OT: Old movies during The crisis....

[Tickdoc]

This is a Birth year movie for me featuring Walter Matthau. He is one of my parent's generation favs for me. My generation's Justin Bateman if there ever was one.

This cheeky old movie about a millionaire playboy has some very funny parts.

Best car intro ever, too. Ok not the best, but the funniest. The car is not featured throughout, unfortunately, but it does play a key role:



https://youtu.be/y4UhOeYYXAA

[colker]

Walter Mathau is my all time favourite actor.

[sg8357]

"The Taking of Pelham 123",
Mathau as good guy and Robert Shaw as the bad guy.
An intense how done it, caper flick.

TCM did a day of Kurosawa then a couple Lone Wolf & Cub movies.
They also did Sterling Hayden day, including the only
Harpoon vs. Pistol showdown in a Western, ever.

[johnmdesigner]

"Laura" with Gene Tierny, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb.
She is absolutely gorgeous in this movie.

[johnmdesigner]

"Sunset Boulevard" with Betty Davis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTT0LW0M_Y

[cmg]

He had a bunch of them but a New Leaf is hilarious. The actress in it Elaine May directed it and later directed Ishtar. Bad news bears is another.

[Tickdoc]

All good! The pace of these movies can be tough to bear at times unless you are in an old movie mindset, but damn some of them are good.

Have not seen sunset boulevard but will soon and thanks for the suggestion.

Others I want to see again.....marathon man, vertigo, papillon, and I think it’s time for another go around of my all time fav...cool hand luke:banana:

Where is the best place to find them these days?

[johnmdesigner]

"Once Upon A Time in the West"
Henry Fonda as a total bastard.
Spectacular on a big flat screen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwb3P0fuM1c

[Gsinill]

"Once Upon A Time in the West"
Henry Fonda as a total bastard.
Spectacular on a big flat screen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwb3P0fuM1c

This 1,000x
Probably my all-time favorite movie.

[Spinner]

"Once Upon A Time in the West"
Henry Fonda as a total bastard.
Spectacular on a big flat screen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwb3P0fuM1c

One of my favorites; I have the DVD.

Great music, great acting, great cinematography.

[cgolvin]

"Sunset Boulevard" with Betty Davis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTT0LW0M_Y

Not to pick nits but Bette Davis isn't in Sunset Boulevard -- the female lead is Gloria Swanson (silent film star so the role was close to real, many other actual players from the silent days including Erich von Stroheim, Buster Keaton, etc.).

But definitely +1 on the recommendation, and almost anything written and/or directed by Billy Wilder. E.g., to connect to the original post, The Fortune Cookie starring Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau (as a shyster lawyer).

[Tickdoc]

"Once Upon A Time in the West"
Henry Fonda as a total bastard.
Spectacular on a big flat screen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwb3P0fuM1c

My all time favorite western for sure. The music, the acting, the story, the spahgetti weirdness. Claudia. It’s just spectacular.

[johnmdesigner]

Not to pick nits but Bette Davis isn't in Sunset Boulevard -- the female lead is Gloria Swanson (silent film star so the role was close to real, many other actual players from the silent days including Erich von Stroheim, Buster Keaton, etc.).

But definitely +1 on the recommendation, and almost anything written and/or directed by Billy Wilder. E.g., to connect to the original post, The Fortune Cookie starring Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau (as a shyster lawyer).

Oops sorry my bad. Brain not working today.

[johnmdesigner]

"Double Indemnity" with the great Barbara Stanwick.
"I'm rotten to the heart!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WRLqzGkzNw

[ultraman6970]

Not old but red dwarf got a new episode yesterday night in the UK. Who knows when that will show up here.

[GregL]

The Manchurian Candidate" by John Frankenheimer, 1962. Black and white. IMO, Frank Sinatra's best screen performance. Angela Lansbury was absolutely chilling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Gt0d2zGUI

Greg

[veloduffer]

My all time favorite western for sure. The music, the acting, the story, the spahgetti weirdness. Claudia. It’s just spectacular.


