My two favorites, right off the top of my head are “Dr. Strangelove” and “The Last Picture Show”.
I will list just a few.
“Sargent York”, “Dracula” the Bela Lugosi one. “Edge of the World” from the 1930s. “Red River”, Just about all the Hitchcock ones such as “Psycho”.
I bet there are over a hundred if I saw a list.
Ditto
So you know where I got my name!
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Col. US Army
Ditto.
I watch over-the-air broadcasts of METV on my computer tuner. Perry Mason, The Rebel & The Rifleman.
Just watched 2 of the first episodes of the Rifleman. Michael Landon was in the 2nd episode. Directed by Sam Peckinpah. 1958. Before Bonanza. Good stuff
Also, saw Leonard Nimoy on a very old episode of The Rebel.
Not movies, but still, high quality B&W films...
Loved The Last Picture Show.
Dr. Strangelove - a CLASSIC
I liked “Last Picture Show” too. It had a lot of the atmosphere of the era. It was also the time period where I grew up.
There was one thing I noticed which McMurtry got wrong. He had the coaches constantly using profanity. I think the Florida Panhandle was very similar to the Texas Panhandle.
The coaches could make you bend over and then kick you and nobody minded but the parents would not have put up with profanity from a high school coach.
Now college was a different thing.