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I prefer older movies to newer ones, in general, but I am very fond of Titanic, Michael, and a number of others. Last night I bought The Day the Earth Stood Still and settled in to watch it uninterrupted for the first time since I saw it as a kid. Shortly after Gort melted a truck and some guns, I was paged to go to work. I will try that one again in a few days.
I also bought Gary Cooper in his first post High Noon film, Blowing Wild, with Barbara Stanwyck, Anthony Quinn, Ruth Roman and Ward Bond. He, Bond, and Quinn are in South America to bring in wild cat oil wells, but the bandits on horseback are out to stop them if they don't get paid off. There is a love quadrangle, with the women in love with Cooper, although Barbara Stanwyck is married to Anthony Quinn. It was a dismal affair, a film I thought beneath all concerned.
So if you want to talk old movies, hopefully ones not covered in top ten or top hate lists, feel free to join in. Sometimes I am fairly sharp, sometimes a doofus, depends on how I feel and what movies are on the table.

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I've got "Rear Window" coming in from Amazon.com along with "Sweet Dreams", the Patsy Cline bio with Jessica Lange and Ed Harris. Very excited. Rear Window is the collector's edition. Don't know what to expect but really looking forward to it.

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Hmmm, just mentioned on another thread that I watched Notorious this afternoon. A great love story -- Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman are dreamy. They just don't make movies that tight anymore.

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Aaah! Old movies. I just finished watching Hitchcock"s "Notorious" with Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, and Claude Rains. Two great actors and loaded with romance and suspense. If you've never seen it, it's a must. I've been catching up on all the oldies on Turner Classic Movies and enjoying them all over again. Suspicion is on now. See you later.

Thanks for this thread, E. B.

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I taped Rear Window off a friend's television a few months ago. It still thrills after all these years. I did the same with Psycho. I enjoy that one more in my older age. When I saw it in the past I thought it was boring in the beginning. Now I see it in a better perspective.

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I like a lot of different movies, including old movies and foreign films. I watched The Day The Earth Stood Still the other night...this is one of my favorite classics. I always hoped that they would do a remake of this sci-fi, b-movie classic. If they did, I wonder if today's special effects would take away from the original movie theme.

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I suspect they would doctor it up for the juvenile special effects crowd and the storyline would disappear.
Two films I would like to see redone, however, are When Worlds Collide and Forbidden Planet. When I saw Forbidden Planet as a child I thought it would be impossible to improve on it. Now, I know better.

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Old movies are my favorites!!! If you had "The Godfather" in one hand and "Ma and Pa Kettle "
in the other I'm going for ma and Pa everytime.
I watched the" Godfather" because as a film fan you're supposed to have seen it. I watch the old stuff for enjoyment. I just got "Mr. Moto's Last Warning" [1939] with Peter Lorrie, can't wait to watch it.

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I'd forgotten about Ma and Pa Kettle. I haven't seen that in many years, as a kid it was one of my favorites.

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Here's a confession: I never saw any of the Godfather movies at all.
If you are fans of Ma and Pa Kettle, you must remember Judy Canova. I don't know how many films she made, but I always enjoyed her. She also had a radio show in which she played a hillbilly. Every episode she would begin a segment saying, "Wake up Paw. Wake up ye lazy critter."

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I had to look up her picture...now I remember who she is (or was).

http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/judycanova.html

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The last performance by Judy Canova that I saw was an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock show.

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Here is a mystery I have been trying to solve for quite a few years:
I read an autobiography of Edward G. Robinson, Jr. He was constantly in trouble and he and his father were estranged. The last part of the book tells how they reconciled and even performed together on an episode of the GE Theater. It ends with Manny, as he was called, asserting that he was on the right track and puruing a movie career. I know that he died not that long later, but have never been able to find any person who knows how it happened. Edward G. Robinson's autobiography doesn't even tell.

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One of my favorite women in movie comedies, was Judy Holiday. I love the movie, It Should Happen To You, where she played a character named Gladys Glover.

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Judy Holiday had a number of good roles. Back in the 60s I became a fan of Sandy Dennis. She did not appear in that many films I saw that I could call really great; I just enjoyed her acting. After Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf I saw her as half a lesbian couple - Don't recall the title. One of the girls got killed by a falling tree. I only saw two or three other films with her in them.

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Sandy Dennis was a strange actor. Kind of like a female Jimmy Dean. Tortured, confused, confusing. Life itself just seemed to be so painful and difficult for the characters she played.

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I can't say why I was attracted to her (Denneis), whether the roles or the person.

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EB:

In Alvin H. Marill's book, The Films of Edw. G. Robinson, it mentions:

"Just over a year after Edward G. Robinson's death, his only son, Edward G. Robinson, Jr., who in his 1957 autobiography, My Father, My Son, chronicled his trouble-plagued life, also died. He was 40."

The only info IMdb gives is that Edward G. Robinson "had to deal with a psychologically troubled son."

And yet, if my mind isn't playing tricks on me, I recall "suicide" as the cause of death. But, I can't find anything in writing to substantiate that. If I find anything further in my collection, I'll let you know. Now, I'm curious. Very Happy

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My Father My Son, which I have on my shelf here, is what got me curious. I was under the impression that Ed Sr died first. Guess I was wrong.

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And you are right EB. The son died a year or so after his father.

I never appreciated Edward G. Robinson until I saw him perform on stage in Pa. in Darkness at Noon in the fifties. At the end of the play he quoted the first verse of Shakespeare's Dirge:

Fear no more the heat o' th' sun,
Nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and taken they wages;
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

I can hear that beautiful voice now. He was great. Since then I've caught most of his films on TV and if you've never seen "All My Sons", try to get it. And I never miss "Soylent Green" just to watch Robinson's death scene.

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