Favourite old film

[Abitrary]

shoot oh yeah.. I always lump that one in with stuff like Paris Texas and Two Lane Blacktop

 

[laurence]

very similar style... Static was one of those great indie US film of the mid 80s. there was another good one called Miracle Mile.

 

[Dave5N]

Christ! I'd forgotten Paris Texas. Ry Cooder?

I had a mate at college who was into it. Can't say if I ever managed it all in one sitting!

 

[Abitrary]

forget paris texas! watch static

(although it's a film that i won't watch again for fear of spoiling it, Or unless I'm drunk. (or high))

It does something very difficult, which is marrying surrealism with US feel good movie type thing. And bleakness

 

[Steve Austin]

Night of the Hunter.

a truly scary film.

 

[Graham O]

Hell Drivers - completely agree, a really good film

The Cruel Sea anyone?

And on telly, the scary Singing Ringing Tree. Didn't understand it at the time (black and white tv and I was in single digits) but it was frightening!! Apparently it was some strange Hungarian series.

 

[Lardyboy]

Night of the Hunter.

a truly scary film.

Indeed Steve. Robert Mitchum at his psycho best, even better than his performance in Cape Fear!

 

[mondobongo]

The Great Escape, you just don't get films cast these days with so many stars in them.



Singing Ringing Tree wasn't there another one similar where a man was turned into a bear with the spooky dwarf.

 

[wafflycat]

My main favourites old & new are:-

Singin' in the Rain
Bladerunner
Belleville Rendez-Vous
Spirited Away
Alien Series
Flying Scotsman

 

[papercorn2000]

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon A Time in the West
(best Westerns ever)
Arsenic and Old Lace (best double take ever)
Casablanca
Some Like it Hot
Bladerunner
Lesbian Inferno 3

 

[col]

Errol flynns robin hood.
Basil rathbones sherlock holmes films
The sea hawks(i think)with errol flynne too

 

[papercorn2000]

Even if only for the great names that actors had in those days!

 

[freakhatz]

The Spy who came in from the Cold
Get Carter
Local Hero
Last Picture Show
PAths of Glory
If
Zulu
French Connection I
Day of the Jackal with Edward Fox
Citizen Kane (once I'd rewatched it a time or two)
and yes, go on then..
Casablanca

 

[Kirstie]

North by Northwest
Ice Cold in Alex
The Ladykillers

 

[gary r]

in no particular order!
School for scoundrels
Marty
Night of the hunter
Harvey
Any Laurel & Hardy

any laurel & Hardy films