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**daddyofall** · Jul 29 2012, 05:19 PM

12 Angry Men and Night of the Hunter are my favorite classics.
His Girl Friday comes third.

**daisydotell** · Jul 29 2012, 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by Smartmouthwoman

I watched Wuthering Heights not long ago. Ahhhhh, Heathcliff. Meet me one the moors one more time.

Laurence Olivier was a good looking man when he was young and for that matter he was even good looking as an older man.. They don't make em like that anymore.

**smalltime** · Jul 29 2012, 05:23 PM

Originally Posted by Phil

Best movie: The Longest Day
Favorite Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Favorite actor: Vincent Price
Favorite film: Theater of Blood
Scene that changed my life: Spencer Tracy's speech at the end of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Best comedy: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Best credits: Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Best moral: from House of Dracula, try to cure one monster at a time.
Best Lesson: from 12 Angry Men, how the liberals take over the country

Best movie:My Fair Lady
Favorite Director: Alfred Hitchcock....push
Favorite actor: Gary Cooper
Favorite film: Oklahoma
Scene that changed my life: The backyard scene in Little shop.....Suddenly Seymore
Best comedy: Monty Python's Holy Grail
Best credits: See above
Best moral: From "Jaws".......We're gonna need a bigger boat
Best Lesson: from The Rocky Horror picture show.....Don't dream it, Be it.

**Foolardi** · Jul 29 2012, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by Smartmouthwoman

One of my fav cult films... Freaks, 1932.

(warning: politically incorrect)

Classic.

Always liked Wallace Ford.He's my kind of guy.Straight-talking and to the point.
Somewhat gruff and crusty but then that's what a Grandpa is supposed to be portrayed as.
I never saw a Wallace Ford movie where he looked young.I think in his early 30's he looked like
maybe an old father type.
One Ford movie I'd recommend is : - A Patch of Blue - {1965}
Ford had a very rough childhood.It shows in his character.Thereby explaining his character
somewhat in " a Patch ".

**Foolardi** · Jul 29 2012, 06:28 PM

Originally Posted by smalltime

Best movie:My Fair Lady
Favorite Director: Alfred Hitchcock....push
Favorite actor: Gary Cooper
Favorite film: Oklahoma
Scene that changed my life: The backyard scene in Little shop.....Suddenly Seymore
Best comedy: Monty Python's Holy Grail
Best credits: See above
Best moral: From "Jaws".......We're gonna need a bigger boat
Best Lesson: from The Rocky Horror picture show.....Don't dream it, Be it.

Never Liked Cooper until I read a very distinguished Film Critic make the point that
there were basically only 2 actors in movies that were perfect for the camera.
That just were automatic when it came time for any shoot.As far as profile and
overall camera presence.One was Gary Cooper and other was Marilyn Monroe.
It got me to thinking.I never viewed another Cooper role in the same light.
I think I might have been too easily swayed by big talking actors,Cooper,like
Steve McQueen aren't big talkers.I still like those big talkers,however.
Nothing better than a Wallace Beery or a Marie Dressler.
On that note one of my alltime favorite movies is ... :
- Dinner at Eight - I adored the entire cast.

**River Rat** · Jul 31 2012, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by old timer

Well welcome and how do there river rat. Where do you hail from.

The very crotch of the Tri-State area. Where Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia slap together. There used to be four great old movie palaces in town, not there are only two screens in the entire county!

**River Rat** · Jul 31 2012, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by Phil

Best movie: The Longest Day
Favorite Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Favorite actor: Vincent Price
Favorite film: Theater of Blood
Scene that changed my life: Spencer Tracy's speech at the end of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Best comedy: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Best credits: Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Best moral: from House of Dracula, try to cure one monster at a time.
Best Lesson: from 12 Angry Men, how the liberals take over the country

Scene that changed my life: Nice!

Thinking about that I'd have to say Sidney Portier slapping the old school racist in right in the greenhouse in In the Heat of the Night.

Best moral? Delivered by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind

The line that still chokes me up? "To my big brother George! The richest man in town!" It's a Wonderful Life

Favorite film (my 'go to' if nothing else tickles my fancy: Lawrence of Arabia or The Godfather

Favorite director? Frank Capra or, if feeling pretentious, Stanley Kubrick. But I'm a sucker for Hal Ashby, Robert Altman, William Wyler and John Ford.

Favorite actor? James Stewart

I've never considered best credits, but Saul Bass did a great job on North by Northwest.

Best comedy? Modern: The Big Lebowski classic Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House.

**Talon** · Jul 31 2012, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by Smartmouthwoman

Thank God for TCM.

LOL - You're as bad as my wife, Smartie. Saturday mornings are TCM time at our house.

In my opinion, the 50s and 60s were the golden age of film...

**River Rat** · Jul 31 2012, 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by Smartmouthwoman

One of my fav cult films... Freaks, 1932.

(warning: politically incorrect)

Classic.

How about the sceen when the freaks crawl through the under brush and 'transform' the haughty (*)(*)(*)(*)(*) into the "Duck Woman"?! If I could have watched Tod Browning direct his actors and camera men, it would have been facinating!