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Lately the only type of movie's I want to watch are the old classic's , I've watched " The Guns of Navarone" and " Rio Bravo " both I've watched many times before but still enjoy them from time to time. Which got me wondering what old classic movies do you all enjoy going back too ?
It’s a wonderful life every Xmas eve, mrs hates it
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All the epic WWII films can always be relied upon, although since I've invested in iptv I very rarely watch them.
Used to love spaghetti westerns when I was a kid, cowboys v indians
The Ten Commandments.
Brilliant.
Loved Spaghetti Westerns as mentioned previousky in the thread, the Sergio Leone stuff. Real old school films, Casablanca is a favourite classic of mine.
Von Ryan’s Express
Am not much of a poster these days but it just so happens I’ve been watching a fair few after coming across a couple of boxes of DVDs/Blue-Rays around Xmas time.
These 3 are my favourite rediscoveries so far:
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
The Lost Weekend
Some Like It Hot
Plenty more to dig out.
North by Northwest, Vertigo, Rear Window. Citizen Kane
Calamity Jane
Casablanca
The Train
Sink the Bismarck
The Colditz Story
The Wooden Horse
The Battle of the River Plate
Any Ray Harryhausen films - Sinbad, Clash of the Titans, Valley of the Gwangi...
How old does a movie have to be to be considered an old classic?
633 Squadron
The Great Escape
The Sound of Music
Perspective or your age I suppose. The Wizard of Oz was 40 when I was 18 and Raging Bull about a year. Both are classics but one wasnt yet at 18.Quote:
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Films I'll watch any time on the telly. Some like it hot, White Heat, The Maltese Falcon, The Philidelphia Story ( and the musical version High Society), any Hitchcock, any Mel Brooks, Godfather 1& 2, Indianna Joness & Back to the Futures, Wizzardm of Oz and/ or Willie Wonka
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The Wizard of Oz
The Jungle Book
Death wish
The exorcist
Soylent Green
The hill
An inspector calls
Abbot and Costello meet...
Charlie chan films
I could genuinely list close to 100 old films and TV series. I used to sit and watch them with my dad when I was younger and it's some of the best memories I've got.
Favourite 5 off the top of my head would be Rio Bravo, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Ice Cold in Alex, Our Man in Havana, On the Waterfront.
Lots of Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, James Dean and Marlon Brando films were firm favourites in our house, as well as lots and lots of Laurel and Hardy. They don't make them like that any more!
Regularly watch:
A Bridge Too Far
Serpico
Once Upon A Time In The West
The Good The Bad & The Ugly
Cool Hand Luke
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
All The Presidents Men
Watched The Odd Couple & Three Days Of The Condor recently as well.
Paul Newman & Robert Redford popular in our household as well as countless others, Steve McQueen, De Niro, Pacino etc
12 Angry Men, The Swimmer, To Kill A Mockingbird, All About Eve, Goodbye Mr Chips to name just a few oldies. More 'recently' All the President's Men, Annie Hall.
Deep throat.
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Waterloo.
Oo that is good. Watched it last year.Quote:
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Watched it for the first time a few years ago.Quote:
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One of the best war films ever made.
Anything with Jack Lemmon in it. Or Dustin Hoffman. Proper actors.
As a kid I used to love Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin films, I like the majority of old westerns and although it's not from the golden age of cinema I love The Man who would be King
I’ll stick to ten (probably pushing the boundary for ‘old classics’ with some)
The sons of Katie Elder
The shootist
Big Jake
Rio Bravo
(Can’t stand that John Wayne, me)
Midnight express
The life of Brian
How the west was won
An American tail
12 angry men
It’s a wonderful life
Watched “Close encounters of the third kind” last night, had forgotten all about that one.
Is that the one that starts on a train ?Quote:
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If so, I’m sure I saw it at the Classic on Nicolson Street :greengrin
With a train surely? 😲Quote:
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I've just went through a spell of watching all of Elvis's films. All thirty-three of them.Quote:
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Your condition sounds serious, and I'm sure if you speak to your doctor he'll offer some specialist therapy.
Might have a wooden heart.Quote:
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Actually, in my household it is not me that is the Elvis fanatic. The fanatic is a female. I just watched them with her. However some of his films were quite good actually.Quote:
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National Treasure
Live and let die
Con air
The Killing Fields
The Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now
Starman with Jeff Bridges, best sci-fi film ever!
Great films.Quote:
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The Killing Fields affected me for literally years.
Visiting them is something I’ll never forget and definitely plan on doing again soonish. I hadn’t seen the film or known anything about it until I was actually in the country and advised to go and see the place.Quote:
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I actually thought I preferred ‘first they killed my father’ (subtitles and directed by Angelina Jolie I think). Having seen the killing fields a second time I’m maybe not so sure - both really good films.
The long good Friday, remastered.
Very good film , one I must look out to watch againQuote:
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Deer Hunter probably affected me more than any other film I ever watched as I was young and had loads of mates when I watched it.Quote:
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Was on Film 4 last nightQuote:
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Probably has the most atmospheric music of any sci-film and is also quite an emotional experience.
I can't bring myself to classify anything from the 1970s as 'old' nor maybe even the end of the 1960s (therefore excluding 'Where Eagles Dare' which remains insanely good despite having seen it countless times) :greengrin
These are some I really enjoyed and have re-watched or would keep re-watching
Touch of Evil,
Lawrence of Arabia,
the classic Oliviers - Wuthering Heights, Rebecca. Henry V, Hamlet, Richard III,
some of the Akira Kurosawas - Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Rashomon, Yojimbo, The Hidden Fortress
The Kurosawa films were a revelation the first time I saw them because they so obviously spawned Western remakes galore, including some familiar all-time classics,
The 39 Steps (1935 release) - just a fast-paced rollicking thriller,
and West Side Story. The recent remake was decent but the original trumps it in every regard.
My go to film is Casablanca and maybe the African Queen.
Also a big fan of the old WW2 black and white classics.
Watched ' Ice cold Alex ' last night been awhile since I watched it . Good film imoQuote:
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Cassablanca is a superb movie, the scene where Madeleine Lebeau stands up and sings the Le Marseilles always brings a tear to my eyes it such a powerful sceneQuote:
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