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10 Responses to “What are some good classic films for me to watch?”

1. steven b on March 8th, 2010 at 12:34 am

   Jaws
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2. * avalina * on March 8th, 2010 at 1:01 am

   Titanic
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3. madmadmaddii on March 8th, 2010 at 1:18 am

   Rear Window, Wuthering Heights (1939),The day the Earth Stood Still, Jezebel,Mildred Pierce,Lost horizon(1937),Gilda,All About Eve,The Philadelphia Story,King Kong(1933)
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4. Kate on March 8th, 2010 at 1:25 am

   Top Gun
   American Graffiti
   Funny Face
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5. Brynn S on March 8th, 2010 at 2:09 am

   1. Dial M for Murder
   2. Casablanca
   3. Psycho
   4. The Shining
   5. How to Steal a Million Dollars (audrey hepburn)
   6. To Kill a Mockingbird
   7. From Here to Eternity
   8. Blazing Saddles
   9. Guess Who’s coming to Dinner
   10. Arsenic and Old Lace

   check out AFI’s top 100 classic films. IMHO by no stretch of the imagination is Titanic a classic, just a blockbuster.
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6. yogalexa on March 8th, 2010 at 2:45 am

   My 3 Favorite Hitchcock Films are:
   Strangers on a Train
   The trouble with Harry
   Rebecca

   Some other great classics:
   Whatever happened to Baby Jane
   Hush, hush Sweet Charlotte
   An Affair to Remember(1957)
   13 Ghosts(the original)
   Imitation of Life(with Lana Turner)
   The Ghost and Mrs Muir
   Wuthering Heights
   The 400 Blows(in French with English subtitles)
   Ramona(with Loretta Young)
   Waterloo Bridge
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7. MystMoonstruck on March 8th, 2010 at 3:22 am

   MISCELLANEOUS
   Laura
   Picnic
   Gambit
   Niagara
   Ben-Hur
   Topkapi
   Charade
   Jane Eyre
   The Misfits
   Quo Vadis?
   Casablanca
   Stella Dallas
   Dark Passage
   Forever Amber
   Roman Holiday
   Meet John Doe
   Nightmare Alley
   The Good Earth
   The Blue Dahlia
   Black Narcissus
   This Gun for Hire
   My Cousin Rachel
   A Place in the Sun
   Birdman of Alcatraz
   The Grapes of Wrath
   To Kill a Mockingbird
   Leave Her to Heaven
   Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
   No Highway in the Sky
   Days of Wine & Roses
   The Song of Bernadette
   Come Back, Little Sheba
   The Ten Commandments
   Anne of the Thousand Days
   Wuthering Heights (original)
   The Greatest Show on Earth
   A Streetcar Named Desire (original)

   COMEDIES:
   Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse
   Cheaper by the Dozen (original)
   Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
   Born Yesterday (original)
   How to Steal a Million
   Breakfast at Tiffany’s
   Send Me No Flowers
   Bell, Book & Candle
   The Seven Year Itch
   That Touch of Mink
   Bus Stop (original)
   Come September
   My Favorite Year
   Life With Father
   Father Goose
   Sitting Pretty
   Pillow Talk
   Houseboat
   Cat Ballou
   Harvey

   MUSICALS:
   Lili
   Gigi
   Kismet
   Camelot
   Carousel
   Oklahoma!
   Hello, Dolly!
   Funny Face
   The King & I
   My Fair Lady
   The Music Man
   Anchors Aweigh
   Daddy Long Legs
   The Great Ziegfeld
   An American in Paris
   Born to Dance (1936)
   Yankee Doodle Dandy
   Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
   Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

   ALFRED HITCHCOCK
   The Man Who Knew Too Much~James Stewart
   Strangers on a Train
   North by Northwest
   Shadow of a Doubt
   Psycho (1960)
   Rear Window
   Suspicion
   The Birds
   Rebecca
   Marnie

   SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR
   Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein and Son of Frankenstein
   Journey to the Center of the Earth (original)
   Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original)
   The Time Machine~George Pal version
   War of the Worlds~George Pal version
   The Body Snatcher~Henry Daniell
   Mighty Joe Young (both versions)
   Jason & the Argonauts (original)
   The Three Lives of Thomasina
   The Thing from Another World
   The Day the Earth Stood Still
   The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
   The Mummy~Boris Karloff
   2001: A Space Odyssey
   I Walked With a Zombie
   The Jungle Book (1942)
   The Haunting (original)
   King Kong (original)
   The Seventh Victim
   Forbidden Planet
   I Married a Witch
   The Innocents
   The Wolfman

   WESTERNS
   Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
   The Outlaw Josey Wales
   The Magnificent Seven
   Broken Arrow (1950)
   The Ox-Bow Incident
   Two Rode Together
   The White Buffalo
   Rooster Cogburn
   The Rare Breed
   Little Big Man
   The Cowboys
   Shenandoah
   Cat Ballou
   True Grit

   I’m sure that I’m forgetting some wonderful films. I might be back to add some.
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8. blonde_chick120 on March 8th, 2010 at 3:33 am

   One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
   Smoky & the Bandit
   Stand By Me
   The Outsiders
   Blazing Saddles
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9. LilyRT on March 8th, 2010 at 3:59 am

   My favorite Hitchcock movies (in addition to Vertigo) are
   Psycho
   Rear Window (Jimmy Stewart)
   Dial M for Murder
   Rope (Jimmy Stewart–based on a real story)
   Strangers on a Train

   Other must see classics…
   Casablanca
   The Maltese Falcon
   Sunset Boulevard
   The Manchurian Candidate (original)
   All About Eve
   Chinatown
   Double Indemnity
   The Lion in Winter
   Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
   Treasure of the Sierra Madre
   Breakfast at Tiffany’s (a must-see if you’re an Audrey fan)

   Other classics you may like depending on your interests…
   Comedies–
   It Happened One Night
   Bringing Up Baby
   The Quiet Man

   Sci-Fi–
   The Day the Earth Stood Still
   When Worlds Collide
   Forbidden Planet
   Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original)
   The Fly (original)
   War of the Worlds (original)
   Planet of the Apes

   Westerns–
   Shane
   High Noon
   The Searchers
   The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

   Musicals–
   West Side Story
   Oklahoma
   Fiddler on the Roof
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10. Lorraine H on March 8th, 2010 at 4:37 am

    You have tons of suggestions, but I’d like to suggest three that I love: The Rains Came (which beat out Gone with the Wind and Wizard of Oz for special effects), The Razor’s Edge (1946 – not the Bill Murray version) and The Mark of Zorro (1940 – Tyrone Power). Excellent films.

    Jimmy Stewart always handed in great performances. If you haven’t seen Call Northside 777, it’s a good one. I think he was his best in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
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