Posted on 12/12/2009 2:22:11 PM PST by randita
Years ago I bought a commercial VHS of this movie, and found the quality of the sound track distractingly bad. I wonder if newer releases have located a better sound track.
There wre two remakes; I saw the 1978 version with Robert Powell and David Warner and thought it was pretty good (for not being Hitchcock, that is).
Nevsky is available on veoh.com, but you have to download their Web Player.
I’m with you....Laura. I can hear that music right now!
The Postman Always Rings Twice. Directed by Tay Garnett. With Lana Turner and John Garfield. 1947.
I wanted to add that The Desk Set withe Hepburn and Tracy was cute but then I found that it was made in '57.
Nope, haven’t seen it.
The OP said I could include movies with a release year of 1950, so thbbbbbbbtttttt!!!!!!!
Doesn’t sound like Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. What about this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035742/
You said, “darn near any film made before 1950 is better than any film made after 1960.”
Well, I beg to differ!
1960s
The Magnificent Seven
Spartacus
The Time Machine
Breakfast at Tiffanies
Lawrence of Arabia
The Manchurian Candidate
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Escape
Dr. Strangelove
Mary Poppins
My Fair Lady
The Pink Panther
The Blue Max
Zulu
The Sound of Music
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Russians are Coming!
Cool Hand Luke
The Graduate
In the Heat of the Night
Once Upon a Time in the West
Planet of the Apes
2001 Space Odyssey
The Wild Bunch
1970s
Five Easy Pieces
MASH
Patton
Catch 22
Dirty Harry
The French Connection
Fiddler on the Roof
Harold and Maude
The Candidate
Deliverance
The Godfather
American Graffiti
The Paper Chase
The Sting
Chinatown
The Three Musketeers
Young Frankenstein
Jaws
The Man Who Would Be King
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Nashville
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Network
Rocky
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Star Wars
Smokey and the Bandit
The Deer Hunter
Being There
All That Jazz
LeMans
Animal House
Kelly’s Heroes
1980s
Raging Bull
The Shining
Mad Max
Gallipoli
Indy Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark
Blade Runner
ET
Poltergeist
The Verdict
Mr. Mom
The Right Stuff
Scarface
Amadeus
Romancing the Stone
The Terminator
Back to the Future
The Breakfast Club
Witness
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Good Morning, Vietnam!!!
Lethal Weapon
The Untouchables
Wall Street
Big
Bull Durham
Diehard
Batman
Biloxi Blues
Weekend at Bernie’s
Glory
Major League
Breaker Morant
The ‘90s start getting a little thin, and maybe this is why it seems to so many of us that “they don’t make them like they used to”.
1990s
The Hunt for Red October
City Slickers
My Cousin Vinny
Oscar
Unforgiven
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Patriot Games
The Fugitive
The Firm
Honeymoon in Vegas
Groundhog Day
Reservoir Dogs
Jurassic Park
Schindler’s List
Forrest Gump
Leon, the Professional
Quiz Show
Apollo 13
Braveheart
Heat
Seven
12 Monkeys
Fargo
LA Confidential
Pleasantville
Saving Private Ryan
The Truman Show
American Beauty
Three Kings
Boondog Saints
Ransom
Ronin
I will leave it to others to defend the 2000s. LOTR, Cast Away, Black Hawk Down and a few others shine, otherwise, my list is pretty short.
No, I can think of a bunch of great modern movies. We are not talking just a movie or two here. And I haven’t even included a huge lot of great 50s movies like Ben Hur, Singing in the Rain, North by Northwest, African Queen, Shane, on and on.
Movies today are pretty rotten. They seem to be all action with terrible writing, no plot and caricatures rather than characters. But there were some fabulous movies made right through to the turn of the century.
1933
Same year as the Our Gang short "The Kid from Borneo"
Probably the best thing Ted Turner has done in the media, at least for viewers.
Very true, but I also can't (with the exception of A Clockwork Orange) put them in the same category. I saw Eraserhead at a midnight show at the Waverly many, many years ago then again last week. Pretty ridiculous.
You're right that there have been plenty of great movies made post 1950 it's just that the sheer volume of films coming out of Hollywood prior to TV and the breakup of the studio system made it statistically inevitable that there would be so many more great ones made. It's probably true that there were many more stinkers as well.
All Quiet on the Western Front is available on Netflix.
I actually think Downey will be a decent Holmes but I hate to see Holmes turned into a "super-powers Spiderman" clown. His genius was his genius -- his deductive powers, not the gimmickery (sp?) today's computer technology can provide. I did like the version of "Young Sherlock Holmes" -- I felt that was a nice blending of the original spirit of Sherlock Holmes with an updated "story."
Without a doubt!
Life with Father
The Thin Man
Battleground
Maltese Falcon.
bfl
1939, Juarez-Paul Muni
Most of Bogart's movies i.e. Treasure of Sierra Madre, Casablanca. In general, special effects are better today, but the acting and plots stink compared with yesterday. The movies have become "preachie!"
The sound track would sometimes get out of “sync” with the visual, creating tons of mirth among the kids in the audience.
Years ago I bought a commercial VHS of this movie, and found the quality of the sound track distractingly bad. I wonder if newer releases have located a better sound track.
The Criterion Collection released an optimal transfer, digitally restored version some years ago. It's pricey, but far better than any other version I've seen. (Although I do have an el cheapo LaserLight verions -- part of a discontinued set -- that is watchable):
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