Going to Best Buy. Please name me some classic movies I should pick up.

[johnny33]

I was looking for Citizen Cane last night at Blockbuster video- they didnt have it. I had to tell the employee the title 3 times :rolleyes: . They dont have jack as far as old movies you can rent in my town.

So I am a little ( lot) short on good old Classic Movies. I am going to Best Buy to try and find Grapes of Wrath and Citizen.

Any other suggestions?Must haves?

It would be nice to have them as close to what they should look like as possible so keep that in mind. I dont like color pics that should be black and white.. that type of thing.

thanks !

[detroit muscle]

The Adventures Of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn

Anything with James Cagney - Public Enemy, Roaring Twenties, Angels With Dirty Faces, White Heat

The Philadelphia Story

Anything directed by Frank Capra or Preston Sturgess

Warner Brothers have done an excellent job with the older movies. Usually come with a newsreel, short feature and a cartoon!!

[Chris Gerhard]

The Adventures of Robin Hood (there is a very nice fairly recent DVD)
Casablanca
The Wizard of Oz
The Maltese Falcon
Double Indemnity
Your favorite Hitchcock films (Rebecca, Vertigo, Rear Window or)
The Best Years of Our Lives
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Magnificent Ambersons
La Strada
M

To name a few from various genres I like.

Chris

[conniefrancis]

The story about Blockbuster reminds me of an experience at Circuit City a couple of months ago. I was looking for Clockwork Orange at Best Buy and couldn't find it, so I hit CC which is in the same mall area. I asked a 20-ish clerk for it, of course he had never heard of it. :eek: He went to their computer, and started typing in Clockward Orange. What are you gonna do? I just said nevermind, and went to Borders and got it. Sad.
:cry:

[johnny33]

No Borders here :(.

[reechie]

Since the Marx Brothers Paramount films are/were only avaiable in a box set, pick up the next best two, the MGM made A Night At The Opera and A Day At The Races.

[BradOlson]

The Third Man

[Matt I]

Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948) with Humphrey Bogart is one of my all time favorite movies. You will not be disappointed.

[johnny33]

Thanks guys !


How does Lawrence of Arabia look? Picture ok on the DVD?

[Ryan]

The Third Man

Excellent choice Brad.

I nominate On the Waterfront, High Noon and Seven Samurai.

[sadie]

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Rear Window
The Bishop's Wife
Arsenic and Old Lace
Adam's Rib
On the Waterfront
Marty
Singin' in the Rain
Yankee Doodle Dandy
White Heat
The Maltese Falcon


And so many others choice. Is there a specific genre/era you want to focus on?

Sadie

[Macman]

To Kill a Mockingbird

[BradOlson]

High Noon is another great movie

[mike65!]

Where to start? :D Okay, I'll throw some titles into the wish list -

The Caine Mutiny
Cool Hand Luke
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
Gone With The Wind
Hud
The Magnificent Seven
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Manchurian Candidate
Midnight Cowboy
The Night Of The Hunter
Rebecca
Shane
To Sir, With Love
12 Angry Men
The Wild Bunch

[PFA]

Here's a list, off the top of my head, of fave films from a variety of periods and generes.

2001 A Space Odyssey
Un Chien Andalou
The Illusionist
The Time Machine
Easy Rider
Natural Born Killers
Metropolis
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Dusk Till Dawn
The Shining
American Beauty
The Pink Panther
Clockwork Orange
The Wizard of Oz
A Shot in the Dark
Reservoir Dogs
Lord of the Rings
Lock, Stock & Two Smokin Barrels
Apolaycapse Now
Pink Floyd-The Wall
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Psycho
Wild at Heart
The Commitments
Dr. Strangelove
Jacob's Ladder
Back to the Future
The Silence of the Lambs
Goldfinger
Total Recall
The Birds
The Godfather

A virtual feast of cinema.

Just set up the projector, lock me in and throw the key away.

Vernon Fitch
Pink Floyd Archives

[Marty Milton]

These are some great suggestions. The problem I've had with Best Buy is that they don't carry a lot of the classic movies. Their stock is almost entirely more current movies. I usually have to purchase these movies from etailers like Deep Discount or Amazon. Borders carries a much better selection of classic movies, but I don't purchase anything from Borders unless I have a coupon.

[Danny]

Great stuff already mentioned, but I didn't see these two:

Mr. Roberts
Sunset Boulevard

[Parkertown]

Next time, have him search for "Citizen Kane" ;)

[JMT]

Lilies of the Field
A Raisin In the Sun
The Great Escape
Papillion
The Dirty Dozen
The Bridge On the River Kwai
The Sand Pebbles
True Grit

['67 Chevy]

Here are a few good ones:

1. 12 Angry Men
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/ (1957)


2. Ernest Hemingway's "The Killers" (Criterion Collection, restored)
The Criterion edition includes both the 1946 original with Burt Lancaster, Eva Gardner, Edmond O'Brien (in black & white) and the color 1964 remake with Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Claude Akins, Norman Fell & Ronald Reagan
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038669/ (1946)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058262/ (1964)


3. The Most Dangerous Game (Criterion Collection, restored)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023238/ (1932)


4. And Then There Were None (produced by Rene Clair, a.k.a. Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians"), black & white (1945 version, not any of the many remakes!)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037515/


And if you like "And Then There Were None", then you might try Neil Simon's "Murder by Death" (1976) with Peter Falk, Alec Guiness and Peter Sellers :winkgrin:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074937/

['67 Chevy]

Here's an interesting list of "Top 250 Movies as voted by our users" from the International Movie Database:

http://www.imdb.com/chart/top


One of my all time favorites, "Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo", is holding strong at number 4 of all-time :winkgrin:

[ericc2000]

"Spinal Tap", it just dosen't get any more classic than that.

[Michael]

Pretty Poison
Friendly Persuasion

[BradOlson]

Also go to the dollar stores to pick up some movies as well.

[Rachael Bee]

Thanks guys !


How does Lawrence of Arabia look? Picture ok on the DVD?

Wait on that one. New DVD and Blu-ray editions will be coming out in the next year.

Sergeant York
Mutiny On The Bounty (1935)
Public Enemy
White Heat
The Bridges At Toko-Ri
The 49th Parallel
Ruggles Of The Red Gap
Bringing Up Baby
The Great McGinty
Showboat (1936)
Top Hats
Compulsion
High Sierra
The Thin Man
Gunga Din
Fort Apache
Concrete Jungle
Satyricon
Roma
Sink The Bismarck
Sunset Boulevard
Stalag 17


I don't know if all of these are available on DVD....?