tonight's random question
Via the husband.
What's your favorite movie that was released before you were born?
Here's mine:
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Via the husband.
What's your favorite movie that was released before you were born?
Here's mine:
Comments
Harvey. No doubt, Harvey. A classic. Anyone who can watch it and NOT sit there grinning after the end, overflowing with warm fuzzies, simply has no soul.
J.
Posted by: Jay Tea | October 9, 2005 06:40 PM
"Miracle on 34th Street" and "Some Like it Hot"
Posted by: carol | October 9, 2005 06:47 PM
The Thin Man.
Willaim Powell and Myrna Loy have one of the best dynamics i've ever seen.
i probably have wathed it an average of twice a month for the last 2 years (or since it came out on DVD teh first time)
Posted by: tommy | October 9, 2005 06:49 PM
The Thin Man.
Willaim Powell and Myrna Loy have one of the best dynamics i've ever seen.
i probably have watched it an average of twice a month for the last 2 years (or since it came out on DVD the first time)
Posted by: tommy | October 9, 2005 06:49 PM
I was born in 1982, which gives me a lot of choices, but I think I have to go with The Sting.
Posted by: Mark J | October 9, 2005 06:54 PM
Sink the Bismark...
love it.
Posted by: kotter | October 9, 2005 07:01 PM
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir -- Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison, 1947.
Posted by: Ith | October 9, 2005 07:15 PM
Philadelphia Story, no question. One of our favorite games is to try and recast classic movies using modern day actors...for this one, it's nigh impossible.
Posted by: Sekimori | October 9, 2005 07:17 PM
Gone with the Wind. Definitely.
Posted by: beth | October 9, 2005 07:25 PM
Ith beat me to it! Ghost and Mrs. Muir
I love, Some Like it Hot, but that was made in 1959 when I was 5. Damn, the older I get the smaller the pool of movies. ::sigh:::
AMC ran The Graduate (1967)the other night and did my head pop up from the computer at the opening bars of "Sounds of Silence"
Posted by: Darleen | October 9, 2005 07:25 PM
Born in 1970.
Off the top of my head, I'll go with 'Rear Window.'
Posted by: Jay | October 9, 2005 07:26 PM
A Night At The Opera
Double Indemnity
It Happened One Night
Gone With The Wind
The Killers
White Heat
My Dinner With Andre (joke)
Posted by: spd rdr | October 9, 2005 07:26 PM
I'm with Sekimori. The Philadelphia Story.
Posted by: Lesley | October 9, 2005 07:40 PM
The Maltese Falcon
If only for, "I hope they don't hang you, precious, by that sweet neck. Yes, angel, I'm gonna send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means if you're a good girl, you'll be out in 20 years. I'll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I'll always remember you."
Posted by: BadgerChris | October 9, 2005 07:45 PM
The Godfather
Posted by: Mark | October 9, 2005 07:47 PM
Adam's Rib followed by The African Queen
Posted by: Paul | October 9, 2005 07:50 PM
"A Matter of Life and Death", David Niven, 1946. A very strange film. One of the main characters is a doctor who dies in a motorcycle accident and finishes the film with his scenes set in heavan.
Posted by: Terry | October 9, 2005 08:05 PM
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Posted by: Brandon Sharitt | October 9, 2005 08:08 PM
Undoubtedly The Graduate (1967)
I was born in 69.
Huh. Huh. Huhuhuhuhuh. I said 69.
Posted by: dave f | October 9, 2005 08:12 PM
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
OK, now I feel old.
Posted by: Lesley | October 9, 2005 08:14 PM
1982?
Sigh.
Posted by: michele | October 9, 2005 08:19 PM
"King Kong".
Actually looking forward to the remake. Also actually liked the 1977 version too.
Posted by: Randy | October 9, 2005 08:21 PM
Favorite movie from back in the before the day?
My choice is a Vincent Price/Sex Robot flick from Back When called: Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
From IMDB:
Tagline: Super sexbots... built to kill!
Plot Outline: Dr. Goldfoot has invented an army of bikini-clad robots
The 2:30 minute trailer here - which, basically, gives you the whole movies. What you've got is your standard Vincent Price, Frankie Avalon, Sex Robots action caper (with sex robots) about 35 years before the Austin Powers movies.
For "Best Movie" I'd go with 'Citizen Kane'because I have a charred sled/busted snowglobe fetish and a thing for deep focus. But 'Favorite Film' ... it's Dr. Goldfoot, pure cheesy goodness.
Posted by: BumperStickerist | October 9, 2005 08:27 PM
Dr. Goldfoot trailer ... apparently previewin a comment knocks out the html....
Posted by: BumperStickerist | October 9, 2005 08:29 PM
Yes, in 1982 I was still a couple years away.
Posted by: Brandon Sharitt | October 9, 2005 08:33 PM
Double Indemnity
Posted by: snut | October 9, 2005 09:23 PM
Duck Soup.
