[randita]

Here are a few obvious ones to get the topic started:

King Kong - 1933
It Happened One Night, 1934
Gone With The Wind, 1939
Casablanca, 1942
Gaslight, 1944

Have at it!

[B Knotts]

Also, for the less critically acclaimed type movies:

The Wolf Man - 1941
Destry Rides Again - 1939

I’m also a fan of some of the old gangster movies, but haven’t seen them in years.

[Richard Kimball]

Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948. Hey mister, can you stake a fellow American to a meal?

Wizard of Oz, 1939.

[jaz.357]

Any Hope and Crosby film.

[Fiji Hill]

I especially enjoy musicals:

• Pigskin Parade (1936)
• Hollywood Revue of 1929
• The Big Broadcast (1932)
• The Big Broadcast of 1938
• Gold Diggers of 1933
• Gold Diggers of 1935
• Hollywood Hotel (1937)
• The King of Jazz (1930)
• Murder at the Vanities (1934)
• Fashions of 1934

[6323cd]

"The Prisoner of Zenda" (1937) with Ronald Colman, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Madeleine Carroll, Mary Astor, Raymond Massey, David Niven, C. Aubrey Smith... it doesn't get much better than that.

"My Man Godfrey" (1936) with William Powell and Carole Lombard.

"Swing Time" (1936) with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

"Bachelor Mother" (1939) with Ginger Rogers (again) and David Niven (again).

"Ninotchka" (1939) with Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas.

"Ruggles of Red Gap" (1936) with Charles Laughton.

"The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938) with Errol Flynn and Olivia DeHavilland.

Just to name a few!

[patriot08]

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I’m not an ‘old timer’, but I love old movies. They just don’t make wonderful old movies like they did back then.

May I suggest these wonderful Christmas movies:

It’s a Wonderful Life

White Christmas

The Bishop’s Wife

Christmas in Conneticut

Holiday Inn

Miracle on 34th Street (1947 version)

And the ‘not so old’
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas

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A few of my favorite old non-Christmas movies:

(Girls, you can’t go wrong with any Betty Davis, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland or Greer Garson movie)

Rebecca

Casa Blanca

Random Harvest

Meet Me In St Louis

Now Voyager

Mildred Pierce

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Sunset Blvd

Strangers on a Train

A Streetcar Named Desire

Mrs. Parkington

Mrs Minniver

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

The Old Maid

Dark Victory

Jezebel

The Little Foxes

In This Our Life

Mr. Skeffington

A Stolen Life

All About Eve

And the old ‘not so old’ movies:

Rosemary’s Baby
Jaws
E.T.

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[Doogle]

1933

[nickcarraway]

Foreign Correspondent
The Big Sleep
The Thin Man
My Man Godfrey
Bringing Up Baby
You Can’t Take It With You
Sullivan’s Travels
(Almost anything by Hitchcock, Hawks, Capra, and Sturges from that period)

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

All of the Harold Lloyd films, he was the greatest action
comedian.

[Vaquero]

yes with Casablanca and King Kong both are in my top 20

I loathe Gone with the Wind...just hate it...

I am in my 60’s but my favorite movies are all from the 70’s or later

here in no particular order

1 flew over the cuckoo’s nest....

Tombstone,

the Shootist,

Unforgiven,

the Godfather (1 & 2)

Goodfellas..

Young Frankenstein.

[apocalypto]

Gone with the Wind
It's a Beautiful Life
So Red the Rose
Wizard of Oz

[LibFreeOrDie]

Musicals:
Meet Me In St. Louis, The Harvey Girls, State Fair
Busby Berkeley musicals
Fred and Ginger. Fred and Rita.

The Marx Brothers

The Thin Man series

Hope and Crosby’s Road series

Shirley Temple

All WW2 movies

Bios of scientists:
Story of Louis Pasteur (37)
Young Tom Edison and Edison The Man (40)
Madame Curie
Dr. Erlich’s Magic Bullet

Hitchcock’s Notorious (Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant -’46)

The Thief of Bagdad (40)

The Sea Hawk (40)

Hunchback of Notre Dame (39)

How Green Was My Valley (41)

Red River (48)

Open City (45)

Anything with Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Jimmy Cagney, Cary Grant.

[moehoward]

Lost Horizon

One of these days I’m going to have to sit down and watch Casablanca.

[skr]

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

[chasio649]

The Treasure of Sierra Madre

Seargent York

[YHAOS]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Harvey (or did I miss it?)

Love Afair

The Women

[Roscoe Karns]

Roaring Twenties (1939)
Out Of The Past (1947)
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Double Indemnity (1944)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
The Third Man (1949)
Flying Down to Rio (1933)
The Killing and Kiss Me Deadly (early fifties -but two great movies)

There are so many... I would also add anything with Charles Laughton. He was great.

[LifeComesFirst]

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.

[Jean S]

Rebecca - 1940, although the book is better.

[My hearts in London - Everett]

Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

A Lady Takes a Chance

The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer