What old movies are you watching.

[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.

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.

Not sure. There was a cut made for TV. I think it was about 8 mins shorter.

 

[Flopper]

The Legend of 1900

An interesting movie, although not my favorite. A baby boy, discovered in 1900 on an ocean liner, grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land. An Interesting story with great music and photography; well worth watching. It's an Italian movie in English.

Take a look at the trailer:
La leggenda del pianista sull oceano 1998 - IMDb

 

[ChrisL]

Also, some Christmas movies! It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol (there are several versions of Christmas Carol that I like, but not the musical version) and A Miracle on 34th Street.

 

[rightwinger]

The Secret Garden (1949)

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• The Secret Garden is a 1949 US drama film. It is the second screen adaptation of the classic 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The screenplay by Robert Ardrey was directed by Fred M. Wilcox. It centers on a young orphan who is thrust into the dark and mysterious lives of her widowed uncle and his crippled son when she comes to live …
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• Summary: NR · 1hr 32min · Drama
• Estimated budget: $1.43 million USD
• Release date: Apr 30, 1949
• Director: Fred M. Wilcox
• Production company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Margret O'Brien was a talented child actress and one of my fav's. This movie also features a very young Dean Stockwell.

Dean Stockwell was a very talented child actor an Margaret OBrien was cute as hell

 

[rightwinger]

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

My wife loves that movie

 

[rightwinger]

Old school I love

Casablanca
Grapes of Wrath
King Kong
Of mice and men
Bride of Frankenstein
Wizard of Oz
Wonderful Life
Public Enemy
I am a fugitive from a chain gang

 

[ChrisL]

Old school I love

Casablanca
Grapes of Wrath
King Kong
Of mice and men
Bride of Frankenstein
Wizard of Oz
Wonderful Life
Public Enemy
I was a fugitive from a chain gang

I think I might have seen that last one. Was that with Paul Newman? I think it was based on a true story or something? I could be thinking of another movie.

Edit: Oh, I just googled, and it wasn't the same movie. I can't remember the name of the movie I saw with Paul Newman (I think it was Paul Newman anyway), and he escaped from some prison.

There was another old movie that I rather enjoyed about an escapee from an island prison. I think it was Papillon or something like that?

 

[Desperado]

Just watched the original 1956 version of the "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" in glorious Black and White.

 

[rightwinger]

Old school I love

Casablanca
Grapes of Wrath
King Kong
Of mice and men
Bride of Frankenstein
Wizard of Oz
Wonderful Life
Public Enemy
I was a fugitive from a chain gang

I think I might have seen that last one. Was that with Paul Newman? I think it was based on a true story or something? I could be thinking of another movie.

Edit: Oh, I just googled, and it wasn't the same movie. I can't remember the name of the movie I saw with Paul Newman (I think it was Paul Newman anyway), and he escaped from some prison.

There was another old movie that I rather enjoyed about an escapee from an island prison. I think it was Papillon or something like that?

Paul Newman was in Cool Hand Luke ( one of my favorites)

Paul Muni was in Fugitive from a chain gang

 

[ChrisL]

Old school I love

Casablanca
Grapes of Wrath
King Kong
Of mice and men
Bride of Frankenstein
Wizard of Oz
Wonderful Life
Public Enemy
I was a fugitive from a chain gang

I think I might have seen that last one. Was that with Paul Newman? I think it was based on a true story or something? I could be thinking of another movie.

Edit: Oh, I just googled, and it wasn't the same movie. I can't remember the name of the movie I saw with Paul Newman (I think it was Paul Newman anyway), and he escaped from some prison.

There was another old movie that I rather enjoyed about an escapee from an island prison. I think it was Papillon or something like that?

Paul Newman was in Cool Hand Luke ( one of my favorites)

Paul Muni was in Fugitive from a chain gang

Yes, Cool Hand Luke is the name of the movie. Thanks! Did you see Papillon? That was a pretty good one too. Poor guy keeps almost escaping only to keep getting caught. Lol.

 

[rightwinger]

Old school I love

Casablanca
Grapes of Wrath
King Kong
Of mice and men
Bride of Frankenstein
Wizard of Oz
Wonderful Life
Public Enemy
I was a fugitive from a chain gang

I think I might have seen that last one. Was that with Paul Newman? I think it was based on a true story or something? I could be thinking of another movie.

Edit: Oh, I just googled, and it wasn't the same movie. I can't remember the name of the movie I saw with Paul Newman (I think it was Paul Newman anyway), and he escaped from some prison.

There was another old movie that I rather enjoyed about an escapee from an island prison. I think it was Papillon or something like that?

