i'm looking to expand my movie horizons and have been wanting to watch some old black and white movies of any genre really. Any suggestion on any REAL must sees? Aside from An Affair to Remember, Casablanca, and Gone With the Wind (which i already adore and own) :) any suggestions would be appreciated... even some classic hitchcock if possible.
2006-12-18 08:01:10 · 27 answers · asked by nena 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
For me it would have to be the old romantic classics...
I know it sounds sad but Gone with the Wind is one of my all time favorite movies...if you are not looking for something that old then Breakfast at Tiffany's is another great film!!!
2006-12-18 09:11:03 · answer #1 · answered by *~Jezika~* 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any Hitchcock will do. Those are fantastic. You could also try The Preacher's Wife with Carey Grant - any Carey Grant movie is awesome. Angel and the Badman with John Wayne and Jane Russell is a nice bit of cheesy fun - plus you get to see how handsome he was when he was younger. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is a fantastic love story, Sabrina with Bogart and Holden, All About Eve, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Stella Dallas, Father of the Bride, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, It Happened One Night, Duck Soup, A Day at the Races, Harvey, The Pride of the Yankees, Life with Father, and of course Citizen Kane to name a few. Breakfast at Tiffany's is a classic although I not overly fond of it, and for pure fun - Ed Wood Style- you need to see Plan 9 from Outer Space. CLASSIC B at it's best! LOL.
2006-12-18 08:17:50 · answer #2 · answered by Gwuen 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Citizen Kane
Charlie Chaplin films including The Great Dictator, City Lights, Modern Times, The Gold Rush are some of the funniest movies ever made
Dr. Strangelove is a great comedy
My fav Hitchcock film is Notorious starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman its a romantic thriller
Some foreign flicks you should check out -
Seven Samurai,
Rashomon,
Seventh Seal,
The Rules of the Game
I could go on and on...Check out anything Cary Grant starred in.
2006-12-18 08:14:09 · answer #3 · answered by Patrick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Night of the Hunter with Robert Mitchum
Vertigo and Strangers on a Train by Alfred Hitchcock
Sweet Smell of Success with Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster
The Grapes of Wrath with Henry Fonda
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington with Jimmy Stewart
The Letter with Bette Davis
Written on the Wind with Robert Stack and Rock Hudson
Rebel without a Cause with James Dean and Natalie Wood
I love all these movies.
2006-12-18 09:38:42 · answer #4 · answered by carol j 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
White Heat with Cagney, or for that matter any Cagney gangster flick. Few crime movies, if any, have a mother play such a pivotal role. It was one of the first, along with The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre where psychological deviance played a major role(an over the top role) in a movie. Of course if you just want to get a good grade you can probably just pick up on hints that your teacher will drop and brown nose. Otherwise, Singing in the Rain, still an amazing musical. 2001, more than a Science-Fiction movie. Fantasia, pushing the limits of animation. Beyond a cartoon. Alien, Feminism meets the futuristic industrial age. Battleground, WW2 GI humor realistically portrayed.
2016-05-23 05:00:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harvey with Jimmy Stewart is really cute- anything with Jimmy Stewart I'd have to recommend. He was in the original "Flight of the Phoenix" that was recently remade. Hitchcock movies: The Birds, Vertigo (J.S. again...) My favorite of Alfred Hitchcock's movies is "Rebecca" about a sweet young girl and her man, played by Laurence Olivier. Good suspense!
A really cute Audrey Hepburn movie is called "How to Steal a Million", which if you like art, is that much cooler. It's not about robbing a bank! Gregory Peck starred with her in "Roman Holiday" and that is a great movie too. It's a start anyway!
2006-12-18 08:54:57 · answer #6 · answered by AMEWzing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Westerns -
Gary Cooper in High Noon(1954)
John Wayne in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance(1962)
Drama/Suspense
Orson Welles in Citizen Kane(1941)
Jame Stewart in Rear Window(1954)
SciFi
Michael Rennie in The Day the Earth Stood Still(1951)
Anne Francis in Forbidden Planet(1954)
Romance
Joan Fontaine in Rebecca(1940)
Audrey Hepburn/Humphrey Bogart in Sabrina(1954)
Comedy
Claudette Colbert/Cary Grant in It Happened One Night(1934)
Katharine Hepburn/Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby(1938)
2006-12-18 09:41:22 · answer #7 · answered by Daystar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Citizen Kane (written, directed, and starring Orsen Welles) is widely considered the greatest film ever made.
As for Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds, North by Northwest, and Vertigo are a few excellent ones. Also if you like experimental filmmaking Hitchcock did a film called "Rope" which is all extended long takes without any cutting. Enjoy
2006-12-18 08:06:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say some of the early Bette Davis movies such as Dark Victory(tissue alert) All about Eve. Alfred Hitchcock I would say Strangers on a Train.
2006-12-18 08:05:48 · answer #9 · answered by richbd1016 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Laura
The Canterville Ghost
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
this movie has a mysterious box, when opened emits a bright white glow...sound familiar...this inspired the box in Pulp Fiction...it's very film noir, and Mike Hammer is very tough...but the ending is quite something...
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0048261/
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Court Jester
Giant
Raintree County
The Quiet Man
Bullitt
The Russians are Comming
2006-12-18 08:07:33 · answer #10 · answered by sportin_jenny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