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Janice · 09-17-2006, 10:02 AM

To name just a few...

The Days of Wine and Roses

Gone With The Wind

Mildred Pierce

The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Lost Weekend

All About Eve

The Wizard of Oz

How The West Was Won

She Wore A Yellow Ribbon

Some Like It Hot

moeee · 09-17-2006, 11:00 AM

My favorites:

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Lilies of the Field (1963)

The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

Nighthawk76 · 09-17-2006, 11:53 AM

Here are a few. I've listed them in the order in which they were released.

The 39-Steps (1935)

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Shadow Of A Doubt (1943)

Notorious (1946)

Strangers On A Train (1951)

Rear Window (1954)

The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)

Vertigo (1958)

North By Northwest (1959)

Anatomy Of A Murder (1959)

Psycho (1960)

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Lolita (1961)

The Great Escape (1963)

Lawrence Of Arabia (1963)

From Russia With Love (1964)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

You Only Live Twice (1967)

Bullitt (1967)

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Night Of The Living Dead (1968)

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

Okay, maybe there are more than a few.

And I can think of others.

HuntingtonM15 · 09-17-2006, 08:10 PM

All About Eve
The Best Years of Our Lives
Sunset Blvd.
Peyton Place
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte
Dark Victory
Die! Die! My Darling!
The Three Faces of Eve
Lifeboat
Born Yesterday
Barefoot in the Park
The Lost Weekend
The Miracle Worker
Pillow Talk

CrimsonTide4 · 09-17-2006, 08:15 PM

Imitation of Life ~ 1959
The Wizard of Oz
Gone With the Wind

Brad Russ · 09-18-2006, 03:36 AM

The Wizard Of Oz
The Graduate
Rebel Without A Cause
The Days Of Wine And Roses
The 10 Commandments
Swiss Family Robinson
Where The Red Ferns Grows

comedyfreak · 09-18-2006, 07:57 AM

The Wizard Of Oz 1939
The Champ 1931
Boys Town 1938
Huckleberry Finn 1939
Yours, Mine, And Ours 1968
The Big Street 1940?
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane 1962
The Letter
The Star
All About Eve
Christmas in Connecticut
The Long, Long Trailer
Fancy Pants Lucy and Bob Hope

LucyCompanyPhan · 09-18-2006, 11:02 AM

Sunset blvd.
All about Eve
Rear Window
Veritgo
Casablanca
Duck Soup
12 Angry Men

I'd say that most of my favorite movies are pre-1970.

Gilda · 09-21-2006, 06:08 PM

The Birds
Rear Window
Bringing Up Baby
The Philadelphia Story
All About Eve
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Camille
The African Queen
Dark Passage
Some Like It Hot
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
How to Marry a Millionaire
Gone With the Wind
Now Voyager

siblers · 09-21-2006, 09:50 PM

Rear Window.

Brian · 09-22-2006, 11:50 AM

It Happened One Night
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Arsenic and Old Lace
Double Indemnity
Sunset Boulevard
From Here to Eternity
The Defiant Ones
Inherit the Wind
Judgment at Nuremberg
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
In the Heat of the Night
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Bonnie and Clyde
The Dirty Dozen
The Great Escape

I'll post more later.

seventies_sitcoms · 09-22-2006, 03:46 PM

The Women
Harriet Craig
Queen Bee
Rain (Joan crawford)
Mildred Pierce
Our Dancing Daughters
Red Headed Woman
Bombshell (Jean Harlow)
China Seas
Red Dust
Sunset Boulevard
Sadie Thompson (Gloria Swanson)
Call Her Savage
The Saturday Night Kid
The Shiek
Son of the ShieK
Four Horseman of the Apocalypse (Rudolph Valentino)
Beyond the Rocks
Show People
The Crowd
Psycho
The Birds
Giant
East of Eden
Lifeboat
The Wind (Lillian Gish)
Way Down East (Lillian Gish)
Broken Blossoms
and Herschell Gordon Lewis movies.

Brad Russ · 09-23-2006, 02:43 AM

I'm surprised nobody besides me has mentioned The Graduate. I was expecting that to be on a bunch of people's lists.

Jack Gomez · 09-27-2006, 01:58 AM

The Last Man On Earth
Frankenstein
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Wolf Man
The Wolf Man Meets Frankenstein
Dracula
Horror of Dracula
The Wizard of Oz
Psycho
Planet of the Apes
Lady and the Tramp
Bambi
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Rio Bravo
Night of the Living Dead
The Gold Rush
The Circus
City Lights

TheLandfordLunchBox · 09-27-2006, 02:24 AM

The Wizard of Oz
Psycho
Lady and the Tramp
Alice In Wonderland
Night of the Living Dead

09-17-2006, 10:02 AM	#1
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09-17-2006, 11:00 AM	#2
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09-17-2006, 11:53 AM	#3
Nighthawk76 Rachel Berry Forum Celebrity Join Date: Feb 28, 2003 Location: Illinois Posts: 23,254	Here are a few. I've listed them in the order in which they were released. The 39-Steps (1935) The Lady Vanishes (1938) Foreign Correspondent (1940) Shadow Of A Doubt (1943) Notorious (1946) Strangers On A Train (1951) Rear Window (1954) The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) Vertigo (1958) North By Northwest (1959) Anatomy Of A Murder (1959) Psycho (1960) The Magnificent Seven (1960) Lolita (1961) The Great Escape (1963) Lawrence Of Arabia (1963) From Russia With Love (1964) Dr. Strangelove (1964) You Only Live Twice (1967) Bullitt (1967) Rosemary's Baby (1968) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Night Of The Living Dead (1968) Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) Okay, maybe there are more than a few. And I can think of others.

09-17-2006, 08:10 PM	#4
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09-17-2006, 08:15 PM	#5
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09-21-2006, 06:08 PM	#9
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09-22-2006, 11:50 AM	#11
Brian Member Forum Celebrity Join Date: Jun 23, 2001 Posts: 20,451	It Happened One Night Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Arsenic and Old Lace Double Indemnity Sunset Boulevard From Here to Eternity The Defiant Ones Inherit the Wind Judgment at Nuremberg Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) In the Heat of the Night It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World Bonnie and Clyde The Dirty Dozen The Great Escape I'll post more later.

09-22-2006, 03:46 PM	#12
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09-23-2006, 02:43 AM	#13
Brad Russ Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Feb 17, 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 10,085	I'm surprised nobody besides me has mentioned The Graduate. I was expecting that to be on a bunch of people's lists.

09-27-2006, 01:58 AM	#14
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