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I know I'll get tarred and feathered for this:
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Laura - 1944 with Gene Tierney
Chinatown
Gilda - Glenn Ford & Rita Hayworth
Farewell My Lovely
Build My Gallows High
The Big Combo
Leave Her To Heaven
In A Lonely Place
The Maltese Falcon- Falcon of the millennium.
Are these Gothic-Horror movies?
There was this other Falcon series with George Sanders and then his real life brother took over the role. They are quite entertaining.
They are black and white, so for you kids-yes.
I purchased the first one on iTunes (they have them all :) ). Looking forward to watching this.
The Big Heat (Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin, Gloria Graham, & director Fritz Lang)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Karl Malden, & director Otto Preminger)
The Third Man (Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Bernard Lee, and director Carol Reed)
Out of the Past (Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, & Jane Greer)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles [stars and directs] Janet Leigh, Charlton Heston, Marlena Dietrich)
The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles [stars & directs] & Rita Hayworth)
Niagara (This one is from the 50s, but it's in color. Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, & director Henry Hathaway)
Sunset Boulevard (Like "Double Indemnity", this is from writer/director Billy Wilder. Stars William Holden and Gloria Swanson)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Lana Turner & John Garfield)
The Asphalt Jungle (director John Huston, Sterling Hayden, Marilyn Monroe)
Night and the City (Richard Widmark & Gene Tierney)
Angels with Dirty Faces
& The Roaring Twenties
(James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart)
White Heat &
The Public Enemy (James Cagney)
Little Caesar (Edward G. Robinson & Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.)
Scarface (1932 Paul Muni, George Raft, & Boris Karloff)
The Big Sleep (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, & director Howard Hawks)
M (Peter Lorre and director Fritz Lang)
I *definitely* second "Double Indemnity" and "The Maltese Falcon" if you haven't seen them as they are two of my all time favorites. This is a favorite genre of mine and I've found that anything from director John Huston, Otto Preminger, or Fritz Lang under crime drama or crime thriller/mystery from this era is going to be fantastic.
I second The Big Heat and Where The Sidewalk Ends.
Out Of The Past has been mentioned (and yet it hasn't). I knew it as Build My Gallows High - it's great, really re-watchable.
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Scarface (1932)
The Killing (1956)
Laura (1944) Many twist and turns, absolutely love it!
Spellbound (1945)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Angels with Dirty Face (1938)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
White Heat (1949)
Odd Man Out (1947)
Im a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1938) One of the most memorable endings to a movie ever.
Amazing list. Add M to that list with Peter Lorre.
I purchased the following movies on iTunes or Blu-ray:
Gilda 1946
The Third Man 1949
Sunset Boulevard 1950
The Maltese Falcon 1941
Double Indemnity 1944
The Big Heat 1953
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I will soon watch them and decide which movies I get next.
This will add nicely to my movie collection, I'm sure.
You are in for a treat! All those are very good or great!
I think I will enjoy them, as a teenager I used to watch that kind of movie on TV but since then have lost track of that era, except for Hitchcock.
There are some interesting choices in your list as well, that I will check out soon. It all depends on availability. I prefer High Definition these days, I'm spoiled :))
One of my favourite suspense/Film Noir movies of all time is NIAGARA 1953
I didn't have any Monroe movies on Blu-ray yet so this 10 movie collection is a real treat.
It includes: All About Eve, Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How To Marry A Millionaire, River Of No Return, There's No Business Like Show Business, The Seven Year Itch, Bus Stop, Some Like It Hot, Misfits
I'll start with Niagara tonight, I have to see that first in High Definition and it somewhat goes well with my Hitchcock Marathon.
The Big Sleep
Key Lago
Also try:
DOA (Dead On Arrival)
The Long Memory
Shield for Murder
The Stranger
Sunset Boulevard, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon and M are definitely ones to watch. But my absolute favourite is Touch of Evil - the last place you'd want to be stranded is the small border town that has sheriff Orson Welles presiding over it.
A great cast, with all the big names (Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich, Charlton Heston ...) in very unusual roles. A very different film by Welles, but I'll take this one anytime over Citizen Kane.
Big Sleep
Maltese Falcon
Key Largo
The Killers
Angels with dirty faces
Public enemy
Kiss me deadly
The Secret Agent... Pretty much every Hitch film.
The Third Man
And then there were none
A matter of life and death... I add this film as its simply incredible.
Touch Of Evil sounds very interesting, just entered my short-short list of movies to buy :)
You won't regret it! It's a classic, not only in its genre, but in cinema history.