older movies?

Question

I see all these people talking about how their favorite movies are really recent movie. And don't get me wrong there have been some good movies lately, but old hollywood movies, at least in my opinion, are so much better. I mean now it's all about special effects and toping the other guy's movie; it's not about great lines, good actors, wonderful directors, and an all around well made movie.

So I was wondering if any of you watch older movies, and if so, what's your favorite? Who are your favorite actors and actresses to watch? Any good suggestions for me?

My favorite is Casablanca. I mean it's Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.

Answer 1

Favorites:

Nosferatu (1919)
Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton)
Sunrise
City Lights
Les Vampires Series (1915)
Vampyr (1931)
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Man with a Movie Camera
Singin in the Rain
Bringing Up Baby
Double Indemnity
March of the Wooden Soldiers
ALL Marx Brothers films!

I won't go into the 50s or 60s, that's too comtemporary for me.

Favorite Actors/Actresses: Cary Grant, Veronica Lake, Rita Hayworth, Jimmy Stewart, Buster Keaton, Grace Kelly (mmmmhh, Grace Kelly)

Answer 2

I definately love old movies.
My favorite actors and actresses are:
Elizabeth Taylor
Audrey Hepburn
Paul Newman
Doris Day
Julie Andrews

Some of my favorite movies are:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof(1958-Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman)
Breakfast at Tiffany's(1961-Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard)
Thoroughly Modern Millie(1967-Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore)
The Sound of Music(1965-Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer)
Roman Holiday(1953-Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn)
Sabrina(1954-Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden)
Yours, Mine and Ours(1968-Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda)
Lover Come Back(1961-Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall)
The Great Race(1965-Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis,Natalie Wood)
The Wizard Of Oz(1939-Judy Garland)
My Fair Lady(1964-Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison)
My Geisha(1950-Shirley Maclaine)

Answer 3

You are exactly right. Many movies now lean heavily on special effects to bring in money rather than quality acting.

Some of my favorite older moves are "The Ten Commandments", "Cleopatra", "The Day The Earth Stood Still", "Some Like It Hot", and any John Wayne movie.

I think Elizabeth Taylor is one of the last great movie actresses. She truly deserves the title "Star."

I like John Wayne. There was something about him that really said, "American Hero."

I think "The Marx Brothers", and "The Three Stooges", were great too although I didn't appreciate them as much when I was younger as I do now. It is difficult doing comedy and slapstick and they were the best.

Answer 4

(1952) singing contained in the Rain starring: Gene Kelly it quite is awesomely solid in this action picture. Storyline In 1927, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are a fave on-exhibit romantic pair. Lina, despite the indisputable fact that, blunders the on-exhibit romance for genuine love. Don has worked not uncomplicated to get the position he's in the present day, at the same time with his former major different Cosmo. at the same time as Don and Lina's contemporary movie is switched over right into a musical, Don has the perfect voice for the songs. yet Lina - properly, inspite of the perfect efforts of a diction coach, they nevertheless come to a decision to dub over her voice. Kathy Selden is proficient in, an aspiring actress, and at the same time as she is operating on the action picture, Don falls in love which include her. Will Kathy proceed to "aspire", or will she get the smash she benefits ?

Answer 5

...not sure how you feel about comedies, but one of my personal favorite classic films is the 1965 road comedy, entitled "The Great Race", directed by Blake Edwards, who would later gain his highest peak of fame, by directing the "Pink Panther" films.

...in "The Great Race", you have Tony Curtis as The Great Leslie, our dashing, daring, well-to-do hero; skilled at exibitionaist stunts, and able to operate any type of machinery, he is the consumate jack-of-all-trades, and the adoring alure of any and all ladies....

Leslie's main adversary is "Professor Fate, as played by Jack Lemmon; evil, mean and dastardly and similarly consumate, but more in a hysterically bumbling manner. His goal in life is to upsurp The Great Leslie, but trying (usually unsuccessfully) to perform exibitions better...

Pitted against each other, in a hilarious 1920's auto race, from New York to Paris, comedy, adventure, intrigue and romance abounds...and there's never a dull moment!!!

...of course, we gotta have a love interest; enter Natalie Wood as Maggie Dubois, an emancipated woman in the 1920's, who is dead determined to prove that she can do anything a man can do....but can she resist succumbing to the irresistable charm of The Great Leslie, and still work her wiles as one of the original feminists???

I very much relish this film, because it has virtually everything a devoted movie fan could want....action, slapstick comedy, romance, intrigue, suspense, irony, witty dialogue, and some of the most outrageous characters and supporting players one could shack a stick at, including Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Larry Storch, Vivian Vance, Dorothy Provine, Ross Martin, Arthur O'Connell and Denver Pyle.

The film, at two-and-a-half hours plus, is a veritable and whisical adventure, and one of the most riotous classic comedies ever; imagine a gripping, old-fashioned live-action vaudevillan production, crossed with a Bugs Bunny cartoon!!!

I have viewed this film dozens of time, and it never gets tiring!!!

Most Highly Recommended!!!

Answer 6

My top flick is Dial M For Murder. So well acted and add to the fact that 90 percent of that movie takes place in one room and it's still interesting. Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, great!!

Answer 7

My favorits is not so old... released in 1995... its "Heat" and it keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish and you actually root for the bad guy, Robert Deniro.

Answer 8

My favorite is "that thing you do!"
-it came out in 1996.
-written,directed, and co-stared by Tom Hanks.
-staring:
- Liv Tyler
-Tom Everett
- Johnathon Schaech
Its awesome!
go to www.foxhome.com, its somewhere on that website,
and it isn't that hard to find.

Answer 9

well i fall in that catagory:-)) my favorite 2 movies are
GONE WITH THE WIND with CLARK GABLE & VIVEN LEIGH, GREASE with JOHN TRAVOLTA & OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN , & SOUND OF MUSIC . AND MY # IS
AFRICAN QUEEN WITH HUMPHEY BOGART & KATHERINE HEPBURN:-))