Old Movies That Folks Should See
 

Scaramouche: Stewart Granger Janet Leigh. In some ways you'd like to see an update of this flic but there is a certain charm to seeing it the way things were done in 1952. There is a six and a half minute foil duel at the the end that really is well done.

Before I really get started ... Griff, m'dear, would you be so kind as to define "old"? What's our cut off year, because my list will vary depending upon that number.

Speaking of dueling ... totally have to include The Mark of Zorro. Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone's duel in that one is fantastic.

And I love the story.

In all it's versions.

Even the bad ones.

But this is my favorite.

Let us say 1959 which is really only cuz I was born in the sixties, although there was a style change in the early/mid sixties... Screw it, whatever you think of as old. Am now putting the Mark of Zorro Tyrone Power on Netfix cue, nice call.

What? You mean this thread was just a trick to get us to sort out the wheat from the chaff for you? :eek6:
Good thinking. :) Sorry I can't help much because I like heavy dramas like Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hollywood Knights and Princess Bride, but I can recomend anything by Hitchcock. Also, any Wallace Beery/Marie Dressler film, Jimmy Stewart flics, There were some great westerns and Around the World in 80 Days. That old enough for you? :lol:

I once saw a great Hitchkock as a kid, and back then it really scared me, but it wasnt one of hes popular onces i guess cause i forgot the title! It was about a guy who had a car-accident and was found like h was dead, no pulse to find etc. but actually was still alive and aware of everything. Anyone knows wich one i'm talkin about?

The Three Musketeers (1973) The movie has been made about 6 times in the US since 1916, including a version with Gene Kelly, but the 1973 version with Racquel Welch, Michael York, and Oliver Reed is my favorite. Charlton Heston's version of Cardinal Richelieu was great as a really complex character. Tim Currry played the same character as a sort of Muppet villain, too cowardly and venal to be taken seriously.

The 1960's and 1970's were known for great war movies, Kelley's Heroes andPatton were both made in 1970. The Dirty Dozen and Battle of the Bulge were both made in 1965.

Then there were the cop movies....

As it 'Tis the Season ...

Dracula

Frankenstein

The Mummy

The Wolfman

No halloween is complete with out the monster double-double feature.

Relax and enjoy the days in which horror films relied on spooky atmosphere and good storyline to scare you rather than buckets of blood and sheepguts.

To this day "I never drink ... wine," gives me chills.

I think that was one of the TV shows. He could ony move his little finger but
they stuck that hand underneath him on the gurney? :confused:

The Episode was called Breakdown

And was also refilmed for the revival of the series in the 80s.

Any and all of the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies. Mistah Rathbone can solve my mysteries anyday :blush:...if he wasn't dead that is.

My favourite Hitchcock (albeit TV) was the episode with the woman in prison who befriended the guy in the prison morgue. An arrangement was made for her to escape whereby when the bell tolled that signified another inmate had died, she would climb in the coffin with the body during the night. After being buried, the morgue attendant would dig her back up and let her free. Plan goes fine until she gets buried, lights a match laughing then realises it's the morgue guy who died!

Sorry, Had to plug this one: Bullitt

Love Story
Casablanca

Ice Cold In Alice.

From Here to Eternity
To Kill a Mockingbird