FLC Staff Picks Blog

Kicking off Staff Picks with Andrew's classic movies

In celebration of moving into our newly renovated digs at the Forrer Learning Commons, we've designated a couple shelves next to the main services desk for Staff Picks.  Every couple of months, FLC staff will curate items from the collection ... whether it is based on a timely theme ("Halloween") or genre (Mysteries) or just an "I liked this" ..we hope you'll find something to suit your interest.  

Andrew Pearson, the Director of the FLC, chose classic movies that he enjoys.  A warning to the weary - there's no need to adjust your screens or sound, not that there are any silent films in the bunch, but there are a couple in black and white films.  Take a walk into the past and view it like your grand or great grandparents did.  You won't be disappointed.  All of these classics continue to delight our modern tastes. 

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Casablanca

Call Number: DVD 791.4372 C334, 2003

ISBN: 9780790772301

Here's looking at you, kid. This often quoted classic starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman and the ever-astonishing, magnificent Peter Lorre, this film is worth a watch!

North by Northwest

Call Number: DVD 791.4372 N864b, 2009

ISBN: 9781419878015

One of Hitchcock's best. Follow the dazzling Cary Grant on his adventure against a dangerous spy network taking him to the tip of Thomas Jefferson's nose (literally).

The Third Man

Call Number: DVD 791.4372 T445 1999

ISBN: 9780780022485

"I never knew the old Vienna" starts this classic tale by Graham Greene and starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton (after their Citizen Kane days).

 

 

It happened one night

Call Number: DVD 791.4372 I88h, 1999

ISBN: 9781435937970

Learn to dunk your donuts! This romance comedy stars Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.

 

Rebecca

Call Number: DVD 791.4372 R2889, 2008

Who wouldn't fall for a guy named Maxim de Winter? Another Hitchcock classic based on the much beloved book by Daphne De Maurier (another good name!).

 

 

Frank Capra's Arsenic and Old Lace

Call Number: DVD 791.4372 A781, 2000

ISBN: 9780780663893

So you've seen 'It's a Wonderful Life", but any other Capra movies? This one stars the unsinkable Cary Grant and a wacky set of characters.

 

 

Frank Capra's Mister Smith goes to Washington

Call Number: DVD 791.4372 M939sm, 1999

ISBN: 9781435937956

Did you like the other Frank Capra movie? Jimmy Stewart takes on DC corruption in this political fantasy from 1939.

 

 

 

The Philadelphia Story

Call Number: DVD 791.4372 P544s, 2005

ISBN: 0790795760

Cary Grant takes on Jimmy Stewart in this unusually-titled screwball comedy. So, why is it call a Philadelphia Story? Only Katharine Hepburn knows.

 

 

Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not

Call Number: DVD 791.4372 T627h, 2003

ISBN: 9781419817694

"You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow." This movie was start to the real life romance of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart.

 

 

The Big Sleep

Call Number: DVD 791.4372 B592s, 2000

ISBN: 9781419817649

Another Bacall / Bogart casting in this adaptation of the Raymond Chandler's mystery with the legendary detective Philip Marlowe.

 

 

Notes and descriptions provided by Vickie.