[drdaws]

Of Mice & Men, with Lon Chaney.
You Only Live Once, Henry Fonda.
Pepe Le Moko, remade in Hollywood as:-
Algiers. Charles Boyer.
Hells Angels, Ben Lyon, Jean Harlow.
Intruder in the Dust.
Annie Get Your Gun, Betty Hutton.
A Face in the Crowd, Andy Griffith.
All good movies from way back, worth a view.

[spiney2]

the maltese falcon is perfect.

not been on free british tv for quite a while ......

[InkyPinky]

Angels With Dirty Faces is always worth a watch. It pops up on telly now and then.

[Victoria Sponge]

'Bhowani Junction' with Ava Gardner.
'The Red Shoes', sad ending

[Paace]

Just saw Jane Fonda playing a prostitute in a terrific film on BBC2 last night called Klute. She was hot in her younger days and looked fantastic in this film with a fringed haircut and some great dresses .
Jane made a lot of films in her younger days which never get shown and seeing how good she was in this I'm going to check out some others of her earlier films .

Another great film today on C5 is Calamity Jane with Doris Day where she plays a tom boy cowgirl . I would say Doris Day's best performance .

[Walter Neff]

Originally Posted by Paace

Another great film today on C5 is Calamity Jane with Doris Day where she plays a tom boy cowgirl . I would say Doris Day's best performance .

I would say that Love Me or Leave Me, with James Cagney was definitely her best.

[gerry d]

'12 Angry Men' (1957) is worth a watch if it pops up on tv.

[SimonSmith42]

Originally Posted by Paace

Just saw Jane Fonda playing a prostitute in a terrific film on BBC2 last night called Klute. She was hot in her younger days and looked fantastic in this film with a fringed haircut and some great dresses .
Jane made a lot of films in her younger days which never get shown and seeing how good she was in this I'm going to check out some others of her earlier films .

If you want to see a film where she looks amazing, watch 'Barbarella' - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062711/

[goldberry1]

I was watching an old American film on TV recently which i've never seen before - It was called 'Cry Havoc' centred on a group of nurses on a Pacific island which was being defended against the Japanese in WW2. The acting was incredibly good. At the end their hideout was discovered and the last shots were of them walking to their doom.

There's a film I like but can never remember its name - a blind American man in London overhears a plot in a pub and there's a surprise ending as the criminal isn't all they seem.

[bookaddict]

Originally Posted by goldberry1

I was watching an old American film on TV recently which i've never seen before - It was called 'Cry Havoc' centred on a group of nurses on a Pacific island which was being defended against the Japanese in WW2. The acting was incredibly good. At the end their hideout was discovered and the last shots were of them walking to their doom.

There's a film I like but can never remember its name - a blind American man in London overhears a plot in a pub and there's a surprise ending as the criminal isn't all they seem.

That sounds like 23 Paces to Baker Street, starring Van Johnson.

I'm a sucker for old films....some i would recoomend are

Singin' In The Rain (if this isn't the happiest film ever made, I don't know what is!)
Sunset Boulevard (William Holden - amazing. Fantastic film)
Roman Holiday
Heaven Knows, Mr Allison
The African Queen
Cool Hand Luke
It Happened One Night (one of the first screwball comedies)
Monkey Business (the Cary Grant one, not Marx Brothers)
A Matter of Life and Death

[Finny Skeleta]

Originally Posted by gerry d

'12 Angry Men' (1957) is worth a watch if it pops up on tv.

I disagree.

12 Angry Men is a film worth actively seeking out and watching.