What old movies are you watching.

[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

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.

Seen one....seen em all

 

[rightwinger]

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

Awesome movie from that era......Night of the Hunter

Robert Mitchum, Shelly Winters, Lilian Gish

 

[Neil N. Blowme]

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

Awesome movie from that era......Night of the Hunter

Robert Mitchum, Shelly Winters, Lilian Gish

Yeah. I own a bunch of classics and the library here is a vault of movie gold.

 

[mudwhistle]

The Wizard of Oz

 

[Neil N. Blowme]

If you want to see an excellent psychotic western....."Day of the Outlaw". 1959

 

[theDoctorisIn]

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

Awesome movie from that era......Night of the Hunter

Robert Mitchum, Shelly Winters, Lilian Gish

I was just about to post that.

 

[ChrisL]

I like all of the Clint Eastwood westerns. He was awesome. The Outlaw Josey Wales is one of the best, IMO. Another one of my favorites is The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

On the topic of Mitchum, check out Out of the Past.

One of the best classic film noirs.

 

[Desperado]

Ocean's 11 is a 1960 heist film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring five Rat Packers: Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Joey Bishop. Centered on a series of Las Vegas casino. just on one of the premium channels it was interesting to watch.

 

[Neil N. Blowme]

On the topic of Mitchum, check out Out of the Past.

One of the best classic film noirs.

I have that in my personal library. Truely, a classic.

 

[Marianne]

It Happened One Night (1934)

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NR · 1hr 45min · Comedy
IMDb 8.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes 98%

• Rebellious socialite Ellie Andrews marries King Wesley but her wealthy father has it annulled. Tired of her father's control, she runs away by diving off the family yacht in Miami and heading for New York. On the bus she meets street-smart reporter Pe…
  Frank Capra
• Awards: Academy Award for Best Picture · Academy Award for Best Actor · Academy Award for Best Actress
  Robert Riskin
• Story by: Samuel Hopkins Adams

 

[Neil N. Blowme]

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

 

[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.

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.

I've been watching Apocalypse WWI on AHC. Occasionally there is colorized film but it's not too bad if they don't go overboard. They might color a uniform or a boat but in general I find it makes it easier on the eyes and somewhat helpful.

Apocalypse World War 1

Apocalypse World War One TVO

 

[Marianne]

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.

TCM has got What ever happened to baby jane coming up soon. I haven't seen it in a while so I have it on record.

 

[Marianne]

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.

I'm not a big fan of the musical version of A Christmas Carol either but I love the 1938 version with Reginald Owen as Scrooge.

 

[Marianne]

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.

My favorite with Marilyn Monroe is Some Like it Hot.

 

[Marianne]

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.

I think her acting was OK, but I think her beauty covered most of her popularity. Compared to other actresses like Katharine Hepburn, Liz Taylor,Bette Davis,Joan Crawford, her acting was mediocre. Then again her character wasn't really meant to be much else other than a blonde bombshell. Maybe she was a better actress typecast into a dumb blonde roll time after time. I don't recall her ever doing a role of a smart woman so it's hard to tell.

 

[Flopper]

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.

I think her acting was OK, but I think her beauty covered most of her popularity. Compared to other actresses like Katharine Hepburn, Liz Taylor,Bette Davis,Joan Crawford, her acting was mediocre. Then again her character wasn't really meant to be much else other than a blonde bombshell. Maybe she was a better actress typecast into a dumb blonde roll time after time. I don't recall her ever doing a role of a smart woman so it's hard to tell.

I think what made Some Like It Hot such good movie was the director Billy Wider. This guy has an incremental record for directing and writing hit movies. For Example:

Ninotchka
Double Indemnity
The Lost Weekend
Sunset Blvd.
Stalag 17
Sabrina
Witness for the Prosecution
Some Like It Hot
The Apartment
The Spirit of St. Louis
Irma la Douce
The Front Page

 

[Flopper]

One of my all time favorites has to be "The Longest Day", one of the best if not the best war movie every made staring all the biggest stars and winner of 6 Academy Awards. With a run time of 3 hours, it's definitely a 2 popcorn box flick but considering it's scope 3 hours is not that long.

 

[ChrisL]

Ocean's 11 is a 1960 heist film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring five Rat Packers: Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Joey Bishop. Centered on a series of Las Vegas casino. just on one of the premium channels it was interesting to watch.

I've never seen the original. I did see the remake of that movie with George Clooney.