kenneth More as Hannay,1959]
Hobsons Choice [John Mills,1954]
The Life of Brian [Monty Python,1979]
Whistle Down the Wind [Hayley Mills,1961]

All but one of these are very English,so may be obscure..

 

The Phantom of the Opera (1925/1930)
Angels with Dirty Faces
Harvey
The Searchers
Dial M for Murder
MASH
THX-1138

 

My favorite classic movie Bobby.

 

Classic Sci-Fi movies are my favorite down time movies. Here are just a few of my top 20-

Forbidden Planet
The Thing
The day the Earth Stood Still
The Time Machine
Invasion of the body Snatchers
War of the Worlds
Fahrenheit 451
Metropolis
2001: a Space Odyssey
Planet of the Apes
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
The Blob
and many others to numerous to mention. These are all pre-1970 Sci-Fi movies that need to be on your must see list.

 

It'd take me forever to come up with a comprehensive list of my favorite classics, so I'm going to stick to the few that are always come to mind:

White Heat, Rear Window, Harvey, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (the Newman/Ives/Taylor one), The Philadelphia Story. Hmm. That's all I got for now.

 

Matter of life and death, Casablanca, breakfast at tiffanys.

 

this covers most of mine, i think alfred hitchcock would cover the rest....and add the wizard of oz but only if you have the dark side of the moon on hand.

 

The Godfather I & II
The Dark Knight
Groundhog Day
Dog Day Afternoon
The Shining
Caddyshack
Psycho
Jean de Florette & Manon of. The Spring
Goodfellas
Unforgiven

 

anybody know what movie it is thats black and white. the first 20 minutes or so are from a mans first point of view, because he had an operation on his face to look like someone else. there is a scene where he takes a shower and says. "im glad you left a towel big enough to cover my embarrassment" if i remember correctly the main guy was a big time actor but i cant remember the title of the movie.

 

Pensfan13, the movie you're looking for is, I think, DARK PASSAGE, with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall from 1947. Bogart is Vincent Perry, who escapes from Prison at the beginning of the movie. He's in prison for the murder of his wife. He's actually innocent. With the help of Lauren Bacall and a few others, including a cab driver, he eventually confronts his wife's real killer.

 

I really love movies like "Harvey" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner".

 

Gremlins

 

Absolutely! I even like the old laugh out loud B-movie Sci-Fi's. There are a few I saw as a child that scared the pants off me that I've seen again as an adult and have to laugh at myself for how terrified I was back then.

 

Paper Moon from 1973.

If you haven't seen it then for goodness sake do! So many people haven't seen this movie I'm shocked. It's a total pearl.

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
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Love this movie! I saw it at the theatre (and bought the DVD).

QP

P.S. I'm pretty sure Tatum O'Neal won a special Academy Award for her performance in the film. She was brilliant.

QP

 

The third man, the apartment, the searchers

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpxsot658IQ"]Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1935) - YouTube
dope smuggling..

 

Blade Runner no question!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhJ7Mf2Oxs

 

"Back when the story held the attention"
There are a few - though - in short (at the moment in time)

Top 5ive:-
1. Gone with the wind
2. It's a Wonderful life
3. The 39 steps
4. The Searchers
5. To kill a Mockingbird