the old movies theme has inspired me

as much as it pains me to say i'm really not familiar with "The Golden Age"

I just got my paycheck and have decided to get approximately 10 movies from this era...probably from amazon.

i'm sure i'm opening up a giant can of worms with this one you guys.


Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton are pretty much shoe in's (maybe even the movie they did together)

any other suggestions (i'm sure there will be a plethora)

Never been a huge fan of Chaplin but Keaton's stuff was just brilliant. I recommed The General..Sherlock Jnr...Steamboat Bill Jnr and my very favourite of his shorts..Cops

They didn't really 'do a film together'..Keaton has what is really an extended cameo in Chaplin's 'Limelight'

yeah we watched sherlock jr. and the kid in my film class...


I'll look into the others though thanks

Fritz Langs Metropolis, 1927, a definite must see and own for any cineophile. I am in a rush, just off to work..I'll be back..with more.. :D

I'm just wondering when one specific movie is going to get mentioned by you know who.

Gosh I wonder... :rolleyes:

Here are 6 more I have and love, and could not imagine not owning..

The Third Man
Double Indemnity
Laura
Sunset Blvd
Stalag 17
Arsenic and Old Lace

i've seen sunset blvd and didn't care much for it...I didn't really like it on stage either

i've seen sunset blvd and didn't care much for it...I didn't really like it on stage either :eek: :eek: :eek: ..Nah, just yanking your chain, we can't all like the same things.....

the lady oz picks are excellent. ESPECIALLY the last two.
not sure would be ones ya care for but a good spilane(?), could be wrong, The Big Sleep with bacall's first pairing with bogie comes to mind

a few Hitchc0ck flicks would be a good call. Psycho is a classic
one of stanley kubrick's first flicks, the killing (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049406/) is a great watch

*edit* ya like mysteries, right? can't remember if ya do or don't :o
but readin what oz saw the other night on the movies watched thread i remembered that findin some sherlock holmes especially with peter cushing as sherlock would be very worthwhile for ya. Hound of the Baskervilles was pretty cool and the one she saw The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is really good too

The Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
It's a Wonderful Life
Bride of Frankenstein
Gilda
The Lady From Shanghai
Meet Me in St. Louis
The Palm Beach Story
Sunrise
Freaks

la vita e bella
casablanca

Can't let this continue without mentioning the great W.C. Fields.
Care to add The Bank Dick to the list?

Can't let this continue without mentioning the great W.C. Fields.
Care to add The Bank Dick to the list?


Fields teeing off (or trying to) with the sticky paper pie plate that keeps attaching itself to everything is one of the finest bits of physical comedy I've ever seen. I weep with laughter everytime I see that..
"Stand clear and keep your eye on the baaaalllll!"

oh HELL YEAH! WC Fields is a MUST see!

Fields teeing off (or trying to) with the sticky paper pie plate that keeps attaching itself to everything is one of the finest bits of physical comedy I've ever seen. I weep with laughter everytime I see that..
"Stand clear and keep your eye on the baaaalllll!"



sounds like a real hoot

would they sell these films on amazon you think?

sounds like a real hoot

would they sell these films on amazon you think?

Here ya go...All Fields' classics in one box set (http://www.amazon.com/Fields-Comedy-Collection-Chickadee-International/dp/B0002MHDY2)

There's another classic bit of physical comedy he does (although I can't remember which film it's in) where he is playing pool, trying to hit the cue ball while telling a story and the the brilliance of his ability make the pool cue behave like it has a mind of it's own and finally whacking the cue ball only for it to hit the end cushion and ricochet back to smack him in the face..just brilliant!!
Fields was, of course an expert juggler and had been a very succesful vaudeville comedy act for many years before moving onto films.

If you want to check out Fields' juggling ability, the film to watch is The Old Fashioned Way, where he recreates his old stage act. And if that doesn't attract you to it, it's also the film where he kicks Baby Leroy up the ass.

. . . and he was also, as his Wikipedia entry puts it, "a misanthrope who teetered on the edge of buffoonery but never quite fell in, an egotist blind to his own failings, a charming drunk; and a man who hated children, dogs, and women" :D

I would second Double Indemnity... I saw it in college and thought it was brilliant...

