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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: Stultis
In re The 39 Steps.

Years ago I bought a commercial VHS of this movie, and found the quality of the sound track distractingly bad. I wonder if newer releases have located a better sound track.

There wre two remakes; I saw the 1978 version with Robert Powell and David Warner and thought it was pretty good (for not being Hitchcock, that is).

241 posted on 12/12/2009 10:12:06 PM PST by Erasmus (Sid's oxymorons: Postmodern Intellectualism.)
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To: Erasmus

Nevsky is available on veoh.com, but you have to download their Web Player.


242 posted on 12/12/2009 10:13:08 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: mupcat

I’m with you....Laura. I can hear that music right now!


243 posted on 12/12/2009 10:14:52 PM PST by CAluvdubya (Palin 2012...YOU BETCHA!.)
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To: randita
I'll add:

The Postman Always Rings Twice. Directed by Tay Garnett. With Lana Turner and John Garfield. 1947.

I wanted to add that The Desk Set withe Hepburn and Tracy was cute but then I found that it was made in '57.

244 posted on 12/12/2009 10:40:55 PM PST by CAluvdubya (Palin 2012...YOU BETCHA!.)
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To: murphE
His Girl Friday with Roz Russell. Directed by Howard Hawks.
245 posted on 12/12/2009 10:45:00 PM PST by Erasmus (Sid's oxymorons: Postmodern Intellectualism.)
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To: randita

Nope, haven’t seen it.


246 posted on 12/12/2009 11:35:11 PM PST by LifeComesFirst (http://rw-rebirth.blogspot.com/)
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To: Erasmus

The OP said I could include movies with a release year of 1950, so thbbbbbbbtttttt!!!!!!!


247 posted on 12/12/2009 11:36:56 PM PST by LifeComesFirst (http://rw-rebirth.blogspot.com/)
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To: Chickensoup

Doesn’t sound like Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. What about this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035742/


248 posted on 12/12/2009 11:48:15 PM PST by LifeComesFirst (http://rw-rebirth.blogspot.com/)
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To: wtc911

You said, “darn near any film made before 1950 is better than any film made after 1960.”

Well, I beg to differ!

1960s

The Magnificent Seven
Spartacus
The Time Machine
Breakfast at Tiffanies
Lawrence of Arabia

The Manchurian Candidate
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Escape
Dr. Strangelove
Mary Poppins

My Fair Lady
The Pink Panther
The Blue Max
Zulu
The Sound of Music

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Russians are Coming!
Cool Hand Luke
The Graduate
In the Heat of the Night

Once Upon a Time in the West
Planet of the Apes
2001 Space Odyssey
The Wild Bunch

1970s

Five Easy Pieces
MASH
Patton
Catch 22
Dirty Harry

The French Connection
Fiddler on the Roof
Harold and Maude
The Candidate
Deliverance

The Godfather
American Graffiti
The Paper Chase
The Sting
Chinatown

The Three Musketeers
Young Frankenstein
Jaws
The Man Who Would Be King
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Nashville
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Network
Rocky
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Star Wars
Smokey and the Bandit
The Deer Hunter
Being There
All That Jazz

LeMans
Animal House
Kelly’s Heroes

1980s

Raging Bull
The Shining
Mad Max
Gallipoli
Indy Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark

Blade Runner
ET
Poltergeist
The Verdict
Mr. Mom

The Right Stuff
Scarface
Amadeus
Romancing the Stone
The Terminator

Back to the Future
The Breakfast Club
Witness
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Platoon

Full Metal Jacket
Good Morning, Vietnam!!!
Lethal Weapon
The Untouchables
Wall Street

Big
Bull Durham
Diehard
Batman
Biloxi Blues

Weekend at Bernie’s
Glory
Major League
Breaker Morant

The ‘90s start getting a little thin, and maybe this is why it seems to so many of us that “they don’t make them like they used to”.

