Conference bookie::movies

    Movies that I will watch no matter how many times they are on
    tv:
    
    Father Goose (Cary Grant, Leslie Caron)
    An Affair to Remember (Cary Grant)
    King Solomon's Mine (Stewart Granger)
    Lily (Leslie Caron)
    & pretty much most musicals
    

        2 of my ALL time fave's don't know if u would call
    them "classics" but they are a bit older...

    Rock a bye Baby ---- Jerry Lewis

    Yours Mine and Ours ---- Henry Fonda & Lucy Ball

    Love these 2 !!!!!!!!!!

    ...Ok, this sounds like a good note...here's a few of mac' favs:
    
    *War of the Worlds" (director, George Pal)...just love this one, never
    gets old on you...love the direction-style of Pal, lots of
    extras mulling around, i.e. when the first "asteroid" lands and is
    discovered by the locals.....
    
    
    
    *"Of Mice and Men" (stars Burgess Meridith & Lon Chaney, Jr.)....
    makes me cry every time I see those last few minutes....one of the
    Great Films of all Time, of course IMHO....
    
    
    
    *"Requiem for a Heavyweight" (Director/Writer Rod Serling)...another
    classic, stars Anthony Quinn in the role of his career as a down & out
    prizefighter that never loses his will to carry on, despite it all....
    also stars Mickey Rooney & Jackie Gleason as his trainer & manager,
    respectfully....a classic fer sure!   
    
    
    C-ya!
    
    mac

This is a pretty wide topic and it depends on how you define "classic". Do you
do it by era, quality, popularity, or some combination? The majority of what I
would consider classic films date from the golden era of the '30's and '40's
with some extension into the '50's. Of course there have been films after that
and there are still films being produced that deserve consideration as classics.
But due to several factors (the studio system, stars, directors, society in
general) most of the films that deserve to be called classics came from that
era.

Here is a very small sampling of what I'd consider classics off the top of my
head:

Wuthering Heights ('39)
The Best Years of Our Lives
Gone With the Wind
Vertigo
Rear Window
Rebecca
Almost any other film directed by Hitchcock
Seven Samurai
Roshomon
Hidden Fortress
Almost any other film directed by Kurosawa
The Searchers
Stagecoach
How Green Was My Valley
Almost any other film directed by Ford
Cat People
I Walked With a Zombie
Singin' in the Rain
Swing Time
Top Hat
And all the other Astaire/Rogers films
Show Boat (the Universal and MGM versions)
The Pirate
The Band Wagon
Easter Parade
Shane
High Noon
Silverado
Red River
Rio Bravo
Out of the Past
The Maltese Falcon
Double Indemnity
Casablanca
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Inherit the Wind
Fury
It's a Wonderful Life
Only Angels Have Wings

I'm getting tired of typing, there are thousands that easily qualify.


Randy

    
     anything with james cagney, errol flynn, maureen o'harra and
    olivia dehaveland(hope i spelled that right)
    
    actually, anything black & white with a good plot, storyline........
    
    
         bill

African Queen
Double Indemnity
South Pacific
The Mummy's Curse
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Cruel Sea
Sunset Boulevard
Lawrence of Arabia
Sparticus
The Ten Commandments

re. -.4

*Almost any other film directed by Hitchcock

I rented a Hitchcock film by accident the other
day and didn't care for it. It was called
"Rope" with Jimmy Stewart. The whole movie seemed
so talky and preachy and not too suspenseful. It played
like an off-Broadway play. Sort of reminded me of "Sleuth,"
though that was a much better movie.


I don't know. I don't think his
movies age well. I used to really like "The Birds" but its
lost its appeal for me. The acting is really wooden most of the
time, especially Tippi Hedren.

I couldn't figure out
where Hitch made his cameo in Rope. I don't think he did?!
Maybe someone has seen this movie and knows about it.

   re: .-1

   Don't know about Hitch's cameo in "Rope", but one of the "things" about
   this movie is that it was filmed in one continuous take, with no splicing
   after the fact.  Even the film reel changes occur when people leave rooms,
   etc, at "fade to black" times.  It was a real technical achievement at
   the time, and is still admired by film technology buffs.

