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Post by cadoodlebug on Nov 7, 2015 20:12:17 GMT
This is a spin off of my thread about childhood memories where @chris2061 mentioned the movie Raintree County. Made me start thinking of the movies I watched back in the 50's and early 60's with my mom and sister. Many tearjerkers and great love stories:
Raintree County
Waterloo Bridge
Rear Window
The Snake Pit
The Fighting Sullivans
Casablanca
An Affair to Remember
Gone with the Wind
What else comes to mind?
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Post by rainangel on Nov 7, 2015 20:25:40 GMT
I remember watching Lonesome Dove on tv one time. I think it might have been a three-parter, maybe a mini-series? It is the first thing I remember absolutely crying my eyes out for.
I love the old Mutiny Of The Bounty from 1935 with Clark Gable.
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Post by lesley on Nov 7, 2015 20:31:13 GMT
Imitation of Life. It makes me blubber loudly every time. I also love The Glenn Miller Story.
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Post by 61redhead on Nov 7, 2015 20:37:20 GMT
Imitation of Life. It makes me blubber loudly every time. I also love The Glenn Miller Story. Imitation of Life breaks my heart! I also love Magnificent Obsession! |
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Post by cadoodlebug on Nov 7, 2015 20:38:42 GMT
I remember watching Lonesome Dove on tv one time. I think it might have been a three-parter, maybe a mini-series? It is the first thing I remember absolutely crying my eyes out for. I love the old Mutiny Of The Bounty from 1935 with Clark Gable. Loved Lonesome Dove. Remember the snakes in the river?  |
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Post by 61redhead on Nov 7, 2015 20:49:38 GMT
I remember watching Lonesome Dove on tv one time. I think it might have been a three-parter, maybe a mini-series? It is the first thing I remember absolutely crying my eyes out for. I love the old Mutiny Of The Bounty from 1935 with Clark Gable. Loved Lonesome Dove. Remember the snakes in the river? I hate that scene! I have snakaphobia to begin with, and that scene horrifies me every time. Robert Duvall will always be Gus to me, regardless of all his other movie credits. Great mini-series, great all-star cast, great story! |
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Post by peabay on Nov 7, 2015 21:01:50 GMT
Kiss of Death
Gunga Din
The Four Feathers
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Post by myboysnme on Nov 7, 2015 21:04:20 GMT
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Gone with the Wind
The Taming of the Shrew
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Post by Meri-Lyn on Nov 7, 2015 21:06:46 GMT
Since You Went Away
Mrs. Miniver
Rebecca
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
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Post by angieh1996 on Nov 7, 2015 21:07:26 GMT
I remember watching Lonesome Dove on tv one time. I think it might have been a three-parter, maybe a mini-series? It is the first thing I remember absolutely crying my eyes out for. I love the old Mutiny Of The Bounty from 1935 with Clark Gable. I was just gonna say Lonesome Dove. I sobbed like a baby. Still my favorite "old time" show. |
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Post by cadoodlebug on Nov 7, 2015 21:24:13 GMT
I thought of another one. Backstreet with John Gavin and Susan Hayward. Another one that had me sobbing at the end.  |
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Post by desertgirl on Nov 7, 2015 21:49:46 GMT
The Bridge on the River Kwai (adapted from the book with a slightly different title).
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Post by cadoodlebug on Nov 7, 2015 22:00:25 GMT
The Bridge on the River Kwai (adapted from the book with a slightly different title). I love the theme whistle song! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2015 22:00:59 GMT
Way before my time, but I remember being really young and watching "Wuthering Heights" with my older sisters and it was the first time a movie made me cry.
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Post by PLurker on Nov 7, 2015 22:02:39 GMT
For some reason I always remember "The Other Side of the Mountain" from when I was 12 or 13? True story of female Olympic skier who became paralyzed and her life after. I LOVED that movie. It was on late one night recently so I just had to watch. It was still ok and I could see the appeal to a tween/teen, but it lost some of it's appeal over these may years. I guess I just am not so invested in their lives anymore.
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Post by akathy on Nov 7, 2015 22:05:27 GMT
"Old Yeller" My Dad took me and my brother when we were both still in grade school. I remember I cried so hard I embarrassed my brother  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2015 22:09:09 GMT
Brief Encounter (there really is something in my eye everytime I watch it!)
