Classic Film nights

Ok so me and some of my friends are thinking about doing a series of classic film nights over the summer. So I started going thru me and my roommates collection of movies, the ones have picked out for sure is Casablanca, Cool Hand Luke, Pyscho, Bonnie and Clyde, The Longest Day, The Rat Pack, Rebel without a Cause, North by Northwest, The French Connection, The Great Escape and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Ones I am not so sure on Dial M for Murder, Vertigo (both because we already have two Hitchcock films) and Dr. No. Any other suggestions of older films.

Edit: Also Lawrence of Arabia, Dirty Harry and The Maltese Falcon.

You've got a great start. I will try to add some suggestions later. Sounds fun.

The Sting and Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid are a couple of my favourites. Also, Bullitt! Can't go wrong with Paul Newman or Steve McQueen.

Jay wrote: The Sting and Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid are a couple of my favourites. Also, Bullitt! Can't go wrong with Paul Newman or Steve McQueen.

Oh Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid good call. I really think Bullitt is more of a car movie then a classic.

Young Frankenstein, Airplane, Goonies,.... maybe my classics aren't really classics

Kelley's Heroes!

The Apartment, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Thought of a couple more: The Seven Samurai if you want to sit through a 4.5 hour epic, The Magnificent Seven if you don't.

The original DOA (1950).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042369/

"Sunset Boulevard" (1950).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043014/

Yeah, I like noir. Something a lil' more modern?

"Taxi Driver" (1976).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075314/

"Network" (1976).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/

"The Silence of the Lambs" (1991).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/

A very misunderstood film, it was compared to "The Dirty Dozen" by the company that made it when it came out..but it's actually an antiwar (think MASH or Dr. Strangelove) film. "Kelly's Heroes" (1970).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065938/

Back to the noir, and the melodramas..

"Mildred Pierce" (1945).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037913/

Bette vs. Joan! "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056687/

I'll shut up now..I could do this all night!

EDIT: cleaned up formatting. The place didn't like it that I used the asterisks when I mentioned MASH.

My favorite McQueen film is Papillon. Closely followed by the great escape.

I am a sucker for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

Oh, and if you're gonna do Good/Bad/Ugly, check out the first two parts of the trilogy (may not be able to on the same night, GBU's another looong one!).

"A Fistful of Dollars" (1964). IIRC, it's actually a remake of Kurosawa's (Seven Samurai director) "Yojimbo".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058461/

"For a Few Dollars More" (1965).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059578/

Can't let it go without this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux0vyv7dEGk&feature=related

"Blondie, you sonufabitch!"
-Tuco

I have both A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More as well as the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. I am trying to only pick one western and it is between one of those three movies and Butch Cassidy.

David S. Wallens wrote: I am a sucker for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

Oh, man..how could I have forgotten to mention that thing?!?!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057193/

Just look at who's in it. It's like an archive of the best American comedians of the middle of the 20th century!

93EXCivic wrote: I have both A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More as well as the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. I am trying to only pick one western and it is between one of those three movies and Butch Cassidy.

Butch is very good. And Newman was one of us, of course. If any of your folks have ever played "Red Dead Redemption", they'll find out why so much of the music in it sounds like it does if you pick a Leone film, tho.

+1 for Dr. Strangelove and Taxi Driver

Also: Dog Day Afternoon, Heat, In Cold Blood, The Sugarland Express.

edited to include The African Queen and Easy Rider

Might be too new, but here are my suggestions that haven't already been mentioned:
- Blues Brothers
- Animal House
- Caddy Shack
- Airplane

^^^Blues Brothers is kind of essential.

Depending on the crowd, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Blue Velvet.

cant believe noone has mentioned grand prix

or lemans

just add basically anything with McQueen in it.

From Dusk Till Dawn... not a Classic per se but a good beer night

Where are you showing these movies?

I live in a small village where they put a big tarp over the side of a building next to a park and chow classic movies every Friday night for free. Some of the stuff young people have not see like the Keystone Cops, Laurel & Hardy, WC Fields. That gets old fast but they're short movies.

Dan

You started out with Casablanca and Lawrence of Arabia, and those are the two I would have suggested.

(BTW, Casablanca is one of the most misunderstood movies ever....A guy who spends years pining over a girl, finally gets the chance to be with her, and decides that killing nazis is more important than the relationship. How was that a romantic movie?)

Needs more Robert Mitchum. Go for Night of the Hunter.

Africa Screams or Buck Privates with Abbot and Costello

THe Seven Ups

Serpico

Appocolypse Now

One Flew Over The Coo coos nest

Ruthless People

For a clean, family movie; we love this one.