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    Classic old movies suggestions please

    I have always been a big movie fan but am getting disappointed at many of the new movies these days,crap acting,all special effects etc

    Need some suggestions of great movies from the past,I can look up on imdb but I'd rather hear members recommendations

    Just downloading "man for all seasons" as it won lots of awards,any more ideas?


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    How about any of the Norman Wisdom films all classics imo, and how about the old Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin films, they always made me laugh as a kid. Thats if you like a lighter type of film
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    Ben Hur.

    Still makes me teary now.

    Norman Wisdom for a good laugh...especially for old gits like me, brought up in a black and white world.

    Kelly's Heroes.

    National Lampoon series.

    Airport and Naked Gun series.


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    for me it has to be once apon a time in america :xxgrinning--00xx3
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    the godfather trilogy


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    Mr. Grimsdale!

    I'm thinking of older classics not comedy so much

    Eg rear window,it's a wondeful life,any really good film I might of missed.


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    How about "Goodbye, Mr Chips" ... the original version ... starring Robert Donat?


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    ... the old St. Trinian's movie with George cole.


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    Quote Originally Posted by burdock View Post
    ... the old St. Trinian's movie with George cole.
    Yes ... but, lest we forget ... it was Alastair Sim as the headmaster in 'The Belles of St Trinian's' - and subsequent movies in the series - who was the real star ... and this late, lamented Scots' actor is accredited with being George Cole's mentor.


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    Quote Originally Posted by burdock View Post
    ... the old St. Trinian's movie with George cole.
    yes, i was thinking of those too
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    Yes ... but, lest we forget ... it was Alastair Sim as the headmaster in 'The Belles of St Trinian's' - and subsequent movies in the series - who was the real star ... and this late, lamented Scots' actor is accredited with being George Cole's mentor.
    Arthur - Just for the sake of good order and knowing you would not wish to offend any politically correct, cross dressing handwringers lurking on this thread Alistair Sim played the Headmistress


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    Not old enough to be a classic (from 80's I think) but this one with Timothy Spall & Colin Firth used to make me laugh - Dutch Girls

    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6t...rls_shortfilms


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    To kill a mockingbird
    Seven Samurai
    True grit (not as old but a classic).



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    i just bought the Norman Wisdom box set from asda £20
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    Grapes of Wrath, To kill a mocking bird.......not so old Capricorn One


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    All the old Sir John Mills movies, I favorite of mine is 'I was Monty's double'

    List of his fillms here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590055/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dedworth View Post
    Arthur - Alistair Sim played the Headmistress
    ... you're absolutely right ... it was the headmistress he played! ...


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    Quote Originally Posted by Dedworth View Post
    Just for the sake of good order and knowing you would not wish to offend any politically correct, cross dressing handwringers lurking on this thread ...
    ... well-spotted! The "transvestites" [ whoever they might be] can rest easy.


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    On a WWII note

    The Dambusters
    Reach for The Sky
    The Man Who Never Was
    The Longest Day

    a bit newer
    Battle of The Bulge
    The Battle of Britain
    Patton
    A Bridge Too Far

    finally no doubt I'll find it on at sometime over Christmas - The Great Escape


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    My friend appeared in Platoon, Apocalypse Now, and Return to the River Kwai, all filmed in the Phils, plus a few others made there in the 80s and 90s.

    Come to think of it, I enjoyed those movies too.

    Oh, please add the Terminator movies to my list.


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    Plenty in there
    After footie I will try A man for all seasons That reads wrong


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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    ... well-spotted! The "transvestites" [ whoever they might be] can rest easy.
    Indeed ... there's no reason now, for " such dressers" to get cross!


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    Quote Originally Posted by laurel View Post
    To kill a mocking bird.......
    Gregory Peck starred in that film, didn't he? Quite a coincidence when you think of the association between the main character's real life [adopted] surname and the movie's title!


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    A good thread plenty of titles to fill up my LoveFilm wanted list with


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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    ... starring Robert Donat?
    Donat also starred in the original film version of Scottish author, John Buchan's thrilling espionage tale, 'The Thirty Nine Steps'. The storylines in each of the other two movies ... in which Kenneth More - and later, Robert Powell - played the hero, Richard Hannay ... bore little resemblance to Buchan's book - as did the first. Personally, of the three, I best enjoyed the middle one ... in which a stuntman takes over from More in the scene where Hannay is portrayed leaping from a steam train and hanging onto the brownish-red girders of the Forth Rail Bridge to escape his pursuers. "Rivetting" stuff!!!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    Donat also starred in the original film version of Scottish author, John Buchan's thrilling espionage tale, 'The Thirty Nine Steps'. The storylines in each of the other two movies ... in which Kenneth More - and later, Robert Powell - played the hero, Richard Hannay ... bore little resemblance to Buchan's book - as did the first. Personally, of the three, I best enjoyed the middle one ... in which a stuntman takes over from More in the scene where Hannay is portrayed leaping from a steam train and hanging onto the brownish-red girders of the Forth Rail Bridge to escape his pursuers. "Rivetting" stuff!!!
    Or...'watching paint dry' ?


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    back in its day it was
    i have learnt to do what my wife says!


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    Quote Originally Posted by stevie c View Post
    for me it has to be once apon a time in america
    Got to agree with you here stevie, nearly put this in the favourite movies thread the other day...it's in my top 10. Very violent at times & also comes with a great Ennio Morreconi score throughout.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Sim11UK View Post
    Got to agree with you here stevie, nearly put this in the favourite movies thread the other day...it's in my top 10. Very violent at times & also comes with a great Ennio Morreconi score throughout.
    being a fan of sergio leone, the film director of the good, the bad and the ugly trilogy.

    for some reason i find the above movie his worse

    btw have you seen "once upon a time in the west"

    how old do these classic movies need to be

    i do try getting the wife to watch old movies but for some reason always tries to grab the remote and change the channel if she thinks the movie is to old.
    i have learnt to do what my wife says!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Sim11UK View Post
    Got to agree with you here stevie, nearly put this in the favourite movies thread the other day...it's in my top 10. Very violent at times & also comes with a great Ennio Morreconi score throughout.
    I read this and thought of the music from Midnight Express but was confusing Morreconi with Giorgio Moroder. Anyway I used to like that film where naive drug smuggler Billy Hayes gets a dose of the baseball bat on his feet from the brutal Turkish Prison Guard who rightly or wrongly iirc gets a coat hook through the back of his head later.


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    Cant see past Godfather I, and more recent Shawshank Redemption. There are not many movies id watch more than once, but those 2 i could watch many times


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