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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

—Lady for a Day (1933) **far superior to the Glen Ford remake of 1961. Warren William was great. His Perry Mason movies of the 30s were cool.
—My Man Godfrey (1936)
—Double Harness (1933)
—Murder, My Sweet (1944)
—Ninotchka (1939) Melvin Douglas and Garbo - nice combination
—Comrade X (1940)
—It Happened One Night (1934)

Thank goodness for Turner Classic Movies!!


161 posted on 12/12/2009 4:41:01 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: randita

162 posted on 12/12/2009 4:41:16 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Harold Shea

Another good film with Claudette Colbert is the story of the confinement of Agnes Newton Keith in a WWII Japanese prison camp entitled “Three Came Home” based on her book. 1950


163 posted on 12/12/2009 4:41:46 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

Casablanca, 1942

The Big Sleep, 1946
The Maltese Falcon, 1941
The Philadelphia Story, 1940
The Petrified Forest, 1936

Stagecoach, 1939
White Heat, 1949
Sahara, 1943
The Thin Man, 1934

Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939
The Sands of Iwo Jima, 1949
Gilda, 1946
Cat People, 1942

I could go on and on...


164 posted on 12/12/2009 4:46:36 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Depression Countdown: 48... 47... 46...)
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To: joeystoy
How is it that so many more great movies were made prior to 1950 than after? Is it just me?

Because TV was starting to ruin movies. Before TV, all of the talent and money went into movies. As TV grew, things got dispersed.

165 posted on 12/12/2009 4:52:01 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Depression Countdown: 48... 47... 46...)
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To: Political Junkie Too
Angel on my Shoulder

That's a great one. You can watch the entire movie (among others) here:

166 posted on 12/12/2009 4:55:55 PM PST by Roscoe Karns
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To: randita

They just don’t make movies like them anymore. I am so thankful that I have AMC, TMC, and Fox movies. Usually I can find a good one on!


167 posted on 12/12/2009 5:01:13 PM PST by longhorn too
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To: buccaneer81

Days of Wine and Roses was one of the most difficult films to watch I’ve ever scene. Just heartbreaking.


168 posted on 12/12/2009 5:06:34 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Depression Countdown: 48... 47... 46...)
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To: randita

White Zombie 1932
Waterloo Bridge 1931
Cat People 1942
The Old Dark House 1932
Tarzan the Ape Man 1932
Hell’s Angels 1930
The Vanishing American 1925
Nosferatu 1922
Dracula 1931
Frankenstein 1931
Maciste in Hell 1925
Faust 1926


169 posted on 12/12/2009 5:09:49 PM PST by ansel12 (Traitor Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative warrior.)
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To: randita
I like early Hitchcock.

My favorites are "The 39 Steps" (Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll are both brilliant) and "The Lady Vanishes" (possibly the most perfect balance between comedy, romance and suspense Hitchcock ever achieved).

170 posted on 12/12/2009 5:15:32 PM PST by Stultis (Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia; Democrats always opposed waterboarding as torture)
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To: randita

A great film that is superior to “The Grapes of Wrath” is “The Southerner” 1945.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038107/


171 posted on 12/12/2009 5:18:09 PM PST by ansel12 (Traitor Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative warrior.)
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To: Illinois is a Red State

Ooops. I duped you. But added one. (See above.)


172 posted on 12/12/2009 5:19:40 PM PST by Stultis (Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia; Democrats always opposed waterboarding as torture)
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To: goat granny

Hey gg, how about “Carson City Kid”,1945, thats just 64 years ago? :)


173 posted on 12/12/2009 5:21:32 PM PST by Redhd2
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To: randita

All the Shirley Temple movies.


174 posted on 12/12/2009 5:34:19 PM PST by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: Apple Blossom

The movie It Happened One Night is on Utube

All of it

Enjoy all who have never seen it


175 posted on 12/12/2009 5:37:25 PM PST by Harold Shea (RVN `70 - `71)
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To: Wisconsinlady
Imitation of Life 1934-I cried my eyes out when Delilah died.

_____________________________________________

Go ahead, ruin it for everybody...

176 posted on 12/12/2009 5:43:09 PM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: Redhd2
I saw them all when just a wee one, but don't remember the names of any of them....If Roy or Gene was in it, it was my favorite...(.No need to get nasty and bring up age, you ageist you.)..Then there was Hopalong Cassidy, Hoot Gibson and Gabby Hayes....

64 is still just a babe in arms....yikes, I am old..

177 posted on 12/12/2009 5:54:28 PM PST by goat granny
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To: wtc911
Go ahead, ruin it for everybody...

I know what you mean. I was standing in line for Titanic when some pooper mentioned that the ship sinks...

178 posted on 12/12/2009 6:00:07 PM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
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To: Migraine

aw man...another one ruined.


179 posted on 12/12/2009 6:01:18 PM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: randita

Potemkin is one of those movies that was influential and left a lasting stamp on every film that came after—but the film itself is rather dull, IMO. I believe Kubrick also felt that Eisenstein lacked substance, so I’m not alone.


180 posted on 12/12/2009 6:10:15 PM PST by LifeComesFirst (http://rw-rebirth.blogspot.com/)
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