Desert Island Oldies - a list by kayzee

Options for This Page

About this list:

Classic movies to take with you on that proverbial desert island. Even if you were there alone, with these, you'd never be lonely.

Qualifications:

movie maven

For people who like:

This is:

Viewing 1-9 of 9 Items

His Girl Friday

First to recommend

Description

This adaptation of the play The Front Page was brilliantly changed to make Hildy a woman, brilliantly played by Rosalind Russell. She divorces her husband and editor, Cary Grant, and turns up with her fiance, Ralph Bellamy. (In Romantic Comedy writing, that kind of dull romantic foil is called "a Bellamy," he played the part so well and so often.) Full of clever dialogue and perfect comic timing. Cary Grant has never been funnier.

Updated Aug 21, 2008

For people who like:

Comment

This is:

Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock

2 people recommended this item

Description

Alfred Hitchcock is so ahead of his time that this movie feels like it could have been released last week. But of course the point of view is 63+ years old, and it's fascinating to think about how the world has changed since then -- and how it hasn't.

Plus, it's just a really entertaining film. The atmosphere, the style, the classic actors and a story that keeps you on the edge of your seat.

Updated Sep 22, 2009

For people who like:

Comment

This is:

Laura (Fox Film Noir)

First to recommend

Description

Dana Andrews is so sexy as a detective who falls in love with a dead woman. Classic film noir.

Updated Aug 21, 2008

For people who like:

Comment

This is:

North By Northwest

3 people recommended this item

Description

See Cary Grant chased by a crop duster on the barren cornfields of Illinois. In the thriller genre, a cad finds himself in danger. CG plays a classic cad in this brilliant Hitchcock film. "They're onto you. I'm in your room."

Updated Aug 21, 2008

For people who like:

Comment

This is:

Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)

2 people recommended this item

Description

When Cary Grant is asked why he's wearing a woman's dressing gown, he exclaims: "I've just gone GAY!"
I think this may be the funniest movie ever made.

Updated Aug 21, 2008

For people who like:

Comment

This is:

All About Eve (Special Edition)DVD

First to recommend

6 people recommended this item

Description

Scandal, drama, diva fights & martinis...this movie is so Beep. (via amazon.com)

Updated Jun 15, 2006

Lists that feature this:

For people who like:

Comment

This is:

Casablanca (Two-Disc Special Edition)

2 people recommended this item

Description

One of the greatest movies ever made. But imagine if it had been Ronald Reagan instead of Bogie! Blech!

Updated Aug 21, 2008

For people who like:

Comment

This is:

Citizen Kane (1941)

6 people recommended this item

Description

"You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man."
"Don't you think you are?"
"I think I did pretty well under the circumstances."
"What would you like to have been?"
"Everything you hate. "

"Are we going to declare war on Spain, or are we not?"
"The Inquirer already has."
"You long-faced, overdressed anarchist."
"I am not overdressed."
"You are too. Mr. Bernstein, look at his necktie."

"You're too old to be calling me Mr. Thatcher, Charles."
"You're too old to be called anything else."

Updated Jan 13, 2009

For people who like:

Comment

This is:

Touch of Evil (Restored to Orson Welles' Vision)

3 people recommended this item

Description

My favorite Orson Welles film. Check out Charlton Heston playing a Mexican and Janet Leigh's bazooka bra.

Updated Aug 21, 2008

For people who like:

Comment

This is:

Viewing 1-9 of 9 Items

kayzee

kayzee - photo

Nature Lover Extraordinaire

Sites

Give kayzee a compliment

ThisNext: Become a Member

  • Shopping ideas just for you
  • It's easy and free
  • Takes less than a minute

Sign up now

Lists

Image of kayzee

The New World

Updated Aug 20, 2009

The bad Bush years are behind us, and the golden era of Obama is underway. You cast your vote - great! - but it's not...

Image of kayzee

My Artist Friends

Updated Jun 11, 2009

Image of kayzee

Enabler Gifts

Updated Feb 4, 2009

Gifts are supposed to be about the recipient, right? Not about your judgment on their life. Be their new best friend by giving...

Image of kayzee

Spring Forward

Updated Jan 28, 2009

Image of kayzee

Peak Materialism, in the Age of Petroleum

Updated Feb 3, 2009

Petroleum production may have peaked in 2008, and we'll probably never have more innovative, brilliant material goods than we...

ThisNext Information

Copyright ©2005-2009 ThisNext, Inc.