Old movie recommendation time

Roadhouse - the Ida Lupino and Richard Widmark movie

The Maltese Falcon

Lawrence of Arabia

Swing Time

The Wizard of Oz

[quote]You have nothing but a rusty old VCR that plays tapes of old movies prior to 1970. The bad person asks you to write your list and they will come back with the movies on your list. After you watch them, they will kill you.

The Theda Bara version of "Cleopatra."

Bridge on the River kwai

Hercules

Dr. Strangelove

Psycho

Dracula

Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein

Breathless

City Lights

Key Largo

Hercules in the Underworld

Maciste

Mighty Ursus

Jason and the Argonauts

The Haunting

Carnival of Souls

All About Eve

Helen of Troy

Sunset Boulevard

A Streetcar Named Desire

Rebel Without a Cause

Fiddler on the Roof

South Pacific

42nd Street

City Lights

The Wolfman

Dr. Zhivago

Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill!

Valley of the Dolls

All Flash Gordons

The Wild One

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Some Like It Hot

Singin’ in the Rain

North By Northwest

Rosemary’s Baby

King Kong

Beauty and the Beast (cocteau)

Mary Poppins

The Sound of Music

Plan 9 From Outer Space

The Blob

Earth Vs the Flying Saucers

War of the Worlds

House of Wax

Pit and the Pendulum

Freaks

Bye Bye Birdie

It’s a Wonderful Life

The Searchers

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

8 1/2

Satyricon

La Dolce Vita

Bedazzled

Casablanca

Lawrence of Arabia

The Wicker Man

Trash

Flesh

Bonnie and Clyde

The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari

Metropolis

M

Night of the Living Dead

Spartacus

Jules and Jim

The Great Dictator

The Rules of the Game

OP should just peruse AFI’s list of the greatest movies:

The Crimson Pirate

Local Hero

Singing in the Rain

The Quiet Man

2001 a Space Odyssey for sure.

The Seahawk

Citizen Kane

A Touch of Evil

The Seventh Seal

Seven Samurai

The Magnificent Seven

Sudden Fear

My Favorite Wife

Casablanca

Girl Crazy

Showboat (1936)

The Maltese Falcon

To Be or Not to Be

Sunset Boulevard

Shadow of a Doubt

Well, if they're going to kill me after I watch the movies then obviously I'd pick the longest movies in the history of cinema. But if you're asking for old movie recommendations:

Gone With The Wind A Tale of Two Cities David Copperfield The Wizard of Oz Now, Voyager The Ten Commandments Jezebel The Philadelphia Story Funny Girl All About Eve Lawrence of Arabia Dr Zhivago Jezebel Alice Adams Notorious North by Northwest Suspicion Rebecca Waterloo Bridge Double Indemnity

I think I'll choose death over sitting through Wizard of Oz, Ten Commandments or Gone With the Wind again.

OP is Scheherazade.

They Live By Night

The Letter

The Uninvited

The Spiral Staircase

The Charge of the Light Brigade and The Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn.

The Warriors

The Haunting (original)

The Quiet Man

Friendly Persuasion

Moulin Rouge (the original, not that other travesty)

The Scarlet Pimpernel (original with Leslie Howard)

The Magnificent Seven

The Great Escape

The Lady Eve

The 49th Parallel

The Big Broadcast of 1938

Passport to Pimlico

Ben-Hur (1925 version with Ramon Novarro)

The 39 Steps

The Lady Vanishes

The Bride of Frankenstein

Show Boat (1936 James Whale version)

The Maltese Falcon (third version with Bogart and Lorre)

His Girl Friday

Gaslight (the Ingrid Bergman version)

All 14 of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films

Happy to see 'His Girl Friday' on this list R15 - that's one of my favorites. But also thrown in 'Desk Set'. Hepburn & Tracy at their best.

The League of Gentlemen

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Strangers on a Train

The Prowler

Rebecca Notorious Strangers on a Train Rear Window Vertigo North by Northwest Psycho The Birds Marnie

and

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

Also,

Black Narcissus

and

The Searchers

Any Yoko Ono movie followed by any Jerry Lewis movie and death will be a big relief.

Something with a bunch of dead actresses who hated each other! In black and white from the 1930s!

Top Hat. The good news, lots of Art Deco. The bad news, movie is in black and white.

Any Alfred Hitchcock movie.

Mrs. MIniver.

David Copperfield(1935)

Gentleman's Agreement

Meet me in St Louis

The Ladykillers (1955)

Kes

Great Expectations(1946)

Brief Encounter

The Red Shoes

Jane Eyre(1943)

Rebecca

Ring of Bright Water

The 39 Steps

The Lady Vanishes

Rope

Rear Window

The man who knew too much

Rear Window

Calamity Jane

High Society

Judgment at Nuremburg

Witness for the Prosecution.

Blithe Spirit

I've seen just about every film mentioned in this thread multiple times. You really can't go wrong. The only problem is, once you start watching these, you're gonna notice just how awful today's movies tend to be!

All Hitchcock, for starters.

All Sean Connery "James Bond."

The British films of the Angry Young Men dramas ("Saturday Night and Sunday Morning," "Look Back in Anger," "Room at the Top," "This Sporting Life," "Billy Liar," "A Taste of Honey," etc.).

Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet."

So many other great ones ca. 1964--1970 ("A Hard Day's Night," "The Boys in the Band," "Blow-Up," "Dr. Zhivago," "Alfie," "A Man For All Seasons," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Midnight Cowboy," "Easy Rider," "M.A.S.H.," "Woodstock," and so on).

"The Hard Way" with Ida Lupino and DL favorite Jack Carson!

It's lurid and underrated, and is closely based on the unsavory show biz beginnings of Ginger Rogers and her mother Lela. In the film they are two sisters and not mother and daughter. This was to avoid getting sued by Ginger and her mother!

Scandalous!

I wrote that sloppily, I do not mean to say that Ida Lupino and Jack Carson play sisters. The actress playing Ida Lupino's sister is Joan Leslie.

Forgot to include this in my list: Stagecoach (1939), with a young and handsome John Wayne, a young and gorgeous John Carradine, and one of the finest character actors to grace the silver screen: Andy Devine as the stagecoach driver.

Buck would never have taken 30 replies to say Ordinary People!

[quote] After you watch them, they will kill you.

Watch Ishtar at the very end. It'll make dying a welcome distraction.

Sunset Boulevard

The Desperate Hours (1955)

Psycho

Singin' in the Rain

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Strangers on a Train

Shadow of a Doubt

North By Northwest

Calamity Jane

Show Boat (1951)

In A Lonely Place

From Here to Eternity

Well, seeing as how I'm getting killed after watching the last one, I'd order EVERY pre-1970 movie dvd/cassette ever created... and yes, I guess Ishtar would be appropriate as the very last one....