+1 My favorite western - easily. Ennio Morricone’s score is fantastic, which has been performed by others globally. Beautifully haunting.

All the right actors for their roles and Henry Fonda playing a bad guy for once!


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[gdw]

A Face in the Crowd is a classic and has Walter Matthau in it.

[Tickdoc]

+1 My favorite western - easily. Ennio Morricone’s score is fantastic, which has been performed by others globally. Beautifully haunting.

All the right actors for their roles and Henry Fonda playing a bad guy for once!


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Yes I have yo-yo ma’s ennio morricone movie score album and it features the main track. It’s a great album.


https://youtu.be/iAR3_qPXIaM

[paredown]

Really, the only thing I miss about cutting the cord is TCM.

My local art house/second run theater in Vancouver used to do classic double bills and introduced me to a number of films and I got to see them on the big screen too.

A couple of favorite pairings:

Katherine Hepburn in Philadelphia Story and Bring Up Baby

Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca and To Have and Have Not

Agree with Double Indemnity--that is as good as film noir got IMO--screenplay by Raymond Chandler, and along with Barbara Stanwyck, it also featured Fred MacMurray--who by the time I was of movie-going age was a Disney kid film staple--but boy did he make a good bad guy.

[colker]

Rio Bravo by HOward Hawks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CBBuV1jZpE

This is so warm to watch right now.

[colker]

Kurosawa. Yojimbo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCjsazHO0c0


One step above Sergio Leone.

[johnmdesigner]

And because I had lunch at the table next to Faye Dunaway once...

3 Days of the Condor
Bonnie and Clyde

[colker]

And because I had lunch at the table next to Faye Dunaway once...

3 Days of the Condor
Bonnie and Clyde

I hope you didn´t feel compelled to rip a strand of her hair.;) Do you know that piece of gossip from Chinatown?

[echelon_john]

Kind Hearts and Coronets-brilliant, dark, really funny

[johnmdesigner]

I hope you didn´t feel compelled to rip a strand of her hair.;) Do you know that piece of gossip from Chinatown?

Oh that was years ago in Tribeca but I remember being impressed that she had ordered pasta in squid ink and she was indifferent to her stained teeth. I was not acknowledged.
I was on 79th street early morning once and walked passed Isabella Rossellini who gave me a nice smile.

[Ken Robb]

"Tunes of Glory" with Alec Guiness, Susanna York and several other people I recognized is an old favorite of mine. I recently found it free On Demand with Direct TV. It is a neat study of PTSD (before that term was invented), the fascinating world of unit pride and traditions in the British/Scottish regiments.

[cgolvin]

Agree with Double Indemnity--that is as good as film noir got IMO--screenplay by Raymond Chandler, and along with Barbara Stanwyck, it also featured Fred MacMurray--who by the time I was of movie-going age was a Disney kid film staple--but boy did he make a good bad guy.

Fred MacMurray also is great as a heartless lothario in yet another Billy Wilder film, The Apartment. Nice little role for Ray Walston, of My Favorite Martian fame (or, for the younger folk, Mr. Hand in Fast Times at Ridgemont High).

I had the same experience of surprise seeing a TV dad (Fred MacMurray on My Three Sons) playing a baddy in the earlier mentioned A Face in the Crowd: Andy Griffith.

Nothing against Double Indemnity but I'd put The Maltese Falcon at the top of my film noir list.

[avalonracing]

I'm a big fan of classic movies. Here are two recommendations to see them:

If your cable network doesn't have Turner Classic movies you can stream TCM through a service called WATCH TV from AT&T. It's $15 a month and will work on your computer or Apple TV etc (it also has a bunch of other lame channels that come with basic cable but it's worth it for the TCM).

