OT: Old movies during The crisis....

[sg8357]

Originally Posted by Elefantino

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]

Originally Posted by Tickdoc

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]

Originally Posted by 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

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]

Originally Posted by GregL

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]

Originally Posted by Sojodave

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, 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]

Originally Posted by fiamme red

…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]

Originally Posted by 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 .

That was Kirk Douglas's first film. He played a weakling there, very different from his usual screen persona.

[Ozz]

Originally Posted by Tickdoc

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.