Old Movies

I think "old movies" depends of what film era they were made. The audience has changed from 1910s to today, and movies reflect the movies they wanted to see. In the late 40s, 50s, there were lots of psychological movies like the James Dean movies. Then in the 60s & 70s, movies had to have a hit song during the flick. In the 30s, it was the golden age.
(BTW, my personal feeling about today's movies are they are made for the only people , who really go the theater anymore - teenage boys and "action' films, and 20+ year old women with romance flicks.)
 
BowserB4600 said:
From my childhood, the Bowery Boys movies. As to movies on TV, for us they were all black & white. From a little later and still now, classic science fiction: The Thing, Day the Earth Stood Still, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Them. Monolith Monsters, This Island Earth, and many more. BTW, Amazon Prime has a lot of old scifi and monster movies for addicts of that genre. Once you find one of them, the Amazon app shows you "Viewers also watched..."
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The Day the earth stood still.... (y) (y) :)

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fuzzybuddy said:
I think "old movies" depends of what film era they were made. The audience has changed from 1910s to today, and movies reflect the movies they wanted to see. In the late 40s, 50s, there were lots of psychological movies like the James Dean movies. Then in the 60s & 70s, movies had to have a hit song during the flick. In the 30s, it was the golden age
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Lot of prison movies in the late thirties, until early fifties.
Our neighbor theater stopped showing 'oaters' for the kiddies, showed us prison films(n)
 
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jerry old said:
Lot of prison movies in the late thirties, until early fifties.
Our neighbor theater stopped showing 'oaters' for the kiddies, showed us prison films(n)
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One of our favorite prison movies, "I am a Fugitive from a Chaingang" from the early 30's was a true story and the actual fugitive himself consulted with the movie makers in secret meetings while making the movie. Stars Paul Muni.
 
mellowyellow said:
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Kim Novak in 2015. She recalled waking up dazed and naked after a party in 1958
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Kim Novak has accused the actor Tony Curtis of spiking her drink at a Hollywood party, saying that she woke up dazed and naked.

The star of Vertigo recalled having one drink at a party in 1958 hosted by Curtis, who died in 2010 aged 85.

Novak, 89, told The Hollywood Reporter: “Tony Curtis had brought me a drink. I don’t know, I only had, I think, one drink there. But that’s the last thing I knew. I do not know anything afterward, cross my heart, hope to die. Don’t know what happened after that or how my car got back in front of my apartment.”

I had no idea she was still alive, and she looks wonderful if this picture is true. Remember the sexy dance with William Holden in Picnic? OMG
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She was the sexist woman ever.
 
digifoss said:
Also enjoyed Bette Davis's Of Human Bondage with Leslie Howard.
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I love that one, and just yesterday, I watched another one written by Somerset Maugham, "The Razor's Edge" with Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power -- both looking absolutely beautiful. I happened to find it on Youtube. It's long, 2 hours and 17 minutes, but very different and interesting.
 
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