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I’ve started to like old movies, which I didn’t used to. They are quite good for dozing off to on a Sunday afternoon, which I have just done lol

Having worked my way through most of the Hitchcocks I was wondering if anyone else liked old films and whether they could recommend anything similar to him.
 
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Depends what you call old. I'd go for films with good actors Rod Steiger,Spencer Tracey,Marlon Brando,Humphrey Bogart,Sydney Poitier,Betty Davis there's loads. Always feel old films are in the most part better than a similar modern film. Maybe because they relied on better scripts and didn’t have the luxury of special effects to make them appealing. Courtroom dramas were really good.
 
Green juventine said:
Depends what you call old. I'd go for films with good actors Rod Steiger,Spencer Tracey,Marlon Brando,Humphrey Bogart,Sydney Poitier,Betty Davis there's loads. Always feel old films are in the most part better than a similar modern film. Maybe because they relied on better scripts and didn’t have the luxury of special effects to make them appealing. Courtroom dramas were really good.
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12 angry men? Outstanding movie.
 
I like to watch an old movie now and again. One of my favorites is The Last Picture Show. Made in 1971 does that qualify as old.
 
I tried to watch the Big Sleep the other day there.I’m afraid I was over critical.I kept thinking’he would not be so calm about a dead body in a room’.That kind of stuff.
 
Cavalier said:
12 angry men? Outstanding movie.
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I'm off to see the stage version which is touring at the moment.
It is a classic film though.
The Third Man is another stonker.
Citizen Kane.
Bad Day at Black Rock.
A Streetcar Named Desire.
Possibly the best of the lot is Paths of Glory.
Many more to choose from.
 
EH17 Jimmy said:
Night of the Hunter. Excellent film. Bob Mitchum as the scary preacher man.....


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Remember watching that, he was a bad'un that multiplication song he sung in it still haunts me. I was only young at the time.
 
I like a wee trip to Spain as some of you know, one Spanish channel always shows auld spanish classics from the 50's and 60's in colour, I can watch the whole film mesmerised whilst only getting two words in five.
 
There's a channel on terrestrial tv Talking Pictures. Its mostly British movies from the 40's 50's and early 60's. I watch it sometimes although the acting sometimes is bit brutal.
 
Watched a film recently called battle for Algiers (1966) about the algerian uprising against french colonial rule, filmed just a few years after the actual uprising (ended 1962) so loads of the actors lived through it just a few years before. It's great, really worth a watch
 
Also there was a cool film movement in Japan in the sixties called Japanese New Wave I liked films from for a while, I particularly remember The Face of Another, Onibaba, and Woman in the Dunes. Really good films
 
Any Powell and Pressburger film. A Matter of Life and Death especially.
David Lean's adaptation of Great Expectations. Looks like it was filmed in Dickens' day.
The Third Man. One of my all time favourite films and one of Orson Welles' greatest screen performances.
Leading to Citizen Kane. I know it's become a cliché but it is a genuinely great and revolutionary film.
 
BurbankHibee said:
I like to watch an old movie now and again. One of my favorites is The Last Picture Show. Made in 1971 does that qualify as old.
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objectively yes, but I’m talking your Cary Grant, James Stewart, Audrey Hepburn stuff. 1945-1965 probably the sweet spot. All before my birth, I love all the old cars, and men wearing suits even in the house lol
 
greencol said:
I'm off to see the stage version which is touring at the moment.
It is a classic film though.
The Third Man is another stonker.
Citizen Kane.
Bad Day at Black Rock.
A Streetcar Named Desire.
Possibly the best of the lot is Paths of Glory.
Many more to choose from.
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Yes. Paths of Glory is an absolute masterpiece. Kirk Douglas was magnificent in it. Possibly Kubrick's best film.
 
I’m thinking of giving the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films a dust off. I mind when they were on at Friday teatime when I was a kid. ‘The Scarlet Claw’ one gave me the fear.
 
If you want old movies, this is Harry Enfield's finest hour. Pitch perfect spoof of old movie genres. Excellent Brief Encounter homage
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What are you calling old?

Magic (1978) ventriloquist dummy horror with Anthony Hopkins

The Twisted Nerve (1968) psycho thriller with Hywel Bennett - really spooked me

Zulu (1964) watched it this afternoon for the first time in maybe 30 years - still great.

Papillon (1973) prison drama with Steve McQueen & Dustin Hoffman - brilliant!

The Third Man - already mentioned by others.

When I was a kid we had no choice but to watch the musicals - An American in Paris, Singing in the Rain, Anchors Aweigh - Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Gene Kelly... There were some superb films but I don't know if I could stomach them now.
 
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