do you guys like watching old classics too?

[jdub61]

i can't be the only one who loves to watch the old classics, right? the movies with humphrey bogart and james cagney and jimmy stewart and katharine hepburn and cary grant and alfred hitchcock and all of them folks. i've been on a really big classics kick lately, watching a lotta black-and-whites, i'm just tired of watching hollywood blockbusters nowadays where everything is either a sequel and/or a comic book movie, and everything is CGI and computer-animation, and nothing is real...especially the acting. back in the old days, all they had was the script and the acting, and it was good stuff.

these are some of my favorite movies that are at least 45 years old:

casablanca (1942)
sunset blvd. (1950)
sullivan's travels (1941)
ace in the hole (1951)
ben-hur (1959)
vertigo (1958)
psycho (1960)
some like it hot (1959)
double indemnity (1944)
the philadelphia story (1940)
mr. smith goes to washington (1939)
white heat (1949)
breakfast at tiffany's (1961)
notorious (1946)
strangers on a train (1951)
angels with dirty faces (1938)
west side story (1961)

[TOOL9]

the only old "classic" movie ive seen is mr. smith goes to washington, which i watched in my ap gov class. I did however think that it was a bad asssss movie

[cannabis campbell]

How about scarface?

[jdub61]

the only old "classic" movie ive seen is mr. smith goes to washington, which i watched in my ap gov class. I did however think that it was a bad asssss movie

yeah, the movie's a little cheesy and a little unrealistic but i don't mind a whole lot. plus, jimmy stewart was so awesome in that movie. i can't believe he didn't win an oscar for that movie.

cc, are you talking about the howard hawks original?

[jdub61]

I'd like to add the Bogart film In A Lonely Place (1950) to that list. Just watched it now and I really liked it, enjoyed it more than Maltese Falcon/Big Sleep.

[Breukelen advocaat]

The best portrayal of a criminal that I ever saw was by Mickey Rooney, who starred in Baby Face Nelson in 1957. Becuase there is only one known print, this movie has been nearly impossible to see for many years and has never been issued on VHS or DVD. Hopefully it will come out on DVD, cable, or another format in the future. Rooney as the homocidal maniac Nelson, who was part of the Dillinger gang, is probably the best role he ever played. It was directed by Don Siegel, who later directed Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry. He also directed the original Invasion of the Body Statchers, as well as many other fine films.

[Divadish]

I tend to watch more modern films but some of my favourite oldies are:
Citizen Kane
Rear Window
Giant
Key Largo
African Queen
The 39 steps (1959 Kenneth Moore)
The inn of the 6th happiness

[me myself and I]

LOVE breakfast at tiffany's!

[wannabehippiegirl]

Sabrina!!!!

[TallCoolOne]

The oldies are the best (8 1/2, The bicicyle theif, rebecca, etc. ). But I tend to prefer old grindhouse, schlock, spahetti westerns, exploitation, and b movies. MST3k faire and worse!

[jdub61]

Two more recent oldies to add to my list:

Gilda (1946) with Rita Hayworth
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) with Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart

[slipknotpsycho]

hate old movies, but i grew up on old shows... i love lucy, the lucy and desi show (same thing really, just an hour long), dick van dyke, mary tyler moore, bob newhart, alfred hitchcock...

you name an old show i've probably seen every episode... i was weird.... where other kids watched cartoons, i watched old tv shows....

lol i even tried to talk my grandma into ordering 'tv land' when i was like.... 10 or younger...