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Quoted: Wife and I are picking a movie, we decided it has to be a classic. So far we have come up with: Casablanca Gone with the Wind Dirty Dozen To Kill a Mockingbird Then we realized we don't know jack about classic movies, so we punted. Give us your suggestions, all knowing arfcom! View Quote Cool Hand Luke |
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The man who knew too much. Doris Day and Jimmy Stewart.
Rosemary's Baby. The Exorcist. The Shootist. Schindlers list. Pink Panther. |
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The original The Out of Towners , with Jack Lemmon .
Funny movie |
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The Maltese Falcon
The French Connection The Day of The Jackal The 12 Chairs The Russians are Coming |
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Originally Posted By wtfboombrb: Have you seen, "Mr. Roberts"? View Quote Have not. On the list now. Paths of Glory has won for tonight, but please, keep this thread going. There is so many good suggestions it is unreal. Massive wealth of good taste is here. FWIW I own the original All Quiet on DVD, along with Liberty Valance, The Good... The Bad, A Fistful of Dynamite and a few others. So I am not totally hopeless. I think Casablanca is going to be next. I feel like that has to be seen for some reason. |
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Sons of the Desert.
Robin Hood w/Errol Flynn & Trigger (before Roy Rogers nabbed him) The Great Train Robbery - it started the cowboy genre She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - JW classic by John Ford To Kill a Mockingbird - classic film with Gregory Peck and Robert Duvall as the creepy (but as it turns out good hearted Boo) 55 Days in Peking - Chuck Heston leads the Marine Corps Embassy Guard in defending the Foreign Delegation Compound during the Boxer Rebellion and F*ck the SeeSeePee. Birth of a Nation - good for showing the propaganda affect on the audience. Triump of the Will - another film noted for its propaganda affect on the viewer. It's A Wonderful Life - Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed star in this classic movie about one man's coming to terms with his life. Should have won the Academy Award but its story was too moralistic for that. Instead they picked a mediocre film with no message anyone can remember. Dawn Patrol - I saw the remake w/Douglas Fairbanks Jr. playing a leading role. It kinda started the aviation genre. Moby Dick - Gregory Peck. Film version of Herman Melville's novel. Bones don't lie. Has any one mentioned Spartacus with Kirk Douglas? |
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Oh yeah
Gene Wilder as Rabbi going cross country to open a synagogue . Lol like during the California gold rush. I think. The Frisco Kid |
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Citizen Kane (1941)
Vertigo (1958) On the Waterfront (1954) From Here to Eternity (1953) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) The Philadelphia Story (1940) An American in Paris (1951) My Fair Lady (1964) The Searchers (1956) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Shane (1953) The Graduate (1967) |
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Ben Hur (1959)
The Lion in Winter Dr. Zhivago Lawrence of Arabia The Don is Dead The French Connection |
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Originally Posted By YankeeZulu: Lawrence of Arabia View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes THIS Or one of the Michael Caine films from the 1960's Caine gained recognition as one of the most famous actors of the 1960s through his breakthrough role in the film Zulu (1964). He then portrayed spy Harry Palmer in the films The Ipcress File (1965), Funeral in Berlin (1966) and Billion Dollar Brain (1967). He also had starring roles in The Italian Job and Battle of Britain (both 1969) Get Carter is also a good one and filmed in my part of the world |
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Of the ones you listed, I'd go with To Kill A Mockingbird
If not, try: Comedy: Some Like It Hot Western: High Noon Medieval: Ivanhoe SciFi: The Thing from Another World Silent: The General |
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Where the Red Fern Grows
Father Goose (already said but Leslie Caron...."Is it getting hot in here....oh it's getting hot in here" Dog of Flanders McLintock The Horse Soldiers The Sand Pebbles(Also already said but it's McQueen) National Velvet Edit to add: Silver Streak |
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You can't go wrong with a good Cary Grant flick:
Arsenic and Old Lace North by Northwest Operation Petticoat Charade Bringing Up Baby Monkey Business Father Goose |
