I want to broaden my horizon in this film game and what better way than to go back to where it started.

I'm very much of the new era and I think the oldest movie I have seen is Psycho. If I want to some day be an award winning writer/director I'm going to need to see the greats that made the filmmakers of our time want to be a filmmaker.

Hit me with your favourite movies pre 1960s.

Please, no horrors. Yes, I'm a little bitch and I don't get a kick out of demon children climbing out of televisions. I couldn't sleep for a week after watching that movie.

Cheers

The Ladykillers (1955)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ladykillers

I've seen it several times and it's always an enjoyable watch.

Vertigo
Some Like it Hot

Rashomon (1950).

I could list quite a few. Will start with these:

Sorry, Wrong Number 1948
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040823/

The Bad Seed 1961
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048977/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Strangers On A Train 1951
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044079/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Quoted from LC The Bad Seed 1961 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048977/?ref_=nv_sr_1

This one is a very good movie! I love it.


Depending on what you like. If comedies and rom coms I could give you a few.
My personal favorite is a comedy named
Harvey (with James Stewart)

There are also famous romantic comedies:
How To Steal a Million (with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole)
Roman Holiday (Audrey Hepburn)

12 Angry Men (1957).

A Streetcar Named Desire (1950s with young Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh)
Marty (1955) and it's absolutely fenomenal!

Duck Soup (1933)
Modern Times (1936)

The two funniest movies ever made.

Les Diaboliques (1955).  One of my favourite movies.

Casablanca (1942) and Singin' in the Rain (1952), definitely. Lots of Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window (1954) is a personal favourite. Oh, and anything with Robert Mitchum. Lots of great film noir out there.

Bad Day at Black Rock and Ice Cold in Alex.  Two films I've come back to a lot.  Great dialogue and locations.

Quoted Text A Streetcar Named Desire (1950s with young Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh

You had me at Marlon Brando. I'm not sure what it is about his name, but I just seem to really dig it. Haha. This is also one of my sisters favorite movies.

Quoted Text Lots of Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window (1954) is a personal favourite.

I have heard of this one. Do the Simpson do a rip off of it? This will be one of the first I watch.

Cheers folks.

I have compiled a list of 30 or so pre 1960 movies. I'm going to vedge out for the next couple of weeks and hopefully I learn something cinema. I must reap the benefits of being unemployed while I can.

Ooh and you can't go wrong with this: http://1001films.wikia.com/wiki/The_List

(The book is well worth buying!)

Great list, Chris! I actually have the The Great Train Robbery script somewhere if anyone is interested. Not sure where it is, but somewhere on an external drive. I haven't checked, but maybe it's readily available online too. I just remember that it is the oldest script I have!

The Searchers
Citizen Kane
The General
Sullivan's Travels

One more:

Double Indemnity 1944 (if you like your Noir) - Billy Wilder/Raymond Chandler, based on a crime novel by James M Cain (he also wrote The Postman Always Rings Twice and Mildred Pierce).

Some believe the writing and film to be a masterpiece.

The Wizard of Oz (1939).  A blunt force trauma induced coma that’s loaded with strange characters and fantastic imagery; including an opium induced awakening within the coma itself (not to inadvertently revisit another thread… a dream within a dream? Perhaps Nolan was influenced by this one, lol).

… anyways, a timeless classic that I find it truly surreal on many levels.

Quoted from Gum … anyways, a timeless classic that I find it truly surreal on many levels.

Try reading the rest of his books... the WoO is just the beginning. Ol' Baum was definitely on something. Could have been opium.

Quoted from DustinBowcot Try reading the rest of his books... the WoO is just the beginning. Ol' Baum was definitely on something. Could have been opium.

Definitely way out there, maybe Lewis Carroll was his supplier, lol. I’m not too familiar with (Baum’s) other works; I’ll definitely have to see what I can dig up online, cheers!