WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE OLD FILMS??

We all have favorite old/classic films.  In fact, I prefer the old films and classic actors and actresses.  What are some of yours??

 

A few of mine:

 

To Kill A Mockingbird - Gregory Peck

Twelve Angry Men - Henry Fonda

Now Voyager - Bette Davis (my favorite actress)

Dark Victory - Bette Davis

Little Foxes - Bette Davis

Christmas In Connecticutt - Barbara Stanwyck

 Double Indemnity - Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray

The Egg & I - Claudette Colbert & Fred MacMurray

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House - Cary Grant

Arsenic & Old Lace - Cary Grant

Harvey - James Stewart

Home From The Hill - Robert Mitchum (my favorite actor)

Cape Fear - Gregory Peck & Robert Mitchum

Breakfast At Tiffanys - Audrey Hepburn & George Peppard

Imitation Of Life - Lana Turner

The Postman Only Rings Twice - Lana Turner & John Garfield

 

These are just a few to start - I'll be back.

I love screwball comedies :

Here is a Classic.

Think this movie will get over?

They had a tough decision to make concerning freedom of speech and artistic expression and so...

Rumors back then stated that the producer David O. Selznick was fined$5,000 for using the word ...   ... "Damn". (see link below}




"Frankly, My Dear, I don't give a ... darn?"



Production Code Conflict

"Prior to the film's release, censors objected to the use of the word "damn" in the film, a word that had been prohibited by the 1930 Production Code that began to be enforced in July 1934 (Prior to 1930, the word "damn" had been relatively common in films).

"Although legend persists that the Hays Office fined producer David O. Selznick $5,000 for using the word "damn", in fact the Motion Picture Association board passed an amendment to the Production Code on November 1, 1939, a month and a half before the film's release, that forbade use of the words "hell" or "damn" except when their use "shall be essential and required for portrayal, in proper historical context, of any scene or dialogue based upon historical fact or folklore … or a quotation from a literary work, provided that no such use shall be permitted which is intrinsically objectionable or offends good taste." With that amendment, the Production Code Administration had no further objection to Rhett's closing line."
Frankly, My Dear, I don't give a damn! (www.answers.com)

and after all of this time that has gone by since 1939... it continues...

"This quotation "Frankly, My Dear, I don't give a damn." was voted the number one movie line of all time by the American Film Institute 2005."

*lol* Go figure!

Damn Geno (lol),

The zip, ban an' deleters got their mitts into the movies, and guess what. . . the movie that didn't care, is the one that was remembered.

What does that tell us about people? To me it's pretty obvious that people enjoy the freedom to express themselves, with whatever vocabulary they feel makes their point.

If they find that their point is not well made with offensive language, then they'll either stop using it, or live with their inability to communicate well.

It's certainly better for a person to make his own decisions about this, than have some watchdog, editing words.

$5.000 fine.... ridiculous!!!

Why wasn't someone "editing" Hitler?

Mixey

~AFI'S LIST OF 100 GREATEST MOVIE QUOTES OF ALL TIME~

This is a great list of famous, memorable lines from classic films. This list was done in 2005.

Note the precious few films listed with well written "famous, memorable" hook lines that have been created since 1990.


AFI'S LIST OF
100 GREATEST MOVIE QUOTES OF ALL TIME (from 2005)


"Great movie quotes become part of our cultural vocabulary. When you consider that any phrase from American film is eligible, you realize this is our most subjective topic to date. We expect nothing less than a war of words as we reignite interest in classic American movies."
Jean Picker Firstenberg — Director and CEO, American Film Institute


~Enjoy,~
Gene

That list brought back a lot of good memories, Geno. . .

"You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am."

from; "On the Waterfront". . . Great Movie !!

Mixey

~ FAVORITE OLD FILMS? ~
Is 1979 that "old"?

A funny, sexy, classic movie, an eleven, on a scale of 1 to 10...

"...and make a grown man act like a child"
*LOL* ,,, this movie is still very funny!
...and also sad...

— RIP Dudley —

My FAVORITE subject!!!!

The Thin Man Series---William Powell/Myrna Loy/ Asta

Dinner At Eight--Jean Harlow

Libeled Lady-William Powell/Myrna Loy/Jean Harlow/Spencer Tracy

Murder On A Blackboard-Edna May Oliver

Penguin Pool Murder--Edna May Oliver

Kennel Murder Mystery-William Powell

Life With Father-William Powell/Irene dunne

I Remember Mama-Irene Dunne/Barbara Bel Geddes

Manhattan Parade--Winnie Lightner/Smith & dale

House On Haunted Hill-Vincent Price

Anything Bogie and Bacall

The Horror films--Lugosi/Chaney and Karloff

The Invisible Man--Claude Rains

Gone With The Wind--Gable/Leigh

The Great Lie--Bette Davis/Mary Astor

Anything Humphrey Bogart

In This Our Lives-Bette Davis/Olivia De Havilland

The Women--Norma Shearer

The Charlie Chan Series--Oland/Toler/Winters

42nd Street-Ruby Keeler

The Goldiggers Series with Dick Powell/ Joan Blondell

Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm

Boarding House Blues--Moms Mabley

Anything Mantan Moreland

The Wizard Of Oz

Marty--Ernest Borgnine

A Day At The Races--Marx Bros

Stormy Weather--Lena Horne/Bill Robinson

Little Miss Broadway

Pride and Prejudice--Laurence Olivier

Father Of The Bride/Father's Little Dvividend--Spencer Tracy

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Abbott and Costello Meet The Killer Boris Karloff

I like this movie that starred Bette Davis when she killed her twin sister and took her place but I can't think of the title.

Baby Face--Barbara Stanwyck

Public Enemy--James Cagney

Angels With Dirty Faces-James Cagney/Dead End Kids and they did another one but I can't think of that title either

Ladies They Talk About--Barbara Stanwyck

 

I have more but I think that's enough don't you??

Ok.
Back in the day, I PAID to see
this Awesome Masterpiece
seven (7) times
in the movie theaters when it was first released...
What does that say?


"Dawn of Man" scene from Stanley Kubrick's Classic
2001 A Space Oddesy

"Open the pod bay doors Hal"






...about Stanley Kubrick...

"... above all, he was an artist."

"Arsenic and Old Lace" Cary Grant
"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court" William Bendix
"The Adventures of Robin Hood" Errol Flynn