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What Are Your Favorite Movies Made Before 1950?
Free Republic ^ | 12/12/09 | Randita

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!


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KEYWORDS: 19001950; cinema; film; history; movies
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To: randita

Top of The World cagney 1949


41 posted on 12/12/2009 2:40:56 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: randita

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - 1949
Top Hat - 1935
The Big Sleep - 1946
Key Largo - 1948
Sands of Iwo Jima - 1949


42 posted on 12/12/2009 2:41:16 PM PST by Tuxedo (The seeds of the next Revolution are sown....)
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To: randita

Gone With The Wind - 1939


43 posted on 12/12/2009 2:41:16 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (Integrity, Honesty, Character, & Loyalty still matter)
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To: sushiman

You’re right, of course, “You Can’t Take It With You”.


44 posted on 12/12/2009 2:41:22 PM PST by BlueStateBlues (Blue State business, Red State heart. . . . .Palin 2012----can't come soon enough!)
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To: randita
Before 1950, anything with Roy Rogers and Gene Autry..Only went to Saturday matinees
45 posted on 12/12/2009 2:41:23 PM PST by goat granny
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To: Doogle

That’s what Obama would say, “I’m on top of the world, Ma” on about November 1st, 2012


46 posted on 12/12/2009 2:42:36 PM PST by BlueStateBlues (Blue State business, Red State heart. . . . .Palin 2012----can't come soon enough!)
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To: stylecouncilor

I was 2 in 1950. Anyone remember the kids tv show in the early ‘50s, “Ding Dong School Bell”? I loved that show.


47 posted on 12/12/2009 2:43:03 PM PST by WestwardHo (Whom the god would destroy, they first drive mad.)
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To: randita
Brother Orchid ~ 1940
To Have And Have Not ~ 1946
48 posted on 12/12/2009 2:43:29 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: randita

Holiday Inn

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Peter Marshall


49 posted on 12/12/2009 2:43:43 PM PST by Jemian
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To: randita

Broadway Melody (1929)
Wizard of Oz (1939)
Dark Passage 1947
High Sierra 1941
Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942


50 posted on 12/12/2009 2:43:46 PM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
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To: BlueStateBlues

I think he’ll blow up before then.......


51 posted on 12/12/2009 2:43:53 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: buccaneer81; redhead

It’s a Wonderful Life is on TV tonight.

I also loved Gone WTW and the Bogart movies.


52 posted on 12/12/2009 2:44:00 PM PST by Canedawg (Bring lawyers, guns and money.)
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To: randita
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

Semper Fi ...

53 posted on 12/12/2009 2:44:08 PM PST by BluH2o
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To: karatemom

old movies would be played late at night

Yes! The Five Fingered Monster, scariest movie ever!


54 posted on 12/12/2009 2:44:38 PM PST by WestwardHo (Whom the god would destroy, they first drive mad.)
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To: randita

Philadelphia Story with Katherine Hepburn, 1940.


55 posted on 12/12/2009 2:46:28 PM PST by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: WestwardHo

Of course, there’s the original Dracula and Frankenstein.


56 posted on 12/12/2009 2:46:39 PM PST by Fresh Wind ("...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice"-Vaclav Klaus on GW skeptics)
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To: randita

Casablanca - 1942


57 posted on 12/12/2009 2:47:14 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (Integrity, Honesty, Character, & Loyalty still matter)
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To: randita

It Happened One Night, 1934


58 posted on 12/12/2009 2:48:27 PM PST by svcw (The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. GW)
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To: Jemian

Whoops! Got that one wrong. Peter Marshall = A Man Called Peter. Thought it was pre-’50, but it was 1955.


59 posted on 12/12/2009 2:48:52 PM PST by Jemian
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To: randita

Not sure about the dates, but here goes.

Sunrise: 1927
City Lights: 1931
All Quiet on the Western Front: 1931
The Public Enemy: 1932
King Kong: 1933
It Happened One Night: 1934
Swing Time: 1936
A Night at the Opera: 1936
Only Angels Have Wings: 1939
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 1939
The Grapes of Wrath: 1940
Citizen Kane: 1941
The Lady Eve: 1941
Casablanca: 1942
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon: 1947

How is it that so many more great movies were made prior to 1950 than after? Is it just me?


60 posted on 12/12/2009 2:49:14 PM PST by joeystoy
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