If you have a local library card you can sign up for Kanopy. It's FREE and it has a great library of class movies including silent and foreign movies (and it has a ton of non-classic movies). If you don't have a library card you can often sign up for one online.

[veloduffer]

A great start to any classic movie list is the AFI 100.

My favorite comedy is His Girl Friday with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Rapid fire dialogue and Rosalind giving back whatever Grant dishes out is great.

https://youtu.be/m8lzyaMZ-mA


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[Bruce K]

I like old swashbucklers and chivalry movies.

Captain Blood
Horatio Hornblower
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Ivanhoe

BK

[schwa86]

The third man with Orson wells running through post war Vienna.

[rounder]

The Hustler with Jackie Gleason and Paul Newman. It's a drama movie that got good reviews. Introduced me to shooting pool where I misspent some of my youth.

[oliver1850]

My favorite movie with Matthau is probably "A Face in the Crowd" but Andy Griffith is the star in that one. With Matthau as the star I like "Charley Varrick".

Early this morning I watched "Blood Simple". Of the Coen Bros. movies I've seen, I'd rank it just behind "Fargo".

[Jeff N.]

Silverado.

[Buzz]

Something light and thoroughly enjoyable:

My Man Godfrey - the 1936 original starring William Powell and Carole Lombard

https://youtu.be/fcz8z7ensRM

[kohlboto]

I really enjoy the classic WW II films...

Where Eagles Dare

Guns of Navarone

Kelly’s Heroes

[Buzz]

I really enjoy the classic WW II films...

Where Eagles Dare

Guns of Navarone

Kelly’s Heroes


Excellent selection! Let’s add in Bridge on the River Kwai.

[johnmdesigner]

Excellent selection! Let’s add in Bridge on the River Kwai.

Don't forget "Von Ryan's Express" with Frank Sinatra.

[Buzz]

Don't forget "Von Ryan's Express" with Frank Sinatra.

I knew there was something missing from that list!

[cgolvin]

I knew there was something missing from that list!

No Dirty Dozen??

[Bruce K]

All good WWII pics.

Loved Von Ryan’s Express.

How about Run Silent, Run Deep?

BK

[Buzz]

No Dirty Dozen??

Another great one.

[gdw]

I really enjoy the classic WW II films...

Where Eagles Dare

Guns of Navarone

Kelly’s Heroes


Patton and The Longest Day are two classics that you might appreciate.

[veloduffer]

For war movies, I have to add

The Big Red One
Pork Chop Hill (although Korean War)
Das Boot (might be too claustrophobic to watch while in quarantine)
A Midnight Clear
Fury (surprised how much I liked this, but I like tanks)
When Trumpets Fade
Letters from Iwo Jima

[parris]

A couple of my favorite WW-II movies are Sahara and of course The Great Escape.

One of my favorite movies period that I COULDN'T stand as a kid is Casablanca.

A movie that stops my wife and I in our tracks anytime it pops up is Jaws. "Hooper drives the boat chief"

[sg8357]

A couple of my favorite WW-II movies are Sahara[snip]

I really like WWII films made during the war, Sahara, Mrs. Miniver, Lifeboat
and Henry the V. After watching Sahara, find '5 Graves to Cairo'
Erich Von Stroheim makes a fantastic Rommel, in both senses of the word.

[el cheapo]

Another WWII thriller is...Downfall...staring Bruno Ganz. It's a 2005 film in German with subtitles and is based on the true story of Hitler's secretary at the end of the war. Ganz plays Hitler so well that you think you are in the bunker with him. It's an unbelievably great performance that should have won him an Oscar. Highly rated but very few have seen it.

[Buzz]

How could I have forgotten The Great Escape, Patton, The Longest Day. Another three great entries.

Bridge at Remagen, Heroes of Telemark, eye of the Needle, The Eagle has Landed , Das Boot and on and on and on.
Alas there are so many. Not just war action but set and involving issues of those days.