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Originally Posted By TheYellowThing: Great movie. All emotions. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By TheYellowThing: Originally Posted By wtfboombrb: Have you seen, "Mr. Roberts"? All emotions. Yes. Any film that elicits that wide a range of emotion from it's viewers is pretty darn special in my book. |
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Judgement at Nuremberg
Raintree County Friendly Persuasion {good Civil War era drama about Quaker pacifism and the reality of the war, despite the goofy title. Gary Cooper too.} Little Big Man {if you consider anything from 1970 a classic} Vanishing Point {dated, but pretty cool} |
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Originally Posted By Saddler: THIS Or one of the Michael Caine films from the 1960's Get Carter is also a good one and filmed in my part of the world View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Saddler: Originally Posted By YankeeZulu: Lawrence of Arabia THIS Or one of the Michael Caine films from the 1960's Caine gained recognition as one of the most famous actors of the 1960s through his breakthrough role in the film Zulu (1964). He then portrayed spy Harry Palmer in the films The Ipcress File (1965), Funeral in Berlin (1966) and Billion Dollar Brain (1967). He also had starring roles in The Italian Job and Battle of Britain (both 1969) Get Carter is also a good one and filmed in my part of the world Caine was also great with Sir Lawrence Olivier in Sleuth. |
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Cool Hand Luke
A Face in the Crowd Sergeant York Anatomy of a Murder Sunset Boulevard Battleground The Great Escape Sands of Iwo Jima |
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Operation Petticoat
The Quiet Man Arsenic & Old Lace Harvey Flight of the Phoenix (the Jimmy Stewart version) Jaws The Exorcist Dr. Strangelove The French Connection |
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Bullitt
The Bridges At Toko Ri Grand Prix 12 O'Clock High Patton |
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Two of my favorites...
My Man Godfrey with Carol Lombard and William Powel Inside Daisy Clover with Natalie Wood and Robert Redford Enjoy!!! |
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Shane
Monte Walsh (either the Tom Selleck or Lee Marvin versions) Bullitt Goodbye Mr. Chips (Robert Donat version) The Shawshank Redemption The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Wake Island Zulu |
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Originally Posted By sockmonkey: Sand Pebbles Life Boat Papillon (1973) The Great Escape Stalag 17 The Seventh Seal (Swedish) Anything by Akira Kurosawa The Samurai Trilogy, by Hiroshi Inagaki View Quote In Papillon, did you ever notice the chicken spazzing out after the prisoner falls on it during the march? |
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Originally Posted By spooled16v: In Papillon, did you ever notice the chicken spazzing out after the prisoner falls on it during the march? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By spooled16v: Originally Posted By sockmonkey: Sand Pebbles Life Boat Papillon (1973) The Great Escape Stalag 17 The Seventh Seal (Swedish) Anything by Akira Kurosawa The Samurai Trilogy, by Hiroshi Inagaki In Papillon, did you ever notice the chicken spazzing out after the prisoner falls on it during the march? no? |
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Ben Hur
Hud Sunset Boulevard East of Eden The Last Picture Show Rebel Without a Cause. Maltese Falcon Where the Red Fern Grows Old Yeller The Oxbow Incident Psycho |
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'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid' - rolls 'em all up into one 'noir movie'.
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Out of the Past
Touch of Evil Giant Treasure of the Sierra Madre It's a Mad Mad World If only one, Out pf the Past. The best of film noir. |
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So many great suggestions so far.
Yankee Doodle Dandy Man of 1000 Faces The Three Musketeers (1948 Gene Kelly version) House of Wax (I saw this one in 3D at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, when it was still called that) Man's Favorite Sport The Raven The Pit and the Pendulum The Fly (original) White Christmas The Court Jester The Secret Life of Walter Mitty eta: ANY Marx Bros. movie! |
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It Happened one Night
The Thin Man After the Thin Man My Man Godfrey High Sierra Key Largo Maltese Falcon Treasure of the Sierra Madre Animal Crackers A Day at the Races A Night at the Opera |
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