The Cheap Seats: SCANALYST at the Movies

johnwalker · 14 January 2024 15:26

If you enjoy classic movies and find yourself bored with the endless series of sequels and reboots from present-day Hollywood, each striving to be more woke, transgressive, and aligned with the momentary obsessions of the “creative class”, the good news is that we’re living in a golden age when hundreds of film classics which not long ago you may have been lucky to see screened once in a decade or two at an art house or on late night television, interrupted by bottom-feeder advertisements, are now just sitting there on YouTube and other streaming services, completely free, waiting for you to enjoy them.

This post collects, in the comments, films you may want to check out. For each, I provide a YouTube player to watch the film and commentary from Wikipedia and the Internet Movie Database (IMDB). With the exception of a few films which are included because they’re “so awful they’re good”, most of these films are rated 7/10 or better for quality on IMDB.

The movies are listed in no particular order.

Don’t forget the popcorn!

johnwalker · 14 January 2024 15:26

Blackmail 1929 (Alfred Hitchcock)