Watched the first few minutes of Surf Nazis Must Die then skipped around a bit.

What even is this?

OK, I want to watch something by Cecil B. DeMille, and I want to watch more 50's movies. What's a good movie to try that has actors I've already seen and want to get into more? Hmmm...

The Greatest Show On Earth. I've been wanting to watch more Jimmy Stewart and Charlton Heston. I've only seen two or three of each, but they're both wonderful. I don't care what the critics said about it, I don't trust critics a lot of the time. I'm generally more optimistic about the overall quality of a movie, but I can still be kind of picky. I would watch The Ten Commandments, but I don't have time for three and a half hours now.

Get ready for slow burning first and possibly second acts if you want stuff from that time period. Touch of Evil is one of my favourites. I think you'd really like Ben Hur though, if you're a Heston fan (still a long ass movie though, it was more of a standard at that time).

^^^^^

Absolute classic. Epic story. And that race :yikes:

I saw part of Ben Hur long ago. I plan to watch it again. I like Greatest SHow so far. It's all the fun of circuses in a Cecil B. DeMille drama.

Still, I'm slowly getting into the 50's. My top movies from the 50's are:

Sunset Boulevard
The Fly
Vertigo
12 Angry Men (best casting job ever)
Seven Samurai
Rashomon
Peter Pan
Singin' in the Rain
Alice in Wonderland
The Big Heat

I have a lot on my watchlist. North by Northwest, Touch of Evil, The Wages of Fear, I need to rewatch The Ten Commandments, Rio Grande, High Noon, some Rogers and Hammenstein movies, Ikiru, The Searchers, Othello, The Thief, Tokyo Story, Fear and Desire, Johnny Guitar, On the Waterfront (with Marlon Brando) Godzilla, etc.

Definitely watch all of Kurosawa and Hitchcock's films from that period (and beyond). Ikiru ****ing brilliant, too.

Believe me. I know how awesome Kurosawa is. I've also seen Yojimbo. Great movie, but I think its unofficial remake A Fistful of Dollars was slightly better. Same goes for Hitchcock. I'd also like to get into David Lean and Billy Wilder.

It's a classic Troma movie. It was sort of legendary in a weird way when I was a kid.

I kind of hated Ben Hur, I found the preachiness unbearable. When it comes to that sort of movie though, you can't go wrong with Spartacus.

I am Spartacus! No, I am Spartacus. Love that movie except for the Tony Curtis "singing" scene.

When I was a kid (mid 60s) Easter Sunday was a big thing with my family and everyone sitting around and watching Ben Hur was part of the ritual. It would be on TV on Easter every year.

Watching it these days brings back cool memories.

War of the Worlds and The Wizard of Oz were two other flicks that would be on the same day every year. I think War was on New Years and Oz was Right before school started up again in the fall.