re: OLDER FILMS bi-weekly discussion thread Bullit 68

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Father Goose- Comedy with Cary Grant set on a pacific island during WW2.

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the girls

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Haven’t seen Food of the Gods

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I'm sure the effects don't hold up these days. But, I loved the idea of the movie. Effects are probably on par with The Poseidon Adventure.
Another movie I loved back then.

Yeah, first saw "The Roaring Twenties" (1939) on a late-show about 45 years ago, and caught it a number of times since. Initially, I recall finding it an okay, acceptable bit of gangster fare, and not much beyond that. But with repeated viewings, it kept striking me as more and more impressive. Especially the way it taps into that sense of deep nostalgia for what was basically only a decade earlier, during the 20s. Where you really get a feeling of what a big, heavy imprint the 1930s had left on people, making the 1920s already seem like a world far, far away from the then-present 1939. That element really hovers over the film, leaving the ending like a real punch in the face.

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Brooke Adams

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Yeah,
She was super cute.

I also loved Linda Manz who was in another underrated film

The Wanderers
With Karen Allen and Ken Wahls? ‘79

re watching this right on the Criterion edition I bought. also just watched Sabrina. Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden.

Some very fine movies mentioned in this thread.

A bit more than "older", but as a William Powell fan I'll go with My Man Godfrey.

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The Wanderers
With Karen Allen and Ken Wahls? ‘79

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I need to get around to watching this it's been in my collection for a few years now.

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Heres another question? Whats the oldest film yall have ever watched? For me it is Birth of A Nation (1915).

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A Trip To The Moon (1902)

Pre- "Birth of a Nation" (1915)? There really wasn't too much in terms of features before this, but I've certainly seen well over a hundred shorts from that earlier pre-1915 period. The usual suspects... Griffith shorts, Vitagraph Stuff, Bronco Billy, Thomas Ince, Georges Melies, Alice Guy Blache, etc. Always interested in seeing some of the earlier stars, beyond just Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish. Need to see more Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew stuff. Maybe get a better grasp on Florence Turner (the first true movie star, although older historians like to give this status to Florence Lawrence).

Recently watched another feature from 1915, "Old Heidelberg" with Wallace Reid. It was an extra on the recently released blu-ray of "Merry-Go-Round" (1923). Same tale later done on a huge scale by MGM as "The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg" (1927), but far more primitive and clunky. One other pretty neat 1915 feature that's available on disc is the Italian film "Filibus," about a lady air-pirate, who descends from her high-flying blimp to conduct master-criminal operations, like stealing diamonds and framing meddling detectives. Wacky old-time fun.

2 weeks seems like a long time, weekly is better tbh