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!
I loved A & C in “Keep “Em Flying”, with Martha Raye. It was basically a war propaganda film, but really enjoyable.
42nd Street
Enchanted Cottage
Fantasia
Snow White
Bambi
Wow, those sure bring back some good memories! All favorites of mine. Sure miss the old musicals. Don't even see them on TV anymore.
That’s mid-Hitchcock. :-) Early Hitchcock would be silent, and those are hard to find good DVDs of.
You can watch it here: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The heck with the movie, I liked the 10 cartoons before the movie. The serials were good too.
You can watch it here: LAURA
The Heiress
The Picture of Dorian Grey ( the original not the remake).
Baby Doll? Directed by Elia Kazan and starring Karl “Ugly” Malden?
Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holmes, in a British tv series from the 80s and 90s. It is one of the most authentic historical depictions you’ll ever see, you’d think they sent a camera crew back in time to turn-of-the-century London.
No, this guy was a Cary Grant kind of character. Mom was a broad shouldered type, and the daughter was a slim blond.
There was a TV show based on the movie, but the movie was fantastic. Very romantic.
at the end of the film we discover mom is dying.
..the name of the movie was “The Music Box” made in 1933...*smiles*
Oh that's right! I seem to remember seeing that listed, but didn't watch it. Nothing could be as good as the original movie.
Arsenic and Old Lace.
One Night in the Tropics
Buck Privates
In the Navy
Hold That Ghost
Keep 'em Flying
Ride 'em Cowboy
Pardon My Sarong
Who Done It?
The only clinker was Pardon My Sarong. After these were finished two things happened that killed the force of nature that was Lou Costello...he almost died from rheumatic fever and his two year old drowned in the backyard pool.
After this Lou was just going through the motions, you could see it. Another killer was some Studio Exec decided that Lou was too grown-up. In the first few movies he smokes cigars, is a con-artist and a bit of a skirt chaser. none of that appears after In the Navy and by the time they were doing their A&C Meet the monsters flicks they had reduced Costello to an idiot.
The first eight are available in a DVD set. My grandson (8) and I have watched them all over and over again in the past three years. He has his favorites and I have mine but we just don't get tired of the really good ones.
Nearly half the movies made before 1939 are lost forever. The actual film stock (the masters) was burned to create the Atlanta burning scene in GWTW. God alone knows what great movies were destroyed, never to be seen again.
Gone with the Wind
Wizard of Oz
Life with Father
Cowboy and the Lady
Bringing Up Baby
Dear Ruth
Suspicion
The Bishop’s Wife
Arsenic and Old Lace
I also love Houseboat and Toy Tiger but they were made after 1950.
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