Movies I watch every time they are on

I would really rather see a little kid playing with  and giggling about a 3 month old kitten than watching funny movies on the boob tube.

Just a little random chatter to spice up our collective lives here.

<<< Dirty Dozen----seen dozens and dozens of times and enjoyed each and every one.  Love the troop review by Sutherland----only time I rooted for Jimmy Brown (Giant fan here) >>>>
 
Warning Will Robinson, Warning!   As a former associate of Jim Brown for several years with his L A based gang reform and youth education program ICAN, never call Jim Brown Jimmy. When the Cleeland browns threatned to fine for being tardy to pre-season camp when the filming of the Dirty Dozen was delayed, Jim told the team to shove it and never returned

<<< The Magnificent 7------ great story (stolen from overseas), great cast, great music >>>
 
Based on a Japanese movie about samurai, All in the Family & Sanford & Son were based on English shows as have been many US films and TV shows. On the other hand(she wore a glove) but seriously US films and TV shows have spawned many copycats around the world too.

<<<< Bridge on the River Kwai----great story, great cast, great music (sounds familiar) >>>>
 
Like the Great Escape and so many other "true stories" and biographies movies,  far removed from actuality

chewingthefat

Dirty Rotten Scounderels

I prefer the original...A Bedtime Story, starring David Niven, Marlon Brando & Shirley Jones
 
Agree with She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, but have to include the two earlier episodes of the Ford/Wayne calvary trilogy; Fort Apache & Rio Grande.
 
To Catch a Thief.
 
My Man Godfrey...William Powell & Carole Lombard at their screwball best.

"Agree with She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, but have to include the two earlier episodes of the Ford/Wayne calvary trilogy; Fort Apache & Rio Grande."

Bittesehr! http://video.google.com/v...d=-8885203572442814429

One of my fav. Cavalry-Movies by John Ford, right now on german TV, absolutely great!!!

Victor McLaglen as "Top Sergeant Quinncannon", great performance...

Kind regards

Michael

Hey My Man Doug--you must be covering up your age----My Man Godfrey was old when you were new.  It is a fun movie---William Powell was always great---right Nicky? And Mrs Gable was a beautiful funny lady.  And that movie reminded me of depressions and that is a depressing thought.

One of my first movie rememberances was Powell, Gable and Myrna Loy in Manhattan Melodrama.  Powell a lawyer and Clark a bad guy.  Can't image what she played.

Fort Apache and Rio Grande were great and I have seen them both a number of times ---- seen Col Thursday die like Custer and leave poor Shirley Temple an orphan,
-----and Maureen lighting up the Western army camp----and "Do it, Reb" but Yellow Ribbon is the best-------the fight scene with Mclaglen cleaning out the bar is one of the best.  "Me Christian, Nathan", even the music was memorable.

As for River Kwai --- no movie would be a success if really real---life is too boring----
besides which people often are wimps instead of heros, and most real heros are never recognized.  They have to add a little drama or we would not be talking about the movie at all. 

The first War of the Worlds...Scared the bejeebers out of me as did Forbidden Planet!

Wee Gordie

Doug I don't remember "A Bedtime Story" at all but David Nevin was a favorite since "Dawn Patrol" which should be on my list.  Same with "12 O'Clock High" which has the same story line with better planes.

What I can think of, in no particular order:

Sgt. York
To Have and Have Not
Now Voyager
Jeremiah Johnson
Steel Magnolias
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
When Harry Met Sally
Youv'e Got Mail
 

Belle, I saw THATHN while in USNavy in 1945 and fell madly in love with Lauren Bacall.  She was 19, I was 18.  When she married Bogey I thought she was nuts. He was twice her age.  I loved the movie, Hoagy Carmichael and Hop-s-long Walter Brennan. Lauren's voice was dubbed by 13 y.o. Andy Williams -- How little we know.  Some good music in that film. 

"Anything you want just whistle.  You know how to whistle don't you, you just pucker up and blow."

Side Note---I met Lauren Bacall in NYC in the 1980's and she didn't remember me at all.  I was devastated.  That's women for ya. 

Jeremiah Johnson is getting a lot of votes----ferry hint-er-resting. 

Greek Wedding is a funny movie.  Have not seen it a 2nd time but I would like to.

Belle---just went to youtube and saw Bacall singing "How Little We Know" and they said they did not use Andy Williams even though he had recorded it for the movie----they had Lauren do it herself.  I closed my eyes and listened and think it probably was her voice.

Greetings!

