Make It a Double!

[RedRiver]

A double feature, that is! What classic movie fan hasn't thought of this? These two movies would make a great double bill! Common theme. Same director. Similar style. What pairs come to mind? My dream ticket is GRAPES OF WRATH and HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY. Two John Ford classics, arguably his very best. Black and white. Both dealing with economic hardship. How great is that?

Ford's cavalry adventures would be a triple bill. But a darn good one! LOST WEEKEND and DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES is pretty obvious. But they were made about twenty years apart. There's food (and drink) for thought. 39 STEPS and YOUNG AND INNOCENT. Hitchcock from the British days, and very, very good.

DOUBLE INDEMNITY and THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE. Stories of most diabolical murder, both by James M. Cain. Speaking of murder, let's not forget Dame Christie. Is there a companion to the sophisticated AND THEN THERE WERE NONE?

The James Bond package is overdone. Who hasn't seen DOCTOR NO and FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE? But they were the first in the series, giving birth to a cultural phenomenon still reflected in film and TV. Not to mention they're two of the tightest, classiest, butt busting action films I've ever seen!

So...who wants to go to a double feature?

[MissGoddess]

FORD: The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
OPHULS: The Reckless Moment, Letter From An Unknown Woman
HATHAWAY: Trail of the Lonesome Pine, The Shepherd of the Hills
CURTIZ: Casablanca, Mildred Pierce
LUBITSCH: Trouble in Paradise, The Shop Around the Corner
HITCHCOCK: Rebecca, Vertigo
MANKIEWICZ: A Letter to Three Wives, All About Eve
CAPRA: The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Lost Horizon
WELLMAN: The Ox-Bow Incident, Westward the Women
BORZAGE: Street Angel, Man's Castle
Von STERNBERG: Morocco, Shanghai Express
PREMINGER: Laura, Bonjour, Tristesse
MANN: Devil's Doorway, Man of the West
BOETTICHER: 7 Men From Now, The Tall T
FLEMING: Red Dust, Test Pilot
VAN DYKE: Tarzan the Ape Man, The Thin Man
LEAN: The Happy Years, Summertime
WILDER: Witness for the Prosecution, Ace in the Hole
LANG: M, The Big Heat
WELLES: Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons
TOURNEUR: Cat People, Out of the Past
WISE: The Set-Up, The Sound of Music

[charliechaplinfan]

A Streetcar Named Desire/On The Waterfront - classic Kazan and Brando
The Band Wagon/Silk Stockings - Fred and Cyd
An American in Paris/Singin in the Rain - classic Gene Kelly
The Seven Year Itch/Some Like it Hot - my first two Monroe pictures
Roman Holiday/Breakfast at Tiffanys - my first two Audrey pics
To Catch a Thief/North By Northwest - classic Cary and Kitch
Red River/ The Misfits - my two favourite westerns
I was An American War Bride/Monkey Business - later Hawks
Algiers/Casablanca - Two towns in Africa
Rebecca/Suspicion - Joan and Hitch made into a three some with Notorious
A Letter To An Unknown Woman/Madame De - classic Ophuls
The Pirate/Easter Parade - grown up Judy
42nd Street/Footlight Parade - Busby Berkeley's best although I'd like to see a triple with Goldiggers of 33
Love Me Tonight/The Merry Widow - Chevalier and Macdonald
Bringing Up Baby/His Girl Friday - Hawks and Grant
A Place in the Sun/Sunset Boulevard - no connection apart from year
Mayerling/Conquest - two historical epics both with Charles Boyer
To Be Or Not To Be/Cluny Brown - Lubitsch and nazism
The Asphalt Jungle/The Killing - heist movies
My Darling Clementine/The Ox Bow Incident - Henry Fonda westerns
Dodsworth/Make Way For Tomorrow - for no other reason that they surprised me.

