# Any Classic Movie Fans/Buffs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 6, 2018, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279 "2018-02-06T03:03:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/41 "2018-02-07T23:03:06Z")
_I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang_ - Why is Paul Muni almost forgotten today? And speaking of Paul Muni - _The Good Earth_ _It Happened One Night_ is hilarious. I don’t care what anyone says. So is _Bringing Up Baby_. _One, Two, Three…_ is an amusing take on the Cold War. _The Grapes of Wrath_ _Inherit the Wind_ And nothing beats the original _Mutiny on the Bounty_ ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/42 "2018-02-07T23:06:42Z")
carnivorousplant, The ending is controversial. Abbey wrote two endings, but the one used is the most impactful. My wife won’t let the DVD in the house. “Lonely are the Brave” (Book: “The Brave Cowboy”, Edward Abbey) should be the great Libertarian novel rather than the silliness of Atlas Shrugged. Crane ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/43 "2018-02-08T00:32:57Z")
_The Oxbow Incident_, a very atypical western with Henry Fonda that lost out to _Casablanca_ for the Oscar. _Flight of the Phoenix_, with Jimmy Stuart ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/44 "2018-02-08T01:59:30Z")
Philadelphia Story His Girl Friday ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/45 "2018-02-08T02:02:16Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I have not watched the end of that film. Well, a horse dies. No one likes to see that. It’s like **Old Yeller,** but with a horse. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/46 "2018-02-08T02:08:04Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Luis Bunuel’s [Los Olvidados](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QRWQRDpqMw)is a grim, bleak look at violence among the impoverished youth in Mexico City’s slums. Bunuel is God. There’s not one film of his that hasn’t snapped my stix. Try **Simon of the Desert** or **The Discreet Chrm of the Bourgeousie.** ---
**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/47 "2018-02-08T13:53:20Z")
That Uncertain Feeling (1941) One-Eyed Jacks (1961) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/48 "2018-02-08T14:51:59Z")
Don’t neglect gangster films like _White Heat, Public Enemy, Little Caesar, Petrified Forest, Angels With Dirty Faces, and Key Largo._ ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/49 "2018-02-08T16:13:51Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > _The Oxbow Incident_, a very atypical western… Another very atypical western would be _Johnny Guitar_. Nothing like Nicholas Ray with intense two-colour Trucolor film (soon replaced by Du Pont’s even gaudier three-colour film) with underlying themes of McCarthyisms’s witch-hunting and [lesbianism](http://screenprism.com/insights/article/queering-classic-hollywood-lesbianism-and-the-western-the-case-of-johnny-gu). For some reason I found Joan Crawford strangely hot, her look having an almost dominatrix kinda feel, here. (did I just say that?) ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/50 "2018-02-08T16:38:56Z")
Having been spoiled by UHD, digital surround sound, and incredible computer animation, I find old movies a bit too understated for my tastes. The thing that I do find very interesting about old movies, however is how they are a reflection of the social customs, mores, gender roles, etc. of the times in which they were filmed. My most recent viewing was “Vertigo”. I love Hitchcock because he was so incredibly gifted at creating suspense and fear without the need for gratuitous violence. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/51 "2018-02-08T16:52:10Z")
Let us not forget All Through the Night, where Humphrey Bogart foils the plans of Conrad Veidt and his dog. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/52 "2018-02-08T20:57:51Z")
Freaks (1932) [Trailer.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJVXTKkjsxA) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/53 "2018-02-09T01:54:40Z")
Michealangelo Antonioni’s “Lavventura”. ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/54 "2018-02-09T02:30:00Z")
Sometimes even a mediocre 1930s-50s movie can be worth a watch just for the fashion alone. The impeccable tailoring and cuts are drool-worthy. And the actors almost never look uncomfortable. Just amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Miles\_Standoffish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/54ee81/32.png) [@Miles\_Standoffish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miles_Standoffish)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/55 "2018-02-09T13:59:17Z")
> [@Grumbacher\_Red](#): > > Sometimes even a mediocre 1930s-50s movie can be worth a watch just for the fashion alone. The impeccable tailoring and cuts are drool-worthy. And the actors almost never look uncomfortable. Just amazing. Yeah back in the day when a man would put on a suit jacket just to go downstairs. And would _never_ go outside without a hat. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/56 "2018-02-09T15:20:12Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Michealangelo Antonioni’s “Lavventura”. On my short list. ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/57 "2018-02-09T15:22:48Z")
> [@Miles\_Standoffish](#): > > Yeah back in the day when a man would put on a suit jacket just to go downstairs. And would _never_ go outside without a hat. I watched a Debbie Reyonlds movie a while ago, she is a farmer’s daughter, there are a bunch of kids, I can’t recall the title offhand, but the father was in his truck headed to town and the mother is chasing after him with his coat, telling him he simply cannot go into town in his shirtsleeves! My son is watching \*\*Seven Samurai \*\*on TCM right now, and the story is indeed very good, but the clothing and textiles are what is catching my eye as I am halfway watching it. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/58 "2018-02-09T16:29:00Z")
I love watching Classic movies on flights but lately they’ve been from the 80’s and I figure if I was alive when the movie was made it’s not a “classic.” Some I’ve seen and enjoyed: The Grapes of Wrath Harvey (really enjoyed that one!) The Manchurian Candidate (young Angela Lansbury playing a villain!) Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend (I think - Marilyn Monroe on a cruise ship with her friend?) One with a bunch of women in a boarding house, many well-known actors in it One where this room was rented out to a woman and man and they had to figure out how to exist with each other and keep up the propriety, Ginger Rogers was in it One where this rich little girl was sent to a boarding school but then her dad disappeared so her bill wasn’t being paid anymore so they made her live in a dirty attic and do chores, turns out he was in a hospital after being wounded in the war and she found him at the end I also used to enjoy watching TCM when we had cable, especially the “marathons”, I really enjoyed the James Cagney marathon. ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/59 "2018-02-09T17:45:36Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > One with a bunch of women in a boarding house, many well-known actors in it > One where this room was rented out to a woman and man and they had to figure out how to exist with each other and keep up the propriety, Ginger Rogers was in it > One where this rich little girl was sent to a boarding school but then her dad disappeared so her bill wasn’t being paid anymore so they made her live in a dirty attic and do chores, turns out he was in a hospital after being wounded in the war and she found him at the end. I think the one with the women in a boarding house is **Stage Door**. It had Ginger Rogers, Katherine Hepburn and Lucille Ball in it, and yes that is a great one! The clothes are delicious, too! The second one doesn’t ring a bell. The last one sounds like a Shirley Temple movie. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279/60 "2018-02-11T06:39:27Z")
> [@Grumbacher\_Red](#): > > The last one sounds like a Shirley Temple movie. Definitely “The Little Princess”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-classic-movie-fans-buffs/808279.md?page=4)