Same here, also to anything that was made after the end of studio contracts I consider new as well.
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To me, anything after the 90s is new, and I was born in 1988. I guess I define anything I have a memory of as new...
My all time favorite movie is White Christmas. I keep insisting to DH it is not really a holiday movie, it just takes place around a holiday! I know the movie pretty much word for word I bet. Bing Crosby's voice always reminds me of my Grandpa's with how rich and warm it is.
I'm a fan of any of the old musicals. If it has music and dancing I love it! I always liked the Music Man.
Some other old favorites are The Quiet Man and Mclintock. Then there are the classics like Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, but I consider those newer classics I guess. But haven't they recently had 40th anniversaries? And I think McLintock was released in the 60s too.
That's all that is coming to mind at the moment but I'm sure there are more that I've seen and loved.
I'm a fan of any of the old musicals. If it has music and dancing I love it! I always liked the Music Man.
Some other old favorites are The Quiet Man and Mclintock. Then there are the classics like Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, but I consider those newer classics I guess. But haven't they recently had 40th anniversaries? And I think McLintock was released in the 60s too.
That's all that is coming to mind at the moment but I'm sure there are more that I've seen and loved.
I can't watch "Mary Poppins" because Dick Van Dyke's British accent is like fingernails on a blackboard to me.
"The Ten Commandments" (1956) is a good old one, so over the top with such bad acting you cant help but like it, Charleston Heston being a big piece of ham, Yul Brennyer adding some cheese (how do you spell that man's last name?) All 4 or so hours of it. Love it!
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"Breakfast at Tiffanys" is my favorite oldie! I also love "Roman Holiday", "The Ugly Daschound", "Harvey", and all of the old Shirley Temple ones like "The Little Princess"
I could go on and on!!
(Dirty Dancing is my absolute favorite movie, but I was thinking "classics" were older movies...
I also love "The Shining" and "The Silence of the Lambs" as well but I don't consider any of those to be too old though.)
I could go on and on!!
(Dirty Dancing is my absolute favorite movie, but I was thinking "classics" were older movies...
I love a lot of the old Christmas movies. The Bishop's Wife and It's a Wonderful Life are two of my must-sees every year.
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You spelled his last name right in your above post and his first name right in this post so you are doing fine!
I seem to have a thing for bald men, think Hugh Dillon of Flashpoint which is shot in Canada and may not be available to you Americans among us. Telly Savalas is the exception - he did nothing for me. Yuck!
Two older movies I just had to add are Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Long Hot Summer..
Of course it was a Paul Newman fixation however I have seen the re-makes of both and neither will ever measure up to the originals.
Also Victor Mature in Samson and Delilah was very entertaining as well.
Of course it was a Paul Newman fixation however I have seen the re-makes of both and neither will ever measure up to the originals.
Also Victor Mature in Samson and Delilah was very entertaining as well.
And another Deborah Kerr, this time with Cary Grant: An Affair to Remember. I don't know how many times I've seen it and I bawl like a baby every time. It's too schlocky for Rob, so I have to watch it alone.
I have to add a thumbs-up to the old creature features as well. When I was growing up one of the local TV stations had what was called Fright Night Fridays. This entailed 3 classic horror flicks every Friday night from 10 P.M. on. My dad and I use to watch them almost every weekend together.
Some of the classics were of course, Lon Chaney as the wolf man, Boris Karloff as the mummy and Frankenstein, Bella Lugosi as Dracula. It included flicks like Monster from The Black Lagoon, the Cat People, It came From Outer Space. Although they seem pretty fake by today's standards in those days they were cutting edge.
Some of the classics were of course, Lon Chaney as the wolf man, Boris Karloff as the mummy and Frankenstein, Bella Lugosi as Dracula. It included flicks like Monster from The Black Lagoon, the Cat People, It came From Outer Space. Although they seem pretty fake by today's standards in those days they were cutting edge.
This is getting a bit eerie! I also love that movie - An Affair to Remember.Originally Posted by rapunzel47
Definitely a classic!!
And another Deborah Kerr, this time with Cary Grant: An Affair to Remember. I don't know how many times I've seen it and I bawl like a baby every time. It's too schlocky for Rob, so I have to watch it alone.
I think you will find many people believe(d) the movie was called White Christmas rather than Holiday Inn.
I mean White Christmas...as in with Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Vera Ellen and Danny Kaye...Dean Jagger, Mary Wicks. Not Holliday Inn with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. I never really got into Holiday Inn, though my mother always liked it. We had copies of both when I was growing up and now I have White Christmas on VHS and DVD.
I've never known anyone to confuse the two, but I guess with them both having Bing Crosby and all that could happen. But to me the fact that one was in black and white and the other in color would be a help.
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Definitely a tear jerker.Originally Posted by rapunzel47
Definitely a classic!!
And another Deborah Kerr, this time with Cary Grant: An Affair to Remember. I don't know how many times I've seen it and I bawl like a baby every time. It's too schlocky for Rob, so I have to watch it alone.
And now, an aside about that movie.
The ship scenes were shot aboard the SS Constitution. No, not the one in Boston. This one was a cruise ship, originally used in the transatlantic trade. It was one of the first "modern" ships to come off the ways after WWII. It was among the first ships to have all its interior spaces air conditioned.
That ship also appeared in an episode of "I Love Lucy." She was lowered to the deck by a helicopter when she missed the sailing.
The ship was also used by Grace Kelly to sail to Monaco for her wedding to Prince Ranier.
About 16 years ago, Dottie and I took our first cruise on that ship. It was clearly an older, smaller ship, but it had a certain class about it that we enjoyed. At the time, it was owned by American Hawaii Cruise Lines. It was a rarity, in that it was American-built, American-owned, American-flagged, and American-crewed. As such, it could sail from one American port to another without a foreign stop in between. (The Passenger Services Act, a part of the Jones Act, requires any ship that does not meet those four requirements above to stop at a foreign port after leaving an American port before it can stop at another American port. Most ships sailing to Hawaii now sail out of Los Angeles, make a stop for a few minutes in a Mexican port, and then sail to Honolulu.) We had wanted to visit Hawaii, but we couldn't decide on one island. On the cruise ship, we stopped at 3 islands (Oahu, Kawaii, and Hawaii) and four different ports. The ship served as a hotel, sailing out of port usually during dinner and docking the next morning during breakfast.
We did another cruise on the Constitution two years later.
Alas, time caught up with the Constitution and she was taken out of service to be refurbished in Portland, OR. We saw her there, once, while we were delivering to Freightliner there. When the work got started, they discovered more extensive rot than they had bargained for, and the old girl was sold for scrap. On her way to Alang (look it up), under tow, she ran into a storm and foundered, sinking in about 15,000 feet of water. A fitting end to a brave old ship, I'd say. May she RIP (rust in peace).
