What great movie have you seen lately that was more than 50 years old?

“The African Queen.”

I showed it in a small movie theater as a fundraiser.

Bonnie & Clyde.

Casablanca.

The first Zorro comes to mind. It came out in 1920. Black and white.

The Longest Day was on last week.

Dirty Dozen

Music Man

Sound of Music

Tobruk

My Fair Lady

—all have been shown in the last month or so

This one is close, but not quite 50 years old. I just bought and watched The Way We Were. I saw it and liked it in the 70’s and still liked. I also bought To Kill a Mockingbird. I enjoyed that one also, though I had never seen it before.

The movie To Kill a Mockingbird is almost as good as the book @chyna.

Saw “The Caine Mutiny” on TCM a few days ago. Magnificent performances. It really grabbed me even though I’ve seen it a few other times.

Forbidden Planet & Inherit the Wind.

Ingmar Bergman’s Persona

Although a bit long & drawn out, I still enjoy watching Gone With the Wind every now & then

I re-read the book a few years back. It’s astonishing to realize that it was written just ~60 years after the Civil War.

I’ve been on a classic movie binge lately:

The Night of the Hunter
The Asphalt Jungle
Shadow of a Doubt
Paths of Glory
The Bicycle Thief
White Heat
Marty
The Apartment

I guess it’s technically 50 years old now, so Midnight Cowboy.

We have been looking for John Wayne’s last movie “The Cowboys.” We assumed we could buy it on Amazon Prime, but apparently not. I find that so odd. I mean, I was able to buy Song of the South when online rumor said it was BANNED!! But I can’t dig up “The Cowboys.”

The Music Box
Citizen Kane
Murder My Sweet
Three Godfathers
The Longest Day

lots of others

Rear Window

Maybe it isn’t a great movie but I enjoyed Rod Serling ‘s “Patterns” which I saw last year.

Paths of Glory The Loved One
Five Easy Pieces

The Big Sleep – Re-watched it over the holidays. I’ve seen it a few times, but I’m surprised how good it is each time.

Paths of Glory – Seems to be a popular choice here. It’s been on my list a while and showed up for free on Amazon Prime. To me this movie looked about ten years ahead of its time. The lack of a musical soundtrack was a big part of that.

Alec Guinness/Ealing Studios comedies. I borrowed a boxed set and so far I’ve seen two.
The Ladykillers
Kind Hearts and Coronets

Really funny and clever! I escpecially liked Guinness’s creepy bad guy.

The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, always one of my faves.

Not sure if it’s more than 50 years old but The Wild Bunch was absolutely great.

^ I was19 when The Wild Bunch was released. That means that it’s turning 50 this year!!!

Cool Hand Luke

I can eat fifty eggs!

I watch movies rarely, the last one I saw in the cinema was the first installment of Fantastic Beasts, but in the summer of 2017 I watched Casablanca (and in that same summer Zorba, but that’s from the sixties).

@rebbel My grandkids love Fantastic Beasts – I think the effects and the CGI work is pretty darn good. But it’s not 50+ years old.

@elbanditoroso I merely used it as an introduction to my Casablanca remark.
But yeah, good movie.

The Good the Bad & the Ugly (1966)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Train (1964)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)
Hell in the Pacific (1968)
North by Northwest (1959)
Zulu (1964)
Rear Window (1954)
Oliver (1968)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Watched these in the last year, all seen multiple times over the years.
Love some Laurel & Hardy too, way before my time of course but enjoyed their humour since I was a kid.

The Maltese Falcon

Ok, a lot of fine movies have been mentioned. So I’m going to mention some movies that haven’t been mentioned, along with some obscure ones.

- Sorry, Wrong Number. It’s amazing how the movie grips my attention even though most of the action happens in a small bedroom.
– The Lost Weekend. Ok, it seems to be a public information movie about alcohol, but unlike other movies of its kind, it isn’t biased. It has a story and characters that viewers can relate to.
– Odd Man Out. The entire movie can be summed up like this: a criminal wanders around a city and people react to him. Keyword: react. The reaction of the people tell a lot about their personality and the society in general.
– In a Lonely Place. A man is framed of a murder and a woman comes to the rescue. But even with the suspicion around him, the man can’t curb his violent temper. Over time even the woman suspect that he is indeed the killer.
– The Fire Within. This is the most obscure one, and it really doesn’t deserve so. For a movie about a man wandering around a city, this one is quite deep. There is a lot of heavy subjects packed inside it, but the most visible theme is why life is worth living. This is the movie that got me into researching depression and psychology in general.

You can find most of these movies on this website

@Mimishu1995

Seriously looking forward to the new streaming service Criterion is getting ready to launch.

^^Miss Crtierion when it was still with Hulu.

Wish I could collect more but only have one Criterion Blu-ray of a great film “Babette’s Feast.”

To be honest though, I don’t like Criterion’s new interface. It looks messy and disorganized, it looks more like an amateur blog. I prefer the old interface when everything was professional and user friendly.

A bit off-topic though, I’m thinking of doing something more… practical with all of my movie collection. I have a tendency to recommend some obscure movies in details. I’m toying with the idea of setting up a blog to share my review of the movies I watch and at the same time pointing people to movies whenever possible.