Once upon a Time in the West (Italy, 1968) was my fav. so called "Spagetti-Western" in the late 1960s, and the 1970s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...pon_a_Time_in_the_West

What a movie, I have for sure seen it more than 100 times, I do not remember..., seeing this western for the first time, I was 12 years young, and I like to watch this modern classic even nowadays...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...pon_a_Time_in_the_West

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNGQ1hUyx-k

1st Shootout: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHZpO6aNLwE

Henry Fonda as "Frank", what a great performance, remember the close-up of his blue icecold eyes..., OHA!!!   25 of 10 possible points.

Kind regards

Michael

Please don't cringe:

I forgot Victor Victoria

"I would really rather see a little kid playing with  and giggling about a 3 month old kitten than watching funny movies on the boob tube."

Moin PizzaNut!

I agree totally, a 5 years little young person, and Star-Trek, this neverending trash, what kind of parents are these...!

To dumb, to addicted, about what is good or bad for a little child at that young age, or just to lazy, to take care anyhow...

Americanos... http://www.youtube.com/wa...SIuq6yOZCY  

Michael

mar52


Please don't cringe:

I forgot Victor Victoria

No need to apologize with Blake Edwards directing James Garner & Julie Andrews, although I think Robert Preston & Alex Karras stole the show!

AM- I love that movie, doesn't come on very often on TCM, but watch it every time.  I read somewhere that she was young, nervous, her first major movie, she couldn't look Boagrt in the eye-just tilted her head a little and looked up at him from an angle, which became her "look."

There's more now that I can think of it, some real oldies but goodies:

Cluny Brown
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Random Harvest
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Bell, Book, and Candle
Bells are Ringing
The Solid Gold Cadillac
 

Pride of the Yankee's  second Sgt. York
Lonesome Dove, one of my alltime favorites
The Hunt for Red October
The Presidio, I loved the scene where Sean Connery Beats the crap out of the huge guy just using his thumb
The Die Hard series...ridiculous, but entertaining
The Champ both of the versions, tear jerker
Old Yeller..cry like a baby

To the Belle Of New orleans---re:THATHN

I never heard that story about Lauren's look---she was 19 y.o. and he
was 40-------and she was probably as tall, or taller, than him-----when I met her she was 55 or 56 and she looked me right in the eye by standing on a step.  So I never got a look at "the look".   She did have a husky voice though, that I remember very well.

Old Yeller the world's saddest movie.

I was sitting here on a Sunday afternoon and wondering if
all the movies we have listed above were coming on in 15 minutes
-------all uninterrupted, and un-cut, which one would I watch------
wow------well since I have not seen it in a while and since I loved it so much
I think I would vote for my favorite Irish Movie---------Moonstruck. 
That's Amore !!!!!!!

Doug --- got it-  looked it up and can see why you liked "A Bedtime Story" --also read where it was re-done under that other name which shall be nameless.

Greetings!

One of my all time fav. movies from the year 1972 is "Aguirre, the Wrath of God", the famous german actor Herr Klaus Kinski outdid himself in the movie by director Herr Werner Herzog.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/w...irre,_the_Wrath_of_God

Herzog and Kinski, two geniuses of german cinema history, created a eternal masterpiece, and the soundtrack by the band Popol Vuh is a modern legend...

Aguirre: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcr8nVr4tSA

Herr Klaus Kinski was loopy, but also an ingenious actor, besides his appearances in his movies, he was a very kind, and "soft" person. His director Werner Herzog made a documentary about his love-hate with Klaus Kinski. The german title of the doc. is "Mein liebster Feind"

The mad and crazy Klaus Kinski was just a pretense, behind all that, a very sensitive, and very lonely character.

Kinski/Butterfly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNSfiho54rM

RIP Klaus Kinski, we miss you


Michael

My Favorite German movie ----Das Boot
Great Movie.  But sad.

Movie about Germany that I hated--------Cabaret
Money makes the world go around and love of money
is the root of all evil.  If not all, at least quite a bit.  And
it was a dreary movie--------I like upbeat stuff, so I can
strut out of the theater ready to take on the world.

mayor al


Big Kahuna,

  Figured your list would include-
 
Hawaii
Reurn to Paradise
The Endless Summer
South Pacific
Tora, Tora, Tora
Pearl Harbor
Go For Broke
and Maybe
 
Moby Dick !!

d your list would include- Hawaii Reurn to Paradise The Endless Summer South Pacific Tora, Tora, Tora Pearl Harbor Go For Broke and Maybe Moby Dick !!

