Best Classic Movies

[KillaRSox]

What are some good classics? Pre 1985 lets say...

The movies that are coming out these days are oh so terrible.
So I've decided to expand my horizons.
Black and white, color, makes no difference. Just can't do those silent movies.

Wil I know you've got a few good ones for me to see!

 

[wolfie_cr]

whose life is it anyway = early 80s , great and relatively obscure movie with richard dreyfuss

 

[JudgeWapner]

Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Lifeboat. The Quiet Man. Lawrence Of Arabia. The Maltese Falcon. Dr Zhivago. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. That should get you started.

 

[wilheim]

Just off the top of my head I can think of: Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Murder on The Orient Express, Bad Day at Black Rock, The Old Man and The Sea, The African Queen, North by Northwest, Key Largo, The 39 Steps, To Sir with Love, Touch of Evil, Apocalypse Now, The Thin Man, A wonderful Life, The Quiet Man, High Noon, Sgt York, Midnight Cowboy, Sands of Iwo Jiwa, GF I and II, On The Waterfront, A street Car Named Desire, 12 Angry Men (the original), The Third Man, Psycho, Citizen Kane, JFK, The Kiss of The Spider Woman, Rear Window, Platoon, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chinatown, Lawrence of Arabia, The Graduate, The Big Sleep (with Bogie). And to many more to add.. I love them all and watch them every chance I get...


wil...

 

[festeringZit]

12 angry men (1957)

Henry Fonda, EG Marshall, Jack Klugman...


http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=12+angry+men

 

[Bourn]

Just off the top of my head I can think of: Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, Murder on The Orient Express, Bad Day at Black Rock, The Old Man and The Sea, The African Queen, North by Northwest, Key Largo, The 39 Steps, To Sir with Love, Touch of Evil, Apocalypse Now, The Thin Man, A wonderful Life, The Quiet Man, High Noon, Sgt York, Midnight Cowboy, Sands of Iwo Jiwa, GF I and II, On The Waterfront, A street Car Named Desire, 12 Angry Men (the original), The Third Man, Psycho, Citizen Kane, JFK, The Kiss of The Spider Woman, Rear Window, Platoon, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lawrence of Arabia, The Graduate, The Big Sleep (with Bogie). And to many more to add.. I love them all and watch them every chance I get...


wil...

Funny you said Psycho, because i always thought that was Norman Bates in your Avatar. I thought that until just recently when you told me it was Henry Fonda. Too funny.

 

[Bourn]

When i think of classic movies i think pre 1970. I guess it all depends on which era you grew up in. For me the early '80's had some great movies as i was 8-12 years old. Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ghostbusters which were all a big deal when they came out. I always enjoy watching 007 movies with Sean Connery and Roger Moore. I remember seeing Octopussy in the Theater when it came out.

 

[wilheim]

Bourn is right, that avatar is a young Henry Fonda as Tom Joad starring in the 1939 classic Depression era Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. The movie was nominated for the Best picture of 1941 but lost to the romantic drama Rebecca..Both John Ford (Director) and Jane Darwell as family Matriarch (Best actress in a supportig role) won Oscars for their contributions to the classic but tragic and controversial for it's day movie.

In 1989, this film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

The film made a greatl star for decades to come out of Henry Fonda and later his children and grand children. In 1999, Fonda was named the sixth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.


wil.

 

[Bourn]

The one movie that sticks out to me starring Henry Fonda was, " On Golden Pond." Katherine Hepburn and Jane Fonda were both in it. I always liked that movie.

 

[Mr.Leisure]

Let`s go in a different direction , If you don`t mind subtitles here are some foreign masterpiece`s ....

Bergman s ... cries and whispers , wild strawberries , through a glass darkly , the seventh seal
Fellini `s ..... la strada , la dolce vita , 8 1/2
Truffuat`s ... 400 blows , jules and jim , day for night
Dreyer`s ... the passion of joan of arc , day of wrath , vampyr
Kurosawa`s ... seven samurai , ikiru , roshomon , ran
Antonioni`s ... l`avventura , eclipse , blowup
Godard `s ... breathless , my life to live , contempt
Cocteau `s ... beauty and the beast ( 1946)
Renoir ... the rules of the game
Bunuel ... un chien andalou , the exterminating angel , the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie

Great movies if you want to go beyond the mainstream stuff

 

[Kevy]

Great thread...........my other passion in life besides this industry is movies from 1930 to 1985.

USA, Japan, Italy.........favorite decade for movies is probaly the 70's........would not even know where to start!!!!!

I am also a huge fan of Drive-In/Grindhouse/Exploitation/Indy stuff from the 70's also........

 

[Kevy]

I see a little debate over the 80's..........my take is that the first half of that decade is rock solid.
The second half of that decade (86-89) movie wise is not as stacked as the first half of that decade.

I love the early 80's Brian DePalma movie Blow Out as much as I love most of the best stuff from the 70's.
I love the early 80's horror The Thing as much as if not better than some of the great horror movies of the 60's & 70's.

 

[wolfie_cr]

I love the early 80's horror The Thing as much as if not better than some of the great horror movies of the 60's & 70's.

love that one but I would say its more sci-fi than horror.

out of that list that Wilhelm posted I have only seen like 3 , the other ones I only see being advertised on the classic TV channels

 

[StevieRay]

[h=1]HBO Max pulls 'Gone With the Wind'[/h]

 

[rolltide]

Godfather 1 + 2, Citizen Kane, It's a Wonderful Life, 2001 A Space Odyssey, On the Waterfront, Gone with the Wind, Rear Window, A Clockwork Orange, Paths of Glory, Dr Strangelove, From Russia with Love, Dr No, Goldfinger, Vertigo, Raging Bull, Once Upon a Time in America​

 

[fightgood]

The Hustler with Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason

 

[NFLTrends]

My top 3

Blazing Saddles
Escape from Alcatraz
Escape from New York

 

[cloverleaf]

Paths of Glory - Kirk Douglas - 1957

 

[rolltide]

My top 3

Blazing Saddles
Escape from Alcatraz
Escape from New York

Netflix getting hammered with demands to remove Blazing Saddles...expect it to be gone this month

 

[NFLTrends]

Netflix getting hammered with demands to remove Blazing Saddles...expect it to be gone this month

Why? People probably screaming to have it removed never watched it