What are your favorite classic films? Talking pre-1960 here...
 

A few of my faves include:

The Third Man (1949)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Rebecca (1940)
Frankenstein (1931)

Angry Red Planet (1959)

Your Mom (1917)

All the old Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis films especially The Caddy and Geisha Girl.

Mine is this!

The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) {not that recent crappy one! LOL!}

Auntie Mame (1958) with Rosalind Russell
Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)

that christmas movie with James Stewart

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Hi CD,

Cool!!! I had never heard of this movie before. it looks awesome!



I love classic sci-fi like this.

All quiet on the western front
High Noon

Really all I could think of, haven't really watched many old movies.

Double Indemnity
citizen Kane
Gone With The Wind
The Wizard of Oz
Scrooge (1951)
Casablanca
SEVEN SAMURAI
On the Waterfront
Vertigo
Grapes of Wrath
Rear Window
Rope
Strangers on a Train
The Searchers
North by Northwest

what a great era for film making.

Citizen Kane
Gone With The Wind
The Wizard of Oz
Casablanca
SEVEN SAMURAI
On the Waterfront
Vertigo
Grapes of Wrath
Rear Window
Strangers on a Train
North by Northwest
Maltese Falcon
Some Like It Hot
Ben Hur
Bridge On The River Kwai
12 Angry Man
High Society
Harvey
The African Queen
The LadyKillers
I'm All Right Jack
Two Way Stretch (1960)

Thanks Choopa for the list, just a few we don't agree on. Plus a few you missed.

The Seven Year Itch (1955)

quite a few I forgot, thanks! I was just going off memory.

Yes, and throw in "The Thin Man", with William Powell and Mirna Loy. One of the funniest movies ever....



Oh wait, and "Best Years of Our Lives".



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Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, Monkey Business. All absolute classics from the Marx Brothers and still movies i can watch now and laugh my ass off!

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Agreed, any Marx bros movie is good.
Also,
The Ghostbreakers (1940)
The Road to Morocco(1942)
Both are great Bob Hope movies. Hope and Bing Crosby did a bunch of "The Road to ..." movies too. All are funny.

Fantasia - 1940

Lots of good ones listed, one I can think of that just makes the mark at 1960 is 'The Apartment'

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I like all the old comedies. Marx Brothers, Abbott & Costello, Hope and Crosby, Lewis and Martin, The Bowery Boys, Three Stooges...when I was a kid we only got 3 channels on the antenna on our t.v. (the 1970's) And those old movies would play on the local UHF station all the time. :)

Don't forget the old B scifi's.
Horror at party beach
Revenge of the creature
The she creature
Teenagers from outer space

Mystery science theater introduced this genre to me. Good stuff

So many movies, so little time
 

Comedies, film noir
My vote is WC Fields or Bogart

used to love the Bowery Boys:thumbsup:thumbsup

Not a pre-60's movie (1963) but deserves honourable mention anyway:

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so funny..

Surprised that no one has mentioned this one yet.

Movies
 

There are a few revival cinema houses left. Most show a movie once on Friday or Saturday night. There was one that had the movie at 7 & 9 pm plus several showings on Saturday & Sunday.
When Ben Hur played, I told my son I don't care what's happening, we're going to the movies. To see Ben Hur on TV is not worth watching. You have to watch the chariot race on the 50 foot screen.

Stooges
 

That movie was 3 hours long. But the 3 Stooges got 30seconds? WTF? They must have cut something out.

Agreed, my folks took me to see Ben Hur at a small cinema house when I was a teenager. Very glad they did. It was weird having an intermission at a theater.

I forgot: A Touch of Evil

(I'll watch anything by Orson Welles, he was head and shoulders above anyone else then, or now in film-making)

Almost shocked that noone posted LOLITA up in here...LOL!

Classic one, but not pre-1960.

My favorite classic movie =

"How The Internet Killed The Magazines from 1871: By P. Markham"

I would have but Lolita was made in 1962.