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
(10,128 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
(11,868 posts)Added video
grumpyduck
(6,240 posts)Polly Hennessey
(6,798 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)He did it so well I never wanted to see remakes!
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,004 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,173 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
(5,174 posts)The Quiet Man
The Cheyenne Social Club
Operation Petticoat
The Moon Is Blue
African Queen
Irma LaDouce
Bandolero!
Father Goose
brush
(53,784 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
(190 posts)Shirley MacLaine, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Dick Van Dyke, Gene Kelley, Paul Newman, Robert Cummings.
Also, Gambit. Shirley MacLaine and Michael Cain.
LakeArenal
(28,819 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,619 posts)Casablanca.
TexasDem69
(1,780 posts)Are those considered classical? If something older then maybe 12 Angry Men.
Blue Dawn
(892 posts)Bette Davis is amazing.
303squadron
(545 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 4, 2024, 08:49 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
(23,239 posts)There has never been another movie remotely like it.
AbnerBunny
(1,451 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
(7,206 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)dupagelib
(144 posts)Older version
fierywoman
(7,684 posts)farmbo
(3,122 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.