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!
Also, for the less critically acclaimed type movies:
The Wolf Man - 1941
Destry Rides Again - 1939
I’m also a fan of some of the old gangster movies, but haven’t seen them in years.
Gable & Claudette Colbert actually. Seen it at least 5 times.
Loved Shane and Winchester `73 too.
But then anything with James Stewart in it is pure gold.
James Stewart, a great American, on and off the screen.
Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, and Van Heflin were great in Shane.
For my money, Van Heflin is one of the greatest (and most underrated acoters) of that era.
Wizard of Oz, 1939.
"My Man Godfrey" (1936) with William Powell and Carole Lombard.
"Swing Time" (1936) with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
"Bachelor Mother" (1939) with Ginger Rogers (again) and David Niven (again).
"Ninotchka" (1939) with Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas.
"Ruggles of Red Gap" (1936) with Charles Laughton.
"The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938) with Errol Flynn and Olivia DeHavilland.
Just to name a few!
A Night at the Opera: 1936
How could I have forgotten that one? Probably one of my top 5 all-time favorites!
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I’m not an ‘old timer’, but I love old movies. They just don’t make wonderful old movies like they did back then.
May I suggest these wonderful Christmas movies:
It’s a Wonderful Life
White Christmas
The Bishop’s Wife
Christmas in Conneticut
Holiday Inn
Miracle on 34th Street (1947 version)
And the ‘not so old’
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
.
A few of my favorite old non-Christmas movies:
(Girls, you can’t go wrong with any Betty Davis, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland or Greer Garson movie)
Rebecca
Casa Blanca
Random Harvest
Meet Me In St Louis
Now Voyager
Mildred Pierce
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Sunset Blvd
Strangers on a Train
A Streetcar Named Desire
Mrs. Parkington
Mrs Minniver
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
The Old Maid
Dark Victory
Jezebel
The Little Foxes
In This Our Life
Mr. Skeffington
A Stolen Life
All About Eve
And the old ‘not so old’ movies:
Rosemary’s Baby
Jaws
E.T.
.
1933
Been a long time since I saw Gold Rush,that was an amazing
movie,no screen tricks back then
Loved Leslie Howards portrayal of the Pumpernickle
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is He in heaven...is he in Hell
That damned elusive Pimpernel
Excellent cast.
All great actors.
Raymond Massey, what a great actor. There really was no one like him.
Foreign Correspondent
The Big Sleep
The Thin Man
My Man Godfrey
Bringing Up Baby
You Can’t Take It With You
Sullivan’s Travels
(Almost anything by Hitchcock, Hawks, Capra, and Sturges from that period)
M’Lord, a fascinating poem, on my honour!
:-)
Are you kidding? How could I have forgotten My Man Godfrey, His Girl Friday, The Palm Beach Story, How Green Was My Valley, Stagecoach, Freaks, Captain Blood, Rebecca, The 39 Steps, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Lady Vanishes........
I hate to sound like an old fossil, but they just don’t make ‘em like that anymore.
1956.
Not quite a “Civil War Centennial”.
yes with Casablanca and King Kong both are in my top 20
I loathe Gone with the Wind...just hate it...
I am in my 60’s but my favorite movies are all from the 70’s or later
here in no particular order
1 flew over the cuckoo’s nest....
Tombstone,
the Shootist,
Unforgiven,
the Godfather (1 & 2)
Goodfellas..
Young Frankenstein.
I was minus one in 1950. The kid's show that I remember best is "Sheriff John's Lunch Brigade," which was broadcast on weekdays over KTTV in Los Angeles. Most Baby Boomers who grew up in the Southland in the 1950's ought to remember his theme song, The Birthday Cake Polka.
Musicals:
Meet Me In St. Louis, The Harvey Girls, State Fair
Busby Berkeley musicals
Fred and Ginger. Fred and Rita.
The Marx Brothers
The Thin Man series
Hope and Crosby’s Road series
Shirley Temple
All WW2 movies
Bios of scientists:
Story of Louis Pasteur (37)
Young Tom Edison and Edison The Man (40)
Madame Curie
Dr. Erlich’s Magic Bullet
Hitchcock’s Notorious (Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant -’46)
The Thief of Bagdad (40)
The Sea Hawk (40)
Hunchback of Notre Dame (39)
How Green Was My Valley (41)
Red River (48)
Open City (45)
Anything with Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Jimmy Cagney, Cary Grant.
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