What are your favorite "vintage" movies?

[kris97]

Does anyone here like to watch old movies? I feel very uneducated when it comes to classic film, so I try to mix older movies in our netflix queue. I've really enjoyed watching them -- particularly ones from the 40s and 50s, which is an era that fascinates me. (Such great clothes and design!)

So, what older movies do you like? I know that picking a year to define "older" is arbitrary, so I'll say pre-1980. :)

My favorites, so far:

It's a Wonderful Life
Streetcar Named Desire (Marlon Brando is the only actor pre-1970 that I find hot. Not handsome, but hot)
All About Eve
Vertigo

[solongtogo]

Grease of course!

[bookworm]

The Philadelphia Story
Roman Holiday
Bringing Up Baby
Every Girl Should be Married (revolting title, funny movie)
The Way We Were
(and, of course, Casablanca)

[sublime311]

Barefoot in the Park (1967) with Jane Fonda and Robert Redford is one of my ALL-TIME favorite movies! No matter how often I see it, I still have big belly laughs over it. LOVE IT!

Dog Day Afternoon (1975) with Al Pacino as a gay bad-a$$ bank robber. It's hot, sweaty and amazing work.

[ejs]

Pretty much anything with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy (Pat and Mike; Adam's Rib; Desk Set; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)

Mr Smith Goes to Washington

Twelve Angry Men

Gone with the Wind

The Sound of Music

The Graduate

Brian's Song

I'm sure I'll be back to list more.

[nektarine]

*Barefoot in the Park
*The Way We Were
*Love Story (sooooo cheesy, but still love it)
*Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
*Funny Girl


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ps:

i am a HUGE Robert Redford & Barbra fan!

[amew]

Pretty much anything with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy (Pat and Mike; Adam's Rib; Desk Set; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)

Agreed! Adam's Rib and Desk Set are two of my all-time favorites.

Others:

Brining Up Baby
Roman Holiday
White Christmas
Sabrina
Casablanca
The Thin Man
High Society (which was a remake of the even more vintage Philadelphia Story)
Annie Hall (less vintage than the others, but still pre-1980 and one of my faves)

[daydreamer]

It's a wonderful life
Jane Eyre
The big country
Giant

[thechick79]

The Sound of Music - I can still watch this movie over and over and over again!
Gone with the Wind
North by Northwest
My Fair Lady
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Lawrence of Arabia
Citizen Kane
Casablanca

[msnicolea]

To Kill a Mockingbird
Philadelphia Story
Pride and Prejudice (the original, Laurence Olivier version--YUMMY!)
Wuthering Heights
The Way We Were--still kills me every time
Hud--really, anything with Paul Newman is a-ok with me!

[gayle]

Saturday Night Fever ( I was a Disco Maniac, and Travolta's dancing is great in that)

Almost anything by Alfred Hitchcock

Hud with Paul Newman

The Day the Earth Stood still

Forbidden Planet

Reefer Madness, cause it totally makes me laugh

Many more I can't remember.

[tbell]

12 Angry Men (one of the greatest plots of all time, IMO)
Gone with the Wind (love, love this movie)
Chinatown
The Graduate
Most anything by Hitchcock (except I fell asleep during North by Northwest)
Meet Me in St. Louis
Cabaret
Scarface
Godfathers 1 & 2
The Grapes of Wrath
Mildred Pierce
Whatever happened to Baby Jane?
Midnight Cowboy
The Long, Long Trailer (Lucille Ball's character has my name--Tacy!)

[cocoa_femme]

I love "vintage" movies! Some of my favorites include:

Gone with the Wind (my all time fav)
Dr. Zhivago
Daddy Long Legs
The Women
How to Marry a Millionaire
Father of the Bride (the original)
The Best of Everything
A Farwell to Arms

[sdianems]

Some of my favorites:

Rear Window with Jimmy Stewart and the always elegant Grace Kelly
To Catch A Thief again with Grace Kelly and Cary Grant
North By Northwest again with Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint
The Trouble With Angels with Haley Mills
The World of Henry Orient with Peter Sellers (wonderful girl movie)!
The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant and David Niven
A Star Is Born with Judy Garland

[bklynhamptonian]

Three of my all time favorites are:

1. Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) - Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda
2. Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
3. Miracle on 34th Street

[ivansbabe]

I used to love when AMC actually had American Movie Classics, unlike now where I've seen Jaws 3 :rolleyes:

A few favorites of mine are:

The Enchanted Cottage (1945): Such a sweet love story
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Finishing School (1934) really liked when I was younger
the original King Kong (1933)
Shall We Dance (1937) Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
The Sheik (1921) Rudolph Valentino of course

I tend to like pre 1950 movies.

[lawyerlee]

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Sabrina

To Catch A Thief

Dial M For Murder

Pillow Talk

National Velvet

From Here to Eternity

Some Like It Hot

The Taming of the Shrew

Barefoot in the Park

Romeo and Juliet

[kanga1622]

If A Man Answers (my all time favorite movie. Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee are terrific.)
That Funny Feeling
Yours, Mine, & Ours (original)
Cheaper by the Dozen (original)
Send Me No Flowers
Pillow Talk
Lover Come Back

[oldsalt]

Gaslight
Dial M for Murder
Rear Window
Arsenic and Old Lace

And agreed on the AMC issue. Not only is Jaws 3 not a classic, it never will be. Stop showing it.

And hokey old scifi. Soylent Green is people!