Classic & Great Movies

It's time to watch some classic movies!  The Arizona Inn has a huge library of classic movies that feature people that have stayed at the Inn.  It was fun poking through their annotated list of titles and choosing one to watch.  I have not seen many of the old classics.  I guess it's time!  

I've gathered this list of movies from here and there.  Let me know those I've missed!

Classic Movies Watched in 2014
North by Northwest (1959) Alfred Hitchcock - Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint

Alphabetical Order:
39 Steps, The (1935)
400 Blows, The (1959)
2001 (A Space Odyssey) (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)

A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Adam's Rib (1949)
Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
African Queen, The (1951)
All About Eve (1950)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
All the King's Men (1949)
Amadeus (1984)
American Grafitti (1973)
An Affair to Remember (1957)
An American in Paris (1951)

An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Annie Hall (1977)
Apartment, The (1960)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Asphalt Jungle, The (1950)
Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952)
Bells of St.Mary's, The (1945)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
Big Heat, The (1953)
Big Sleep, The (1946)
Birds, The (1963)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Blow-Up (1966)
Body Heat (1981)
Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Bride of Frankenstein, The (1935)
Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Casablanca (1942) saw on the big screen at the Fox Theater, downtown Tucson
Chinatown (1974)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City Lights (1931)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
Deliverance (1972)
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Dr. No (1962)
Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Dr. Zhivago (1965)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Duel in the Sun (1946)
East of Eden (1955)

Easy Rider (1969)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
ET (1982)
Field of Dreams (1989)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Flashdance (1983)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Frankenstein (1931)
Freaks (1932)
French Connection, The (1971)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
From Russia With Love (1963)
Godfather,, The (1972)
Goldfinger (1964)
Gold Rush, The (1935)

Gone with the Wind (1939)
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The (1966)
Goonies, The
Graduate, The (1967)
Grapes of Wrath, The (1940)
Greed (1924)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Heiress, The (1949)
High Noon (1952)
His Girl Friday (1940)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Hustler, The (1951)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
It Happened One Night (1934)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Jaws (1975)
Key Largo (1948)

King and I, The (1956)
King Kong (1933)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Lady Eve, The (1941)
Last Picture Show, The (1971)
Laura (1944)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Lost Weekend, The (1945)
M (1931)
Maltese Falcon (1941)
Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
Manhattan (1979)

M*A*S*H (1970)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Metropolis (1927)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Modern Times (1936)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
Moonstruck (1987)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
Night of the Living Dead (1969)
Notorious (1946)

North by Northwest (1959)
Nosferatu (A Symphony of Horror) (1922)
On Golden Pond (1981)
On the Waterfront (1954)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Out of the Past (1947)
Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943)
Philadelphia Story, The (1940)
Pillow Talk (1959)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946)
Princess Bride, The (1987)

Psycho (1960)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Quiet Man, The (1952)
Rain Man (1988)
Rashomon (1951)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebecca (1940)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Red River (1948)
Red Shoes, The (1948)
Repulsion (1965)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Robe, The (1953)
Rocky (1976)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Say Anything (1989)
Searchers, The (1956)
Seven Samarai (1954)
Seven-Year Itch, The (1955)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Shane (1953)
Shawshank Redemption (1994)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
Silver Chalice, The (1954
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
Sound of Music, The (1965)
Spartacus (1960)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Stagecoach (1939)
Star Wars (1977)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Summer of "42 (1971)
Sunrise (1927)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Ten Commandments, The (1956)
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Thin Man, The (1934)
Third Man, The (1949)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
To Catch a Thief (1955)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
To Sir With Love
Tootsie (1982)
Top Gun (1986
Top Hat (1935)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
True Grit (1969 & 2010)
Twelve Angry Men (1957)
Vertigo (1958)
Way Out West (1937)
West Side Story  (1961)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
White Heat (1949)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff? (1966)
Wild Bunch, The (1969)
Witness (1985)
Wizard of Oz (1939)
Written on the Wind (1956)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Young Frankenstein (1974)

MOVIE - North by Northwest

Unrated (2:26)

Wide release 9/17/1959

on DVD 8/2000

Viewed at the Arizona Inn with Fran and Terry

RT Critic: 100 Audience: 94

Cag: 3/Liked it

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Turner Studios

Actors:  Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, Martin Landau

My comments:  I must be missing something.  People rave about this film - a young acquaintance has seen it a dozen times. Cary Grant was certainly charming. To me it was predictable though fun - production techniques and acting has certainly changed (improved?) over the years.  My question - has it been colorized?  Or was it originally in black and white?  I saw the color version, but the black and white might have given me an "older" feel and thus I might have been able to watch it more as a classic and not thought it was actually funny.....

Rotten Tomatoes Summary:  While having lunch at the Plaza Hotel in New York, advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) has the bad luck to call for a messenger just as a page goes out for a "George Kaplan." From that moment, Thornhill finds that he has stepped into a nightmare -- he is quietly abducted by a pair of armed men out of the hotel's famous Oak Room and transported to a Long Island estate; there, he is interrogated by a mysterious man (James Mason) who, believing that Roger is George Kaplan, demands to know what he knows about his business and how he has come to acquire this knowledge. Roger, who knows nothing about who any of these people are, can do nothing but deny that he is Kaplan or that he knows what they're talking about. Finally, his captors force a bottle of bourbon into Roger and put him behind the wheel of a car on a dangerous downhill stretch. Through sheer luck and the intervention of a police patrol car and its driver (John Beradino), Roger survives the ride and evades his captors, and is booked for drunk driving. He's unable to persuade the court, the county detectives, or even his own mother (Jesse Royce Landis) of the truth of his story, however -- Thornhill returns with them to the mansion where he was held, only to find any incriminating evidence cleaned up and to learn that the owner of the house is a diplomat, Lester Townsend (Philip Ober), assigned to the United Nations. He backtracks to the hotel to find the room of the real George Kaplan, only to discover that no one at the hotel has ever actually seen the man. With his kidnappers once again pursuing him, Thornhill decides to confront Townsend at the United Nations, only to discover that he knows nothing of the events on Long Island, or his house being occupied -- but before he can learn more, Townsend gets a knife in his back in full view of 50 witnesses who believe that Roger did it. Now on the run from a murder charge, complete with a photograph of him holding the weapon plastered on the front page of every newspaper in the country, Thornhill tries to escape via train -- there he meets the cooly beautiful Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint), who twice hides him from the police, once spontaneously and a second time in a more calculated rendezvous in her compartment that gets the two of them together romantically, at least for the night. By the next day, he's off following a clue to a remote rural highway, where he is attacked by an armed crop-dusting plane, one of the most famous scenes in Hitchcock's entire film output. Thornhill barely survives, but he does manage to learn that his mysterious tormentor/interrogator is named Phillip Vandamm, and that he goes under the cover of being an art dealer and importer/exporter, and that Eve is in bed with him in every sense of the phrase -- or is she?