 
Mayor....hahaha. Yours is a good list all the same.
1. Not many people know about "Go for Broke" and the 442. The scenes at the beginning of the movie showing the hawaiian buddha heads training in boot camp are terrific.
2. Never got into any "Surfer" movies. Closest I got was Point Break.
3. Pearl Harbor was ok.
4. Tora was much better than Pearl Harbor. Nothing beats standing on the AZ memorial and watcing the small bubble sof oil rise to the surface while giving silent thanks to men who gave their "last full measure"
A good list Al.
thanks. bkk

the ancient mariner


--you must be covering up your age----My Man Godfrey was old when you were new... 

Growing up in the NYC area in the 50's & 60's gave me access to WOR's (Ch. 9) Million Dollar Movie. They would play the same movie Mon.-Fri. night & several more times over the weekend, then move on to a different one the next Monday. It was a pre-cable TCM. They got me hooked on the movies of the 30's & 40's.

Doug ---I remember Million Dollar Movie's theme music was Tara's Theme from GWTW---every time I hear it play I think of the movie channel----

The other theme I remember was on Channel 2--CBS---forgot the name of the show but right after the 11PM news it was introduced by "The Syncopated Clock" by LeRoy Anderson.  The music would come up and we would look for the title to see if we stayed up or went to bed.  It's a wonder we had 4 kids.

During the late 70's and into the 80's I had screwy hours and sleep patterns and found a station from Harrisburg, Pa. that came on at midnight or so ----un-interrupted old movies----wonderful.

Remember Zackerly---who introduced scarry movies ??

Here is some other great movies I have watched dozens of times and always will when they come on---

It Happened One Night---Clark and Colbert in Oscar Winner
Four Feathers----first saw it in the theater when I was 13
Beau Geste----never forget the scene where Dunleavy puts dead soldiers
                       into the gun slots of the fort.
My Favorite Wife and
The Awful Truth----- both with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne-----terrific

and one of my all time favorites---can not believe I missed it---
-----Charade-----Cary again, this time with Audrey Hepburn and "Carson Dial"

the ancient mariner

The other theme I remember was on Channel 2--CBS---forgot the name of the show but right after the 11PM news it was introduced by "The Syncopated Clock" by LeRoy Anderson.  The music would come up and we would look for the title to see if we stayed up or went to bed.  It's a wonder we had 4 kids.

If I remember correctly, they called it "The Late Show", except when it was shown on a weekend afternoon & called it "The Early Show".

Doug----
You are right----It was called The Late Show---I googled LeRoy Anderson, who I knew composed the Syncopated Clock, and got the scoop.  Also got the words which are very cute------written by Mitchell Parrish who with Hoagy Carmichael, of To Have and To Have Not fame, wrote that great standard "Stardust". 

OMG!  The Million Dollar Movie!

Seemed like whenever I was watching it they were airing either:

High and the Mighty

Bridge over River Kwai

or

Stalag 17

Outlaw Josey Wales!

Greetings Forum!

One of my long-time fav. movies is The Charge of the light Brigade, the 1936 release, starring Mr. Errol Flynn. http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ht_Brigade_(1936_film)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXzCOlPHFmc

I watched this movie for the first time at the age of maybe 10 years in our local cinema, and I was deeply impressed, like with most of the movies, in which Mr. Flynn acted.

The other day, there was a documentary about Errol Flynn on the german TV, I did not know, that he was an alcoholic, his life ended very tragic.

Errol Flynn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Flynn

I am still a fan of his movies, may he rest in peace

Michael

Michael, have you studied the history of the Charge and the errors of English officers?
Two famous names were in charge--Raglan and Cardigan-----one noted for his sleeves and the other for sweaters, but they erred big time in the Crimea. 

Yes Errol ended up dying young, in his 50's I think ---booze and drugs got him.  In his last movie he looked so bloated it was hard to watch my idol Capt Blood and Robin Hood ------ his body was 30/40 years older than he was. 

By the way thinking of the Outlaw Josey Wales a great western reminded me of another terrific tale of the west----Will Penny.  Loved that one.

My list:
Duck Soup
The Maltese Falcon
North by Northwest
Rear Window
The Big Sleep
White Heat
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
The Best Man
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Red River
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
For a Few Dollars More
A Fistful of Dollars
Dirty Harry
Bang the Drum Slowly
 

  Here are some of my favorites in no particular order:

  "Patton"  George C. Scott in the role that was made for him.
  "Rio Bravo"  The Duke and Dino.. 'nuff said.
  "The Sting" Redford and Newman, one of their best.
  "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" Same as Above
  "Blazing Saddles" Funniest psudo western ever.
  "The Graduate" Reminds me of my childhood friends mother whom I had a crush on.
  "Forrest Gump" So cheesy but very sweet.
  "Big" Same as above.
  "History of the World Part 1" Mel Brooks at his funniest.
  "M*A*S*H" Altman at his best.
  "One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest (sp) Jack at his Best

   Just a few that I remember off the top of my head.

