I am bored and decided to try the T.V. tonight. Caught a marathon of the old Dean Martin/Matt Helms movies on a local channel. It's not necessarily amazing viewing: the goal is too surround Dino with as much eye candy as possible (Sharon Tate, Nancy Kwan, Elke Sommer!), have him croon a couple of tunes and drink some Scotch on the rocks. But these films have a certain period charm to them and I had never seen them before. Was just wondering, what are some other forgotten films you almost never see on TV any more?
Any of the Connery James Bond movies would fit that description if you substitute Vodka Martinis (shaken, not stirred) for Scotch.
Lawrence of Arabia, The original Ocean's 11, most people don't even know the remake is actually a remake. I saw Donovan's Reef the other night, Lee Marvin. John Wayne and Caesar Romero.... how can you go wrong?
When I get the urge for good classics, I usually scan TCM's schedule. I've noticed lately that quite a few of the smaller networks are going to classic movies to fill time. I'm a huge Bogie fan myself and love old gangster movies although those are getting harder and harder to find on air. I also listen to RadioClassics on Sirius/XM. Those old radio shows are just fantastic to drive long hours listening to: The Shadow Rogue's Gallery Johnny Dollar The Whistler Escape Suspense X-1 Gunsmoke The Green Hornet
There is a new channel called Movies! that plays a lot of classic stuff as well. I don't know where you are at but it's over the air in a few places http://moviestvnetwork.com/wheretowatch. I'm with Time Warner so I don't know how strong of a signal they kick out. You can always count on a Bogart movie to be entertaining, even the "bad" ones, as if such a thing existed. My personal favorites are Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Sahara and The Caine Mutiny.
I caught one last week with Sal Mineo a couple of weeks ago; The Gene Krupa Story. I don't know how often it may, may not come on, but it was pretty good.
I loved Key Largo, Maltese Falcon and of course, Casablanca. Bogie was great in Caine and along with John Huston, made Sierra Madre a classic.
Coming off from my recent jury duty experience...Have to go with: 12 Angry Men The Deer Hunter The Neverending Story Once Upon a Time in the West
Can't forget about any of those, all tier 1 classic. Most def John Huston made Sierra Madre great. Huston is one of those guys that never gets top billing but makes the movie. Another guy like that is Alan Hale Sr. If I see he's in it I'll probably watch it.
I think they played The Neverending Story enough during the late 80's/90's on cable to meet the quota for the rest of eternity. Fun fact, the ending song to that movie was sung by a dude. I just found this out last year and was shocked, shocked!. But that's the 80's for you with the lady dude singing.
Here's several from the past that was loaded with A-list talent.. The Magnificent Seven I and II. The Dirty Dozen I (yeah, there was a sequel. Sucked).
Dierking's got the best movie in the history of cinema up above, It's a mad mad mad mad world. also check out -'The Party" starring Peter Sellers- pure gold
Point taken. The Americanized version got all the press here mostly because of the a-list cast that made up the movie. Throw in the "Marlboro Man" theme song and it was an instant classic.