   -- Sam

re: .-1

I didn't realize it was filmed this
way. Interesting. But this doesn't change
my opinion about the story.

--Justin

Amazing what one can find on the web using Alta Vista:


It is well known that Hitchcock had cameo appearances in many of his
films but how many of them are there? Where are they? Which films
are they in? and what purpose (if any) do they serve? All these questions
and more will (hopefully) be answered by the time this page is complete.
For the moment, however, you will simply have to put up with this: 

(PS. They are in no particular order at the moment as I haven't had the
time to order them chronologically.) 

Rope 
     Crossing the road at the end of the opening credits. 

North by Northwest 
     Attempting to get on a bus 

Psycho 
     Seen through the window of Marions office as she enters it for the
     first time... 

To Catch a Thief 
     Sitting on the bus next to Cary Grant as he escapes the police near
     the start of the film. 

The Birds 
     Walking out of the pet shop with two dogs as 'Tippi' Hedren
     enters at the start of the film. 

The Lady Vanishes 
     In the crowd as the hero and heroine arrive back in London near
     the end of the film. 

Marnie 
     Coming out of a hotel room door as `Tippi' Hedren walks down
     the corridoor at the start of the film. 

Strangers on a train 
     Getting off the train carrying a double bass at the start of the film.

Lifeboat 
     A "before and after" picture in a newspaper advert for slimming
     pills being read by one of the cast. 

The Wrong Man 
     The voice-over during the opening credits. 

Vertigo 
     Walking right to left in front of Gavin Elster's shipyard. (Click
     here to link to the page.) 

Rear Window 
     Tuning the song writer's piano (or is he winding the clock? I
     forget...) 

Dial M for Murder 
     On the left hand side of the reunion photo. 

Notorious 
     (Still Checking...) 

Spellbound 
     Coming out of the elevator of the Empire Hotel carrying a violin. 

Shadow of a Doubt 
     On the train to Santa Rosa, playing cards and doing rather well! 

Suspicion 
     Mailing a letter at the village post office. 

Foreign Correspondent 
     Early on walking past Jonny Jones' hotel reading a newspaper. 

Sabotage 

The Thirty Nine Steps 
     Tossing some litter as Richard and Anabella run from the music
     hall. 

   Re: .9

   Oh, I didn't mean to imply that that made it a good movie, just pointing
   out a detail.  As a flick, it's a dud.  :-)

   Re: .10  Hi Steve.  Nice to see you're still around, too!

   -- Sam

His cameos in his later movies tended to happen early in
the films.  Alfred found that people were looking for his
cameo instead of paying attention to the movie, so he
decided to get the cameo out of the way quickly.

    
        The incredible Mr. Limpet

    I love that song...."Be careful what u wish for wishes can come
                         true..Make sure that the wish that you wish
                         is one whats right for u......"

    I love The Incredible Mr. Limpet!
    
    Also, A New Leaf, starring Elaine May and Walter Matthau.
    
    
    E

    mr. limpet, excellent movie. don knott's is the ball's.
    
    the ghost and mr. chicken.........
    
    bill

    The Ghost and Mr Chicken........
    
    I can hear that organ now.........
    
    

Blockbuster in my area just put "The Ghost an Mr. Chicken" on the
shelves this week.  It's been rented already.  Can't wait
to see it again.

    
    
    I loved that movie too!
    
    I remember Heckling Harry Connick jr at a concert. I sat 4 rows from
    the stage right in front of him and used the old
    
    "Atta Boy Harry!" line on him and he repeated it to the audience!! :))
    
    Chris
    :)

    Got reminded of this one tonight.....
    
    "Hobson's Choice".
    
    E

Saw this one the other night.

Stars Olivia DeHaviland as a woman
who suffers a nervous breakdown and 
gets committed to a mental institution.

Filmed in the late 1940s, the film
was fairly graphic for its time with
depictions of electro-shock therapy
and use of drugs to jar patients' memories.

Some of the scenes of the violent mental
wards are still fairly riveting.

All in all worth renting.

/JK