Cultural Awareness!

[Markintosh]

I'll take a different angle here....

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Grease
National Lampoon's Vacation
Animal House
Harold & Maude

[lost in space]

Blackboard Jungle

[davester]

You sure you don't want to start earlier?...

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and of course the aforementioned Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Within your time period:

High Noon
It's a Wonderful Life
Shane
The Lost Weekend
The Oxbow Incident
Rear Window (or any number of other Hitchcock films)
The African Queen

[graylocks]

davester wrote:
You sure you don't want to start earlier?...

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and of course the aforementioned Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Within your time period:

High Noon
It's a Wonderful Life
Shane
The Lost Weekend
The Oxbow Incident
Rear Window (or any number of other Hitchcock films)
The African Queen

we have watched All Quiet. Those are great choices. the dating was simply springing from how BlockBuster has their 1001 must see films divided.

my son is funny - it's difficult to get him to watch a B&W film so i'm shading (pun intended) the choices with that in mind.

[davester]

graylocks wrote: it's difficult to get him to watch a B&W film

That's tragic. He doesn't know what he's missing, including all of film noir, examples of which would be:

Out of the Past
Double Indemnity
Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
...and many others.

By the way, here is another great film that popped into my head:

Witness for the Prosecution

[kanesa]

The Best Years of Our Lives
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Gentlemen's Agreement
Harvey
Rear Window
North by Northwest
The Searchers
The Seven Year Itch
Some Like It Hot
The War of the Worlds
Touch of Evil

Great picks, davester!

[TheCaber]

Psycho
Wait Until Dark

Forbidden Planet
Them

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Little Shop of Horrors

Star Trek (original TV series) esp. The Trouble With Tribbles and A Piece of The Action
Twilight Zone (Rod Serling original series)

The Mouse That Roared
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Love the Bomb
The Pink Panther
The Producers (Gene Wilder/Zero Mostel)

True Grit
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Magnificent Seven
The Dirty Dozen
The Great Escape
Cool Hand Luke
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

[graylocks]

with all these great suggestions, maybe i should do two months of this subscription. he will be home a lot during the xmas holidays...

[Markintosh]

graylocks wrote:
with all these great suggestions, maybe i should do two months of this subscription. he will be home a lot during the xmas holidays...

Or you can utilize the quote of a great film maker as seen in my sig.

[davester]

Hey thecaber, you apparently missed the point of the post...films between 1940 and 1959 (not that you didn't have some good films in your list).