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OT: Your favorite old Movie and Why

RBnSC

RBnSC

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The Flight of The Phoenix. Jimmy Stewart crashes a plane in the desert with a load of tools and they cut it apart and build a smaller one and fly it out. Fixing things with what you have in hand reminds me of growing up on the farm. Whats Yours?
Ron
 
Shane (1953) Alan Ladd, a quiet hero. Redone in 1986 with Clint Eastwood in Pale Rider. Eastwood is very "kick butt" as usual, in getting the best of the bad guys. Alan Ladd has a great deal of difficulty in subduing Joe, the good guy farmer, to keep him from going to town. A lot more realistic character than Eastwood's role.
 
How old? I would say that my favorite classic series is indiana jones, and of course cassablanka (spelling?)


However i love "A christmas story" becuase in the parade scene there is a farmall H pulling a float
 
"In the Heat of the Night" has some good tractor scenes, including one with a mechanic taking a torch to the front of an 806. He doesn't seem to be actually cutting on the tractor- I guess they just wanted the sparks!
 
Gotta be "12 oclock High" Bomber flik about flying from bases in England to blast germany.Starred Gregory Peck. Hoss {Vet-1st Avn Brigade,335 Assault Helcopter Co. Dongtam S.Vn.}
 
Probably my favorite classic movie is Casablanca because the story is so moving, the cast so memorable and the acting so superb.

My favorite movie American Graffiti because I can relate so well to the era.

Dean
 
Hunt for Red October. 'Certain things in here do not react well to bullets'. Are there any other movies than this one! Greg
 
Serpico. Starring Al Pacino. I've been in a few situations similar to his caracter. I can feel his frustration.
 
I don't think I've seen that movie in 40 years. Refresh my memory. Is that the one when he pops the hood open and you see a Ford V8 (312 maybe) with tri-power? I've got that image stuck in my head since three carbs was pretty rare in the 50s.
 
The Flight of The Phoenix with Jimmy Stewart. Those last shotgun shells sure kept you on the edge of you seat. That movie and The African Queen are tied for first place in my life. Working with what you have on hand is a safe way to get through life.

John
 
legend of Josie Wales, and that mountain man one with Robert Redford, I just had a brain fart and cant recall the name
 
My favorite is Pure Country starring George Strait. I Cross My Heart (song that was in the movie) was the song we played when my wife marched down the isle on our wedding day fifteen years ago.
 
Das Boot; German made, about 25 years ago. About a German U boat on patrol near the end of WW II. lots of action and realism, not your usual war movie. I have watched very few movies more than once. This one I have watched probably five times.
 
My favorite old movie is The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, probably. It gets to the way that reality can be so different from public perception. I don't have a TV so I've not seen a movie at all in about 5 years.
Zach
 
TOM HORN with steve mcqeeen, sacred ground WITH JACK ELAM, ANY JOHN WAYNE ,JUST WATCHED ;;THE LONG RIDERS WITH 4 SETS OF ACTICG BROTHERS PLAYING JESSE JAMES AND THE JOUNGERS
 
El Dorado with John Wayne and Robert Mitchum. Lots of other favorite old movies, but that is my favorite John Wayne and old movie.

Christopher
 
The African Queen. I'm a big fan of Bogart, so I think a case could also be made for "Treasure of the Sierra Madre", "We're No Angels", "Key Largo", "Casablanca", any several others as well.
 
Nobody is My Name with Terence Hill and Henry Fonda. Kinda reminds me of what everyone thinks of--their own mortality and if they'll be remembered when they're gone.
 
"My Name is Nobody" with Terrance Hill and Henry Fonda. A spag western, AWESOME AWESOME. ebayy 7-10 bucks for the dvd and you will watch it over and over.
 
Three of them together. The John Ford "Cavalry Trilogy" with John Wayne. "Rio Grande" (with Ken Curtis -- Festus -- singing "Kathleen -- "Fort Apache" with Henry Fonda and Shirley Temple, and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," with Joanne Dru.
 
Scotty, you can't leave out Harry Carey Jr, Ben Johnson, and Victor McLaglen. In "Rio Grande", you can get a brief glimpse of Shug Fisher.
 
Good thread. Sounds like I need to oil up my DVD and rent a few of your recommendations.
How about In Harms Way
John Wayne, Patricia Neil, Kirk Douglas.
One of my all time favorites.
 
"The Maltese Falcon", the original "Frankenstein", and the Marx Brothers in "A Night At The Opera". Also an old Peter Lorre movie called "The Beast With Five Fingers". His costar was Robert Alda, father of Alan Alda.
 
El Dorado, Maybe not the top but in the top 10, along with Reo Lobo, Chisim, Midway, In Harms Way, Big Jake, The Longest Day.
 
El Dorado with John Wayne and Robert Mitchum is great, but my favorite movie is probably The Great Escape with Steve McQueen and James Garner.
 
The Shaw Shank Redemption -- Tim Robbins
The Big Country -- Gregory Peck

Main charactor is strong enough that he does not need to prove himself to any one but himself.
 
I'll vote for that!!! I was a sub sailor for 21 years and thats the most real thing I have ever seen about what we did...
 
just watched "The Enemy Below" w/Robert Mitchum. About German sub. - tin can battle in the south Atlantic. "The Hunt For Red October" & "U-571" were also good sub stories.
 
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid,
Forrest Gump,
Field of Dreams,
Pale Rider,
It's a Wonderful Life
Cool Hand Luke,
Kelly's Hero's,
Animal House
The Natural,
The Quiet Man
 
Believe it or not my uncle met John Wayne during the filming of in Harms way and is in the scene where they are a at a formal dance. Later He flew John Wayne around Viet Nam to scout sites to film Green Berets. We have lots of pictures of them together. My Uncle was a pilot in the Army.
Ron
 
What is that, Captain? I can't make that out.

Don't forget Run Silent, Run Deep.

Dean
 
"Once Upon A Time in the West". Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, and UUUMMMMMMM, Claudia Cardinale! Yeah it's a spaghetti western but I could look at Claudia Cardinale all day and all night.
 
call me old but i do not watch any movie that has;
tim robbins or his wife susan-to far left,
robert redford-downs america too much,
tom hanks-gun control,
i do not listen to mucic by;
dixie chicks-downs america
michael jackson-alias freak
elton john-queer
barbara strisden(?)-gun control
many others that i avoid also and have have found my life is not missing anything due to this.
 
Funny mostly John Wayne movies but you all left out my favorite "The searchers"
Also The unforgiven with Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn.
Walt
 
MF Poor, you saved me the trouble of typing my list. Just add Shawshank Redemption and Driving Miss Daisy.
 
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