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I'm going to mention two that I think are worth hunting down and viewing:
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) - French language version. This jazz opera is a classic, and stars a very young Catherine Deneuve. 1964
Tom Jones - A rollicking comedy, starring Albert Finney and Susannah York, that is a film version of one of the first novels written in English. Four Oscar winner. 1963
Oddball and old, they are time-tested.
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)Still their best.
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JustAnotherGen
(33,724 posts)Charade - Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant - doesn't get better than that. Or sexier. Or better banter, line delivery and timing.
I will always always laugh at: Tootsie and Arsenic and Old Lace.
I was born in 1973 - so for me - Classics are anything from my childhood - and Tootsie was a classic from my child hood.
Best Suspense Movies - Rear Window and Niagara. It's completely possible (particularly with Niagar) to have a terrifying murder 'on screen' but not be able to see it at all.
Best Love Stories - The Ghost and Mrs Muir and The Shop Around The Corner
Guilty Pleasures - Regardless of how many times I've seen them . . .
Marty, Miracle in the Rain, High Society/Philadelphia Story, In The Heat of Night, Stormy Weather, The Petrified Forest, and Gilda.
Ohhh - I'm going to love this group!
whathehell
(29,836 posts)Charade -- Love Audrey Hepburn in virtually everything, but if you want to see her in something great
(besides Breakfast at Tiffany's, of course) see her in Two For the Road with Albert Finney.
JustAnotherGen
(33,724 posts)I own all of her movies. Met her when I was a very little girl while being naughty in a department store in Rochester NY. Her last love was Robert Wolders and his family came to Rochester after WWII.
Audrey told me I was very exotic and it would serve me well when I was older.
Then proceed to chastise every other adult and tell them, "But she's LITTLE!"
Me? I'd just seen Breakfast at Tiffanys for the first time the day before on an old UHF channel. I kept thanking her for going back to get 'Cat' and calling her Holly.
My mother to this day won't let me live it down.
I also love The Children's Hour - her remorse at the end . . .
whathehell
(29,836 posts)You met her...and she talked to you and became your "champion", as it were, in the department store!
Wow...You thanked her for going back for the cat and called her Holly...How cute, and what a great story!
She was very caring for children, as you probably know...Suffered during WWII and became a big spokeswoman
for UNICEF.
You make an interesting comment about The Children's Hour regarding the character's "remorse"?...I didn't get that takeaway,
I mean I know she felt very bad about the Shirley MacClaine character, but I didn't see that she did anything wrong to be sorry for.
My take was that she walked away sorrowful at leaving her fiancée, but proud because it was the right thing to do,
what with his doubting her. I'm curious..Why do you think she was remorseful?
JustAnotherGen
(33,724 posts)Her sadness - the loss. She lost so much. Some via choice - another through a *spoiler* I don't want to give away.
And she didn't do it via over emoting as was the standard for about five years in Hollywood. It's the way she held her shoulders and neck - and the grief in her eyes.
Audrey was so subtle at times - but could convey more with those eyes than Jack Nicholson has in all of his 'grand speeches' in movies for his entire career.
Ahhh - a Hepburn fan! We need to share books, knowledge, experiences. My office at work? Ode to Audrey. My collection at home? Relegate to the attic for now. My handbags? Bagghys. All Audrey ones now.
valerief
(53,235 posts)All your choices are winners!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,011 posts)so looked it up...
had no idea Monroe was in a movie I have not seen...
and ..yayyyyyyyy.....Netflix actually has it!
Thanks for the title, Gen.
JustAnotherGen
(33,724 posts)If you are a person who imbibes - a cocktail in hand might be a good way to get through the suspense!
whathehell
(29,836 posts)Breakfast at Tiffany's, the underrated "Heaven Help Us" and more that don't immediately come to mind.
"Coming Home" is my favorite of all time
JustAnotherGen
(33,724 posts)I love Heaven Help Us! Great reminder to add to my collection!
whathehell
(29,836 posts)If you went to catholic school, especially at that time, which I did, you could REALLY relate to it!
Seems like we have similar taste in movies, JustAnother, despite the age difference -- I'm Just Another Boomer.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Hearts_(1966_film)
The film is set in a small town in France near the end of World War I. As the Imperial German Army retreats they booby trap the whole town to explode. The locals flee and, left to their own devices, a gaggle of cheerful lunatics escape the asylum and take over the town thoroughly confusing the lone Scottish soldier who has been dispatched to defuse the bomb.
... and ...
The Gods Must Be Crazy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy
valerief
(53,235 posts)Delicious characters. Joan's best.
Leave Her to Heaven (with Gene Tierney)
Glowing colors light up a savage mind.
The Cobweb (by Vincent Minnelli)
Surreal. Patients at a psychiatric clinic fight over library drapes. Really!!! Must be seen to be believed.
JustAnotherGen
(33,724 posts)Leave Her To Heaven for the first time a few weeks ago. Diabolical.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Another outdoorsy old flick that's a lot of fun--but pure camp--is Bette Davis's Beyond the Forest. That's where she says, "What a dump." The ending where she puts on her makeup really sloppily always cracks me up.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Night of the Demon (original British title and released in U.S. as Curse Of The Demon) by the great director Jacques Tourneur (Out Of The Past, Cat People) based on the story Casting The Runes by British Victorian era horror master M.R. James. The film starts at about the 2:40 mark.
