Posted on 12/12/2009 2:22:11 PM PST by randita
For Old Timers or fans of old time movies, list your favorite movies made before 1950. Include the date of the movie. Please don't list any movies made after 1950. Thanks!
You bet! One of the most haunting songs there is IMO. Still brings tears to my eyes whenever I hear it.
Captain Blood (1935)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Boys Town (1938)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Sergeant York (1941)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
The Yearling (1946)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Fort Apache (1948)
A Canterbury Tale (1949)
There are a couple more I’m sure.
I just recently found out about this movie and have watched it many times. I vaguely knew who Buzby Berkeley was before, and my opinion of him was BFD. But after seeing the film I think he was undoubtedly a genius. The whole thing with the 64 white pianos that come together like a puzzle, all culminating in a scene that only lasts a couple of seconds, of a beautiful girl on a stage, is just amazing.
Like most movies, it's not entirely without fault. But large parts of it are absolutely perfectly entertaining.
This was supposed to be a Robert Cummings movie as Jack Warner saw it. But Reagan stole the film right out from under him.
They were both good in that movie. Robert Cummings was a more plausible medical student than Reagan would have been. Reagan was appropriate for his part.
That was a good one! Think my favorite is Notorious.
Hmm. Maybe I should see it again. I only saw it once in an elective English cinema class as a senior in high school one million years ago.
Forgot this one...
Of Human Hearts
Definately - I Remember Mama
Why, thank you for that link! Most kind of you.
Twelve O’clock High, 1949
Sands of Iwo Jima
Claudia just might be it. Not out on CD or vidio though. There is also a sequel. I would like to see both.
Thank you for finding this for me.
Room for One More which was made in 1952 is also a good movie.
Well, right on the line, from 1950, is “Champagne for Caesar,” starring Ronald Coleman, a hysterically funny Vincent Price and Art Linkletter’s only acting role. Not to mention Mel Blanc as the voice of the title character.
"Nobody dies".
39 Steps - GREAT Movie. Good little book too.
DH and I mostly watch old movies so here is a short list, lol.
Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
M (1931)
Nosferatu, 1922 - I love that the film was hand dyed for the night scenes.
Double Indemnity 1944
Hollywood Canteen 1944
Bathing Beauty (1944)
Hollywood Canteen (1944)
The entire “Thin Man” series -
The Thin Man 1934
Another Thin Man 1939
Shadow of the Thin Man 1941
Thin Man goes Home 1945
Song of the Thin Man 1947
And this may not count, released 1950, but one of my all time favorite movies is Sunset Boulevard.
One of my favorites was released in 1950, so it may qualify. The best pro-wrestling movie ever made, Night and The City.
No fair! All the good ones have been mentioned!
But I’ll add a few.
Anything with
Errol Flynn
Humphry Bogart
Mutiny on the Bounty
Gunga Din
Almost any adventure movie made in 1939!
The four feathers (both b&w and color versions)
Anything produced by Alexander Korda
Anything directed by John Ford
Stagecoach
The Cat People
The Leopard Man
I walk with a Zombie
Frankenstein
Son of Frankenstein
The Mummy
Freaks
Nosferatu
Hunchback of Notre Dame (silent and talkie)
Phanton of the Opera (silent version only. The color version is lame but beautifully filmed)
Anyting with Peter Lore.
Maltese Falcon (1931 and 1941 versions) Compare them to see why the 1941 version is better!
High Sierra and Colorado Territory (Same plot for both)
Sahara
Action in the North Atlantic
Captain Blood
Robin Hood
Charge of the Light Brigade
They died with their boots on.
Dodge City
San Antonio
Sargent York
Gold Diggers of 1933, 1935, 1937
Top Hat
Flying down to Rio
Buffalo Bill (1944)
For whom the Bell Tolls (restored version)
Task Force
Unconquered
Northwest Mounted Police
The Plainsman
If I had a million
Anything with W C Fields (Excluding Mrs wiggs of Cabbage Patch. A dreary movie)
Anything with the Marx brothers
King Kong
Son of Kong
Mighty Joe Young
The Lost Patrol
Air Force
Tulsa
Anything with Harold Lloyd!
Safety Last
Feet First
Almost anything with Bud Abbot and Lou Costello (Especially those with the Susquahana Hat Company and Who’s on First routines)
Way too many others to mention!
Who needs modern movie trash with all these!
Anyting with Peter Lore.
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Have you seen “M”?
Peter Lorre movie made it while he was still in Germany. Freaky as all get out, and used later as Nazi propaganda, but still an awesome movie.
***Have you seen “M”?***
Yes! One of my favorite foreign films!
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