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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: Oatka

Great story,Funny as heck.


141 posted on 12/12/2009 4:11:40 PM PST by Harold Shea (RVN `70 - `71)
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To: Harold Shea
It Happened One Night is my moms favorite movie,Gable & Lombard, great movie

"It Happened One Night" starred Gable and Claudette Colbert, not Lombard.

I liked William Powell and Carole Lombard in "My Man Godfrey", 1936.

All of the above movies mentioned here on this thread!

142 posted on 12/12/2009 4:13:58 PM PST by calex59
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To: unkus
1939 was probably the best year for so many excellent movies.”

I would tend to agree. Some of the best movies ever made were made in 1939:

Gone With the Wind
The Wizard of Oz
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Stagecoach
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Ninotchka
Gunga Din
The Roaring Twenties
Dark Victory
Destry Rides Again
Beau Geste
The Women
The Rules of the Game
Of Mice and Men
Babes in Arms

143 posted on 12/12/2009 4:16:08 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: redhead

“Oops. Left out anything with a screenplay written by Otis Kribblecobblis.”

Yes indeed! - “It’s A Gift” - 1934


144 posted on 12/12/2009 4:18:44 PM PST by J40000
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To: randita

Gone with the Wind. Love that one.


145 posted on 12/12/2009 4:21:33 PM PST by beckysueb (Hey Obama, get out of Sarahs' house!)
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To: buccaneer81

Splendor In The Grass.


146 posted on 12/12/2009 4:22:38 PM PST by beckysueb (Hey Obama, get out of Sarahs' house!)
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To: randita

Twelve O’clock High

Gone With the Wind

Casablanca

Captain’s Courageous

David Copperfield

King Kong

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Wizard of Oz

Captain Blood

The Four Feathers (1939)

Hell’s Angels

I know, that’s eleven, and there are many, many more.


147 posted on 12/12/2009 4:22:41 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: randita

In favorite order but Gone With The Wind and Casablanca are both among the greatest over multiple generations.

Gone with the Wind 1939
Casablanca 1942
King Kong 1933
Miracle on 34th Street 1947
Maltese Falcon 1941
The Grapes of Wrath 1940


148 posted on 12/12/2009 4:24:38 PM PST by Joan Kerrey (The bigger the government = The smaller the people)
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To: randita

Animal Crackers
Monkey Business
Horsefeathers
Duck Soup
Wings
The Big Parade
Captain Blood
The General
Steamboat Bill Jr.
The Circus - Chaplin
The Gold Rush


149 posted on 12/12/2009 4:25:58 PM PST by J40000
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To: beckysueb
Splendor In The Grass.

Wrong decade. Made in 1961.

150 posted on 12/12/2009 4:27:53 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Roscoe Karns
Since you mentioned Fugitive from a Chain Gang, let me add another Paul Muni movie, Angel on my Shoulder.

-PJ

151 posted on 12/12/2009 4:28:46 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: randita
In no particular order . . .

The Enchanted Cottage
The Best Years of Our Lives
Made for Each Other
The Shop Around the Corner
The Great Dictator
City Lights
Duck Soup
Casablanca
Dark Passage
Leave Her to Heaven

152 posted on 12/12/2009 4:29:05 PM PST by BluesDuke (A stitch in time saves a surgeon from a malpractise suit.)
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To: constant
Singing in The Rain..

Nope. Made in 1952.

153 posted on 12/12/2009 4:29:15 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: randita

The Lost Weekend, 1945.


154 posted on 12/12/2009 4:29:56 PM PST by Junior_G (Funny how liberals' love affair with Muslims began on 9/11)
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To: 6323cd

I haven’t. Just added it to my netflix queue.


155 posted on 12/12/2009 4:30:52 PM PST by stop_fascism (Georgism is Capitalism's best, last hope)
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To: beckybea
Lost Horizon

Excellent choice.

156 posted on 12/12/2009 4:31:19 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Joan Kerrey
You GWTW fans might want to check out my WWII +70 years posts for the next week or so. Gone With the Wind Mania has broken out in December 1939 and will build until the New York premier on the 19th, with Frank Nugent's review on the 20th.

And anyone interested in classic films can get on my movie only ping list (if you're not interested in news and sports, too, that is) to receive notice when I post movie reviews on the 70th anniversary of their original publication dates. After 'Gone With the Wind' there are some good ones coming up in 1940.

157 posted on 12/12/2009 4:33:29 PM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Junior_G
The Lost Weekend, 1945.

Another excellent choice. It and "Days of Wine and Roses" are the two best depictions of alcoholic behavior ever.

158 posted on 12/12/2009 4:34:08 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Harold Shea
It Happened One Night is not Clarke Gable and Carol Lombard; his co-star was Claudette Colbert.

Fantastic movie I remember seeing for the first time with one of my house-mates in college. We sent up a cheer when she ran across the lawn to her waiting car.

159 posted on 12/12/2009 4:35:09 PM PST by Apple Blossom (Politicians are like diapers, they both need changed regularly, and for the same reason.)
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To: randita

Animal Crackers
Casablanca
Horsefeathers
Night at the Opera
The Great Dictator
The Maltese Falcon


160 posted on 12/12/2009 4:39:07 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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