Fav OLD (B&W) Movie - let's make it pithy, eh?

[LOCIfan]

A good movie, Sirenna, but not a black & white movie!

It was one of Hitchcock's color movies...

[Sirenna]

oh, ok. I thought it was one of those colourized versions.
thanks for the info. shows how dated i am.

[Cassie]

I saw a little of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn yestereday morning. That is a great classic, with Peggy Ann Garner. Which reminds me of another young actress Margaret O'Brien. She starred in The Canterville Ghost with Charles Laughton (my fav B&W character actor) and a young Robert Young. I wouldn't mine seeing this classic again

[Leonore]

On Laughton: One I always try to catch when it plays is Witness For the Prosecution. Dietrich and Powers are wonderful.

Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple is always worth watching and she was fabulous in Blithe Spirit as the medium.

An old movie called Ten Little Indians based on Christie's And Then There Were None is also worth a look if you can catch it.

[kawaiidragonfoe821]

Here are some of my faves, I'll list more as I remember them:
Phsyco
Night of the Living Dead
All Quiet on the Westren Front
Cassablanca

[janetcatbird]

Saw a western the other night, "3:10 to Yuma". Basic plot: Van Heflin is a solid, steady if unexciting family man. The drought has his cattle in serious trouble and he can't afford the money for borrowing water rights. In order to make $200, he gets sucked into escorting an outlaw/gang leader, played by Glenn Ford, to the train that will get him to jail and away from the town. Only a limited time before Ford's gang come charging in to free their Boss.

I watched it for Van Heflin, whom I have previously mentioned as a favorite. While he does this weird clench-toothed drawl at strange moments, it is his usual fine work. But Glen Ford, whom I hadn't seen in anything before, was very impressive as the outlaw whose name escapes me. He's ruthless in a "Just doin' my job" type way, displaying an unnerving charm and ease. During the wait for the train, he turns into this weird shoulder devil trying to buy off Van Heflin's character to let him walk, taunting him with the hard life he lives and the difficulties his family faces. Odd to say, but he's almost like a Hannibal Lecter type character, in the sense that his apparent normalcy and likeability--in the face of his actions--is what really creeps you out.

Apparently this was compared to "High Noon" back in the fifties when it came out. I haven't seen that flick, so don't look to me. The title song, sung by Frankie Lane, is one of the hokiest, most laughable bits of corn I have ever heard, but once you get through the cheesy western tune it is a very interesting film.

--Catbird

[Patcat]

THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR, starring Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney, was on AMC this weekend. A lovely, deeply romantic film with a haunting music score by Bernard Herrman that I highly recommend. Just have lots of tissues on hand.

Patcat

[kawaiidragonfoe821]

Here are more of my faves now that I have made a trip to the video store recently & browsed the classics section:

I love the old Rudolph Valentino movies
Gone w/ The Wind
Tammy Tell me True (such a cute movie)
The Wizard of Oz
12 Angry Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
John Wayne movies
Charlie Chaplin movies

[madger]

I'm reviving this thread, I love all the mentioned. I suppose "To Kill A Mockingbird" is my all time favorite, Scout Reminds me of me when I was a kid and I think Gregory Peck is my ideal man.
But I want to start a campaign to revive "You Never Can Tell", an obscure P.I. comedy with Dick Powell and Joyce Holden, I peed my pants when I watched this.
Heres a quote from www.thrillingdetective.com: "Actually, You Never Can Tell is a whole lot of fun. A lot of people have been whining for years that the P.I. genre is going to the dogs, but rarely has the proof been presented in such a thoroughly charming and entertaining fashion. Here Dick Powell spoofs his own tough guy image with delightful results. Bring the kids."
I've been trying to find this on DVD, but they haven't released it, as far as I know. It's been shown on cable, but not since I've been looking for it, of course.
madger

[Techguy]

Last year, after the CI season finale, some of us picked a movie to watch and discuss. I'm willing to do it again if there are others who will join the party.

[SarahIvy]

Techguy, I would absolutely participate in a group movie watching/discussion. Sounds fun! Also a grand way to fritter away the hours without fresh CI to keep me company

[Techguy]

That's great SarahIvy! Let's see if we can round up a few more participants. Although I suspect we might wait until after the CI marathons on USA, we might still get to talk about some older revisited episodes for a while. But then there should be clear sailing for a movie watch/discussion sometime after Memorial Day. In the meantime, let's think about some movies we would like to watch again and discuss.

[Sirenna]

count me in!

I hope the crappy video store around the block has it, if not I'll expand my video renting horizons. Can we include murder mysteries like Hitchcock and Agatha? Cary Grant was so lovably protective of his cyanide poisoning aunts...

[NikkiGreen]

How about Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath?

Or James Stewart in Hitchcock's Rear Window or Cary Grant in Notorious?

I was also going to suggest Hitchcock's remake of his The Man Who Knew Too Much with JS, but that's in colour.

[Sirenna]

Really? Jamie Sheridan was in The Man Who Knew Too Much?

That would be a great one to start with!