The Innocents, based on Victorian era writer Henry James' ghost story The Turn Of The Screw (I love writers from the Victorian era like Conan Doyle and others).
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I also think the Italian film directed by Vittorio de Sica with Peter Sellers and Victor Mature from the 60s After The Fox (original Italian title Caccia alla Volpe) is a lot of fun (screenplay co-authored by Neil Simon).
whathehell
(29,836 posts)I saw it at age 11 and it made quite an impression.
It was all shadows, and subtlety and inference and it kept you guessing to the very end.
LauraNb
(34 posts)I completely agree about Audrey Hepburn, she was amazing! I love "Breakfast at Tiffany's", it's one of my all time faves. Another film that she starred in that I love is "The roman holidays"...just fills me with joy
dixiegrrrrl
(60,011 posts)Struck me when I saw it a few years ago ( probably saw it on Turner network)
and has always stayed in my mind. It quietly rather intense, and deliciously British.
David Lean did a lot of marvelous films, I found this one by accident.
"Brief Encounter is a 1945 British film directed by David Lean about the conventions of British suburban life, centring on a housewife for whom real love (as opposed to the polite arrangement of her marriage) brings unexpectedly violent emotions. The film stars Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway and Joyce Carey. The screenplay is by Noël Coward, and is based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life. The soundtrack prominently features the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, played by Eileen Joyce"
wiki.....
Little_Wing
(417 posts)The Life of Emile Zola (1937) J'accuse! Sadly, Paul Muni is so under-appreciated these days.
The Lady Eve (1941) Barbara Stanwyck is pure deliciousness (as opposed to pure evil in Double Indemnity)
Meet John Doe (1941) Gary Cooper and Frank Capra bring Depression Realness (bonus points: Barbara Stanwyck!)
Children of Paradise (1945) Ah, Garance! Oh, Baptiste! Mmmm, the shimmering beauty of old Paris.
MineralMan
(147,788 posts)A number of years ago, I was talking to my late former father-in-law and the subject turned to the movie, "Cool Hand Luke," which said former, late FiL had seen. He said,
"I always did like Paul Muni."
Interestingly enough, Paul Muni also made a chain gang move, "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang," in 1932. I always wondered if there was a connection there, somehow.
Little_Wing
(417 posts)MineralMan
(147,788 posts)Amazing coincidence, I think.
Little_Wing
(417 posts)That poster is awesome, btw
MineralMan
(147,788 posts)I haven't seen as many movies from that era as I would like. I'm 68 years old, and watched a lot of 1930s films on television as a kid. The TV stations ran them frequently in the 50s, since they were cheap to show, so I saw a bunch of the major ones. Still, there are many I missed.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,703 posts)They're really interesting.
http://www.polishposter.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT
Here's the one for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
trof
(54,273 posts)And I always, ALWAYS see something I missed before.
trof
(54,273 posts)'Trivia', 'Goofs', actors bios.
Really fun and interesting to do this.
sweetloukillbot
(12,631 posts)I'm still amazed that a movie about soldiers dealing with PTSD and trying to reintegrate into society after World War II would be made less than a year after the war ended. And I just love Theresa Russell.
Which leads me to...
Shadow of A Doubt - My favorite Hitchcock outside his run from Rear Window to Psycho.
brooklynboy49
(287 posts)Where does one begin? I'm sure to leave out a dozen or more, but I consider these to be among my favorite classic movies (classic for this purpose meaning released before 1960):
In no particular order:
The Apartment
It Happened One Night
Casablanca
Destry Rides Again
Stagecoach
Angel and the Bad Man
Red River
The Searchers
Double Indemnity
The Lady Eve
Our Man Godfrey
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Captain Blood
They Died With their Boots On
Sabrina
Roman Holiday
A Nun's Story
Love in the Afternoon
The Maltese Falcon
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Bringing Up Baby
Alice Adams
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Thin Man
Another Thin Man
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Sunset Boulevard
The Big Sleep
White Heat
A Walk in the Sun
Rear Window
Rebecca
The Lady vanishes
The 39 Steps
Saboteur
Notorious
I'm just gonna cut it "short" there. There are so many titles I can't remember, so many I've simply overlooked. And that's with a 1960 cut-off!
I watch too many movies lol. And I've watched the overwhelming majority of the movies listed multiple times!
North by Northwest!
Stop!!
Annie Oakley
Portland Cyclist
(29 posts)Lately I've been watching all the other Julie Andrews movies too!
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Carey Grant & Myrna Loy leave the city to build a house in the suburbs in post-war Connecticut. What could possibly go wrong?
Kind Hearts & Coronets
Alec Guinness plays eight members of the D'Ascoyne family who are knocked off in comic fashion by unlikely would-be Duke of Chalfont Dennis Price.
One, Two, Three
Jimmy Cagney - in one of his last roles - has to deal with the visiting daughter of a Coca Cola executive falling in love with a strident East German communist. Billy Wilder directs this madcap comedy about Cold War Europe.