Some Monty Python Classics. They don't make them like this anymore. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing …

The Life of Brian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVnr87Bloz0

Monty Python & the Holy Grail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmtSj4wH5Rg

There's also classic sketches on youtube that stand on their own.

Colossus: The Forbin Project

but it dose not seem to be on youtube

Kind Hearts and Coronets
A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to the Forum
Dr. Strangelove
The Mouse that Roared
The Dirty Dozen

Zabriskie Point (Antonioni)

For the ambiance

Pardon Mon Affaire (original french title: « Un éléphant ça trompe énormément »)

For the laughs and nostalgia

Lawrence Of Arabia (Lean)

Read the book before or after the movie. It does not matter.

A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to the Forum
is a very funny movie

you should watch it

I'll have to check them out... I like the years of those .

^ Technicolor, yay! Europe lay in rubble and that's what they flooded us with back then - no wonder we got addicted to Hollywood.

I am very sorry, I should have described exactly what I meant this thread to be. It is my fault for not doing so.

What I intend this thread to be is a collection of *links* to specific full complete original movies on YouTube that the posters have watched and would recommend to others. People can then click on the link and immediately see the full complete original movie without searching, and without the high risk that the movie is not in fact available.

It is easy to provide a link: find the YouTube page for the full complete original movie, copy the page URL, and then paste this URL into the post, and also please give the title.

Favourite movies *without* links can be given in the other movie thread "An advice for a good movie to watch ?" which might be available here: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...-watch-697994/

Thanks.

Not available on YouTube, so here is a link to Archive.org, although many or most of the films there are blurry.

Riffraff, 1947

https://archive.org/details/uma-aven...ado-sous-titre

It is in English.

An adventure with some excellent cinematography, but the would-be femme-fatale is disappointingly overweight/fat.

Maybe depends on the film.
Did you make an actual comparison, or are you just being contrary?

Also, are you sure you checked all the download options? For this one, there's a 1.1GB MKV option. Looks OK to me - definitely less blurry than the H.264, higher resolution. The original probably isn't much better. Not all films were made in high quality back then, and this one definitely looks like a low budget production. I skipped through it, looks like it was filmed entirely on set (all scenes are indoors).

All movies I checked on archive.org come in several formats and sizes, it's worth checking out.

Huh? Sounds like you had the wrong aspect ratio applied if you think this is overweight?!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...n_Riffraff.jpg

Tons of movies on Utube. Just do a search.

Rio Lobo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7WK3nQn8F5g

Coroner creek
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JSqAJR5Jtuc

McLintock
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pH15fIh7xrg

Comanche Station
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8MlStWY5buU

The Undefeated
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JWZV5x4WAXs

Frontier Marshal
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wuok44sGeDo

Red River
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cvtrItMVIfo

Indiscreet
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IQC3HAX0BTU

Western Union
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3GE8phfKulY

An Innocent man
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AazyZ1Hg81w

The Original Gunsmoke
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs-7OoH2CaM

Gunpoint
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tWQ-FwVIHZ4

Ride Clear of Diablo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PY8WNJVuf3Q

September Affair
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OmXX80pTCCw

Drums across the river
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p6vP_C8ef2Q

Cast a long shadow
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UxCsW44Uy34

^ Thanks.

Anybody knows why these movies are up on youtube like this? The (US American) entertainment industry usually takes great care to prevent this. I don't think they're in the public domain now?

They're B grade Westerns not in touch with today's sensitivities on women, race or sexual orientation. I'd imagine they're a liability at this stage. I imagine they went off the list they monitor and send take-downs for.

In that context, it could be argued this thread's title is an Oxymoron. "A Good Old Movie?" They're still charging money for "Gone with the wind," but that's about the only one. The exception proves the rule.

I guess so.
The first one is with John Wayne, a household name it used to be, and good colors/resolution.
I'll have to watch it to be able to assess it.

Usually it comes down to "I guess there's a good reason why this film is forgotten", but there might be the occasional pearl, who knows.