What do you watch in classic old movies?

Sassycakes said:
Young Frankenstein,Arsenic and old lace , Sentimental Journey and Laura,are a few of the movies I can watch over and over again.
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Laura is one I have watched several times now too.

If Young Frankenstein is considered a classic movie, then Blazing Saddles would also qualify...


Tony
 

Saturday nights I watch Svengoolie on MeTV. He shows old science fiction and horror movies and gives background information on the players, along with making super corny jokes.
 
Never thought I could enjoy Goldie Hawn movie, but her "Overboard." ranks high on my list.
Same for 'My Cousin Vinny,' but that starred my girlfriend Marisa Tomei.
There enjoyable, but it is doubtful there classics, probably not old enough..

The man that played Monk character in his detective series made a horror film-stinker-how great it could have been if the screen writers had let his OBD character?
'Quick hand me a wipe, there is a monster in the room.'
 
One of my all time favorites is The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) starring Ingrid Bergman. It's based on the true story of a British woman who was a missionary in China before WWII. The final scene where she delivers 100 orphan children to safety always brings tears to my eyes.
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I'm not sure what the definition of "old classic movies" is. My personal definition would be movies I wasn't really old enough to watch or appreciate when they came out, so generally anything before 1963 would fit and a number of ones after that that I wasn't old enough to appreciate.

I'm not one that enjoys seeing movies over and over again. The only ones that I'll occasionally watch that fit my category are My Fair Lady and Singing In The Rain. I do appreciate the mastery of Alfred Hitchcock films, but I'm not really drawn to them myself.

I will rewatch my top ten movies, but all of those were made when I was old enough to appreciate them to some degree when they came out or I saw them later in life. I loved 2001 when I saw it and didn't fully appreciate it then but got enough out of it that I think I can consider my first viewing as a reasonably aware one.
 
"The African Queen" Bogart and Hepburn, 1951
A bit dated, but I am too.
Still watching Bogart dragging a 30 foot boat down a leech infested slough in East Africa was as good as it
was back then.
 
I'm not sure these would classify as classic, except in my own mind, but:

Gunsmoke
Hec Ramsey - very good
Rawhide
The guns of Fort Petticoat
My man Godfrey
Father Goose
Wagon Train
 
Looking at this thread again brought back memories to me of my Dad. He loved "The Magnificent Seven" and had to watch it whenever it was on tv. He also loved these and from watching them so many times I loved them too.

Dial M for Murder
12 Angry Men
Strangers on a Train
Rear Window
An affair to remember
 
No Man Of Her Own (Great performance by Barbara Stanwyck)
The Nanny
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane
Dead Ringer
White Heat
Angels With Dirty Faces
Double Indemnity
 

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