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Posted: 9/26/2005 7:35:16 AM EDT
What's your favorites?
I'm talking pre-color era stuff. Mine is probably 'Seargent York'. (predictable, huh?) Even better, why is it your favorite? |
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Pre Color:
Casablanca Scrooge (with Alisdair Sim) Post Color: GWTW The Wizard of Oz 1968's Romeo and Juliet |
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Casablanca
Twelve O'Clock High The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Hold That Ghost (Hey- nobody said they all had to be dramas!) Black & white... hmm... Young Frankenstein!!! |
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Any of the Sherlock Holmes series that starred Basil Rathbone........... or early Laurel and Hardy movies (Stan was born just down the road........... well 30 miles)
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Almost any Abbott and Costello movie.
My personal favorites: Buck Privates Hold That Ghost Keep 'Em Flying Who Done It? Buck Privates Come Home Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (My #1 Monster Flick) And 12 O’clock High The Longest Day. |
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tell me more about B&W 'chick flicks'...... |
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EASY. The original Universal horror films.
Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), The Mummy (1932) ,The Invisible Man (1933), Werewolf of London (1935) and all the sequels. Love that old shit. And gotta give a nod to RKOs King Kong (1933). |
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That was a ground breaking movie! With the advent of CGI, kids today can't appreciate what that movie was. |
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spot on! My B/W favs are Inherit the wind - Spencer Tracy 12 angry men - Henry Fonda all of the Marx Brothers films Color - Wizard of Oz All of the Disney Live Action Treasure Island Mary Poppins Love Bug 20K leagues beneath the sea |
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+1 on King Kong, an amazing movie, very atmospheric.
Winchester 73 Any of the Ma And Pa Kettle films but specially the one where they glow in the dark from the yuranium on their property. Scared Stiff AND Ghost Breakers!!! But the number one- No Time For Sargents.......When Andy Griffith Spits in the microphone and yells Hallo........HALLLOOOO........well, it's just priceless beyond words. And he weren't even in the infantry yet. |
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+1 on both. I think the older films had better writing because they couldn't lean as heavily on special effects. Sometimes the acting got a little cheesy, but sometimes not... as in 12 Angry Men. |
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Thhppt...they're not all chick flicks! I have a holiday movie in there!!!! |
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Just so you know the DVD release of the original 1933 King Kong will be out about the same time. |
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Anything with Audrey Hepburn in itbut Breakfast at Tiffanies, Roman Holiday are my favorites. Man I love that lady.
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Hell's Angels
Napolean (Abel Gance- hand colored) From Here to Eternity Elmer Gantry (not sure if BW) The Killers Phantom of the Opera (1933?) Clark Gable: GWTW San Francisco Mutiny on the Bounty The Call of the Wild It Happened One Night |
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When they got to Post World War II it went downhill. |
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The Day The Earth Stood Still...............I love Sci fi and it's classic
It's A Mad,Mad,Mad World..........It's color, but hell it has the three stooges in it. |
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Sahara, 1943, Humphey Bogart. About 12 allied survivors British, Austrailian, French, American and a M2 Grant tank hold off a German mech. infantry regiment at a water hole in the Sahara desert.
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Good one! |
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Good thread so far.
What about John Wayne? What's your favorite B&W John Wayne movie?
Ok, ok. Tell me more about B&W 'chick flicks' anyway....... I need to brush up on my old 'date' movies........ |
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Arowner's got a girlfriend........................ I want proof. Pics...ones WITHOUT her tied to a tree and begging for release, preferably... |
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No g/f, just casually dating someone who likes old movies. She's a John Wayne fan. |
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She's beyond my tutelage I am afraid...remember...I am an evil artsy theatre type... |
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GWtW is a favorite of hers too.....I think she pretty much likes anything made before color TV came out. I mentioned GWtW, and then we had the Melanie vs. Scarlet discussion........ Tell me more about evil artsy theatre....... <--taking whatever advice he can get here..... |
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First, GWTW is in color...and LOTS of it! Great balls of Fire! Melanie was a wuss...call me Scarlett any day. I could tell you...but then of course I'd have to kill you. Forget movies. Go see some live performance of Romeo and Juliet for God's sake! |
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Actually, I'm more of a melanie fan - and the girl is too. Romeo and Juliett...hmm..... |
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As I said...beyond help... |
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Me, too. I always get choked up when she dies & Rhett verbalizes the deep respect he held for her... |
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Permanent Latrine Orderly... P-L-O! |
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My favorite B&W dramas would include anything with Bogart, but especially The Maltese Falcon and Across The Pacific (with Lorre & Greenstreet in both of those) and The Big Sleep (Classic!)
Comedies? Bringing Up Baby, The Bachelor & the Bobbysoxer, It Happens Every Spring, and any Martin & Lewis movie |
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I may have to go rent GWtW the next time I have some free TV time....I haven't seen it in almost a year. Melanies are hard to find nowadays. I guess they always have been. |
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Take my advice & do yourself a favor - buy the restored Anniversary DVD Box Set. Lots of really good extras in there for a GWTW devotee. (It's surprisingly inexpensive, too!) |
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Off the top of my head:
#5-The Birds #4-Strategic Air Command #3-High Noon #2-Men In War And my number one favoritest old movie of all time? #1-Flight of the Phoenix I'll list the why's when I have more time... |
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there's an unsettling vincent price movie that was oddly fun I saw on late night tv a few years back. He wanders the past century country side as an executioner of accused witches.
Also the older frankenstein, where they chase him up to the windmill and it burns. I looked up the vincent price movie its known as witchfinder general www.dvdmaniacs.net/Reviews/U-Z/witchfinder_general.html "Those expecting the camp appeal or the tongue in cheek style horror movies that Price is oft times synonymous with may be surprised to find Witchfinder General contains some powerfully and disturbing interrogation scenes that are really nothing more than torture scenarios, some of which are quite gruesome. In the context of the film and its central titular character though, it makes sense that they be there and they do add a sense of dread to the film that it otherwise would not have had." |
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