Discussion Forums - Vintage Films

OK folks. Let's hear your top 20 Classic movies. Feel free to come back and update your list if you need to. It will help us see what other members like and maybe even give us ideas of what to check out next! Here we go:

The African Queen

Aguirre - The Wrath of God

Casablanca

Doctor Zhivago

Gaslight (both versions)

The General

It Happened One Night

Lawrence of Arabia

Notorious

Out of the Past

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Psycho

Roman Holiday

Strangers on a Train

The Third Man

To Kill a Mockingbird

Wages of Fear

Wild Strawberries

The Woman in the Window

Well, Darwin, that is tough. I love so many of them. So I will just put down the first ten that come to mind:

STRAWBERRY BLONDE

THE QUIET MAN

AFRICAN QUEEN

MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

BEN-HUR

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT

GONE WITH THE WIND

MR DEEDS GOES TO TOWN

YANKEE DOODLE DANDY

ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD (1951 version)

Agreed Diane. Some excellent choices you mentioned. I really enjoyed The Quiet Man and Ben-Hur. And I should really make my list a Top 11 now and add African Queen to it - love that movie.

Anyone else care to post their list?

What a great topic.  My favorite 10 (at least for today) are as follows:

1. Gone With The Wind
2. It's A Wonderful Life
3. The Long Long Trailer
4. The Harvey Girls
5. The Sound of Music
6. That Touch of Mink
7. Rebecca
8. An Affair To Remember
9. The Thrill of It All
10. Tale of the House of Usher

1. The Thin Man
2. Psycho
3. A Night at the Opera
4. Grand Hotel
5. The Maltese Falcon
6. The African Queen
7. Bride of Frankenstein
8. Singin' in the Rain
9. Gone With the Wind
10. East of Eden

NB: This is only my top 10 classic movies, so I had to limit myself to pre-1960s Hollywood, except I had to include Psycho.  But if I was doing top 10 movies ever it'd be a lot harder to narrow it down!

Yojimbo

Sanjuro

Zatoichi films

Uh, yeah, I really only like samurai films, as far as heading into black and white older film territory goes.

How old does a film have to be to be vintage?  These are my favorites, in vague order.

1. Some Like It Hot
2. Singin' In The Rain
3. All About Eve
4. The Women
5. Auntie Mame
6. Goldfinger
7. Rear Window
8. Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton)
9. Sleeping Beauty (Disney)
10. What A Way To Go!

In no particular order:

The Women
Now voyager
Laura
The African Queen
The Thin Man
My Favorite Wife
Leave Her To Heaven
Brining Up Baby
The Awful Truth
Dark Victory

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

High noon

Harvey

The Incredible Shrinking Man

Seven Samurai

Gentleman's Agreement

To Kill a Mockingbird

Moby Dick(Gregory Peck)

Vertigo

Treasure Island

Some great movies mentioned on this thread.  I just got Marnie and Adam's Rib off of Netflix.  I also would like to add The Philadelphia Story, It Happened One Night, Black Narcissus, The Caine Mutiny and the Big Sleep to my list.

The Philadelphia Story

Bringing up Baby

Sabrina

North by Northwest

Rear Window

Singin in the Rain

Rebel without a cause

Roman Holiday

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Shirley,

Thanks for participating and welcome to the club! I hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

:-)

In no particular order. . .

The African Queen

Casablanca

The Wizard of Oz

Royal Wedding

An American in Paris

For Love of the Game

The Electric Horseman

Saturday Night Fever

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Mary Poppins

Only 10, that's hard...

1. Singin' in the Rain
2. Shadow of a Doubt
3. Rio Bravo
4. The Scarlet Pimpernel
5. Bells Are Ringing
6. The Philadelphia Story
7. High Society
8. Roman Holiday
9. To Kill a Mockingbird
10. Stagecoach

Diane,

My wife and I just watched "It Happened One Night" for the first time. Thanks for the excellent recommendation. What a great little film. Maybe the first true screwball romantic comedy? Excellent performances by Cary Grant and Claudette Colbert.  I think it could have easily won 5 Oscars that year...oh wait...it did!

