Sunday, April 25, 2010

Other Noteworthy Classics




Films I have Seen and Liked but didn’t Love 
Notable Comedy Classics 
Destry Rides Again (1939) Jimmy Stewart
His Girl Friday (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940) with Jimmy Stewart
The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Top O the Morning (1949) Bing Crosby
Adam's Rib (1949) Spenser Tracy, Katherine Hepburn
The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)
Bell Book and Candle (1958)
The Apartment (1960) 
Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961) Blake Edwards
Dr. Strangelove (1964) 
Cat Ballou (1965)
Zebra in the Kitchen (1965) 
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming   (1966) 
Paper Moon (1973)
The Gumball Rally (1976)
Murder by Death (1976) 
Musicals 
42nd Street (1933) 
Hans Christian Anderson (1952)
Guys and Dolls (1955) 
Carousel (1956)
1776 (1972)- Saw only 1/2  
Godspell (1973)
The Wiz (1978)
Notable Misc Classics Films
The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
Gunga Din (1939) Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Laura (1940)
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1945)
The Pride of the Yankees (1948) Gary Cooper
The High and the Mighty (1955) John Wayne 
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
Moby Dick (1956) Gregory Peck
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
The Defiant Ones (1958) Sidney Poitier
Touch Of Evil (1958)
The Seventh Seal 1958
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959) Jimmy Stewart 
Ocean's Eleven (1960 film),
Spartacus (1960)
Flight of the Phoenix (1965) Jimmy Stewart
In the Heat of the Night (1967), Sidney Poitier Followed by sequels
The Graduate (1967) Dustin Hoffman
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
Bullit (1968)Besides cool opening credits and a great car chase it was kinda a dull film.
Notable TOP NOTCH Classic Western 
Rio Bravo (1959) John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)  Paul Newmen, Robert Redford (Would have to re-watch this one)
Notable Classic  THRILLER/FILM NOIR
The Maltese Falcon (1941) Bogart
Double Indemnity (1944)Fred MacMurry, Edward G Robbinson
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Frank Sinatra
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) SPOOF Steve Martin
Notalbe Classic War Movies
Stalag 17 (1953) Billy Wilder
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Run Silent Run Deep (1958) Clark Gable
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Longest Day (1962) John Wayne
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
The Great Escape (1963) Steve McQueen
Miss Marple Mysteries
(I enjoyed these films more when I was a kid, but they were fun to re-watch and I might re-watch the last one at some point when I have explored other films I have not seen)
Murder, She Said (1962)
Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Murder Most Foul (1964)
Murder Ahoy (1964)
Classic Disney Drama and Adventure
The Story of Robin Hood
The Sword and the Rose
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
The Great Locomotive Chase
Johnny Tremain
Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Kidnapped
Pollyanna
Summer Magic
Those Callaways 
The Moon-Spinners
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
The Happiest Millionaire
Dr. Syn, Alias The Scarecrow        
Treasure of Matecumbe
Candleshoe

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