  David O.
 

For me its:
Grosse Point Blank
Men in Black
Dr Strangelove
The final court scene only in My Cousin Vinny

and for some god forsaken reason...Road House...I think its like watching a train wreck in slow motion with Ben Gazzara starring as the porter... (Ben Gazzara is a good actor [according to Gilbert Godfried in a hilarious stand-up sketch])

Forgot:

Back Street (with the then gorgeous John Gavin)
I want to Live

anything Susan Hayward.

Afternote:  John Gavin was a customer of mine a few years ago.  He drove me crazy!

Mar 52 where are you ???  There's a holdup

So Anyhow----I remember the original Back Street with Charles Boyer and Margaret Sullivan (who I had a big crush on even though I was 14 or 15) We lived about 10 miles from the nearest movie house --- during the summer there was a special movie bus------I took a girls to see Back Street and she cried all the way home.  Big waste of my hard earned quarter.

Gavin was ambassador to Mexico if I am not mistaken.  What was he a customer of your's for ????

Chef Boy-r-dee---and hello Mr Chips---you both have a list I would take to a desert island if I knew I would be marooned there.  Just hope electricity is working on the island. 

Boyardee65, I love Rio Bravo too, especially the very young and extremely georgous Ricky Nelson.
 
Ancient Mariner, I can't believe I left Charade off my list. Every time I watch it (lots of times!) I get confused all over. Love the funeral scene.
 
Mar52, Backstreet is a real heartbreaker,right along with Imitation of Life and Madame X.  

in the Bronx

I think there should be a designation on our info for gender.
When someone talks about georgeous Ricky Nelson or
georgeous John Gavin I have to assume they are of the
femine persuasion.  Nicknames often give no clue------now
Ann Peeples, Nancy and Roossy are probably females, but 
I am not sure about Muscle Jim.  

Yes, M Brookes---- that is a great funeral scene, almost as good as the one in the original Oceans 11-----the Rat Pack one.  There is also a great funeral scene in a movie whose name escapes me------it had Shirley McLane as a greaving widow---all in black and with great legs.  Before she was Cleopatra and Mata Hari in real life.  


 

Marlene here.

I also think Gina Gershon is sexy.

Moin Movie Fans!

Zulu 1964, starring Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, etc. is also one of my fav. movies.

http://www.citizencaine.org/films/zulu.shtml

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1csr0dxalpI

A Classic, they dont do them like this anymore, see "The Alamo" further above...

Kind regards

Michael

P.S. The entire 1964 movie Zulu is av. as a download at Youtube.

Anyone else willing to admit to this...all the Harry Potter movies!

Blade Runner  (1982)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOphFl88U-g

A modern classic, right now "Uncut" on german TV, GREAT!

Kind regards

Michael

  Personally, I don't think that gender or gender preference is at issue here. We like what we like. I don't think that your handle should reflect your gender if you don't want it to. Being a man I can see why mbrooks thinks that Ricky Nelson was sexy. He was! Just the same way that Frank Sinatra was sexy. That voice! WOW

p.s. I am a heterosexual man married for 12 years with 2 beautiful daughters, who loves to cook!

 Forgot to list "Ocean's 1", "Robin's Hoods", and "Pal Joey." All great Sinatra flicks IMHO


David O.

 
At the risk of repeating someone else's list, my "see them every time they are shown" list includes:
 
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
The Grapes of Wrath
Casablanca
The Third Man
Sunset Boulevard
The Seven Year Itch
 
 
and, the only movie of recent vintage that I can watch over and over again--
The Shawshank Redemption

Teddy Bear you have some oldies on your list---they look better on a 12" TV with
rabbit ears.  Hey they have a new antena that you can turn to get a better signal without going up on the roof.  We have come a long way baby.  I never saw the Shawshank Redemption but I will look for it.

David O.---- I don't think there is a gender thing either---I just was kidding around---and I don't care if you liked Ricky Nelson, so there.  I happen to think Cary Grant was terrific, but James Garner was better looking.   And so was John Gavin.

