Classic movies we love

[ARCOgraphite]

Many good flicks listed!

Here are a couple you may not have seen:

Barry Lyndon

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

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Eternally memorable and For Fun:

Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave

Liquid Sky

Phantasm

Mr. Magoo"s A Christmas Carol

 

[mccandish]

All the old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, where Eagles dare, the thin man movies, war of the worlds (original) and most of the ones posted.

William Powell and his dry wit Another good film with Powell is My Man Godfrey.



I like the Sherlock series with Basil Rathbone, too.

The original Goodbye, Mr. Chips with Robert Donat and Greer Garson.

A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim.

 

[Reggaemon]

Musicals are my latest thing. I'm watching anyone I can find, the good the bad and the ones in between.
It was an interesting era in film production. Just got tired of war and westerns.

 

[2005jettatdi]

I can't believe I left off Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. "Hey, did you see th-the way he went SAILING right out there?" Jimmy Durantee kicking the bucket. Jerry Lewis serving to run over Spencer Tracy's hat. The beautiful Curtis Jenny. And, why isn't the Big W still there?

 

[hrv]

Just watched one on TCM.....DUEL....thats the one about a car and a gas truck chasing it in the dessert...

 

[2005jettatdi]

Just watched one on TCM.....DUEL....thats the one about a car and a gas truck chasing it in the dessert...

"Talk about polution." Meanest, and ugliest, Peterbilt ever.

 

[hrv]

"Talk about polution." Meanest, and ugliest, Peterbilt ever.

But really fast.....But it was a Plymouth Valiant He was after...probably a 225 slant six..

 

[redbone3]

Harvey and Groundhog day.

 

[2005jettatdi]

But really fast.....But it was a Plymouth Valiant He was after...probably a 225 slant six..

Fast going downhill, but seriously underpowered* compared to a later NTC 400 or the even stronger modern truck engines. As for the Valiant, don't knock the 225 slant six, it powered my first car, a '65 Belvedere II with 3 on the tree. When they dropped speed limits to 55 mph I started getting 26 mpg. I believe Weaver's car had an automatic, which didn't help any.

I remember holding on to my seat watching Duel the first time.

*I am assuming Peterbilt 281 means that was the engine displacement.

 

[hrv]

Fast going downhill, but seriously underpowered* compared to a later NTC 400 or the even stronger modern truck engines. As for the Valiant, don't knock the 225 slant six, it powered my first car, a '65 Belvedere II with 3 on the tree. When they dropped speed limits to 55 mph I started getting 26 mpg. I believe Weaver's car had an automatic, which didn't help any.

I remember holding on to my seat watching Duel the first time.

*I am assuming Peterbilt 281 means that was the engine displacement.

225 was a good engine...Also they actually made a lot performance parts for that engine...

 

[ARCOgraphite]

Just watched one on TCM.....DUEL....thats the one about a car and a gas truck chasing it in the dessert...

Surprised you never saw that long ago. Early Spielberg "movie"; very 70's TV cop drama quality.

Have you seen Vanishing Point? That was a "titillating" 70's drive in special for us teens at a time when one shocking scene would make the movie. This one had two or three.

 

[Shel_B]

Surprised you never saw that long ago. Early Spielberg "movie"; very 70's TV cop drama quality.

Have you seen Vanishing Point? That was a "titillating" 70's drive in special for us teens at a time when one shocking scene would make the movie. This one had two or three.
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Vanishing Point was a great movie for its time and genre, and Cleavon Little was outstanding in his performance as the radio DJ who was reporting the events and eventually becoming part of the story.

 

[hrv]

Surprised you never saw that long ago. Early Spielberg "movie"; very 70's TV cop drama quality.

Have you seen Vanishing Point? That was a "titillating" 70's drive in special for us teens at a time when one shocking scene would make the movie. This one had two or three.
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I did when it first came out....

 

[odie]

The Dead Zone

 

[Corollaman]

"The Jerk" with Steve Martin, high plains drifter, Pale Rider, Vision Quest, Starman, etc. I remember seeing the jerk when I was a kid, loved Steve Martin. Vision Quest had some great wrestling scenes.

 

[Heywood_6078]

High Plains Drifter
The Shining
Forest Gump
The Green Mile
The good the bad and the ugly
The original Ben Hur
The 10 commandments
For a few dollars more
Way too many to keep going.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

I did when it first came out....

It was really just another junk drive in B movie, I was not a fan but it did have some "wild' scenes that were talked about.

That first Aussie Mad Max film with American dubbed voices was in a much higher league all around and an enduring classic.

 

[odie]

Remake .

 

[Strommen95]

The Empire Strikes Back.

 

[odie]