FabSwingers.com forum: Your Top 10 old films

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

So ONLY anything over 40 years after its original release date counts !

In no order, mine would be :

Patton

Bridge on The River Kwai

Sunset Boulevard

Mildred Pierce

The Apartment

Some Like it Hot

The Night of The Hunter

To Kill a Mockingbird

Black Narcissus

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?

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By *he tactile technicianMan
over a year ago

the good lands, the bad lands, the any where you may want me lands

Peeping Tom! always, with the stunning beauty Pamela Green

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Back to the Future

Star Wars

Shawshank Redemption

Hook

Indiana Jones

Castaway

The Road to Eldorado

Shaun of the Dead

Beerfest

Spirited Away

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland

Dr shivafo the original version with Omar Sharif and Julie Christie,

Gone with the wind

Casablanca

The pianist

Cat on a hot tin roof

Once upon a time in the west

Some like it hot

The godfather part 1

Love Story

Jacqueline Dupres' story (title not sure)

Forrest Gump

Shawshank redemption

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By *uby In StockingsTV/TS
over a year ago

Cheadle

King Kong

The Birds

The Longest Day

Abbott and Costello meet the mummy

Singing in the rain

the day the earth stood still

some like it hot

north by norhtwest

the good the bad and the tranny erm...ugly

any Laurel and Hardy film

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have so many... too many to list,,,..... so I'll just say,,,, Pretty much every black and white movie ever produced at Pinewood Studios Elstree Film Studios and Ealing Studios….. to me they were the halcyon days of British cinematography and real life story telling.... simply the best!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The 39 steps

A Canterbury Tale

St trinians

Singing in the Rain

Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone

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American Graffiti

Oliver

The Shawshank Redemption

Home Alone

Platton (Mr Ldn Brainwashed me into it lol)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

make it top 5

top ten is pushing it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

dark crystal (jim hensons puppet creation)

the king & i (yule brenna)

little woman

labyrinth (david bowie)

snow white & the seven dwarfs (disney)

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Some good suggestions here, but try and stick to films with original release dates before 1970/71 !

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

Wizard of Oz

Gilda

Some Like it Hot

Any Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movie (I think there were about 14)

Maltese Falcon

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

Dr Zhivago

Imitation of Life

Funny Girl

Las cage aux Folles

Blue Velvet

Betty Blue

Philadelphia

Colour Purple

Mary Poppins

Sophie's Choice

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some good suggestions here, but try and stick to films with original release dates before 1970/71 ! "

Some weren't alive then lol xx

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

oops, never read the oldie bit...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some good suggestions here, but try and stick to films with original release dates before 1970/71 ! "

Oooops, misread the OP as nothing more than 40 years old

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some good suggestions here, but try and stick to films with original release dates before 1970/71 ! "

crumbs, when was colour tv invented??

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Some good suggestions here, but try and stick to films with original release dates before 1970/71 !

Some weren't alive then lol xx"

I wasn't alive for most of um either - well, I was (just) for Patton

Maybe it's just my subconcious way of saying 'don't overlook the old ones, cos they might just surprise ya'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cat on A Hot Tin Roof

To Kill A Mockingbird

Don't Eat the Daisies

Barefoot in the Park

Rear Window

Duck Soup

The Great Race

The Third Man

Breakfast At Tiffanys

Arsenic and Old Lace

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I want half of Fabios too please.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

well I did until he removed them LOL

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

okay... anything over 40.. this makes it harder..

okay.. in no specific order...

An Affair to Remember

The Wizard of Oz

The Great Escape

The Italian Job

The Glenn Miller Story

Psycho

The Graduate

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The Magnificant 7

It's a Wonderful Life

bloody hell that was hard!!!

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"well I did until he removed them LOL"

sorry... tweeked it slighty...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And God Created Woman

The Maltese Falcon

Double Indemnity

Barberella

Seven Samuri

Playtime

Seventh Seal

Bad Day at Blackrock

Touch of Evil

Sunset Boulevard

i could go on and on! xx

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

the five that almost made it on my list were:

the king and I

Singing in the Rain

Bridge on the River Kwai

Fantasia

Mary Poppins....

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

damn.. and gone with the wind!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"damn.. and gone with the wind!!

Ive never seen that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"damn.. and gone with the wind!!

Ive never seen that"

if you do make sure you got plenty of munchies...its really long! x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just a tiny selection of 100's of movie's that float my boat...

Edna, the Inebriate Woman. 1971

Cathy Come Home 1966

Passport to Pimlico is a 1949

Mrs. Miniver is a 1942

Get Carter 1971

Whisky Galore 1949

The Maggie 1954

The Blue Lamp 1950

Oh Mr Porter 1937

Hard days night 1964

Yeah yeah,,,,,I know, not a jot of CGI to be seen..... but that how I like it

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By *heekychezzaWoman
over a year ago

warrington

In no particular order...