As for Sinatra ----The original Ocean's Eleven was great---and he did a Private Eye thing with Jill St John called Tony Something-or-other that was fun, but he was terrific as Maggio in that movie about making out on the beach with the tide coming in.  And he was great in " The Man With The Golden Arm" in which Darren McGavin of "The Christmas Story" was the bad guy.  He also sang a little, unless it was dubbed by Bing Crosby.   

the ancient mariner


Teddy Bear you have some oldies on your list---they look better on a 12" TV with
rabbit ears.  Hey they have a new antena that you can turn to get a better signal without going up on the roof.  We have come a long way baby.  I never saw the Shawshank Redemption but I will look for it.

David O.---- I don't think there is a gender thing either---I just was kidding around---and I don't care if you liked Ricky Nelson, so there.  I happen to think Cary Grant was terrific, but James Garner was better looking.   And so was John Gavin.

As for Sinatra ----The original Ocean's Eleven was great---and he did a Private Eye thing with Jill St John called Tony Something-or-other that was fun, but he was terrific as Maggio in that movie about making out on the beach with the tide coming in.  And he was great in " The Man With The Golden Arm" in which Darren McGavin of "The Christmas Story" was the bad guy.  He also sang a little, unless it was dubbed by Bing Crosby.   

...ah yes:

http://www.lovegoddess.info/Jill%20St.%20John%20%20revised.htm

Thanks for the link Nutty Pizza Guy----I always liked her --- but I have always liked a lot of Love Goddesses ------ There is a Kelly/Sinatra movie I have seen a whole lot because it was hot when I was bouncing from Naval Base to Naval Base---called Anchors Aweigh--------Franky even danced........Fun movie.  OOOOOH Franky.

Two other Naval stories-----
 
I saw "Going My Way" every night for about 2 weeks when we were on our way home ---- the war was over so we could have lights on deck at night and we had one movie ---so it won first prize.  Everyone aboard (all 52 of us) knew the script by heart.

Second story-------At Pearl Harbor we traded movies and got "Laura" among others---good thing we got others, because the last reel of Laura was missing and we never knew who committed the dastardly deed.  I didn't see the end for about  20 years---no wonder I looked quizzical all the time.   Who did it ? 

Greetings!

One of my most fav. epic classics is Lawrence of Arabia, 1962. http://en.wikipedia.org/w...rence_of_Arabia_(film)

For the very first time, I watched this movie in our local cinema in the 1960s, as a little boy of maybe 10 years. LoA is a movie, one MUST see in a cinema, on the big screen, in the TV this masterpiece loses its fascination very much.

Maurice Jarre/LoA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irPSvEkQl8Q 

R.I.P. Monsieur Jarre

Kind regards

Michael

Ladies Hearts and Diamond Rings
are not very special things
when Tony Rome is out and about
cause Tony Rome will take em if you don't watch out.

The things that are in my head.

Hello Mr Chips------don't remember that song but I know the one it was stolen from
my father sang it while playing his banjo.  It's about a real life 2nd story man, jewelry
thief and safe cracker---------

Look out, look out, look out for Jimmy Valentine
For he's a friend of mine
A sentimental crook
With a touch that lingers
In his sand-paper fingers he can steal the combination
To your pocket book

He can steal a horse and cart
He'll even steal a girlie's heart
When Jimmy Valentine gets out

Our heads probably rattle with all the goodies stored in them.

TCM had one on tonight...The Man Who Came To Dinner...Monty Wooley at his most obnoxious

  Damn, I forgot "Caddyshack", "Stripes", and "The Green Mile". All very well done and I get to see them on AMC at least once a month. (except "The Green Mile") I have them on DVD but still watch them when they are on T.V.

JMHO

David O. 

re: Stripes -- we say 'lighten up, Francis' all the time.

re: Gina Gershon.  Hells yes!  Although I have a soft spot for Kate Winslet.  Bill I think you can be enlightened enough to know when somebody's attractive even if they're not of the gender you personally prefer.

Some of mine in no particular order:
The Searchers-best John Wayne performance hands down!
Coming to America- Eddie and Arsinio in multiple roles..
Fritz Langs "M" with Peter Lorre...the monster of Dusseldorf..
Car Wash
The Taking of Pelham,123(original)...great cast of character actors
Godfather I and II
Uncle Buck
Eraserhead-disturbing, but like a car crash, you can't look away
North by Northwest
Tremors
More later when I think of them.....
MD

Greetings, Movie Fans!

Tonight on the german late night TV is Westward the Women (Karawane der Frauen), a true classic Western movie/drama, just great!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westward_the_Women



Video: (Excerpt)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCvOulOZNZU


Michael