OT: Old movies during The crisis....

[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]

Originally Posted by parris

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]

Originally Posted by 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

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/

[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]

Originally Posted by Elefantino

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/?e...moviesondemand