1990s

The Hunt for Red October
City Slickers
My Cousin Vinny
Oscar
Unforgiven

Four Weddings and a Funeral
Patriot Games
The Fugitive
The Firm
Honeymoon in Vegas

Groundhog Day
Reservoir Dogs
Jurassic Park
Schindler’s List
Forrest Gump

Leon, the Professional
Quiz Show
Apollo 13
Braveheart
Heat

Seven
12 Monkeys
Fargo
LA Confidential
Pleasantville

Saving Private Ryan
The Truman Show
American Beauty
Three Kings
Boondog Saints

Ransom
Ronin

I will leave it to others to defend the 2000s. LOTR, Cast Away, Black Hawk Down and a few others shine, otherwise, my list is pretty short.

No, I can think of a bunch of great modern movies. We are not talking just a movie or two here. And I haven’t even included a huge lot of great 50s movies like Ben Hur, Singing in the Rain, North by Northwest, African Queen, Shane, on and on.

Movies today are pretty rotten. They seem to be all action with terrible writing, no plot and caricatures rather than characters. But there were some fabulous movies made right through to the turn of the century.


249 posted on 12/13/2009 3:25:30 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Depression Countdown: 48... 47... 46...)
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To: Doogle
1933

Same year as the Our Gang short "The Kid from Borneo"

250 posted on 12/13/2009 3:58:51 AM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
Thank goodness for Turner Classic Movies!!

Probably the best thing Ted Turner has done in the media, at least for viewers.

251 posted on 12/13/2009 4:24:48 AM PST by ReleaseTheHounds ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: LifeComesFirst
"I can’t imagine A Clockwork Orange, 8 1/2, Eraserhead, Brazil, or Fargo made in the thirties or forties.

Very true, but I also can't (with the exception of A Clockwork Orange) put them in the same category. I saw Eraserhead at a midnight show at the Waverly many, many years ago then again last week. Pretty ridiculous.

You're right that there have been plenty of great movies made post 1950 it's just that the sheer volume of films coming out of Hollywood prior to TV and the breakup of the studio system made it statistically inevitable that there would be so many more great ones made. It's probably true that there were many more stinkers as well.

252 posted on 12/13/2009 4:26:28 AM PST by joeystoy
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked

All Quiet on the Western Front is available on Netflix.


253 posted on 12/13/2009 4:31:13 AM PST by joeystoy
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To: BIGLOOK
I seriously doubt that I'll see the latest Sherlock Holmes movie. Somehow Robt Downey jr doesn't fit the bill.

I actually think Downey will be a decent Holmes but I hate to see Holmes turned into a "super-powers Spiderman" clown. His genius was his genius -- his deductive powers, not the gimmickery (sp?) today's computer technology can provide. I did like the version of "Young Sherlock Holmes" -- I felt that was a nice blending of the original spirit of Sherlock Holmes with an updated "story."

254 posted on 12/13/2009 4:32:11 AM PST by ReleaseTheHounds ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: unkus
"1939 was probably the best year for so many excellent movies."

Without a doubt!

255 posted on 12/13/2009 4:37:01 AM PST by joeystoy
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To: randita

Life with Father
The Thin Man
Battleground
Maltese Falcon.


256 posted on 12/13/2009 7:03:12 AM PST by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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bfl


257 posted on 12/13/2009 9:54:35 AM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: randita
1936, The Story of Louis Pasteur-Paul Muni

1939, Juarez-Paul Muni

Most of Bogart's movies i.e. Treasure of Sierra Madre, Casablanca. In general, special effects are better today, but the acting and plots stink compared with yesterday. The movies have become "preachie!"

258 posted on 12/13/2009 10:09:23 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: ThomasThomas

The sound track would sometimes get out of “sync” with the visual, creating tons of mirth among the kids in the audience.


259 posted on 12/13/2009 10:12:37 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Erasmus
In re The 39 Steps.

Years ago I bought a commercial VHS of this movie, and found the quality of the sound track distractingly bad. I wonder if newer releases have located a better sound track.

The Criterion Collection released an optimal transfer, digitally restored version some years ago. It's pricey, but far better than any other version I've seen. (Although I do have an el cheapo LaserLight verions -- part of a discontinued set -- that is watchable):


260 posted on 12/13/2009 10:20:03 AM PST by Stultis (Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia; Democrats always opposed waterboarding as torture)
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