Here’s one that many have not probably heard of or seen: A Man Escaped. A Robert Bresson French film/ true story of a French resistance fighter captured and then imprisoned in a notorious prison in Lyon. Sentenced to death he tries to figure a way to escape. Riveting filmmaking.

[Seramount]

did someone say WWII movies...? love them, my favorite genre...especially the 1940s b/w ones...

Gregory Peck is my cinema hero, so gotta list Twelve O'Clock High first.

other honorable mentions include: They Were Expendable (PT boats, John Wayne), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Battleground, The Story of GI Joe (based on Ernie Pyle), A Walk in the Sun, Sands of Iwo Jima (J Wayne again), Sahara (Bogie!), Guadalcanal Diary...

there another looong list of films made after the war (and most in color), but will save those for another time.

[choke]

A Bridge Too Far
Battle Cry
Stalag 17

Korean War....M*A*S*H. The movie is soooo much better than the TV series...

[Ken Robb]

"The Young Lions" w/Brando

[cgolvin]

If we broaden the aperture of war beyond WWII then I’d have to add Grand Illusion, an all time great.

And harkening back to a previous thread, 3 about military justice:
Gallipoli
Breaker Morant
Paths of Glory

[gdw]

If we broaden the aperture of war beyond WWII then I’d have to add Grand Illusion, an all time great.

And harkening back to a previous thread, 3 about military justice:
Gallipoli
Breaker Morant
Paths of Glory

Military justice.....The Caine Mutiny.

[johnmdesigner]

Don't forget a little Hong Kong action.

"Supercop " with Jackey Chan and Michelle Yeoh.
"A Better Tomorrow " with Chow Yun Fat.
And the original "Infernal Affairs" with Andy Lau and the spectacular Kelly Chen.

[Velocipede]

Not sure about birth year movies, but I love these and they are all classics

The Thin Man and the 5 that followed. Myrna Loy and William Powell had such a great chemistry.
The 28!!! Blondie movies. Same with Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake, great on-screen chemistry.
Bullitt
Maltese Falcon
North by Northwest
Hackers
You don't mess with the Zohan
Grosse Pointe Blank
High Fidelity
Clerks, Clerks 2
The Gumball Rally- especially since the time just got eclipsed again.

There are more but those are always ones I come back to.

[semdoug]

The Big Sleep
Maltese Falcon
Battle of the Bulge
Action in the North Atlantic
Midway
Tora Tora Tora
The Thin Man series
Sink the Bismarck
Sherlock Holmes series from the 1940s
Bad Day at Black Rock

[fiamme red]

The best film I've seen in the past month is Muerte de un ciclista (Death of a Cyclist), a great Spanish 1955 noir.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048394/

https://criterion-production.s3.amazonaws.com/carousel-files/b14f259a845529446b4ff0282ee23d75.jpeg

[Elefantino]

We nestled in for a Holy Saturday marathon and watched "Ben-Hur."

It still holds up exceedingly well. I still hate Stephen Boyd.

Others currently in the "recorded off TCM" queue:

The Incredible Mr. Limpet
Pride of the Yankees
The Sand Pebbles
When Worlds Collide
The Harvey Girls
The Spanish Main
Roman Holiday
Mogambo
Start the Revolution Without Me

[fiamme red]

Others currently in the "recorded off TCM" queue:I love TCM Movies on Demand, a great way to catch up with the films I've missed on TV.

http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/films/?ecid=subnavmoviesondemand

[sg8357]

We nestled in for a Holy Saturday marathon and watched "Ben-Hur."

TCM has run the 1925 version, the chariot race is amazing.
Legend has it after filming the race, the stunt crew did it again
as a real race.

For Gregory Peck fans, look for "The North Star" Peck
as the leader of a band of Soviet partisans.

[Tickdoc]

Just finished barrabas...what’s next?

[Elefantino]

Just finished barrabas...what’s next?

