Julian wrote:I feel I've missed on films from the 30s through the 70s. I can't help noticing that the rentals in our house are always relatively recent films. I wanna see old stuff! There's got to be so many gems to be unearthed (but I'm so unfamiliar with older live-action films ).
I hope you don't mind if I might make a few suggestion of movies that you might be interested in.
I'm not sure if you like suspense/thriller films or not, but I'm a huge Hitchcock fan myself, and there are so many great thrillers/suspense films he's made that I think are terrific. A few of my personal favorites if you get the chance to look for them is Shadow Of A Doubt, Strangers On A Train, The Man Who Knew Too Much (the 1956 remake), North By Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, and Frenzy. (Wow, I just realized how long that list is
). Also, another one of his films that I really love is The Trouble With Harry. It's not really a suspsense film, but a black humor British comedy if you like that.
Also, speaking of classic comedies, one of my favorites, but don't know if it's as well known or not, is Murder By Death. It's a great murder mystery comedy written by Neil Simon with a lot of famous comedians and actors from the 60s and 70s like Peter Sellers, Peter Falk, Maggie Smith, Elsa Lanchester, Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, and others.
And if you really like movie musicals, I really recommend looking at The Music Man, My Fair Lady, Singing In The Rain, and South Pacific which are a few of my favorites as well.
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