Let's do the Classics List!!

[JoLLyRoGer]

What are some of the must-have titles from early Hollywood? I'm on a classic movie kick ever since watching 'Sparticus'. The plot was engaging, the acting was top-notch, and it was even safe for the kids! Much better than all the crap coming out of Hollywood these days.

That said, I'm looking for some more recommendations. What are your favorite titles from the "Golden Age"?

To start with, here's my short list of classics that I've either seen/own or am looking to buy:

12 Angry Men
Africa Queen
Angel and the Badman
Ben Hur
Chisum
Cleopatria
Cool Hand Luke
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Donovan's Reef
Fort Apache
Her Alibi
High Noon
Journey to the Center of the Earch
Lawerance of Arabia
Little Man Tate
North to Alaska
Planet of the Apes (The original 6)
Poseidon Adventure (Original)
The Quiet Man
Rio Lobo
Road to Bali
Road to Rio
Rooster Cogburn
The Shootist
The Sound of Music
The Thin Man (Series)
The Time Machine (1960 ed.)
To Kill a Mockingbird
War of the Worlds (original)

Add your favorites and lets get a well-rounded Classics list going.. I'm sure others will be interested in this thread too!

Edit - Your Updates:
Winchester '73 - pontifex
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - flyboy84
Point Blank - m1ldslide1
North by Northwest - Mwilding
Casablance - Mwilding
Strangers on a Train - Mwilding
Bullitt - Mwilding
Maltese Falcon - broon
Treasure of the Sierra Madre - broon
Rearwindow - broon
Rope - loki8481



Thanks!
JR..

 

[pontifex]

Winchester '73

 

[flyboy84]

Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

 

[m1ldslide1]

Originally posted by: flyboy84
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

FTW.

Second place, Point Blank.

 

[GasX]

Anything by Hitchcock.

My favorites are North by Northwest and Strangers on a Train.


Anything with Steve McQueen

My favorite is Bullitt

Casablance is also a must list

 

[broon]

Maltese Falcon and Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Edit: Rearwindow

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
Anything by Hitchcock.

My favorites are North by Northwest and Strangers on a Train.


Anything with Steve McQueen

My favorite is Bullitt

Casablance is also a must list

The chase scene in Bullitt was awsome, but the rest of the movie just seemed to drag for me.

There was another one he was in that I can't think of the title... maybe you can help me.


Basically he's one of many US POW's during WWII trying to escape from a Nazi prison camp. I've only seen bits and pieces of it but I remember them digging a long tunnel and setting up a dolly on a rail system to move themselves down the tunnel and get out.

In another scene Steve McQueen is riding a stolen German army motorcycle and he ramps this razorwire fence up the side of a hill before he is re-captured. That's all I remember, but it looked like something I'd like!

Do you know the film I'm talking about??

-JR

 

[nageov3t]

Rope!

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: JoLLyRoGer

Originally posted by: Mwilding
Anything by Hitchcock.

My favorites are North by Northwest and Strangers on a Train.


Anything with Steve McQueen

My favorite is Bullitt

Casablance is also a must list

The chase scene in Bullitt was awsome, but the rest of the movie just seemed to drag for me.

There was another one he was in that I can't think of the title... maybe you can help me.


Basically he's one of many US POW's during WWII trying to escape from a Nazi prison camp. I've only seen bits and pieces of it but I remember them digging a long tunnel and setting up a dolly on a rail system to move themselves down the tunnel and get out.

In another scene Steve McQueen is riding a stolen German army motorcycle and he ramps this razorwire fence up the side of a hill before he is re-captured. That's all I remember, but it looked like something I'd like!

Do you know the film I'm talking about??

-JR

Of course I do.

The Great Escape

:music: Duh-NUH Duh NUH nuh nuh nuh... Nuh nuhhh na nuhh na nuh na nuh nuh :music:

don't forget it's modern day remake - Chicken Run!

 

[Mucho]

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) is a frenzied, hilarious, madcap black comedy from celebrated director Frank Capra.

 

[Tom]

Night of the Hunter
How Green is my Valley
To Kill a Mockingbird
Grapes of Wrath
Mister Roberts
The Ox-Bow Incident
Paths of Glory

 

[anxi80]

citizen kane
modern times
metropolis
rashômon

 

[JohnCU]

the haunting