Posted by: Dean Esmay | October 9, 2005 10:04 PM
I think I'm gonna go with ... either His Girl Friday or The Big Sleep.
I refuse to choose between the two!
Posted by: red | October 9, 2005 10:05 PM
an affair to remember
or
gone with the wind
Posted by: michelle | October 9, 2005 10:06 PM
Casablanca.
Posted by: COD | October 9, 2005 10:06 PM
Although I agree with every choice mentioned so far in all of the comments. Love 'em all!
Notorious, too - the Hitchcock movie with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. UnbeLIEVable film!!
Posted by: red | October 9, 2005 10:07 PM
Harold and Maude
Posted by: tammy | October 9, 2005 10:08 PM
North By Northwest
One of Hitchcock's finest with a killer cast, great script, and cool score.
Posted by: Broken Fiction | October 9, 2005 10:51 PM
Citizen Kane
Posted by: Robert | October 9, 2005 11:05 PM
I would say Charade (Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn), but it was made three years too late. So, I'll go with North by Northwest.
Favorite line - "I never met a woman before that used sex like a fly swatter"
Posted by: Wind Rider | October 9, 2005 11:19 PM
I can't pick The Godfather as thats the same year I was born.
Hmmm....Off the top of my head, we may have to go Spaghetti Western and say Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name Trilogy.
"Prepare 3 coffins"
later:
"My mistake: 4 coffins" :)
Posted by: Frank at work | October 9, 2005 11:36 PM
Jaysus, Brandon
That puts you between my two youngest daughters...
In age! In age!
[.....slinks way to refresh drink...]
Posted by: Darleen | October 10, 2005 12:24 AM
"Anatomy of a Murder" late 50s. Jimmy Stewart in smalltown, aweshucks mode in a pretty cynical lawyer story. Nicely directed, but looks weird in come versions because they used a strange aspect ratio.
Classic ending.
Runners up: "Star Wars", "A Clockwork Orange" "The Searchers"
Posted by: witless chum | October 10, 2005 01:46 AM
"Bringing up Baby" Kate Hepburn was just amazing.
"12 O'Clock High"
Posted by: Timmer | October 10, 2005 01:47 AM
Spartacus. 1960
Watched this for the first time ever when I was in 8th grade Social Studies class. The teacher's point in having us watch this was that we should learn about the way that history is interpreted by Hollywood so that we could know the difference between real and memorex. Or something like that.
Basically the lesson came down to paying attention to real history versus revised history.
I've got Spartacus on VHS, LD, and DVD today because I seem to buy a new copy every time a new technology comes out.
Posted by: David Earney | October 10, 2005 03:15 AM
Interestingly, I just found on wiki that Trumbo tried to portray Spartacus as some kind of early Roman communist, but that's not at all the brainwashing impression I take from the movie.
Posted by: David Earney | October 10, 2005 03:28 AM
I can't think of any movies made before I was born that I really like that much.
Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge | October 10, 2005 06:31 AM
Casablanca
The Third Man
Casablanca
Picture of Dorian Gray
Casablanca
Any Audrey Hepburn movie
Casablanca
Posted by: Amphioxus | October 10, 2005 07:58 AM
Bringing Up Baby but I could go with Philadelphia Story also
OR Casablanca
Tough choice between comedy and drama.
Posted by: Darrell Vaughn | October 10, 2005 08:40 AM
Easy: Planet of The Apes (the original).
Born in 72.
Posted by: Alan | October 10, 2005 08:46 AM
The Manchurian Candidate or The Third Man.
Posted by: Faith | October 10, 2005 10:05 AM
Born in 1980,
Star Wars
Cool Hand Luke
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Yojimbo
Posted by: DrObviousSo | October 10, 2005 11:26 AM
It's a tossup between Chinatown and The Maltese Falcon.
(Born in 1978)
Posted by: Patrick Banks | October 10, 2005 02:54 PM
1977 for me...
Just one?
Today, I'll say Arsenic and Old Lace
Young Frankenstein
The Godfather 1 & 2
Dr. Strangelove
The Producers
Rashomon
the Day the Earth Stood Still
War of the Worlds
The list goes on and on....
Posted by: Tommy | October 10, 2005 03:35 PM
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. One freaky movie, and I still love it.
Posted by: Azrael | October 10, 2005 07:11 PM
Out of the Past
Cape Fear (The original, not that mess with DeNiro, which was made well after I was born, but I wouldn't have voted for it anyway)
High Noon
Posted by: Belize042 | October 11, 2005 01:42 AM
"Best Years of our Lives". I love that movie.
Posted by: Jennifer | October 11, 2005 10:50 AM
The Thin Man (all of them)
Casablanca
I'm starting to feel really old when people mention movies and I remember the release date! (Born in 1961).
Posted by: BeckyJ | October 11, 2005 10:06 PM