Recommendations for really old movies?

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Firechick
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12 Apr 2009, 5:12 pm

How about movies like...

Ringing Bell
The Sea Prince and the Fire Child
Unico

They're anime movies from the late 70's or early 80's, but they're VERY good! You can find them on YouTube, but only in English.

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21 Apr 2009, 10:48 pm

I would recommend anything with Laurence Olivier, but "Rebecca", "Wuthering Heights", and "That Hamilton Woman" in particular. Basically all old-fashioned romances with sweeping violin scores and passionate 3-second kisses :wink:

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22 Apr 2009, 7:45 am

Sailor Beware (1956)
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22 Apr 2009, 12:22 pm

I saw East of Eden with James Dean a couple of months ago and I can recommend this movie to anyone.

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23 Apr 2009, 2:54 pm

Some of my favourites:

Number Seventeen (1932)
Sabotage (1936)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
Spellbound (1945)
Quo Vadis? (1951)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Them! (1954)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Mon oncle (1958)
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

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24 Apr 2009, 1:03 pm

Definitely recommend Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman. Others I'd recommend (like Gone with the Wind, 1939) have already been suggested.
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27 Apr 2009, 3:49 am

I'd recommend any James Dean film: East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause or Giant.
The original Sabrina, with Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and William Holden, is much better than the remake.
Other good Bogie films include The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca.

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27 Apr 2009, 10:49 am

The Phantom Carriage (1920 silent horror, from Sweden)

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27 Apr 2009, 1:45 pm

Rope {1948}

Rear Window {1954}

Vertigo {1958}

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28 Apr 2009, 11:32 pm

I dunno if anyone's recommended it yet, but I certainly would recommend 'All Quiet On The Western Front'.

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29 Apr 2009, 12:37 pm

ouinon, I'm looking at some of your recommendations today and I'm creating temporary YouTube playlists for them also.

You can check them out here if you're interested. Not all of them are up yet, but some.

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02 May 2009, 2:12 pm

khelben1979 wrote:

You can check them out here if you're interested.

Which one is your favourite so far?

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03 May 2009, 12:39 pm

Great expectations - best film ever!
Great book too though.

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10 May 2009, 12:38 pm

A good "old" movie is "Hello Dolly!" And I think its from 1967

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11 May 2009, 6:54 pm

ouinon wrote:

khelben1979 wrote:

You can check them out here if you're interested.

Which one is your favourite so far?

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Ah! Finally you wrote something.

Arsenic and old lace.

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15 May 2009, 10:45 pm

Not mentioned yet (yea, it's a few years after your 1960 cutoff) - and set in one of the times and places in World history that I am most glad that I was not around for (The Bolshevik Revolution) - Doctor Zhivago (1965).

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