What old movies are you watching.

[Marianne]

A Christmas Story (1983)

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1hr 34min · Comedy
IMDb 8.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes 88%

• Christmas is approaching and 9 year-old Ralphie wants only one thing: a Red Ryder Range Shot 200 BB gun. When he mentions it at the dinner table, his mother's immediate reaction is that he'll put his eye out. He then decides on a perfect theme for hi…
  Bob Clark
• Sequel: It Runs in the Family
• Production company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Screenwriters: Jean Shepherd · Bob Clark · Leigh Brown

 

[Marianne]

A Christmas Carol (1938)

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1hr 9min · Drama
IMDb 7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes 100%

• A Christmas Carol is a 1938 American film adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novelette A Christmas Carol, about Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser, who learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve after visitations by four spirits, …
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• Release date: Dec 16, 1938
• Director: Edwin L. Marin
• Production company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Music by: Franz Waxman

 

[Marianne]

Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976)

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Stop motion
IMDb 6.8/10

• Rudolph's Shiny New Year is the 1976 stop-motion animated sequel to the 1964 television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, produced by Rankin/Bass. The special premiered on ABC on Dec. 10, 1976. Rudolph has just come back fr…
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• Release date: Dec 10, 1976
• First episode: 1976
• Episode duration: 50 minutes
• Directors: Arthur Rankin Jr. · Jules Bass
• Prequel: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Networks: ABC Family · American Broadcasting Company

 

[Marianne]

Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

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1hr 42min · Comedy
IMDb 7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes 88%

• Christmas in Connecticut is a 1945 American Christmas film and romantic comedy directed by Peter Godfrey, and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, and Sydney Greenstreet. Elizabeth Lane is a single food writer living in New York …
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• Release date: Jul 27, 1945
• Director: Peter Godfrey

 

[Flopper]

The Shop Around the Corner

• Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) and Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) are employees at Matuschek and Company, a general store in Budapest. Klara and Alfred are constantly at odds with each other, butting heads and disagreeing on almost everything. Both are enamored of their respective pen pals, who serv… More
• Release date: January 1, 1940 (USA)
• Director: Ernst Lubitsch
• Initial DVD release: October 1, 2002
• Music composed by: Werner R. Heymann
• Screenplay: Ben Hecht, Samson Raphaelson

 

[Sarah G]

I watched A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart. Also, Its a wonderful Life, in color.

 

[Flopper]

Directed by Billy Wilder
Produced by Billy Wilder
Written by

• Billy Wilder
• I.A.L. Diamond

Starring

• Jack Lemmon
• Shirley MacLaine
• Fred MacMurray

Release dates

• June 15, 1960

Nominated for 10 academy awards and winner of 6.

 

[Marianne]

I watched A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart. Also, Its a wonderful Life, in color.

I'm watching It's a wonderful Life too but I could only find it in Black and white.

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

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2hr 10min · Fantasy
IMDb 8.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes 94%

• George Bailey spends his entire life giving up his big dreams for the good of his town, Bedford Falls, as we see in flashback. But in the present, on Christmas Eve, he is broken and suicidal over the misplacing of an $8000 loan and the machinati…
  Frank Capra
• Story by: Philip Van Doren Stern
• Music by: Dimitri Tiomkin
• Screenwriters: Frank Capra · Jo Swerling · Michael Wilson · Albert Hackett · Frances Goodrich

 

[Sarah G]

I like the color one. It looks good, not colorized.

 

[jon_berzerk]

in the last couple of days

true grit

city of angels

the outlaw josey wales

 

[Neil N. Blowme]

Kiss of death from 1947. The Night of the Hunter from 1955.

 

[Flopper]

I watched A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart. Also, Its a wonderful Life, in color.

I'm watching It's a wonderful Life too but I could only find it in Black and white.