"The Robe" with Richard Burton, and its sequel, "Demetrius and the Gladiators," with Victor Mature.

[parco]

Any of the Thin Man movies with William Powell. Also check out The Razors Edge with Tyrone Power.

[Jeff N.]

The Guns Of Navarone was always one of my favs as well. Also, the original Ocean's 11.

[alancw3]

The Big Sleep
Maltese Falcon
Battle of the Bulge
Action in the North Atlantic
Midway
Tora Tora Tora
The Thin Man series
Sink the Bismarck
Sherlock Holmes series from the 1940s
Bad Day at Black Rock

obviously we like similar movies.

I'll add to your excellent list:
Gone with the Wind (the movie that launched TCM)
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Tycoon (the John Wayne movie)
King Kong (original)
The Mummy (again original)
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Day the Earth Stood Still(original)


I have got plenty more but this will suffice for now.

[Ken Robb]

"From Here to Eternity" is always good. Maybe I identify with it because I'm an Army Vet but I loved it when I first saw several years before I enlisted. The characters ring true.

[TimD]

The Manchurian Candidate" by John Frankenheimer, 1962. Black and white. IMO, Frank Sinatra's best screen performance. Angela Lansbury was absolutely chilling.

+1

From the same director: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFKUtDQsk_4

[Sojodave]

Netflix has The Good, The Bad, And the Ugly...longest movie ever, but I love it.

[johnmdesigner]

Netflix has The Good, The Bad, And the Ugly...longest movie ever, but I love it.

Thank God for the Danes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enuOArEfqGo

[fiamme red]

I've been trying to watch at least one movie a day. Last night I watched I Never Sang for My Father (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065872/), a simple drama but a very sad and moving one. Melvyn Douglas was great as the elderly father, and Gene Hackman showed how versatile an actor he was as the quiet, frustrated middle-aged son, a very different kind of performance from his role in the following year's The French Connection.

[cgolvin]

…Gene Hackman showed how versatile an actor he was as the quiet, frustrated middle-aged son, a very different kind of performance from his role in the following year's The French Connection.

or his unexpected comedic turn three years later in Young Frankenstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXGzO2aDDRU

[paredown]

Watched a new one (to me)--

"The Strange Love of Martha Ivers' (1946) on Amazon.

Creepy, noirish story with Barbara Stanwyck and Van Heflin and the young Kirk Douglas in a love triangle--sort of .

[fiamme red]

Watched a new one (to me)--

"The Strange Love of Martha Ivers' (1946) on Amazon.

Creepy, noirish story with Barbara Stanwyck and Van Heflin and the young Kirk Douglas in a love triangle--sort of .That was Kirk Douglas's first film. He played a weakling there, very different from his usual screen persona.

[Ozz]

My all time favorite western for sure. The music, the acting, the story, the spahgetti weirdness. Claudia. It’s just spectacular.
For westerns:

Wild Times (TV mini-series) - Sam Elliott
Doc Holliday: From what I read in the newspaper, you're worth two thousand dollars alive or dead.

Hugh Cardiff: Man, I always knew I'd amount to something.

Valez is Coming - Burt Lancaster
El Segundo: [after pausing and nervously clearing his throat] Tell me something... Who are you?

Bob Valdez: I told you once before - Bob Valdez.

El Segundo: [referring to Valdez's earlier marksmanship against his men] You know something, Bob Valdez, you hit one, I think, 700-800 yards.

Bob Valdez: [with certitude] Closer to a thousand.

El Segundo: What was it? Sharps?

Bob Valdez: [nods] My own load.

El Segundo: You ever hunt buffalo?

Bob Valdez: Apache.

El Segundo: I knew it. When?

Bob Valdez: Before I know better.

[Tickdoc]

Let’s go back into the future a bit today.....Metropolis!

[paredown]

Let’s go back into the future a bit today.....Metropolis!

