Our family loves to watch old movies, the older the better! I thought I’d share a new to us movie we’ve watched lately as well as our absolute favorites.
The Mating of Millie
Friendly Persuasion
Follow Me, Boys!
Sergeant York 
Cheaper By the Dozen
What old movies do you enjoy watching with your family?
We also love “Follow Me Boys”. Another one the kids like is “The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band.” All we watch is old movies…too much junk in most of the new movies.
We always enjoyed watching Yours, Mine, and Ours- such a funny movie (we were a large military family too, though not that large). We also enjoy the old musicals- Oklahoma, Singing in the Rain, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, etc.
My all time favorite is To Kill a Mockingbird, Robert Duvall doesn’t speak one word in that film, but he communicates volumns with his expression, but, pretty much anything with Gregory Peck or Gary Cooper. Another favorite is Spencer’s Mountain, and a more recent fav is Second Hand Lions. Old Movies are the BEST!!!
My dad got me hooked on old movies and I got my husband hooked on them. 🙂 I absolutely LOVE Friendly Persuasion. I also love The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer with Cary Grant and Shirley Temple (when she’s a teenager!). If your family likes musicals at all, I also love The Court Jester with Danny Kaye. Oh! And I love Roman Holiday! I’ll stop there. 🙂
I had a wonderful bishop recommend Follow Me, Boys when I was first married and seeing it on your list of favorites reminded me that I haven’t seen it yet! So thank you for the reminder! 🙂
“I found a bow and arrow and I learned to shoot. I found a little horn and I learned to toot. Now I can shoot and toot. Ain’t I cute?” We love Danny Kaye movies too!
I love anything with Cary Grant or Doris Day. ‘Glass bottom boat’ is one of my most favorite as well as ‘The Thrill of It All’. Love Sound of Music, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and My Fair Lady.
Ooh, I love Cheaper By the Dozen too! One of my favorites is Summer Magic with Haley Mills. Another is The Happiest Millionaire.
The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit, all the Tammy movies, and not so old but one of my all time favorites, One Night With the King (the story of Esther).
Good list! I was going to list some that have already been mentioned in the comments, like The Court Jester and Summer Magic. We also love the Danny Kaye movies Wonder Boy, Kid from Brooklyn, and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Then there’s Singing in the Rain, Mr. Smith goes to Washington, The Quiet Man, McLintock!, Little Princess (Shirley Temple), The Pied Piper of Hamlin…I love love love old movies:)
We have a family video of my oldest girls when they are 3 and 4 reenacting the scene at the end of McClintock. My 2nd daughter plays a good Maureen O’Hara. 🙂
I especially love old musicals. I really LOL at Annie Get Your Gun. I especially love that my boys are watching right along with me and loving them too. I have to train them for their wives. 🙂
I see a couple on your list I haven’t watched, so thank you for the new movies to watch. 🙂
Court Jester is a favorite. Our Bishop gave Follow Me, Boys to my husband when he was called as YM President. Musicals mentioned above are fun. I also like Calamity Jane, Holiday Inn, Swiss Family Robinson, Hello Dolly. We have more movies made before I was born than we have recent movies.
Swiss Family Robinson is one I grew up watching. And The Sound of Music. My sisters and I would each pick a Von Trapp sister and recite the movie while we were doing our Saturday chores.
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Love Shirley Temple in The Little Princess, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (my kids will go around the house singing “Bless your beautiful hide, whoever you may be”) 🙂 and I adore The Sound of Music. Another one we like is the original Parent Trap.
Those magnificent men and their flying machines, I loved Hello Dolly, Anne of Green gables,
I love this list! I recognise some actor names, but not the movies. More to add to the list 🙂
I really like musicals, so those are always fun. I’m guessing the Princess Bride doesn’t count as an old movie, but it’s a family favorite….we quote it all the time. It’s lines are fabulous!
That Darn Cat
Parent Trap (Original)
Summer Magic
Happiest Millionaire
Snowball Express
The Shaggy Dog/The Shaggy DA
The computer wore tennis shoes
The ugly dachshund
Freaky Friday (original)
Absent minded professor
Son of Flubber
With six you get eggrolls
Please don’t eat the daisies
Pillow talk
Princess Bride
Anything Alfred Hitchcock (most are fine for teens, no gore exept “psycho” and “The Birds”)
Brigadoon
Singing in the Rain
Holiday Inn
White Christmas
Original Family Band
Old Yeller
Where the red fern grows
I could go on for a very long time. I think it might just be movie night. Pass the popcorn please.
There are so many I don’t know where to start…
Holiday Inn
White Christmas (my personal all time favorite)
Tea For Two
Starlift
Going My Way
The Apple Dumpling Gang
The Major and the Minor
The Long Long Trailer
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Anna and the King of Siam and of course The King and I
Roman Holiday
The Shop Around the Corner
It Happened on 5th Avenue
Christmas in Conneticut
I could keep going…but that’s all I can do from memory.
I can’t believe no one has mentioned “Pollyanna”! It is a seriously life-changing movie. I also love all the old Hayley Mills classics, like the original “Parent Trap.” For families with young boys, you can’t go wrong with “Swiss Family Robinson,” “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” and “Mysterious Island,” the original ’60s version. I also love anything with Carey Grant, but “Houseboat” with Sofia Loren is one of my favorites. Thanks for reminding me of all those great movies I need to dust off the shelves!