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
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2hr 10min · Fantasy
IMDb 8.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes 94%

• George Bailey spends his entire life giving up his big dreams for the good of his town, Bedford Falls, as we see in flashback. But in the present, on Christmas Eve, he is broken and suicidal over the misplacing of an $8000 loan and the machinati…
  Frank Capra
• Story by: Philip Van Doren Stern
• Music by: Dimitri Tiomkin
• Screenwriters: Frank Capra · Jo Swerling · Michael Wilson · Albert Hackett · Frances Goodrich

The colorized copy I saw was not good. The colors tended to be all pastels and it was the shorten version of the film.

 

[Neil N. Blowme]

Tonight watching "Sudden Fear", 1952. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards.

 

[Marianne]

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The Little Drummer Boy (1968)

• The Little Drummer Boy is a 1968 Christmas stop-motion television special produced by Rankin/Bass, based on the song "The Little Drummer Boy". It was followed by a sequel in 1976. A poor young boy is summoned by the Magi to the nativity where, without a gift for the infant Jesus, he plays his drum while remembering "I played my …
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• Genre: Short Film
• Release year: 1968
• First episode: Dec 13, 1976
• Episode duration: 30 minutes
• Directors: Arthur Rankin Jr. · Jules Bass
• Genres: Television special · Animation · Christmas special

 

[Marianne]

I watched A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart. Also, Its a wonderful Life, in color.

I'm watching It's a wonderful Life too but I could only find it in Black and white.

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
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2hr 10min · Fantasy
IMDb 8.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes 94%

• George Bailey spends his entire life giving up his big dreams for the good of his town, Bedford Falls, as we see in flashback. But in the present, on Christmas Eve, he is broken and suicidal over the misplacing of an $8000 loan and the machinati…
  Frank Capra
• Story by: Philip Van Doren Stern
• Music by: Dimitri Tiomkin
• Screenwriters: Frank Capra · Jo Swerling · Michael Wilson · Albert Hackett · Frances Goodrich

The colorized copy I saw was not good. The colors tended to be all pastels and it was the shorten version of the film.

I didn't realize there was a shortened version of the film.

 

[Marianne]

Sink the Bismarck! (1960)

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NR · 1hr 37min · War
IMDb 7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes 80%

• Sink the Bismarck! is a 1960 black-and-white CinemaScope British war film based on the book Last Nine Days of the Bismarck by C. S. Forester. It stars Kenneth More and Dana Wynter and was directed by Lewis Gilbert. To date, it is the onl…
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• Estimated budget: $1.33 million USD
• Release date: Feb 11, 1960
• Director: Lewis Gilbert
• Story by: C. S. Forester
• Screenwriter: Edmund H. North

 

[Flopper]

I watched A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart. Also, Its a wonderful Life, in color.

I'm watching It's a wonderful Life too but I could only find it in Black and white.

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
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2hr 10min · Fantasy
IMDb 8.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes 94%

• George Bailey spends his entire life giving up his big dreams for the good of his town, Bedford Falls, as we see in flashback. But in the present, on Christmas Eve, he is broken and suicidal over the misplacing of an $8000 loan and the machinati…
  Frank Capra
• Story by: Philip Van Doren Stern
• Music by: Dimitri Tiomkin
• Screenwriters: Frank Capra · Jo Swerling · Michael Wilson · Albert Hackett · Frances Goodrich

The colorized copy I saw was not good. The colors tended to be all pastels and it was the shorten version of the film.

I didn't realize there was a shortened version of the film.

Most of the colorized version were developed for TV viewing and used the shorten versions.

Many of the old films have been colorized but the results are generally not too good. Early techniques have soft contrast and fairly pale, flat, washed out color; however, the technology has improved since the 1980s. The major problem with colorization is that a technician decides on the colors which are often not realist and sometimes clash terribly.

For example, in one movie, a funeral scene had the leading lady wearing a bright purple mourning dress. It was suppose to be in the dead of winter just before Christmas and the colorizing technician turn the grass a bright green and clouds were white and puffy with a bright blue sky. It totally ruined the effect of the scene.

 

[Sarah G]

I watched A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart. Also, Its a wonderful Life, in color.

