We share the same tastes in movies.
IIRC, Burt Lancaster was another lefty, like Issur Danielovitch.
I would have liked to been on set to hear the political banter between John Wayne and Issur Danielovitch - must have been great stuff!
I guess I enjoy the older movies so much because they show a slice of the times; I mean, even though there films and actors, they STILL represent a lot of the thought processes and ideas of the day.
“The French Connection” or “The Seven Ups”; look at how they dealt with criminals in those films.
And the folks in these movies could actually ACT. Unlike most of the wastage in Hollywood today.
“Guadalcanal Diary” is another of my favorites. Also “Battleground” (1949); since my old man almost lost his life in the Ardennes, I have a connection with that film. Whenever it was on, he and I would watch it together. He’d get real quiet, and pretty much all he’d say was “That’s pretty damn accurate...”
I watched ALL the WWII movies with him when I was a kid; Dad’s brothers (my uncles) were in the Pacific, some of Dad’s cousins were also there (one of them never made it off Iwo Jima) as well as in Europe. That war, that time, pervaded everything in my young life - even though I was born 18 years after it ended.
Maybe that’s why I love those films from those days; it connects me to my old man. I dunno...
Believe it or not, I also like the old Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers/Rita Hayworth/Elenor Powell movies too.
“Singing In The Rain” and “White Christmas”....
ANYTHING with Cagney, Bogart, and Gary Cooper; “The Fighting 69th”.... “The Roaring Twenties”.... “Sgt York” and “High Noon”... “For Whom the Bell Tolls”...
Yeah... they are ALL great. And I’ve even got my 18 yr old son and 21 year old daughter into the old flicks as well... they see how different it was back then, and of course, I say “Yup... this has been stolen from you by the libs”...
EVERYTHING is indeed, political...