"Old" movies for the kids

Parent Cafe
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<p>I guess my kids are older than most of yours. They grew up on Mel Brooks movies, My cousin Vinny, True Lies, Airplane, Robin Hood in tight, ET, Apollo 13, Star Wars, Raiders, and of course Monty Python, especially Holy Grail. </p>

<p>Family favorites are Shawshank, Glory, Gettysburg, Spaceballs, and some early ones we made them watch: Casablanca, Butch Cassidy, the Errol Flynn Robin Hood (“you speak treason” “fluently”), It’s a Wonderful Life. And a bunch more that my poor addled brain can’t remember.</p>

<p>Incidentally, I *think *both have seen Gump, but since I can’t stomach it, it wasn’t my doing.</p>

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<p>Private Benjamin</p>

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<p>National Velvet, How Green Was My Valley, Arsenic and Old Lace, Goodbye Mr Chips,
and about 300-500 other titles from the 30’s and 40’s</p>

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<p>Brain finally kicking into gear here. Other “older” favorites in our house that I don’t think have been listed yet:</p>

<p>90s: Groundhog Day, In and Out
80s: Back to the Future, Out of Africa
70s: Nashville, Jaws
60s: Cool Hand Luke
50s: The Band Wagon, North by Northwest
40s: On the Town, Adam’s Rib
30s: Stage Door, Dark Victory</p>

<p>A great favorite of dh and the kids is “High Society” with Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Grace Kelly (50s musical remake of “Philadelphia Story”). It bugs me because I know “Philadelphia Story” is a much better movie - but there’s no reasoning with some people.

All of these! I just remembered that “Arsenic and Old Lace” is set at Halloween - time to find it for Saturday night. Cary Grant and the window seat - :D</p>

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<p>How could I forget Cool Hand Luke??? Parent suggestion, S loved it.</p>

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<p>Sunset Boulevard.</p>

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<p>For Foodies:
Babette’s Feast
Eat, Drink, Man ,Woman
Big Night</p>

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<p>“Sunset Boulevard”</p>

<p>I played that for D when she was 15. The dead monkey scene COMPLETELY freaked her out and she couldnt sleep for quite a few days.</p>

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<p>Most of the above! plus
Last of the Mohicans</p>

<p>So many movies, so little free time…</p>

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<p>Mrs. Doubtfire
Uncle Buck</p>

<p>I second Witness. GREAT movie.
Raiders of The Lost Ark.</p>

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<p>Psycho
Jason and the Argonauts</p>

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<p>The Grapes of Wrath, Paths of Glory,The Elephant Man, Strangers on a Train, Ben Hur,
The Best Years of our Lives, Shadow of a Doubt, Stalag 17, Laura, Barry Lyndon, Harvey, The Bird Man of Alcatraz,…</p>

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<p>Stand by Me</p>

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<p>White Hunter/Black Heart, Summertime, Le Nuit de Varenne, Bell Book and Candle, Destry Rides Again, The Lady Eve, Sullivans Travels (well I guess ALL of Preston Sturges’s movies) Wuthering Heights('39), All the Presidents Men, 2001 a Space Odyssey, The Killers, Rope,Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes…</p>

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<p>frazzled1 - I just found this website called locatetv.com/movie and it said that Arsenic and Old Lace would be on TCM on Nov. 2nd at 11:00 am. Time to DVR!</p>

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<p>My kids really like “old” movies. My son knows the Mel Brooks canon by heart, and also The Princess Bride, Butch Cassidy, The Sting, The Wild Bunch. He also really loves The Usual Suspects. Really loves it; I think he bought it.</p>

<p>My daughter loves all of the John Hughes movies. (They were watched so much in our house, my son had made plenty of time with girls because of his familiarity with them and willingness to discuss Pretty In Pink vs. 16 Candles.) Ferris Bueller is our favorite. She also loves Heathers, Reality Bites, Dazed & Confused. And Blue Velvet.</p>

<p>Both also like the Metropolitan - Barcelona - Last Days Of Disco trilogy. And M<em>A</em>S*H. And Animal House, of course.</p>

<p>Chinatown (really a perfect movie). Scenes From A Marriage. Blade Runner.</p>

<p>The Sean Connery Bond movies.</p>

<p>A few others that have been successful: Little Big Man. The Sand Pebbles. The Wild Bunch. Philadelphia Story. The Road Warrior. The Year Of Living Dangerously.</p>

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<p>My son LOVES princess bride. (More than we do.) He’s dressing up as Inigo Montoya for Halloween. Not a movie, but we just finished watching all the old MASH episodes and he loved them. I second the recommendation of old Alfred Hitchcock movies. He also loved Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven. He enjoyed American Graffiti. He’s liked a bunch of old war movies too. All Quiet on the Western Front, Das Boot, Hunt for Red October - I’d have to check Netflix logs for the rest. He’s watched a bunch without out with the download option.</p>

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<p>My kids have seen pretty much everything on TCM. I agree that any Mel Brooks film - like Young Frankenstein or Blazing Saddles is generally silly but funny. Also - </p>

<ul>
<li>Clue</li>
<li>Pink Panther Inspector Clouseau movies</li>
<li>Speaking of Peter Sellers, I found a quirky movie of his funny - “The Party”. </li>
<li>MASH</li>
<li>Catch 22</li>
<li>Lord of the Flies (old original one - not funny but well done)</li>
<li>The Sting</li>
<li>The Hustler</li>
<li>Bullitt</li>
<li>Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid</li>
<li>Deliverance</li>
<li>French Connection</li>
<li>Marathon Man (Dustin Hoffman)</li>
<li>Bridge on the river Kwai</li>
<li>The Dirty Dozen</li>
<li>A Raisin in the Sun </li>
<li>Lilies of the Field (and most movies starring Sydney Poitier)</li>
<li>The Birds</li>
<li>Rear Window (and anything by Alfred Hitchcock)</li>
<li>DOA - Original one. (available online as public domain free at archive dot org - load it on an ipod/iphone or watch online) </li>
<li>(Too many to list)</li>
</ul>

<p>Okay - a lot of those may be more geared to those interested in adventure/thriller/comedy movies rather than tear-jerker dramas.</p>

<p>Here’s a good couple of links -
[100</a> Greatest Movies of the '70s](<a href=“http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/movie-pages/movie_70s.html]100”>http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/movie-pages/movie_70s.html)
[100</a> Greatest Movies of the '60s](<a href=“http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/movie-pages/movie_60s.html]100”>http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/movie-pages/movie_60s.html)
<a href=“http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/movie-pages/movie_50s.html[/url]”>http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/movie-pages/movie_50s.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Both Ds loved Tootsie and Rain Man. *Back to the Future *is our family’s favorite “trilogy” of all times, closely folowed by the Indiana Jones movies.</p>

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<p>I also absolutely love Usual Suspects. It is the best of all the movies with a twist.
I remember watching it for the first time. When it was over I absolutely had to watch it again, right then.
I love watching it with friends who are seeing it for the first time. Their facial expressions towards the end are priceless.
Another very good movie with a twist is Pure Formality (Una pura formalita) by Giuseppe Tornatore. Starring Gerard Depardieu and Roman Polanski.</p>