The number one reason I enjoy them is that they are "clean." I don't have to worry if one of the children will walk in on a four-lettered word or an act of violence or worse. We absolutely don't watch R-rated movies, but PG-13 is lookin' pretty much like R these days, so if I'm not careful about why a movie is rated PG-13, we never know what we'll see. And with the boys staying up later these days (the 17-year-old up later than the parents!), we have to be very careful what's on TV.
So, back to old movies. The second reason I enjoy them is that the actors really acted and the writers really wrote. Directors couldn't really on expensive effects to make the movie, they had good writing and acting.
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discussion over at Ora et Labora about movies with nuns, I checked a few out at the library. First we watched Keys of the Kingdom with Gregory Peck. He plays a missionary priest in war-torn China. It had wonderful scenery and great characters. I highly recommend it. I had to get it through the inter-library loan (from somewhere else in Ohio), but my library is fairly short on Catholic material, so maybe you'll have better luck finding it. I'm guessing it has not been checked out much lately.The second one we watched was Heaven Knows Mr. Allison. Great acting by Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr. Mitchum plays a WWII Marine who meets up with Deborah Kerr's charac
ter, a missionary sister, on a deserted Pacific Ocean island. The Japanese invade and they avoid them, for the most part, while hiding out in a cave. Another movie with beautiful scenery. I found this one in my local library, and it's safe to say it hadn't seen much action. Sad, but true. I have a few more titles on my "nun list," and I'll be sure to post if I come across another oldy but goody.
This isn't a nun movie but The Tree of Wooden Clogs is a wonderful movie showing four peasant families living on a homestead around the turn of the century - and what wonderful faith they had. They really lived their Catholic faith. I just rented The Staircase (Nun movie) but haven't watched it yet.
ReplyDeleteI'll check to see if my library has that one (actually both). Thanks for the tip!
ReplyDeleteBarbara
My girls and I watched Keys of the Kingdom with Gregory Peck just the other night. We enjoyed The Scarlet and the Black so much we wanted to see Keys. It's a lovely movie.
ReplyDeleteWe enjoy watching old movies for the reasons you said: they are clean, no worries about in appropriate bedroom scenes, language or violence.