'Old' films - I can't help but find them to be rubbish...

[ChiChoAndy]

tr7v8 said:

I'll add another that was on this week Sea of Sand. Set in the Sahara with the Long Range Desert Group.

I had that many moons ago. Another couple of good ones are 'The onenthat got away' and the one with the female agent in the French resistance. Can't remember the name. Virginia whatshername was in it.

[Pesty]

NinjaPower said:

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I like stuff like thrillers, spy films, action, conspiracy, ?

Spies you say? Wooden you say?

No I say.

watch this

The spy who cam in from the cold.



Have you seen the Harry Palmer films?


Edit just seen pre 60's I think swciftc was 60's hmm ok I'll have a think.

Edited by Pesty on Saturday 13th August 13:05

[Pesty]

pre 60's

AN inspector Calls (might be slightly wooden but remember being complertely drawn in)

The third man (1949)

[Bacardi]

ChiChoAndy said:

and the one with the female agent in the French resistance. Can't remember the name. Virginia whatshername was in it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051454

who was also in

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049871

[ChiChoAndy]

Bacardi said:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051454

who was also in

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049871

That's the one. Good film.

[Pesty]

Bit of a guily pleasure but I like the Margaret Rutherford Agatha christie fims

[Halb]

Pesty said:

Bit of a guily pleasure but I like the Margaret Rutherford Agatha christie fims

An Inspector Calls is very good.

Murder She Said was on a few weeks ago, love that tune she has.

[Eric Mc]

Halb said:

An Inspector Calls is very good.

Murder She Said was on a few weeks ago, love that tune she has.

Composed by Ron Goodwin.

[hairykrishna]

I take it, as you've made your way through the IMDB top 250, you've already watched '12 Angry Men'? You should if you haven't.

[Bacardi]

hairykrishna said:

I take it, as you've made your way through the IMDB top 250, you've already watched '12 Angry Men'? You should if you haven't.

Seconded!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejHKA2HI4TY

[ChiChoAndy]

Bacardi said:

hairykrishna said:

I take it, as you've made your way through the IMDB top 250, you've already watched '12 Angry Men'? You should if you haven't.

Seconded!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejHKA2HI4TY

There is an X-files episode which is a homage to '12 angry me'

[Pesty]

I think Quincy and Monk have also done a homage to 12 angry men. In fact I'm sure its been done by many shows.

[Bryn Pinzgauer]

ChiChoAndy said:

I had that many moons ago. Another couple of good ones are 'The onenthat got away' and the one with the female agent in the French resistance. Can't remember the name. Virginia whatshername was in it.

Carve her Name with Pride

[Pothole]

james_tigerwoods said:

What about:
Platoon
12 monkeys
2001 A Space Odyssey
Spartacus
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
Duel
Christine

Off the top of my head...

did you read the OP? Christine is a dreadful adaptation of a superb book. Huge disappointment as most SK films tend to be.

[Eric Mc]

Most of those movies are outside the OP's time limits.

[davepoth]

One old film I enjoyed fairly recently was "On The Beach". Well worth a watch.

[ChiChoAndy]

Eric Mc said:

Most of those movies are outside the OP's time limits.

Depends what your definition of old, is. 'Old' films to me are 70's or earlier. B&W is something else entirely.

[Ace-T]

Glad other folk like 'A Matter of Life and Death'. The title is not great but it is a stunningly shot film with a great twist of expectation (trying not to give anything away!). It is, in essence, a love story but which deals with all sorts of metaphysical questions. Possibly my favourite film.

Another film I would recommend is Metropolis. Famous for Maria the robot, she is not, as I expected, the entire story. You have to watch it with an eye on the context in which it was made though.

Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo is utterly sublime. You want action? Watch that guy wield a sword.

North by Northwest is a great Hitchcock film. Cary Grant :swoon:. Hmmm, not quite the recommendation you were after maybe?

The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, Bringing up Baby, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - a truly ground breaking film. And an absolute Bogart/Hepburn classic, The African Queen. Simply stunning.

Believe me, I like modern 'exploding helicopter' films, but you are really missing out on some great stuff if you restrict yourself to just those.

Trace

[Pothole]

ChiChoAndy said:

Eric Mc said:

Most of those movies are outside the OP's time limits.

Depends what your definition of old, is. 'Old' films to me are 70's or earlier. B&W is something else entirely.

No, it depends on what the OP said in the OP:

"By older I mean pre early 1960's, from around the time of the first Bond films backwards."

'to me' doesn't count!

[Zad]

Eric Mc said:

Halb said:

An Inspector Calls is very good.

Murder She Said was on a few weeks ago, love that tune she has.

Composed by Ron Goodwin.

Who also wrote the theme to Where Eagles Dare. Not sure if that counts as old by the OP's standard, but it is a cracking film.

I'm no film buff, but I find modern films (mostly) bore me. The range "visual grammar" they use is so narrow, with the same camera angles, scenes, plots and so on, no matter what the film genre is. They just tend to look and feel so similar.

And yes, the Margaret Rutherford versions of Miss Marple are a guilty pleasure. They are nothing like the books, but they invoke such a strong sense of adventure and excitement. Murder at the Gallop was on Film 4 yesterday (Saturday) so may well be repeated over the next few days.

Metropolis is hard work. I sense how important it is, and the visuals are utterly iconic, but every time I watch it I lose interest. I really really want to like it, but it just doesn't carry me along.

If you find you like The Third Man, then I would look at some of the other Film Noir genre like the "hardboiled" detective thrillers.