My beloved Morse trilogy has worked, Gentlemen prefer Blonds, Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend, Harvey, the original All Creatures Great and Small, the Poiot series, Babbetes Feast, Primer, Signs, singing in the Rain, It happened one night,Mrs Miniver, Blast From the Pat, Galexy Quest, Christmas in Connecticut, An ebayer is trying to screw me over by having sent me the wrong region when i asked for Make Way for Tomorrow.
I guess I am looking for feel good black and whites and early color films. Some films that have left you smiling. Not haha comedy. Just nice. Like Singing in the Rain nice.
Ones without a message.... just watched the film Pleasantville and found it beyond stupid. Was it marketed to young teens?
Anyhow again I will compile and put together a lost and post it at the end of the thread for everyone to have to print off.
Thank you.
Sorry so rambling.
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Secondhand Lions is very wholesome and life affirming.
The thin man series with william powell and myrna loy.
being there with peter sellers.
babys day out for modern slapstick.
Watch Strictly Ballroom - it’s an Aussie film with great music and great love story and humor.
White Christmas.
Not old, but I do enjoy The King’s Speech.
My Man Godfrey
It Happened One Night
The Big Sleep
Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals are worth a watch. Songs that are perennials on soundtracks because of the great melodies. South Pacific, Carousel, Sound of Music ...
Destination Moon is now out on Blu-ray. 1950, details the first trip into space. Co-written by Robert A. Heinlein. I love it.
Some of my favorites
Key largo
The cowboys
Casa Blanca
Fried green tomatoes
The green mile
Shawshank redemption
Shane
October Sky, Apollo 13, Dunkirk.
Look up best films by year. There ought to be one good one per year.
My wife likes “A Long Hot Summer” with Paul Newman. Also “Casablanca” which might be too heavy. Maybe “The Sting” with Newman and Redford.
I’d go with some old John Candy comedies. He was so good in “Uncle Buck”, “Who’s Harry Crumb”, “The Great Outdoors” and “Spaceballs”.
If you have streaming capability check out Tubi Channel. It is I believe one of the Roku channels.
Tubi has tons of classic movies classified in three groups. They are all free with ads. The are there, lots and lots of the really goodones, not the junk
For those of us hearing challenged, captions are available
Star Trek, the original series, motion picture 6 box set is good. The over all arch is Kirk’s retirement, when he does not want to do.
the man who would be king
michael cane. sean connery
The Philadelphia Story
The 49th Parallel (Brit/Canadian WWII proganda flick, but really well done with an exceptional cast)
Nero Wolfe series (A & E, directed by Timothy Hutton)(a little murder mystery violence, but the show is about the characters, no worse than Poirot)
Jeeves & Wooster (ha ha funny but still worth it, minus Season 4, when it went off the rails)
Martin Chuzzlewit (BBC, 1980s)
The Man Who Would Be King (faithful to the Kipling short story, a little violent)
1970s Columbo series (similar to Poirot)
North by Northwest
Football season is here. DRAFT DAY is the best football movie.
Psycho.........
If you liked the Poirot series, you might like the Sherlock Holmes series starring Jeremy Brett.
Brett is far and away the best Holmes, in my opinion.
The complete Granada TV series is available on Amazon. It’s rather pricey at around $100.
I don’t know how they get away with it, but most episodes are on YouTube, for free. Here’s one:
https://youtu.be/g3EAjzRnbL0?is=RxpTyo—M6dvJZ4E