Best Film Pre 1969

[Hate Is Art]

any film released during or before 1969 qualifys, what do you all think is the best film from the time when there were no big budgets and special effects were non-existant?

Mine would have to be "Charge of the Light Brigade" Eroll Flynn is a ledgend is that film, I want a moustache just like his :D

or possibly "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" not sure if its pre 69, but I think it is, damn good film, Robert Redford and Paul Newman are damn great.

[truthaddict11]

Seven Samurai

[M_Rawlins]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064115/) was 69'

I thought the Maltese Falcon was pretty cool (1941), haven't seen the 1931 version though.

[truthaddict11]

The Producers
the Springtime for Hitler scene is classic! "Springtime for Hitler and Germany, winter for Poland and France"

Bonnie and Clyde
Night of the Living Dead

[Hate Is Art]

i've seen the maltese falcon, not sure which vesion it was though, black and white, humphrey bogart i thinks was in it.

Oh and wasn't Night of the Living Dea post '69?

[truthaddict11]

Rear Window and Psycho

[M_Rawlins]

yeah that's the 1941 version.

i find these sites are pretty good to find out about films:allmovie (http://www.allmovie.com/)

and

the internet movie database (http://www.imdb.com/)

[Kurai Tsuki]

Nearly every film starring Toshiro Mifune and directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Yojimbo
Sanjuro
Throne of Blood

Seven Samurai

The Devil's Bride, and most movies starring Christopher Lee, who would later play Saruman.

Guess who's Coming to Dinner

The Thomas Crown Affair (I say, that character had real style)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

La Boheme (silent)

[FatFreeMilk]

The Producers
the Springtime for Hitler scene is classic! "Springtime for Hitler and Germany, winter for Poland and France"

Oh shit! I saw that as a play at the pantageaous (sp!?) theater in LA. It was fuckin awesome. I never knew it was a movie.
Yeah I remember that scene too. They had a giant revolving human swastika. It was pretty impresive...

[Hate Is Art]

No matter how much I love Steve McQueen, the remake of The Thomas Crown Affair was better then the original.

[Mr. White]

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( :huh: ), Rosemary's Baby and Seven samurai.

All my favorites..........next in line is Psycho.

[Kurai Tsuki]

Originally posted by Digital [email protected] 2 2004, 08:29 PM
the remake of The Thomas Crown Affair was better then the original.
It's fine if you like it more but we all have different opinions I guess. An, "I thought," thrown into that statement would have helped :P

Sorry ^^;

I thought the new one was cool too, I actually didn't know there was a classic version for a while. There were a few things in the new one that I liked more than the original, mainly the way that he returns the painting in the end.

[truthaddict11]

Originally posted by [email protected] 2 2004, 03:16 PM

The Producers
the Springtime for Hitler scene is classic! "Springtime for Hitler and Germany, winter for Poland and France"

Oh shit! I saw that as a play at the pantageaous (sp!?) theater in LA. It was fuckin awesome. I never knew it was a movie.
Yeah I remember that scene too. They had a giant revolving human swastika. It was pretty impresive...
lol they are turning the musical version into a movie should be released next year

[sypher]

Harvey
Seven Samurai

[timbaly]

Originally posted by Digital Nirv[email protected] 2 2004, 02:55 PM


Oh and wasn't Night of the Living Dea post '69?
Night of the Living Dead was released in 1968.

[timbaly]

There are so many great pre-1969 films, it's tough to say which is the best.
I'll say it's Casablanca, I never get sick of that movie, it never gets old or boring. The Maltese Falcon is also a great Bogart film as is the Treasure of Sierra Madre, but Casablanca was his best.

I thought of another interesting film from 1915, anyone ever see The Birth of a Nation?

[Timon of Athens]

-Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

[Kurai Tsuki]

War Films

Kelly's Heroes

The Dirty Dozen

Hell in the Pacific

[Timon of Athens]

I have to add one, Batman (the one with Adam West). That movie is hysterical. :lol:

[Umoja]

I saw Birth of a Nation, it was pretty interesting when we analyzed it in history class.

Also, The Manchurian Candidate was nice.

[Pedro Alonso Lopez]

The Third Man.

[elijahcraig]

2001: A Space Odyssey


10 Others;

Dr Strangelove

Lolita

Grapes of Wrath

Citizen Kane

Spartacus

Bonnie and Clyde

Psycho

8 1/2

Paths of Glory

The Killing

[Umoja]

I hadn't realized 2001 was Pre-1970's. But I never actually thought of when it came out, just that it was some oddly realistic sci-fi for the time. They had simulated pseudo-gravity that made sense!

...I'm such a nerd.

[Rastafari]

jesus, these are all really good choices.

I'll only add two: The Savage Seven and the 60's Odysseus Film.


best...soundtracks...ever!

[timbaly]

Psycho
Vertigo
North by Northwest
Rear Window
Dial M for Murder
The Birds
Rebecca
and those are just Hitchcock's films

Gone with the Wind
The Graduate
On the Waterfront
Lawrence of Arabia
there are just far too many to name

[RevolutionNow]

Originally posted by Mr. [email protected] 2 2004, 08:59 PM
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Great movie!! :D My favorite scene is at the end when the cowboy/piloy rides the nuke into the ground like a bull.

[RevolutionNow]

Ill have to say that mine is the movie Zulu.

[Kurai Tsuki]

Zulu

Isn't that a bit of a pro-colonialist movie?

[MysticArcher]

definately Seven Samurai

or it's cowboy equivalent The Magnificent Seven, I think it was made pre 1969

or Them, the stereotypical '50s movie about giant ants, it scared the hell out of me when I was 10

[DaCuBaN]

'Reefer Madness'

[Sideshow Luke Perry]

Night of the Living Dead (1968 I think)

Wild Strawberries

North by North-West

The first three off the top of my head. More later, no doubt.

[Hate Is Art]

I love Humphery Bogart in Casablanca, it's so very sexy!!

I never really enjoyed Zulu that much, it's on every xmas and just is a bit boring.

The singer is my band is related to Hitchcock! :D

[Sammi87]

the lord of the flies - 1963

[American Kid]

Billy Liar

Dr. Schivago

Paths of Glory

Grand Illusion

[MiniOswald]

i dunno i aint sure zulu was very pro-colonialist, the second one certainly wasnt where the brits get slaughtered and i like the line off the zulu cheif where he talks about how he doesnt come to england to try to change their ways so why do they to him. also its micheal caine in a funny hat how can ya not like it simply for that.

however heres one bad thing, that little patriotic bit on zulu dawn, at the end where the 'valiant' englishmen uses his last breath to save englands flag, tis a bit trashy

[redstar2000]

Some pretty good choices so far.

I would add Rebel Without a Cause and Where the Boys Are...both released in the late 50s and gave a small taste of what was about to happen.

I liked any movie with Lauen Becall or Katherine Hepburn in them.

Brigitte Bardot was very good in La Verite.

And I have to offer an honorable mention to Jane Fonda's best political movie...Barbarella. :D

:redstar2000:

The Redstar2000 Papers (http://www.redstar2000papers.fightcapitalism.net)
A site about communist ideas

[Vinny Rafarino]

It's rare to see anyone toss out a Connie Francis film..good choices RS..

My two personal favourites have already been mentioned, so I will add
Sunset Boulevard and The Killers.

I am also quite fond of Danny Kaye films....Don't ask me why.

[Guerilla22]

Dr. Strangelove and All Quiet on the Western Front, although the book is much better.

[truthaddict11]

The Good The Bad and The Ugly