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Can you tell it's my all-time favorite? LOL
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!
Lost Horizon
One of these days I’m going to have to sit down and watch Casablanca.
It’s true...when you look at the acting ability and flexibility of the actors of the Golden Age, and the wonderful stories, and great screenwriting...you just have to feel that much has been lost.
Rachel and the Stranger
Shadow of a Doubt
Pride and Prejudice
Gaslight
Captain Blood
Northwest Passage
Four Daughters
Holiday
The Human Comedy
Desperated Journey
State Fair
The Treasure of Sierra Madre
Seargent York
Love Afair
The Women
I was one who did not watch it for many years, thinking it overrated.
Finally, I watched it, and was somewhat surprised to find that it is a great movie, and is now one of my favorites.
There are so many... I would also add anything with Charles Laughton. He was great.
Further Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)
The Egg and I featuring Ma and Pa Kettle (1948)
The Kid, 1921
Our Hospitality, 1923
Sherlock Junior, 1924
The Big Parade, 1925
Gold Rush, 1925
The General, 1927
College, 1927
The Circus, 1928
Steamboat Bill, Jr., 1928
The Cameraman, 1928
The Crowd, 1928
City Lights, 1931
The 39 Steps, 1935
Modern Times, 1936
The Lady Vanishes, 1938
Stagecoach, 1939
The Grapes of Wrath, 1940
The Great Dictator, 1940
The Shop Around the Corner, 1940
Citizen Kane, 1941
Maltese Falcon, 1941
The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942
How Green Was My Valley, 1942
Shadow of a Doubt, 1943
Casablanca, 1943 (IMSMR)
Double Indemnity, 1944
Lost Weekend, 1945
The Stranger, 1946
Beauty and the Beast, 1946
The Lady From Shanghai, 1947
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948
Rope, 1948
The Bicycle Thieves, 1948
The Third Man, 1949
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 1949
Sunset Boulevard, 1950
The Flowers of St. Francis, 1950
And I was born in 1982.
My grandfather played a German officer in that movie. I am ashamed to say that I have never seen it. I really need to buy it.
I’m glad someone posted a marxbros film. I’d also add WC Fields’s “Never Give a Sucker an Even Break”.
Some great Silents:
The Phantom of the Opera
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Metropolis
It qualifies in the 1950s category and is on my list of favorites, too.
For my money, Betty Davis is the greatest female actor that ever lived.
“Meet Me In St Louis”
Clang, clang, clang went the trolley. Ding, ding, ding went the bell. ...
“Sunset Blvd”
I *am* big. It's the *pictures* that got small.
Rebecca - 1940, although the book is better.
Desperate Journey (1942), though a bit corny and unbelievable by today's standards, was a great and entertaining propaganda flick which kept me up 'til the wee hours on a school night back in 1962 when I first saw it on TV.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
A Lady Takes a Chance
The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
Can you tell it's my all-time favorite? LOL
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