[charliechaplinfan]

And some silents

Seventh Heaven/Lucky Star - Borzage with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell
City Lights/Modern Times - Chaplin classics
My Best Girl/It - shop girl dramas
The Big Parade/The Flesh and the Devil - MGM productions from 1925/6 with John Gilbert
Our Hospitality/The General - Keaton and trains
The Crowd/The Wind - two American dramas
[b]Pandora's Box/Diary of a Lost Girl - Pabst and Brooks
The Thief of Bagdad/The Gaucho - favourite Fairbanks
Daddy Long Legs/Sparrows - Pickford as little girl

[ChiO]

Welles, Which Is It?: IT'S ALL TRUE and F FOR FAKE
"M" is the Letter: M (Lang) and M (Losey)
Have I Got a Mob For You: FURY (Lang) and TRY AND GET ME (Endfield)
Jungle Stories: FEMALE JUNGLE (Ve Sota) and THE GARMENT JUNGLE (V. Sherman/Aldrich)
Whozit, Whatzit?: KISS ME DEADLY (Aldrich) and REPO MAN (Cox)
Who's the Toughest Guy in the Room?: GUN CRAZY (Joseph H. Lewis) and HIGHWAY 301 (Stone)
Sages, Seers & Soothsayers: THE AMAZING MR. X (Vorhaus) and BUNCO SQUAD (Leeds)
The Wilder Big Brother: THE PRETENDER (W. Lee Wilder) and THE BIG BLUFF (W. Lee Wilder)
Boys Night Out: DINER (Levinson) and HUSBANDS (Cassavetes)
Girls Gone Wild: NOT WANTED (Clifton/Lupino) and THE VIOLENT YEARS (Edward D. Wood, Jr.)

[charliechaplinfan]

You know Red I could have hours of fun with this and I realise that what my mind puts together isn't always logical and how often my film choices are made when one film/actor/director leads me on to another film.

[intothenitrate]

Lon Chaney in The Shock and The Penalty
>> both set in San Francisco, and he actually gets the girl!

[knitwit45]

The Rainmaker, The Rains Came, Singin' in the Rain (Triple Feature at the Drive In)

[RedRiver]

I hope you don't have the top down!

Thanks for all the fun suggestions. I meant to follow up on the thread yesterday, but didn't have time. I love "Boys Night Out" and "Girls Gone Wild." How about these?

THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS and IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA. Harryhausen animated "monster on the loose films." The best of the bunch.
One Chaplin, one Keaton. I'll let somebody else pick.
SEVEN DAYS IN MAY and FAIL-SAFE. What if?
And of course, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN and THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN!

I used to have all kinds of cool ideas. Now that I've started a thread, I've forgotten them!

[JackFavell]

I just love the combinations you are all coming up with - especially The Grapes of Wrath/How Green Was My Valley and The Merry Widow/Love Me Tonight. Diner/Husbands is a great combination!

Here are some of mine so far:

Harold and Maude/Dog Day Afternoon

The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer/Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Summertime/Alice Adams

Night Must Fall/And Then There Were None/Dead of Night

I Walked with a Zombie/Black Narcissus

Four Feathers (1939)/Breaker Morant

Dinner at Eight/Grand Hotel

The General/The Train - not just because they are both train stories, but because the action in each ends up backtracking along the same territory

Cat People/Curse of the Cat People

---- or Curse of the Cat People/My Life as a Dog

The Doll(1919)/Pygmalion

State Fair(1933)/State Fair(1945)

Gun Crazy/They Live By Night

M/The Informer

The Palm Beach Story/Miracle of Morgan's Creek

---- or The Palm Beach Story/Midnight

Bringing Up Baby/Double Wedding

[JackFavell]

Oh yeah, Ride the High Country/The Wild Bunch

[markfp]

I've been researching the theaters in my hometown which involves going through decades of old newspapers looking at movie ads. What strikes me more than the good double features is how many bad ones there were. It looks like the bookers were just filling in slots giving no thought to a balanced program. Here's a few and all of them were real:

Gene Kelly in the Cole Porter musical LES GIRLS along with ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS

Disney's BAMBI on the same bill as QUEEN OF BURLESQUE

A reissue of SINGING IN THE RAIN and UNDERWATER CITY (actually, that one's just kind of funny)

Then there's the ultimate lynching film THE OX-BOX INCIDENT with SWING YOUR PARTNERS

THE NUN'S STORY and BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS

Disney's SONG OF THE SOUTH (when they could show it) and HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN

[RedRiver]

The Ox-Bow Incident and Swing Your Partner. I'll let somebody else take this one!

[charliechaplinfan]

I think we're better at matching films. I love the Dinner at Eight/Grand Hotel combination. Can anyone put some film noirs together? I love noir films but can only remember the big ones which makes them all seem fresh when I watch them again.

[knitwit45]

Pickup on South Street & Angel in My Pocket