P.S. - just saw Vanessa posted earlier in this thread. Thanks for the movie Vanessa. My wife and I loved it.

:-)

To all classic movie lovers:

We are just completing the "First Annual Oscar Swap" in the Game's Forum. It was great fun and a lot of excellent movies were swapped. I can't believe I didn't think to post about it in this forum until now.

:-(

Please think about joining us next year. Now that I have gotten my feet wet in my first swap game, I may think about hosting one myself in the near future for classic movies (foreign & Hollywood) if there is any interest. It's always fun to "discover" a great movie for the first time, even if that movie has already been around for 75 years.  << see post above >>

Let me know if there is any interest.

may all time favorite is rebecca....i have read the book at least 3 times, and have watched both versions of the movie at least twice.

i saw what you did . .the ghost and mrs. muir.  portrait of jennie. the bishops wife.   the trouble with angels.  a summer place.  meet me in saint louis.....house of wax.   the homecoming.... dial m for murder....y                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

1. Wuthering Heights (1939)

2. Frankenstein & Bride of Frankenstein

3. Harvey

4. It's a Wonderful Life

5. Psycho

6. Peter Pan (Disney)

7. The Wizard of Oz

8. The Bad Seed

9. The Little Princess (Shirley Temple)

10. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Well I just found out about a "local" theater that bills itself as "The Twin Cities Longest Continuously Operated Show House". It's specialty is classic and foreign movie presentations on the big screen. Restored to its original glory complete with motorized grande drape, crystal chandeliers with hand-painted bulbs, an orchestra pit that a huge Wurlitzer theater organ rises out of, a new screen with projection lamps in 70mm, 35mm, and 16mm formats, and a new sound system capable of producing multiple Dolby Digital and DTS soundtracks.

Upcoming events include Brit Noir, a 10 week series featuring 8 film noir classics from Great Britain, all presented in rare 35mm archive prints including: The Third Man, Peeping Tom, Night and the City, The Fallen Idol, Rebecca, Gaslight, and Brighton Rock.

Checking it out for the first time next Monday. Already have tickets for a showing of "Odd Man Out" from 1947.

Have a feeling I may be spending a lot of time there watching some of my favorite classic movies and discovering others for the first time on the big screen.

Woohoo!

Cool beans, indie theatres are the best.  One of my jobs gets me discount tickets to the Lincoln Center Film Society, which just did a Charlie Chaplin double feature, Modern Times & City Lights.  It was fantastic! 

And there's an indie theatre not to far from where I live that has classics once a month & cult movie night every Thursday, it's the best.

My top ten are:

1. The Music Man

2. The Happiest Millionaire

3. Notorious

4. My Fair Lady

5. Kings Row

6. On the Town

7. Cheaper By the Dozen

8. Teh Shop Around the Corner

9. Little Women

10. Leave her to Heaven

I love soo many more....maybe someone can post a forum with " Your 20 most favorite classics.."

Okay I'm going to try and go pre 60's like someone else did.And make a top 10 classic foreign movies also.

Under Construction..:-))

1-It's A Wonderful Life

2-My Man Godfrey (1936)

3-Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

4-The Wizard of Oz (1939)

5-The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

6-Destry Rides Again (1939)

7-Sunset Blvd. (1950)

8-

9-

10-

foreign

1-M (1931)

2-Ballada o soldate (1959)

3-Les quatre cents coups (1959)

4-Ningen no jôken (1959/I)

5-Ladri di biciclette (1948)

6-

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8-

9-

10-

OK...what was I thinking? Let's make it Top 20. Even that wont do them justice, but we'll see a lot more great classics listed.

Update your lists when you can people. (Oh yeah me too).