I watched that years ago in a bad print, and didn't get it. Whatever print is now in circulation is so much better--we watched it fairly recently, and I thought it was great!

[Tickdoc]

I watched that years ago in a bad print, and didn't get it. Whatever print is now in circulation is so much better--we watched it fairly recently, and I thought it was great!

Yes apparently it was heavily edited and then someone found an original but damaged copy in South America that was remastered.

[avalonracing]

Let’s go back into the future a bit today.....Metropolis!

Extraordinary film. A must-watch for any fan of classic cinema.

[Velocipede]

Let’s go back into the future a bit today.....Metropolis!

That was just on last night on TCM.

[wss]

The Enemy Below

The Train

[unterhausen]

Let’s go back into the future a bit today.....Metropolis!Is google telling me it's on Hulu?

[Spoker]

Roma citta aperta.
Bicycle thieves.
Canterbury tales.

Italian movies in general

[martl]

I just read a biography of Robert Mitchum and now i want to see all his movies again.

[oldpotatoe]

Green for Danger
Brazil

[marsh]

I don't know how these are on here, but I'm not complaining.
Full Hitchcock movies on Vimeo:

North By Northwest (https://vimeo.com/298462388)

Psycho (https://vimeo.com/231413951)

[Seramount]

I just read a biography of Robert Mitchum and now i want to see all his movies again.

that should fill up some time...dude was in a few.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mitchum_filmography

[alancw3]

so Metroplis has made me think of another unconventional no fluff movie. "Araya". Venezuela salt mines. not a movie for the faint of heart:


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051372/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[marsh]

that should fill up some time...dude was in a few.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mitchum_filmography


Was lucky enough to catch Yakuza on TCM a month or so ago. Here's Tarantino's review (https://thenewbev.com/tarantinos-reviews/the-yakuza/).

[Seramount]

I just read a biography of Robert Mitchum and now i want to see all his movies again.

Out of the Past (1947) w/ Bob and Kirk Douglas is on TCM right now...

if you've never seen Mitchum in Dead Man (a Jim Jarmusch flick), it's def worth a watch.

[harlond]

I watched Mitchum's 1975 version of Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely. That was very good. I also watched Mitchum's 1978 version of Chandler's The Big Sleep. Despite an amazing cast--Mitchum, Jimmy Stewart, Oliver Reed, Sarah Miles, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, Richard Boone--that was pretty bad. The butler was good.

[martl]

that should fill up some time...dude was in a few.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mitchum_filmography

He wasn't exactly picky about the roles he took, because of his early life as a hobo in the depression and worker in a factory he considered himself to be one lucky sob to be paid that kind of money for what he considered a very easy job; yet he dominates even the very bad movies he's in with his presence. He took his "acting job" seriously but never himself.

Out of the past is definitely my favorite so far..

[choke]

Anything with Cary Grant.

[tv_vt]

Some mention of Ray Chandler movies. If you haven't read the books, skip the movies and read em. So good. :cool:

[martl]

Some mention of Ray Chandler movies. If you haven't read the books, skip the movies and read em. So good. :cool:

I like Chandler, i like Hammett better. Also there is Jonathan Latimer who is an unsung hero of the hardboiled trade and irresistibly funny. Also, there is Ross Macdonald, a bit deeper, more skilled as a writer with a hint of psychology. On another page, Eric Ambler (Topkapi), who isn't hardboiled, but every one of his earlier books reads like a script proposal for a Hitchcock movie.

[Buzz]

Another WW 2 film I have never heard of but was quite good: Ice Cold in Alex. A 1958 British Northern Africa film starring Anthony Quayle and John Mills who both give really solid performances. Supposedly based on a true story. The story of 4 people overcoming great odds to out run the Germans to safety. Directed by J. Lee Thompson who directed Guns of Navarone 3 years later.

Have to get it on Amazon.

[Frankwurst]

Midnight Run:beer: