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What is your favorite classic film? (Original Post) Stuart G Mar 2024 OP
That's definitely up there. Bristlecone Mar 2024 #1
All About Eve FalloutShelter Mar 2024 #2
Casablanca grumpyduck Mar 2024 #3
Wuthering Heights Polly Hennessey Mar 2024 #4
The version with Laurence Oliivier was excellent. He was tremendous. It seemed to capture the book, too. Judi Lynn Mar 2024 #7
Casablanca QED Mar 2024 #5
A Tale of Two Cities 50 Shades Of Blue Mar 2024 #6
What genre is classic? bucolic_frolic Mar 2024 #8
I have eight. House of Roberts Mar 2024 #9
"Mutiny on the Bounty." The one with Marlon Brando. Riveting story, and the visual of sailing ships... brush Mar 2024 #10
What A Way To Go AuntyGravity Mar 2024 #11
Now Voyager. LakeArenal Mar 2024 #12
Tough question, but if I must pick, I choose... Fiendish Thingy Mar 2024 #13
The Wild Bunch or The Godfather TexasDem69 Mar 2024 #14
Now Voyager. Blue Dawn Mar 2024 #15
Casablanca 303squadron Mar 2024 #16
"2001: A Space Odyssey" lastlib Mar 2024 #17
Bringing Up Baby! AbnerBunny Mar 2024 #18
To Kill a Mockingbird LoisB Mar 2024 #19
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" CTyankee Mar 2024 #20
Miracle on 34th Street dupagelib Mar 2024 #21
Lawrence of Arabia, director's cut. fierywoman Mar 2024 #22
Key Largo farmbo Mar 2024 #23

Bristlecone

(10,512 posts)
1. That's definitely up there.
Sun Mar 3, 2024, 07:29 PM
Mar 2024

I like the Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep

A little later - The Great Race, the Fortune Cookie

It’s to hard to pick even just a few.

Judi Lynn

(162,491 posts)
7. The version with Laurence Oliivier was excellent. He was tremendous. It seemed to capture the book, too.
Sun Mar 3, 2024, 07:39 PM
Mar 2024

He did it so well I never wanted to see remakes!

bucolic_frolic

(47,312 posts)
8. What genre is classic?
Sun Mar 3, 2024, 07:40 PM
Mar 2024

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)
9. I have eight.
Sun Mar 3, 2024, 07:41 PM
Mar 2024

The Quiet Man
The Cheyenne Social Club
Operation Petticoat
The Moon Is Blue
African Queen
Irma LaDouce
Bandolero!
Father Goose

brush

(57,941 posts)
10. "Mutiny on the Bounty." The one with Marlon Brando. Riveting story, and the visual of sailing ships...
Sun Mar 3, 2024, 07:49 PM
Mar 2024

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)
11. What A Way To Go
Sun Mar 3, 2024, 07:58 PM
Mar 2024

Shirley MacLaine, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Dick Van Dyke, Gene Kelley, Paul Newman, Robert Cummings.



Also, Gambit. Shirley MacLaine and Michael Cain.



 

TexasDem69

(2,317 posts)
14. The Wild Bunch or The Godfather
Sun Mar 3, 2024, 08:14 PM
Mar 2024

Are those considered classical? If something older then maybe 12 Angry Men.

303squadron

(688 posts)
16. Casablanca
Sun Mar 3, 2024, 08:34 PM
Mar 2024

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.

AbnerBunny

(1,458 posts)
18. Bringing Up Baby!
Sun Mar 3, 2024, 08:40 PM
Mar 2024

I saw it at 19 back in ‘76 and introduced it to my stepdaughter in ‘93! We still adore it and can’t wait for the granddaughter to be old enough to love it with us 🤗

farmbo

(3,139 posts)
23. Key Largo
Sun Mar 3, 2024, 10:57 PM
Mar 2024

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 hotelier’s daughter (Lauren Bacall), Humphrey and the Good Guys triumph in the end.

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