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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: delacoert
I found one last movie to add to my list:

I Know Where I'm Going! (1949)

Two of my top favorite movies are:

  1. I Know Where I'm Going! (1949)
  2. A Canterbury Tale (1949)

Both films are co-directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and are their only collaborations with cinematographer Erwin Hillier.

 

281 posted on 12/13/2009 9:16:20 PM PST by delacoert
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

FYI, Ninotchka is going to show on TCM 12/22.

Record it if you haven’t seen it.


282 posted on 12/13/2009 9:26:39 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: joeystoy

If you look only at American films, sure, but there was an explosion in worldwide cinema during the post-war years. Italy, Japan, Russia, Australia, France, etc.

And you either “get” Eraserhead or you don’t, same goes for all of Lynch’s films. I didn’t know what to make of it at first, but on reflection I consider it a masterpiece.


283 posted on 12/13/2009 10:14:33 PM PST by LifeComesFirst (http://rw-rebirth.blogspot.com/)
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To: joeystoy

Maybe you have to be of my generation to appreciate this, but I find 1985 and 1998 to be fantastic years for movies as well.


284 posted on 12/13/2009 10:20:26 PM PST by LifeComesFirst (http://rw-rebirth.blogspot.com/)
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To: LifeComesFirst
Dodsworth (Walter Huston)
These Three (Joel McCrea, Merle Oberon)
To Each His Own (Olivia DeHavilland)
Primrose Path (Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea)
Now, Voyager (Bette Davis)
Jane Eyre (Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles)
Wuthering Heights (Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon)
285 posted on 12/13/2009 10:56:05 PM PST by Shethink13
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To: randita

I only checked the first page, lots of good movies!

here’s one I didnt see on page one:

D.O.A.


286 posted on 12/14/2009 2:14:00 AM PST by RaceBannon (OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE IS SHOVEL READY...FOR SENIORS!!:: NObama. Not my president.)
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To: randita

Wizard of Oz and It’s a wonderful life.


287 posted on 12/14/2009 8:38:08 AM PST by luckystarmom
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To: randita; delacoert

This is too hard. I absolutely love movies made before 1950 ( and some made in the 50s and 60s as well). I will include a few titles

Good Bye Mr Chips
Harvey
DOA
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Beau Geste

But you know I would watch ANYTHING with Kate Hepburn,Bette Davis,Robert Donat, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Barbara Stanwick, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet ...I give up too many to name.

It would be easier to movies I didn’t like pre-1950


288 posted on 12/14/2009 9:51:47 AM PST by the long march
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To: the long march

Made in ‘54 but - On the Waterfront

“I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let’s face it.”


289 posted on 12/14/2009 9:56:27 AM PST by JerseyDvl (Dedicated Palinista who is suffering from an extreme case of Baracknaphobia. Severe reaction to BS!)
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To: randita

BFL...


290 posted on 12/14/2009 10:07:57 AM PST by NELSON111
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To: randita

Besides some of the standards (Casablanca, Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, GWTW, It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Miracle on 34th Street), I like the Thin Man, the Oxbow Incident, and the Mutiny on the Bounty.

There was something magical in the interaction between William Powell and Myrna Loy in all the Thin Man movies. In the Oxbow Incident, Henry Fonda and Harry Morgan were just excellent as the drifting cowboys who found themselves riding in the posse/lynch mob. Charles Laughlin was masterful as Captain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty.


291 posted on 12/16/2009 11:03:46 AM PST by CommerceComet
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To: randita; delacoert

White Christmas ‘42

Adam’s Rib ‘49

Roman Holiday (cheated, not pre ‘50)


292 posted on 12/17/2009 5:44:49 PM PST by genetic homophobe (They hate Sarah because she lovingly carries a failed abortion on her hip.)
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To: randita
Wings - 1927
The Maltese Falcon - 1931
Love is a Racket - 1932
The Gay Divorcee - 1934
Merrily We Live - 1938
The Maltese Falcon - 1941
Casablanca - 1942
The Big Sleep - 1946

Turner Classic Movies is my friend.

293 posted on 12/19/2009 3:19:04 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: randita

Casablanca is my favorite.


294 posted on 12/27/2009 12:23:17 PM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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