The Philadelphia Story
The Lost Weekend
are 2 more I'd recommend

I would second Double Indemnity... I saw it in college and thought it was brilliant...

The Philadelphia Story
The Lost Weekend
are 2 more I'd recommendWooot..yes indeed... it is brilliant to the max...
I love the Philidelphia Story as well, what a cast and Lost Weekend, such a grim powerful movie..

Wooot..yes indeed... it is brilliant to the max...
I love the Philidelphia Story as well, what a cast and Lost Weekend, such a grim powerful movie..


Yea, I really enjoy films that feel powerful-even heavy in their subject matter at times so that often tends to be the direction I lean towards in recommendations to people...

King Kong
Scarface (the Howard Hawks one)
Hollywood's Legends of Horror Collection (Doctor X / The Return of Doctor X / Mad Love / The Devil Doll / Mark of the Vampire / The Mask of Fu Manchu)
Twentieth Century
Fury
Only Angels Have Wings
The Wizard of Oz
Christmas in July
The Grapes of Wrath

Hollywood's Legends of Horror Collection (Doctor X / The Return of Doctor X / Mad Love / The Devil Doll / Mark of the Vampire / The Mask of Fu Manchu

Oooh! that sounds like a good box set...there's some real classicss in there..The Return of Dr X is worth a view..just to see Bogart play a vampire. Lorre was at his deranged peak in 'Mad Love' (aka The Hands Of Orlac) and Karloff was superb as Fu Manchu...

Yeah, I was really pleased to see that set come out. Most of the time in a set of six you get maybe two good movies. I enjoy all of the movies in that set.

If you want to check out Chaplin, I suggest Modern Times...

as far as other classics pre-1950...these might have been mentioned, but:

Casablanca
The Grapes of Wrath
The Ox-Bow Incident

Don't feel my old mate Charlie Laughton's getting enough mention here. So:

Hobson's Choice
The Private Life Of Henry VIII
Mutiny On The Bounty (Of course!)
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (Ditto!)
Witness For The Prosecution
Advise And Consent.

That'll do for starters.

But not Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd!

Don't feel my old mate Charlie Laughton's getting enough mention here. So:

Hobson's Choice
The Private Life Of Henry VIII
Mutiny On The Bounty (Of course!)
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (Ditto!)
Witness For The Prosecution
Advise And Consent.

That'll do for starters.

But not Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd!I also liked him in:

Ruggles of Red Gap
The Canterville Ghost
The Tuttles of Tahiti
Island of Lost Souls

Don't feel my old mate Charlie Laughton's getting enough mention here. So:

Hobson's Choice
The Private Life Of Henry VIII
Mutiny On The Bounty (Of course!)
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (Ditto!)
Witness For The Prosecution
Advise And Consent.
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and let's not forget his only outing in the director's chair, 'Night Of The Hunter'..which though panned on release by critics has proved itself since to be a bloody excellent thriller..

and let's not forget his only outing in the director's chair, 'Night Of The Hunter'..which though panned on release by critics has proved itself since to be a bloody excellent thriller..

I wonder just how many thousand yobbos have H-A-T-E, L-O-V-E tattooed on their fingers without having the faintest idea where it originated.

Couldn't agree more, Charlie. Outstanding film - not just ahead of its time but waiting for modern tastes to catch up with it.

Meanwhile the Fates have decreed that I may not join my ancestors until I finally see Island Of Lost Souls. I've been waiting for a chance these 33 years.

I've seen Island of the Lost Souls several times on TV here in the States, I guess I was just lucky.

Doubtless soome would say that Charles L.'s finest hour came in If I Had A Million (1932), when all he had to do was blow a raspberry. (A Bronx Cheer, for the sake of our cousins.) And a fine ripe one it was, too!

