The Visitors (1972)
If you like tension without the BS, check this movie out. It’s rare I give a movie an 8/10, especially nowadays… One of Kazan’s best, the only movie of his that made the transition between the 50s and the more gritty and natural 70s.
The only version which I can find is cut to hell (and with all of the text reversed) but " The Mortal Storm" (1940)
It just reminds me so much of America today.
Guns at Batasi 1964, apparently adapted from a play. The writing is sharp, the acting top notch, the plot interesting. Saw it on TCM one evening and was hooked immediately so I tracked down a DVD copy and have seen it a dozen times since. Sometimes I’ll just leave on in the background when I’m doing chores.
First timer I watched this twice over the weekend! Great movie on HBO Max
In the last nine years, I’ve seen lots of old movies for the first time watching TCM and CHCH after midnight. The one I “fell in love with” most recently is probably Angel on My Shoulder. Claude Rains is superb as the Prince of Darkness, Paul Muni is great as the unrepentant gangster, and young Anne Baxter is incredibly hot! 
About a year ago I watched Sam Peckinpah’s “The Wild Bunch” on Netflix.
Somehow I missed it on its first release and never got around to seeing it, though it was always on my wanna-see list. I can’t say I loved it - that’s a pretty strong reaction - but I really enjoyed it and finally understood how groundbreaking it was in its day. I enjoy a good western, and it had a great story to tell. And it was good to see a lot of those “A-list” tough guy actors from back in the day still kicking in 1969. Holden. Ryan. Borgnine. O’Brien. Though some of them had some good roles still to play in the 1970s, these guys were all facing the twilight of their careers, when they were being cast less and less. A good watch.
Last year just prior to the shutdown I was flying back from the UK and saw Bullit was available. I had never seen it but knew the sound track so figured what the hell.
Really enjoyed it.
‘Rear Window’. The original 1954 version of course.
Watched It Happened One Night for the first time ever a couple of weeks ago. Odd little classic film. It’s hard not to think that they didn’t mine this for Bugs Bunny’s characteristics and personality.
I never heard of this movie… Did you watch it on DailyMotion?
I like watching old films when I can. There is a lot of great stuff on Youtube.
The one I instantly watched and would easily recommend is the 1935 version of The 39 Steps. One of Alfred Hitchcock’s lesser known works but awesome nonetheless. The lead character nailed the role of Richard Hannay, a man who is on the run for murder, except he didn’t commit murder and is determined to clear his name. The co-star, an attractive blonde in the Hitchcock mould is really good too even though she doesn’t feature for most of the film.
There is a 1950s version starring Kenneth More (star of the Titanic film A Night To Remember) which is not as good imo but the visuals and scenery of rural Scotland are absolutely stunning.
In A Lonely Place, with Humphrey Bogart as the Hollywood screenwriter who may or may not have committed a murder, but who sure ain’t doing himself any favors by sticking to that cold-wisecracks persona instead of acting like a wrongfully-accused nice guy.
I have been watching Abbott and Costello movies on a complete Universal collection. Quite frankly a lot of these films stink and are forgettable yet the two were huge box office draws in the day. Probably one reason why the films are bad is Universal just rushed them out, figuring the public would go see them.
One that is a cut above is a comedy ghost film “The Time of their Lives”. Costello and Majorie Reynolds get falsely accused of treason, are shot and cursed through eternity during the American Revolution unless evidence clears them, which Abbott has hidden. Condemned to the estate and unable to join their loved ones in heaven until modern times until a group of people, including Abbott’s decedent (a good guy) buy the estate. The usual strange ghost physics of when you can walk through walls but not fall through floors like you see when people are out of phase by positive tachyeon radiation on “Star Trek TNG” and “Stargate SG-1”. Made during a period when Abbott and Costello weren’t talking to each other and in a slump, the two are are camera a lot but interact with others.
1931 “Night Nurse” with Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell and Clark Gable as the bad guy when James Cagney became too big after “Public Enemy”. Pre-Code so a couple scenes with Stanwyck and Blondell in the lingerie with a male orderly ogling them, cynical remarks about doctors and in the end the bad guy (Gable), who is slowly killing a child Stanwyck is caring for, is killed by a bootlegger friend of hers.
I found it on Daily Motion… split in 3 parts. It used to be on either TCM or AMC. It’s the story of how NAZIism could creep into a small town.
The last really old movies I watched for the first time and enjoyed were the result of a rabbit hole. Watched Bringing Up Baby and laughed my ass off after which Arsenic and Old Lace was suggested and I loved that. The old timey movie marathon was capped with Little Miss Marker. Shirley was a real cutie tearjerker.