Classic Films
Related: About this forumWhat is your favorite classic film?
My favorite is ..."It's a Wonderful Life"...That movie is totally ..."Wonderful."
Bristlecone
(10,512 posts)I like the Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep
A little later - The Great Race, the Fortune Cookie
Its to hard to pick even just a few.
FalloutShelter
(12,795 posts)Added video
grumpyduck
(6,651 posts)Polly Hennessey
(7,492 posts)Judi Lynn
(162,491 posts)He did it so well I never wanted to see remakes!
QED
(2,969 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,897 posts)bucolic_frolic
(47,312 posts)I loved Hitchcock.. Marnie.
The Marx Brothers. Duck Soup.
The great postwar WWII movies. The Eagle Has Landed. Where Eagles Dare.
Tucker.
Woody Allen had some great ones too: Hannah and Her Sisters. Crimes and Misdemeanors.
House of Roberts
(5,727 posts)The Quiet Man
The Cheyenne Social Club
Operation Petticoat
The Moon Is Blue
African Queen
Irma LaDouce
Bandolero!
Father Goose
brush
(57,941 posts)with their white sails against the blue sky and sea just works on the screen.
Another in the same vein is "Hoartio Hormblower", although it's of a British man 'o war in sea battles against other sailing ships, not a ship on a scientific/commodity mission like "Mutiny on the Bounty."
AuntyGravity
(289 posts)Shirley MacLaine, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Dick Van Dyke, Gene Kelley, Paul Newman, Robert Cummings.
Also, Gambit. Shirley MacLaine and Michael Cain.
LakeArenal
(29,845 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(18,670 posts)Casablanca.
TexasDem69
(2,317 posts)Are those considered classical? If something older then maybe 12 Angry Men.
Blue Dawn
(957 posts)Bette Davis is amazing.
303squadron
(688 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 4, 2024, 07:49 AM - Edit history (1)
A lot of great films, and a lot of great literature, have a common theme of a character undergoing a transformation. The way the story unfolds has to be believable and the more believable that transformation is, the better the story.
At the beginning of Casablanca Rik Blaine is not a likeable character. A man who won't in his own words, "stick his neck out for anybody." He says this as his friend is being arrested by the Nazis.
At the end of the movie he's the true hero, giving up the love of his life for a cause greater than both of them.....And he kills a Nazi.
If you've ever really loved and lost.....you get it.
lastlib
(24,961 posts)There has never been another movie remotely like it.
AbnerBunny
(1,458 posts)I saw it at 19 back in 76 and introduced it to my stepdaughter in 93! We still adore it and cant wait for the granddaughter to be old enough to love it with us 🤗
LoisB
(8,866 posts)CTyankee
(65,177 posts)dupagelib
(162 posts)Older version
fierywoman
(8,125 posts)farmbo
(3,139 posts)Another Warner Bros. masterpiece, this one is particularly relevant to our times.
Against the backdrop of a cataclysmic storm, a soft- spoken war hero (Humphrey Bogart) and a stoic hotel keeper (Lionel Barrymore) are held captive by a corrupt, murderous mobster ( Edward G Robinson) and his henchmen, who have returned from exile in Cuba to re-establish their racketeering enterprise in the U.S.
Spurred on by his incipient love for the hoteliers daughter (Lauren Bacall), Humphrey and the Good Guys triumph in the end.