The Third ManCriterion is releasing a new two-disc edition (http://www.amazon.com/Third-Man-Criterion-Collection-2-Disc/dp/B000NOK0GM/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5502041-9860841?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1178075932&sr=8-1)of The Third Man on May 22nd:

All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer

Video introduction by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich

Two audio commentaries: one by filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Tony Gilroy, and one by film scholar Dana Polan

Shadowing "The Third Man" (2005), a ninety-minute feature documentary on the making of the film

Abridged recording of Graham Greene’s treatment, read by actor Richard Clarke

"Graham Greene: The Hunted Man," an hour-long, 1968 episode of the BBC's Omnibus series, featuring a rare interview with the novelist

Who Was the Third Man? (2000), a thirty-minute Austrian documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew

The Third Man on the radio: the 1951 “A Ticket to Tangiers” episode of The Lives of Harry Lime series, written and performed by Orson Welles; and the 1951 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of The Third Man

Illustrated production history with rare behind-the-scenes photos, original UK press book, and U.S. trailer

Actor Joseph Cotten’s alternate opening voice-over narration for the U.S. version

Archival footage of postwar Vienna

A look at the untranslated foreign dialogue in the film

Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by Luc Sante, Charles Drazin, and Philip Kerr
Also: a web-exclusive essay on Anton Karas by musician John Doehttp://www.criterion.com/images/spacer.gifhttp://www.criterion.com/images/spacer.gif

Criterion is releasing a new two-disc edition (http://www.amazon.com/Third-Man-Criterion-Collection-2-Disc/dp/B000NOK0GM/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5502041-9860841?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1178075932&sr=8-1)of The Third Man on May 22nd:

All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer

Video introduction by writer-director Peter Bogdanovich

Two audio commentaries: one by filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Tony Gilroy, and one by film scholar Dana Polan

Shadowing "The Third Man" (2005), a ninety-minute feature documentary on the making of the film

Abridged recording of Graham Greene’s treatment, read by actor Richard Clarke

"Graham Greene: The Hunted Man," an hour-long, 1968 episode of the BBC's Omnibus series, featuring a rare interview with the novelist

Who Was the Third Man? (2000), a thirty-minute Austrian documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew

The Third Man on the radio: the 1951 “A Ticket to Tangiers” episode of The Lives of Harry Lime series, written and performed by Orson Welles; and the 1951 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of The Third Man

Illustrated production history with rare behind-the-scenes photos, original UK press book, and U.S. trailer

Actor Joseph Cotten’s alternate opening voice-over narration for the U.S. version

Archival footage of postwar Vienna

A look at the untranslated foreign dialogue in the film

Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by Luc Sante, Charles Drazin, and Philip Kerr
Also: a web-exclusive essay on Anton Karas by musician John Doehttp://www.criterion.com/images/spacer.gifhttp://www.criterion.com/images/spacer.gifThis is good news for folks who don't own it yet, I have the The Third Man (50th Anniversary Edition) - Criterion Collection which has lots of extras too. With digitally restored image and sound, the alternate opening with Joseph Cotton's voice-over and video opening by Bogdanovich.

Archival footage of composer Anton Karas and the film's famous sewer scenes.

Abridged recording of Graham Greene’s treatment, read by actor Richard Clarke.

"Graham Greene: The Hunted Man," an hour-long, 1968 episode of the BBC's Omnibus series, featuring a rare interview with the novelist

Who Was the Third Man? (2000), a thirty-minute Austrian documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew

The Third Man on the radio: the 1951 “A Ticket to Tangiers” episode of The Lives of Harry Lime series, written and performed by Orson Welles; and the 1951 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of The Third Man

There are a few other things as well.
I think the only new stuff is the two audio commentaries: one by filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Tony Gilroy, and one by film scholar Dana Polan and Shadowing "The Third Man" (2005), a ninety-minute feature documentary on the making of the film.

I probably won't buy it, but I urge others to do so.

I just finished watching Double Indemnity for the first time and I was pretty impressed. Good movie!

I just finished watching Double Indemnity for the first time and I was pretty impressed. Good movie!Oh excellent, I love the dialogue in that movie, nothing better than a good film noir, and it is just about the best.

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, excellent, ahead of its time film.

I see Things To Come is out on DVD. Can't make my mind up. Worth buying?

I see Things To Come is out on DVD. Can't make my mind up. Worth buying?What a great old movie that was, I'd buy it. Classic British sci-fi, not alot of those either.