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Salinger

Salinger

 
Banned
I'm a big fan of old films. When our society becomes too much to handle, I like to find an old flick to watch so I can escape the horrors of today's world. Really, anything before 1970 will do. Some of my favorites are:

Rear Window
Vertigo
Casablanca
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
On The Waterfront

Anyone else like to watch old films? What do you enjoy about them?
 
Kull of Atlantis

Kull of Atlantis

Pigeon
I'm also a big fan of old films! There's a lot of good, wholesome ones out there, but off the top of my head:
  • Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
  • Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
  • The Court Jester (1956)
  • The Ten Commandments (1956)

Additionally, there are some films/shows that aren't so old, but really capture the wholesomeness of pre-1970 media:
  • Anne of Green Gables (1985)
  • Road to Avonlea (1990)
  • Dick Proenneke's Series (Alone in the Wilderness, Parts I & II, Alaska: Silence & Solitude, and The Frozen North)
Some edifying escapism right here!
 
Bolly

Bolly

 
Banned
Other Christian
Cool thread. Love them old movies from better times. Abott and Costello movies were always my favorite. Grew up on those. Still enjoy em today. Hold That Ghost from 1941 was always my favorite.
 
TooFineAPoint

TooFineAPoint

Ostrich
Protestant
Yes, love old films. Let's use 1966 as the cutoff date for "old" since New Hollywood (of which I also enjoy a lot) usually uses 1967-8 as their beginning. And assuming you mean American films.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is definitely a great choice. Could re-watch each year and get something out of it.

Here are a few more:

It Happened One Night (Capra)
City Lights (Chaplin)
The Hustler (Rossen)
Rio Bravo (Hawks)
Citizen Kane (Welles)
7 Men From Now (Boetticher)
Days Of Wine And Roses (Edwards)
Nightmare Alley (Power)
How Green Was My Valley (Ford)
 
Hypno

Hypno

Crow
comedy - Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Ensemble cast races to find a buried treasure.

action/romance - Cyrano DeBegerac, starring Jose Ferrer. Some great sword fighting and shit lording, before that was a thing.
 
Rocha

Rocha

Ostrich
Gold Member
La Águila Negra said:
Might be cliche but the spaghetti westerns made in the 60s are some of the best movies ever produced

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Well...a few of them yes, most of them suck. Leone's films are good, dollars trilogy, Once Upon a time in the West, Duck you Sucker!, appart from this there is only 2 or 3 who can be considered good movies/productions, I like "The Great Silence" and "Mercenary" by Sergio Corbucci, and I don't think there is much else good to show off from the genre...

For me the best western ever is "The Wild Bunch" by Sam Peckinpah. I am an avid fan of this style.
 
Garuda

Garuda

Pelican
Protestant
Ben Hur
Gunga Din
Zulu
Bataan
Bridge on the River Kwai
Sergeant York
Captain Blood
The Sea Hawk

A couple of dramas I like are The Enchanted Cottage and Our Vines Have Tender Grapes just for the escapism alone. The one musical I really enjoy is Yankee Doodle Dandy for obvious reasons.

Do Catholics still watch The Song of Bernadette?
 
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Razgriz

Sparrow
The sting ( great con man movie)

I think most of the old live action Disney movies are good. Someone already mentioned Swiss Family Robinson which is my all time favorite. but I think old yeller, Dave Crockett, Follow me Boys are also good.

Plenty of older war movies are worth a watch like The Great Escape, or Patton.

what is qualifying as old for us?
 
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wayfaringstranger

Kingfisher
Protestant
Garuda said:
Ben Hur
Gunga Din
Zulu
Bataan
Bridge on the River Kwai
Sergeant York
Captain Blood
The Sea Hawk
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I could of wrote this list! :)
I would add:
Robin Hood (1938)
Lives of a Bengal Dancer
The Four Feathers (1938 version) - a classic about courage, cowardice, manhood and bravery
Beau Geste (1939 version)
Zorro (1940 version)
 
Syberpunk

Syberpunk

Pelican
Gold Member


Go look up the wikipedia for this 1996 film, its downright hysterical. So many actors are on the way to insane or are already there.
 
JohnKreese

JohnKreese

Pelican
Catholic
MovingForward2050 said:
The African Queen, with Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn. A true classic study of a battle between two very different personalities. A wonderful film...

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Fun fact about the movie and Bogie

Contaminated water was perhaps enemy number one, and at one point everyone except for Humphrey Bogart and director John Huston suffered from dysentery. Just like his character, Captain Allnut, Bogart liked drinking, so he and his drinking buddy, director Huston, apparently drank more whiskey than water. Perhaps because of that, they managed to remain dysentery free throughout the shoot.
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RalphMalph

RalphMalph

Woodpecker
Agnostic
Hypno said:
comedy - Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Ensemble cast races to find a buried treasure.

action/romance - Cyrano DeBegerac, starring Jose Ferrer. Some great sword fighting and shit lording, before that was a thing.
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I have "Cyrano DeBergerac" the version with Gerald Depardeux (1990) with subtitles. Don't get me wrong I liked the Hollywood version with Jose Ferrer. I thought his performance was an on-stage tour-de-force but I liked the Studio Canal version much better. It did not feel like a stage performance at all. And Anne Brochet in her prime as Roxanne!!!!!! Hubba Hubba. ;)
 
Salinger

Salinger

 
Banned
Another favorite of mine is The Hustler with Paul Newman who plays a down-and-out pool shark trying to put his life back together. Newman is magnetic as always but the film also has a good story that doesn't get bogged down like some older movies do. It plays just as well today as it did when it first came out.

Here's an updated trailer for the film...
 
NoFunInAus

NoFunInAus

 
Banned
Salinger said:
Another favorite of mine is The Hustler with Paul Newman who plays a down-and-out pool shark trying to put his life back together. Newman is magnetic as always but the film also has a good story that doesn't get bogged down like some older movies do. It plays just as well today as it did when it first came out.

Here's an updated trailer for the film...
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Any film with George C. Scott is worth watching.

In this one he is a Christian father trying to save his daughter from the increasingly degenerate world out there:

www.imdb.com

Hardcore (1979) - IMDb

Hardcore: Directed by Paul Schrader. With George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley, Dick Sargent. A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films in California's porno pits.
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Highly recommended
 
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