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Post by cadoodlebug on Nov 7, 2015 22:09:51 GMT
"Old Yeller" My Dad took me and my brother when we were both still in grade school. I remember I cried so hard I embarrassed my brother Oh yeah and The Yearling! |
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Post by cadoodlebug on Nov 7, 2015 22:10:32 GMT
For some reason I always remember "The Other Side of the Mountain" from when I was 12 or 13? True story of female Olympic skier who became paralyzed and her life after. I ![]() D that movie. It was on late one night recently so I just had to watch. It was still ok and I could see the appeal to a tween/teen, but it lost some of it's appeal over these may years. I guess I just am not so invested in their lives anymore. I remember the scene when she worked so hard to pick up a potato chip out of a bowl and her jerk of a boyfriend just didn't get it. |
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Post by quinlove on Nov 7, 2015 22:26:14 GMT
It's an old movie but I did not watch it as a child. I cry, cry, cry.
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Post by Mystie on Nov 7, 2015 23:03:31 GMT
Brief Encounter (there really is something in my eye everytime I watch it!) I love Brief Encounter, too. The Best Years of Our Lives, anything Hitchcock, especially Notorious and Shadow of a Doubt. Casablanca is one of my favorites. None of these are from my childhood, of course, but movies were really terrible when I was a child (1970-1980). Seventies movies are always so dark and weird. Lots of drugs in Hollywood then, I think!  |
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Post by mztfied on Nov 7, 2015 23:05:53 GMT
Christmas in Connecticut. Watch it every year.
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Post by heartcat on Nov 7, 2015 23:20:46 GMT
Not a lot of tearjerkers on my list.
Ten Commandments
Ben-Hur
Gone With the Wind
Lassie
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
West Side Story
Planet of the Apes
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
To Sir With Love
Charly
The Greatest Show on Earth
And not a drama, but I have always loved Blue Hawaii.
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Post by Monica* on Nov 7, 2015 23:37:01 GMT
Not drama but I remember watching Danny Kaye movies with my parents. The Court Jester was a favorite.
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Post by mollycoddle on Nov 7, 2015 23:39:37 GMT
To Kill a Mockingbird springs to mind.
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Post by happymomma on Nov 7, 2015 23:46:02 GMT
There was a movie, based on a true-story book, called "Sunshine."
It was about a young mother who had cancer in her leg and was dying. She made a series of tape recordings to leave to her daughter, Jill.
I have read that book so many times during my life, and I was only in grade 2 when I first read it. The movie had the song, "Sunshine on my Shoulders" by John Denver as a theme song.
I watched it again a few years ago, via a very grainy Youtube video. It's funny how different my point of view was watching it as a mother than it was when I was young. The book is one of my favorites of all time.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Nov 7, 2015 23:46:53 GMT
Not a lot of tearjerkers on my list. Ten Commandments Ben-Hur Gone With the WindLassie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly West Side StoryPlanet of the Apes The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance To Sir With Love CharlyThe Greatest Show on Earth And not a drama, but I have always loved Blue Hawaii. Those 3 are ugly-cry tearjerkers. |
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Post by cadoodlebug on Nov 7, 2015 23:49:55 GMT
There was a movie, based on a true-story book, called "Sunshine." It was about a young mother who had cancer in her leg and was dying. She made a series of tape recordings to leave to her daughter, Jill. I have read that book so many times during my life, and I was only in grade 2 when I first read it. The movie had the song, "Sunshine on my Shoulders" by John Denver as a theme song. I watched it again a few years ago, via a very grainy Youtube video. It's funny how different my point of view was watching it as a mother than it was when I was young. The book is one of my favorites of all time. As I recall, this was a made-for-TV movie. It was very sad and I think of it every time I hear the John Denver song. Which brings up another made-for-TV tearjerker: Brian's Song. I have been known to start crying in a store when the theme song starts playing. |
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Post by happymomma on Nov 7, 2015 23:51:30 GMT
Yes, cadoodlebug, it was a made for TV movie. I also remember Brian's Song. We watched it in the classroom in elementary school. |
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Post by anxiousmom on Nov 8, 2015 0:16:23 GMT
For some reason I always remember "The Other Side of the Mountain" from when I was 12 or 13? True story of female Olympic skier who became paralyzed and her life after. I LOVED that movie. It was on late one night recently so I just had to watch. It was still ok and I could see the appeal to a tween/teen, but it lost some of it's appeal over these may years. I guess I just am not so invested in their lives anymore. When this movie first came out, I was around 9 or so? I was a little young for it, but a couple of years later I read the book. It stuck with me all this time. We were pretty poor when I was a kid so we didn't go to a lot of movies, but for a special treat we go every once in a while. I loved 'A Little Romance' and can't hear Vivaldi to this day without thinking about that movie. And...I still LOVE LOVE LOVE that my mom took us (my brother and I) to see Young Frankenstein when it came out. We totally didn't get all the jokes but to this day it is one of my favorite movies. |
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