You probably have a favorite movie. What movie(s) did your mom, dad or both of them like best?

@eli1601

Cagney - very watchable actor. Both of the movies you mentioned are favorites. He had some range, too... witness Yankee Doodle Dandy.

@Iwillwait

...[i]anything with a gun.[/i] 😂

@Carla

You must've been tiny!

My sister, parents and I saw the early 1950s version of Samson and Delilah (at my fervent urging!) at a drive-in in cottage country (Ontario) in the 1960s. They hated it but I loved it when Samson brought down the temple LOL

How many time have YOU seen Woodstock???

@RenFur oh geeze...i don't even know. More than a couple.

@Jenny1234

That's quite a list of rich, intense viewing :D

Would you have liked to have seen Zero Mostel (from the 1964 Broadway cast of Fiddler) in the lead?

@RenFur well I completely misread the original post. I thought it asked for my parents’ favourite movies! I guess I need new glasses

@Jenny1234

Doh! I lost track of what I meant - not you. Sorry about that.

@blackarcher256

Your dad's favorite is one of mine, too... the scene where Tibbs slaps the bigot in his own greenhouse being the most memorable.

@RenFur That’s one of the best scenes in the movie!

My dad grew up black in rural Mississippi. Born in 1914, he experienced Jim Crow and prejudice that was perhaps the worst in America. So I think that movie….seeing a well spoken…well dressed….assertive black man…stand up to the bigotry, really resonated.

@blackarcher256

Pretty soon all of the survivors of that era right up to the relatively recent 60s will be gone so we'll have to rely on the history books to... wait, what? The history books? One day it'll surely be what history books??

@JSul3

What do you think of Laura?

@RenFur Good film noir.

@Colonelmustardseed

There's a Gary Cooper/Walter Brennan movie from long ago called The Westerner. Your dad probably saw that. It's not your average western - Cooper was never more "Cooperish" and Brennan was at his best.

@RenFur I was just thinking about Bob Hope just now, that’s funny. As much as I love the cast we got for the movie- I think that would be an all star cast. Lucille Ball would probably take Ethel Mermen’s role.

@Bignakedguy

Lucy would've been great in that role, too.
Ever watch Carol Burnett reruns? Harvey Korman plays a similar character named Mrs Marcus in a long-running skit called As The Stomach Turns.

@RenFur Oh she’s another funny one. I liked her Norma Desmond. It was so silly

@Blondily

I am Not kidding you - - - last night (out of the blue) I started saying "May the 4th" over and over again (in my head) until it came to me how significant that date was.

@RenFur It never met anything to me until my mom died. May is a beautiful time of year yet my dad died years before mom same month!🤔

@Blondily

May the fourth is so close to May the force - - It is a very beautiful time of the year.

@Havesomefun2

What helps is the bond Belushi and Aykroyd had in real life. As good a comic duo as there ever was.

@RenFur so very true plus they did a few albums together