The Great Escape

Hobson's Choice

The Inn Of the Sixth Happiness

Kelly's Heroes

It's A Wonderful Life

The Sting

The Glen Miller Story

Whisky Galore

Passport To Pimblico

White Christmas (

can't help it...)

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

I have just gotten my CD of the Glenn Miller Story out... just to remember how good the music is in it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Meet me in St Louis

Easter Parade

Wizard of Oz

Mary Poppins

The Sound of Music

To Kill a Mocking Bird

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wizard of Oz

Panic in Needle Park

It's a Wonderful Life

Duck Soup

Dr. Strangelove

Lolita

The Apartment

The Sweet Smell of Success

Spartacus

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

entertaining mr. sloan.

the killing of sister george.

all about eve.

now voyager.

the barretts of wimpole street.

the garden of allah.

gaslight.

south pacific.

love is a many splendored thing.

midnight cowboy.

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By *oddess and SlaveCouple
over a year ago

alfreton

Here Goes

Dumbo

Superman

Its a wonderful life

watership down

Big Jake

Greece

Forest Gump

Lassie

Destry Rides Again

Shane

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Who Said "Sound of Music" !!!

ffs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My top 3 all time favourite films are "old":

Gone With The Wind

It's A Wonderful Life

To Kill A Mocking Bird

Other oldies I love include the following:

Some Like It Hot

Ben Hur

Jason And The Argonauts

The Sound Of Music

My Fair Lady

Casablanca

Guns of Navarone

North By North West

Birds

Vertigo

Kind Hearts And Coronets

The Lavender Hill Mob

etc...

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

Anything with Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, The Keystone Cops, and Charlie Chaplin.

Are those old enough?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ooo, I forgot The Freaks! Very creepy and a great film!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"entertaining mr. sloane.

the killing of sister george.

all about eve.

oh shit - i forgot about them

hmmmm i might have to re_iew my top 10 now

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By *hite SnakeMan
over a year ago

leeds

"crumbs, when was colour tv invented??"

The first colour tv transmission was on the 3rd July 1928 (another great scottish invention)by John Logie Baird.

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

Sunset Boulevard

Whos afraid of Virginia Wolf?

Cleopatra

Butterfield 8

High Society

Breakfast at Tiffanys

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Seven year itch

whatever happened to baby jane

from here to eternity

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Harvey

Flight of the Phoenix

Spirit of St Louis

Easy Rider

The 39 Steps

North by Northwest

The Ladykillers

School for scoundrels

2001

Sparticus

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"crumbs, when was colour tv invented??

(another great scottish invention)by John Logie Baird."

That was Philo Farnsworth. Logie Baird produced the first 'practical' television

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cool Hand Luke

Wizard of Oz

High Society

Calamity Jane

A Street Car Named Desire

Giant

Singing in the Rain

Gone with the Wind

Meet me in St Louis

Same Time Next Year

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Beau hunks

Sons of The Desert

True Grit

This Wonderful Life

Goodbye Mr Chips

The Great Escape

Ben Hur

El Cid

Grand Torino

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So ONLY anything over 40 years after its original release date counts !

In no order, mine would be :

Patton

Bridge on The River Kwai

Sunset Boulevard

Mildred Pierce

The Apartment

Some Like it Hot

The Night of The Hunter

To Kill a Mockingbird

Black Narcissus

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?"

ooooh..black narcissus is a fab movie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

Stella Dallas

Meet me in St Louis

The Longest Day

12 Angry Men

Niagara

Sabrina

Rear Window

The 10 Commandments

The Robe

King and I

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There are few films back that long ago that I would call 'The Best of All Time'. Picture quality and less social conservatism and more fiscal conservatism in production does make a significant difference to creative output.

More importantly perhaps, we used to have such beauties as Grace Kelly and Sophie Loren gracing the picture screen. Ravishing and effortlessly sexual beings.

Today we have Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton. That's like replacing Stilton with Dairylea easy singles.

We used to have Clark Gable and now we have Justin Bieber. Some things have suffered a marked decline.

There were however, some good ones with the occasional hint of greatness.

The Seventh Seal

Creature from the Black Lagoon

A Clockwork Orange

Kabinett des Doktor Caligari

Magician

Rashomon

Black Narcissus

Du rififi chez les hommes

The Conformist

The Great Dictator

In a separate development I've had a revelation!

Mike Myers plays both Austin Powers AND Doctor Evil

I never realised, they were so different, one was a good man while the other was truly evil

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By *uckscouple2007Couple
over a year ago

Bucks

A few which have been posted above, but hopefully a couple of others that peeps may have missed ... all mostly of the ealing comedy genre ...

An Inspector Calls

Lavender hill Mob

The Ladykillers

Man In The White Suit

Some Like It Hot

Passport To Pimlico

Dr Stranglove

Guns Of Navarone

Shot In The Dark

and, a token Bond film ///

Diamonds Are forever

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can't believe Dr Strangelove was made in 1964.

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