What is your favorite classic film?

[Stuart G]

My favorite is ..."It's a Wonderful Life"...That movie is totally ..."Wonderful."

[Bristlecone]

1. That's definitely up there.

I like the Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep

A little later - The Great Race, the Fortune Cookie

It’s to hard to pick even just a few.

[FalloutShelter]

2. All About Eve

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[grumpyduck]

3. Casablanca

[Polly Hennessey]

4. Wuthering Heights

[Judi Lynn]

7. The version with Laurence Oliivier was excellent. He was tremendous. It seemed to capture the book, too.

He did it so well I never wanted to see remakes!

[QED]

5. Casablanca

[50 Shades Of Blue]

6. A Tale of Two Cities

[bucolic_frolic]

8. What genre is classic?

I loved Hitchcock.. Marnie.

The Marx Brothers. Duck Soup.

The great postwar WWII movies. The Eagle Has Landed. Where Eagles Dare.

Tucker.

Woody Allen had some great ones too: Hannah and Her Sisters. Crimes and Misdemeanors.

[House of Roberts]

9. I have eight.

The Quiet Man
The Cheyenne Social Club
Operation Petticoat
The Moon Is Blue
African Queen
Irma LaDouce
Bandolero!
Father Goose

[brush]

10. "Mutiny on the Bounty." The one with Marlon Brando. Riveting story, and the visual of sailing ships...

with their white sails against the blue sky and sea just works on the screen.

Another in the same vein is "Hoartio Hormblower", although it's of a British man 'o war in sea battles against other sailing ships, not a ship on a scientific/commodity mission like "Mutiny on the Bounty."

[AuntyGravity]

11. What A Way To Go

Shirley MacLaine, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Dick Van Dyke, Gene Kelley, Paul Newman, Robert Cummings.

Also, Gambit. Shirley MacLaine and Michael Cain.

[LakeArenal]

12. Now Voyager.

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[Fiendish Thingy]

13. Tough question, but if I must pick, I choose...

Casablanca.

[TexasDem69]

14. The Wild Bunch or The Godfather

Are those considered classical? If something older then maybe 12 Angry Men.

[Blue Dawn]

15. Now Voyager.

Bette Davis is amazing.

[303squadron]

16. Casablanca

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A lot of great films, and a lot of great literature, have a common theme of a character undergoing a transformation. The way the story unfolds has to be believable and the more believable that transformation is, the better the story.

At the beginning of Casablanca Rik Blaine is not a likeable character. A man who won't in his own words, "stick his neck out for anybody." He says this as his friend is being arrested by the Nazis.

At the end of the movie he's the true hero, giving up the love of his life for a cause greater than both of them.....And he kills a Nazi.

If you've ever really loved and lost.....you get it.

[lastlib]

17. "2001: A Space Odyssey"

There has never been another movie remotely like it.

[AbnerBunny]

18. Bringing Up Baby!

I saw it at 19 back in ‘76 and introduced it to my stepdaughter in ‘93! We still adore it and can’t wait for the granddaughter to be old enough to love it with us 🤗

[LoisB]

19. To Kill a Mockingbird

[CTyankee]

20. "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

[dupagelib]

21. Miracle on 34th Street

Older version

[fierywoman]

22. Lawrence of Arabia, director's cut.

[farmbo]

23. Key Largo

Another Warner Bros. masterpiece, this one is particularly relevant to our times.

Against the backdrop of a cataclysmic storm, a soft- spoken war hero (Humphrey Bogart) and a stoic hotel keeper (Lionel Barrymore) are held captive by a corrupt, murderous mobster ( Edward G Robinson) and his henchmen, who have returned from exile in Cuba to re-establish their racketeering enterprise in the U.S.
Spurred on by his incipient love for the hotelier’s daughter (Lauren Bacall), Humphrey and the Good Guys triumph in the end.