<p>tsdad, I love Arsenic and Old Lace…CHARGEEEEEE :)</p>
<p>Fraz: Same response from my sons as we watched Lawrence on DVD recently. The younger one was amazed that this person actually existed, that he wasn’t a fictional character created by screenwriters. </p>
<p>Good mention on “Oliver Twist” and Great Expectations. It makes it hard to watch other renditions of Dickens after seeing these movies. They should do a David Lean boxed set. </p>
<p>Arsenic lovers: don’t forget Cary Grant in “The Awful Truth” and “The Front Page.”</p>
<p>“The Awful Truth” is a wonderful movie. But I love Cary Grant in everything, from early films like Topper, My Favorite Wife, Holiday, etc. to later ones like Indiscreet and Charade. I even like “That Touch of Mink” which is really a pretty bad movie. David Thomson, the film writer (who should know), calls him “the best and most important actor in the history of the cinema.” I love that stuff!</p>
<p>Cary Grant was in the boy-girl version of “Front Page” which is “His Girl Friday.” The reporter is Rosalind Russell instead of Pat O’Brien (30s version) or Jack Lemmon (70s remake).</p>
<p>Does anyone else remember a TV production of “Arsenic and Old Lace” from their high school days, maybe in the early 1970s? It starred Bob Crane (yes, Colonel Hogan) and Lillian Gish and Helen Hayes, no less. I seem to remember it was done before a live audience, and it was pretty good. But no match for the 1944 version, of course.</p>
<p>Lawrence of Arabia: Yes! Roman Holiday: Yes! Agree with many others have mentioned…</p>
<p>The Longest Day
Patton
A Bridge Too Far
Chinatown
Network
Sense & Sensibility
Witness
Tootsie
Il Postino
Stand & Deliver
Annie Hall
Play It Again, Sam
Hannah & Her Sisters
Crimes & misdemeanors** best Woody movie ever
Animal House
Trois Hommes & Un Couffin (about 100 times better than the American remake)</p>
<p>Frazzled: Thanks for picking me up on “His Gal Friday.” </p>
<p>One other CG not yet mentioned: “To Catch a Thief” with Grace Kelly. Stunning location and delicious elegance.</p>
<p>“Stand by Me” (love lardass )
“Dumb & Dumber”
“7th Voyage of Sinbad”
“Aunty Mame”
& ditto everyone else’s picks…like reading a menu in a great restaurant, I’m salivating …</p>
<p>There is a British comedy from the mid-60s called “The Jokers” where two upper-crust brothers steal the Crown Jewels as a “gesture,” with “no intention to permanently deprive.” It starred Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed as the brothers. Cast also includes Edward Fox in a small role. Swinging London at its best (or worst). Not a great movie, but funny and very watchable.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, is not available in either DVD or VHS. Someone is constantly selling DVDs of it on EBay, but they must be pirated or copied off television. I used to have a VHS copy, but I lent it to someone and never saw it again. Curses!</p>
<p>I don’t know about timeless but this has got to be one of the most charming movies I’ve ever seen. It’s a documentary about the 6000 fifth graders in NYC who take a required ten week class in ballroom dancing and then are involved in a city-wide competition. The film follows kids from three diverse schools from beginning to end. It’s wonderful!</p>
<p>Other great Johnny Depp movies:</p>
<p>Benny and Joon
Don Juan de Marco
Chocolat</p>
<p>A few others:</p>
<p>Babette’s Feast
Harvey
The Last Emperor
The Sting
The Hunt for Red October “I would have liked to see Montana”
Roxanne
Groundhog day
Did someone say The Great Escape?</p>
<p>And if you have netflix, a couple goodies:</p>
<p>The Story of the Weeping Camel
Ram Daas Fierce Grace</p>
<p>one of my favorite movies that I see when ever it is showing in a theatre is “The Duellists” Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel
directed by Ridley Scott
set during teh Napoleonic Age from the book by Joesph Conrad</p>
<p>12 Angry Men
High Noon
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Rashomon
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Graduate
Alien
Predator
The Italian Job (Michael Caine)
The Godfather Part II
Casablanca
L.A. Confidential
Chinatown
Rosemary’s Baby
The Day the Earth Stood Still
North by Northwest</p>
<p>to mention a few</p>
<p>Oh ya…
Ran
Enter the Dragon
The Day of the Jackal (old version)
The Thing
Goldeneye
The Great Escape
Mad Max
Murder on the Orient Express</p>
<p>The original poster said timeless, which to me are stories that strongly evoke joy, sorrow, laughter, pride or empathy.</p>
<p>Comedy…
Casino Royale (Woody Allen at the firing squad; “so long suckers.”)
Sleeper
Being There (I like to Watch Television)
Dr. Strangelove
Animal House
Local Hero (that silly Scottish town)
A Touch of Class (Glenda Jackson)
Harvey
One, Two, Three (Cagney’s last hurragh)
Mad, Mad, Mad World
A Hard Day’s Night
Help
The Out of Towners
The Fortune Cookie
THe Producers</p>
<p>Drama…
Quiz Show
The Wilby Conspiracy
The Heat of the Night
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Elmer Gantry
Blackboard Jungle
Public Enemy
The Maltest Falcon
The Caine Mutiny
Rope (great Jimmy Stewart)
The Wind and the Lion
The Stranger (THE GREAT ORSON WELLES)
The Slender Thread
Double Indemnity
The Manchurian Candidate (Sinatra original)
A Patch of Blue
Guess Who’s Comming to Dinner
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Graduate
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Mary Queen of Scots (Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson)
The Lion in Winter
Reds
Witness for the Proscution
A Taste of Honey</p>
<p>Westerns…
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Unforgiven
Lonely are the Brave</p>
<p>Science Fiction…
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Alien
2001
The Brother from Another Planet
Mysterious Island</p>
<p>On the Waterfront
Singin’ in the Rain</p>
<p>Movie Lovers-- obscure but wonderful: The Straight Story</p>
<p>I almost forgot …</p>
<p>“The Red Violin”</p>
<p>If you haven’t seen it, rent it.</p>
<p>Oh my goodness, I can’t believe no one has mentioned West Side Story!</p>
<p>Time Bandits. I watched parts of it on Sundance before I went off to work this morning. Lots of Monty Python folks in it.</p>
<p>Not at all timeless, which is one of the things I like about it–American Graffitti. It’s so VERY firmly rooted in its period. Plus, if you’re a Harrison Ford fan, it’s his first movie.</p>
<p>Terms of Endearment</p>
<p>it always makes me laugh and cry, and such a great cast!</p>
<p>Am I correct, or did no one post this?: Gone with the Wind. The Ten Commandments. Ben Hur. Giant. Citizen Kane. (All the Disney animated movies). Agree with almost everyone on the rest.</p>