your favorite old movies when you were a kid

Also any of the old Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone in them.

Oh and also any Laurel and Hardy but especially 'Flying Deuces'... old Will Hay comedies... George Formby in 'No Limit'... And 'Carry On Screaming' and 'Carry on Up The Khyber', probably neither of which I fully understood the, err, subtleties of.

"The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle... The chalice with the palace has the brew that is true."

"Yes, but they broke the chalice with the palace and replaced it with the flagon with the dragon..."

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any science fiction classic (the time machine, king kong, war of the worlds) was always a good bet with me. i loved the marx brothers too of course, but that wasn't till later - around 10 or so. i saw hitchcock's suspicion with my mom when i was very young, that probably accounts for some of my affection for it nowadays.

Chris, the title specified "favourite old movies".

also, not movies but does anyone remember the old nature education programmes that used to run on in the mornings early 80's? (i'm talking UK but they were actually American produced). I think they were recorded in the 70's and the voice over sounded like Leslie Neilson.
I was reminded by this from a Boards Of Canada song I heard recently which included a similar sounding sample, it gave me a pleasant euphoric-nostalgic tinge.

and the goonies too. my best friend at primary school looked just like chunk, we called him chunk, and he could do the truffle shuffle!

Exactly.

goonies is on at glasto on the massive screen.

various older films mentioned upthread courtesy of my mom (hitchcock; bing crosby; jimmy stewart; cary grant), my favorites among those probably being north by northwest, white christmas, and it's a wonderful life.

Steeping away from musicals, i really enjoyed 'Its a Wonderful Life' and 'Some Like it Hot' is hilarious.
BUT
If you really want an amusing movie, you have to see 'An Affair to Remember' It is so cliche'd that you spend the whole time laughing (of course, most movies with Cary Grant in a leading role will do that to you).

haha!

a few more i remember:
the sound of music
to kill a mockingbird
mr smith goes to washington
rear window
casablanca

of course! it's about a desexualized communist agent who is brought over to the side of capitalism by the charms of the count! though the remake with fred astaire is probably even more reactionary.

Also Hitchcock - I remember seeing a whole load of them on TV when I was younger and being obsessed with how good they were.

The early part takes place on the ocean during a heavy storm. One ship gets close to another, and someone makes the dangerous passage to get to the other ship. Apparently there's only one person on the other ship, someone frantically stoking coal into the furnaces. The first person tries to talk the second person into doing something -- abandoning the ship, I assume. The guy won't leave and the first person goes back to his ship, and they leave, with the ship and it's sold occupant in the middle of the stormy sea.

Then the long middle, then the tribunal.

The names that come to mind are Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster or Kirk Douglas, but a quick look at their IMDB entries don't provide an easy answer. I saw at least part of this at my uncle's house in 1972, and the scary "perfect storm" early part has stayed with me all this time.

Of course, for years I "thought" the 1930s really were in black and white. And I was shocked when I read, at 15, about the Fatty Arbuckle trial. Really genuinely shocked that people I had looked up to from the time I was small would do, you know, things like that. I am still pleased that I never had to hear Cary Grant say "fuck". I don't think I could stand the reality.

Can't help you, Rock. Sounds like a great picture though.

"mr. blandings builds his dream house"?? i like that one.

(If any movie that was made before you were born counts in this thread, I'd imagine that Willy Wonka is also going to be a popular answer. But I like sticking with pre-1960s titles for this question.)

A note on 'The Bachelor and the Bobbysockser':
You remind me of a man
What man?
The man with the power
What power?
The power of hoodoo
Hoodoo?
You do
What?
Remind me of a man.....

Thats a great gag.

did see something late last year where a captian ordered this crew to abandon ship. they did. they later stumbled upon the abandoned ship, now completely abandoned and reboarded. they later claim salvage rights for the vessel (the court bit). sound reasonable? was based on true story. great little film.

(searches palm pilot for 'abandon'. three hits...
San Demetrio, London (1943) Gordon Jackson.
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apparently edward robinson was in a lot of fuckin movies

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just saw The Red House . . . crazy

Disney's been in the game for dec-dec-decades – how'd they not come up here?

Edward G (born Manny Goldenberg) was the best.

The Wizard of Oz
Clash of the Titans
The Beastmaster
Citizen Kane
The African Queen

The Man Who Would Be King
The Great Escape

duck soup
hatari!
abbott and costello meet frankenstein
king kong
the seventh voyage of sinbad (and other harryhausen stuff)
maltese falcon/casablanca (bogart obsession kicked in around age 11)

between my Mum loving old musicals and epics, my Dad loving old Abbot and Costello, Marx Brothers and Danny Kaey, and spending weekends watching matinee Westerns with my Grandma, I was pretty much full to the brim with old movies.

Wizard of Oz
Singin' In The Rain
Sound of Music
The King And I
My Fair Lady
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Blue Bird of Happiness
National Velvet
Court Jester
The Great Race
Robin Hood (Errol Flynn version)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Pete's Dragon
Escape from Witch Mountain
Shane
High Noon
Rio Bravo
Marx Bros:
Night At The Opera
At The Circus
Duck Soup
the Harryhausen movie about Sinbad
the Ma and Pa Kettle movie where Pa Kettle gets burned by a sunlamp and Ma Kettle thinks he has scarlet fever

oh and the old Cecil B Demille Samson and Delilah, with Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature. That thing seemed to be on all the time when I was a kid.

i should see 'the court jester,' i used to see references to it all the time in old-movie books.

when i was about 9 or 10 i went through a huge dinosaur phase and would watch pretty much any old movie with dinosaurs in it. all the godzilla movies, all the harryhausen stuff, 'one million years b.c.,' even awful stuff like 'gorgo' or 'planet of the dinosaurs.' i spent months and months trying to find a copy of the original 1925 'the lost world' after reading about it in a library book. since there was no internet this basically just meant rummaging through bargain-bins, scouring the weekly tv listings, and bugging the guy at the video store. i still remember how thrilled i was when they finally showed it at 2 a.m. on amc or one of those channels, it was like the end of a quest or something.

Had an odd attraction to The Bells of St. Mary's when I was a kid that I certainly cannot explain or link to anything in my actual life (we weren't Catholic, or even religious at all). Watched it again recently and thought it was pretty drippy, though strangely I still like Going My Way.