I'm watching It's a wonderful Life too but I could only find it in Black and white.

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
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View attachment 35371
·
2hr 10min · Fantasy
IMDb 8.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes 94%

• George Bailey spends his entire life giving up his big dreams for the good of his town, Bedford Falls, as we see in flashback. But in the present, on Christmas Eve, he is broken and suicidal over the misplacing of an $8000 loan and the machinati…
  Frank Capra
• Story by: Philip Van Doren Stern
• Music by: Dimitri Tiomkin
• Screenwriters: Frank Capra · Jo Swerling · Michael Wilson · Albert Hackett · Frances Goodrich

The colorized copy I saw was not good. The colors tended to be all pastels and it was the shorten version of the film.

It really wasn't bad, it isn't like living color that we have now but it was unobtrusive, pale, skin color was good. I like it better than B/W.

 

[Sarah G]

I watched A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart. Also, Its a wonderful Life, in color.

I'm watching It's a wonderful Life too but I could only find it in Black and white.

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
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en.wikipedia.org
View attachment 35371
·
2hr 10min · Fantasy
IMDb 8.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes 94%

• George Bailey spends his entire life giving up his big dreams for the good of his town, Bedford Falls, as we see in flashback. But in the present, on Christmas Eve, he is broken and suicidal over the misplacing of an $8000 loan and the machinati…
  Frank Capra
• Story by: Philip Van Doren Stern
• Music by: Dimitri Tiomkin
• Screenwriters: Frank Capra · Jo Swerling · Michael Wilson · Albert Hackett · Frances Goodrich

The colorized copy I saw was not good. The colors tended to be all pastels and it was the shorten version of the film.

What parts are taken out in the shortened version? Could be some of it where they were drying off after George jumps into the river to save Clarence.

 

[ChrisL]

1935 Midsummers Night Dream
A Midsummer Night s Dream 1935 film - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

One of my favorites. For 1935 the special effects are pretty good as are the costumes. Olivia de Havilland good as always and a young Mickey Rooney plays a great Robin Goodfellow (puck) except for that really annoying sound he makes through out the whole movie.


Cast[edit]

L. to R. :Ross Alexander, Dick Powell, Jean Muir and Olivia de Havilland
The Athenian Court

• Ian Hunter as Theseus, Duke of Athens
• Verree Teasdale as Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, betrothed to Theseus
• Hobart Cavanaugh as Philostrate, Master of Revels to Theseus
• Dick Powell as Lysander, In love with Hermia
• Ross Alexander as Demetrius, In love with Hermia
• Olivia de Havilland as Hermia, In love with Lysander (as Olivia de Haviland)
• Jean Muir as Helena, In love with Demetrius
• Grant Mitchell as Egeus, Father to Hermia

The Players

• Frank McHugh as Quince, the Carpenter
• Dewey Robinson as Snug, the Joiner
• James Cagney as Bottom, the Weaver
• Joe E. Brown as Flute, the Bellows-mender
• Hugh Herbert as Snout, the Tinker
• Otis Harlan as Starveling, the Tailor
• Arthur Treacher as Epilogue

The Fairies

• Victor Jory as Oberon, King of the Fairies
• Anita Louise as Titania, Queen of the Fairies Carol Ellis: singing voice
• Nini Theilade as Fairie, Attending Titania (as Nina Theilade)
• Mickey Rooney as Puck or Robin Goodfellow, a Fairy
• Katherine Frey as Pease-Blossom
• Helen Westcott as Cobweb
• Fred Sale as Moth
• Billy Barty as Mustard-Seed

I like some old movies, which I will watch occasionally when they happen to be on. I've seen the Grapes of Wrath, The Wizard of Oz (of course - who hasn't seen that one?), The Sound of Music, All About Eve, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, The Long Hot Summer, Gone With The Wind. There are few others that I've seen and can't recall the names of right now. I'm not as big a movie aficionado as some of you here though. These are just some old movies I've seen and liked.