Paul Newman was in Cool Hand Luke ( one of my favorites)

Paul Muni was in Fugitive from a chain gang

Yes, Cool Hand Luke is the name of the movie. Thanks! Did you see Papillon? That was a pretty good one too. Poor guy keeps almost escaping only to keep getting caught. Lol.

I loved Papillon....Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman

They don't show it very much

 

[jon_berzerk]

we plan to watch

south of heaven west of hell

tonight on netflix

 

[ChrisL]

Old school I love

Casablanca
Grapes of Wrath
King Kong
Of mice and men
Bride of Frankenstein
Wizard of Oz
Wonderful Life
Public Enemy
I was a fugitive from a chain gang

I think I might have seen that last one. Was that with Paul Newman? I think it was based on a true story or something? I could be thinking of another movie.

Edit: Oh, I just googled, and it wasn't the same movie. I can't remember the name of the movie I saw with Paul Newman (I think it was Paul Newman anyway), and he escaped from some prison.

There was another old movie that I rather enjoyed about an escapee from an island prison. I think it was Papillon or something like that?

Paul Newman was in Cool Hand Luke ( one of my favorites)

Paul Muni was in Fugitive from a chain gang

Yes, Cool Hand Luke is the name of the movie. Thanks! Did you see Papillon? That was a pretty good one too. Poor guy keeps almost escaping only to keep getting caught. Lol.

I loved Papillon....Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman

They don't show it very much

I looked at the other movie "I was a fugitive from a chain gang," and I have seen that one before too, but only once so my memory of it is a little hazy. That was based on a true story, IIRC? This man was actually the beginning of the end of the chain gangs in reality. Good and interesting movie. I'll have to check that one out again one of these days.

 

[ChrisL]

I've also seen a couple of Marilyn Monroe movies, The Seven Year Itch and Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend. I'm sorry to say that I just didn't find them very good.

 

[rightwinger]

Old school I love

Casablanca
Grapes of Wrath
King Kong
Of mice and men
Bride of Frankenstein
Wizard of Oz
Wonderful Life
Public Enemy
I was a fugitive from a chain gang

I think I might have seen that last one. Was that with Paul Newman? I think it was based on a true story or something? I could be thinking of another movie.

Edit: Oh, I just googled, and it wasn't the same movie. I can't remember the name of the movie I saw with Paul Newman (I think it was Paul Newman anyway), and he escaped from some prison.

There was another old movie that I rather enjoyed about an escapee from an island prison. I think it was Papillon or something like that?

Paul Newman was in Cool Hand Luke ( one of my favorites)

Paul Muni was in Fugitive from a chain gang

Yes, Cool Hand Luke is the name of the movie. Thanks! Did you see Papillon? That was a pretty good one too. Poor guy keeps almost escaping only to keep getting caught. Lol.

I loved Papillon....Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman

They don't show it very much

I looked at the other movie "I was a fugitive from a chain gang," and I have seen that one before too, but only once so my memory of it is a little hazy. That was based on a true story, IIRC? This man was actually the beginning of the end of the chain gangs in reality. Good and interesting movie. I'll have to check that one out again one of these days.

It's a movie from the 30s based on a true story.
It is on Turner occasionally

 

[ChrisL]

Is it just me, or does anyone else think Marilyn Monroe was perhaps a bit overrated? Does anyone think she was a really good actress? No doubt, she was beautiful woman, but a good actress? Hmm.

 

[jon_berzerk]

Is it just me, or does anyone else think Marilyn Monroe was perhaps a bit overrated? Does anyone think she was a really good actress? No doubt, she was beautiful woman, but a good actress? Hmm.

norma jeane was a twentieth century fox

 

[rightwinger]

Is it just me, or does anyone else think Marilyn Monroe was perhaps a bit overrated? Does anyone think she was a really good actress? No doubt, she was beautiful woman, but a good actress? Hmm.

So many great actresses in her era.......Katherine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and many more
Monroe was a media creation just playing the same character

 

[ChrisL]

Is it just me, or does anyone else think Marilyn Monroe was perhaps a bit overrated? Does anyone think she was a really good actress? No doubt, she was beautiful woman, but a good actress? Hmm.

norma jeane was a twentieth century fox

Well, that doesn't really answer the question. Good actress in your opinion?

 

[ChrisL]

Is it just me, or does anyone else think Marilyn Monroe was perhaps a bit overrated? Does anyone think she was a really good actress? No doubt, she was beautiful woman, but a good actress? Hmm.

So many great actresses in her era.......Katherine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and many more
Monroe was a media creation just playing the same character

To be fair, I haven't seen many of her movies, but the ones I've seen, I wasn't very impressed by her acting abilities.