10 Classic Films That Actually Live Up To Their Legendary Status
Classic movies that are actually as good as they say. Hitchcock, Welles, Kurosawa & Ford included.
Let's face it, sometimes films from a bygone era can be a little tough to watch since we have become so used to modern films and the techniques that they use to immerse you in the world that they depict.
However, where some do age badly and become a remnant of a time long passed, others hold up remarkably well and attain legendary status among those in the film industry. It is a constant reminder of all the movies that most people these days haven't seen when another greatest films of all time list is produced and the casual movie-going public has never seen half of them.
Well, whilst the stigma of black & white film has become more prevalent in modern times, and it is true there are genuine examples of films from yesteryear that just can't hold the audience the way they once did.
That being said, there are also films that have managed to avoid the ravages of time and are as good and relevant today as they were when they were first released. So, here we take a look at 10 films from a time long passed that are still as iconic today as they were when they were made.
10. Bringing Up Baby
Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn star in Howard Hawks' romantic comedy about a palaeontologist and a ditsy young woman that keep on bumping into one another at the most unfortunate times, throw in not one but two Leopards and you're in for a laugh riot.
Grant's Dr Huxley and Hepburn's Miss Vance are the complete opposite of one another and she is constantly causing him to wind up in amusing, albeit, frustrating situations, which comes to a head with them both facing down an escaped wild Leopard.
One of the greatest things about watching Bringing Up Baby is just how much Grant and Hepburn clearly loved working together and their immediate chemistry on-screen. Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks eat your heart out because when it comes to the dawn of romantic comedy, Bringing Up Baby is one of the chief architects and the standard set for all future films in the genre.
One imagines that Matthew McConaughey owes quite a few of his many millions of dollars to Howard Hawkes for making Bringing Up Baby a success and inventing the rom-com as we know it.