Re: What are your favourite "old" (say, pre-'60s) movies?
M & M Maddy Send a noteboard - 01/04/2010 06:33:17 PM
I really love Imitation of Life, staring Lana Turner.
It is a really compelling story about the relationships of mothers and daughters and of women and the relationships they build and destroy in their efforts to follow their own dreams. There is also the plot line of Sarah Jane who is a young black woman but so light skinned that she tries and does at times pass for white, which is the time of this movie I think had to have been an even more compelling issue to deal with than it is now. Every time I watch it I am really struck by the stories and the end of the movie is... its a very deep message.
My other favorite is Hitchcock's Rebecca. The book by Daphne Du Maurier is also a huge favorite. And it has to be the Hitchcock because I have seen others use the same source material and just not bring to life the level of suspense and terror that Hitchcock does.
It is a really compelling story about the relationships of mothers and daughters and of women and the relationships they build and destroy in their efforts to follow their own dreams. There is also the plot line of Sarah Jane who is a young black woman but so light skinned that she tries and does at times pass for white, which is the time of this movie I think had to have been an even more compelling issue to deal with than it is now. Every time I watch it I am really struck by the stories and the end of the movie is... its a very deep message.
My other favorite is Hitchcock's Rebecca. The book by Daphne Du Maurier is also a huge favorite. And it has to be the Hitchcock because I have seen others use the same source material and just not bring to life the level of suspense and terror that Hitchcock does.
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What are your favourite "old" (say, pre-'60s) movies?
- 01/04/2010 12:36:41 AM
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Stayed up way to late writing a paper so no fancy descritions, you can look them up if you're like
- 01/04/2010 01:23:02 PM
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Re: What are your favourite "old" (say, pre-'60s) movies?
- 01/04/2010 06:33:17 PM
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hands down favorite is "Charade" with Grant & Hepburn (yea, 1963 I know 
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- 01/04/2010 11:01:23 PM
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- 01/04/2010 11:01:23 PM
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- 02/04/2010 12:05:49 AM
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Crap, how did I forget It's A Wonderful Life? <3 Jimmy Stewart *NM*
- 02/04/2010 10:17:52 AM
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So "The Manchurian Candidate" is still a bit too recent, but I tend not to like older movies
- 02/04/2010 03:32:40 AM
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