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What Are Your Favorite Movies Made Before 1950?
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| Randita
Posted on 12/12/2009 2:22:11 PM PST by randita
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To: randita
Lost Horizon
One of these days I’m going to have to sit down and watch Casablanca.
To: joeystoy
It’s true...when you look at the acting ability and flexibility of the actors of the Golden Age, and the wonderful stories, and great screenwriting...you just have to feel that much has been lost.
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posted on
12/12/2009 3:05:23 PM PST
by
B Knotts
(Calvin Coolidge Republican)
To: randita
Rachel and the Stranger
Shadow of a Doubt
Pride and Prejudice
Gaslight
Captain Blood
Northwest Passage
Four Daughters
Holiday
The Human Comedy
Desperated Journey
State Fair
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posted on
12/12/2009 3:05:40 PM PST
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: randita
The Treasure of Sierra Madre
Seargent York
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posted on
12/12/2009 3:06:56 PM PST
by
chasio649
( Palin 2012...'nuff said!)
To: randita
I can't believe no one has mentioned Harvey (or did I miss it?)
Love Afair
The Women
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posted on
12/12/2009 3:06:58 PM PST
by
YHAOS
To: moehoward
I was one who did not watch it for many years, thinking it overrated.
Finally, I watched it, and was somewhat surprised to find that it is a great movie, and is now one of my favorites.
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posted on
12/12/2009 3:07:05 PM PST
by
B Knotts
(Calvin Coolidge Republican)
To: randita
Roaring Twenties (1939)
Out Of The Past (1947)
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Double Indemnity (1944)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
The Third Man (1949)
Flying Down to Rio (1933)
The Killing and Kiss Me Deadly (early fifties -but two great movies)
There are so many... I would also add anything with Charles Laughton. He was great.
To: All
Further Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)
The Egg and I featuring Ma and Pa Kettle (1948)
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posted on
12/12/2009 3:07:50 PM PST
by
ClarenceThomasfan
(President Bush will go down as one of our greatest presidents (next to Ronald Reagan))
To: randita
The Kid, 1921
Our Hospitality, 1923
Sherlock Junior, 1924
The Big Parade, 1925
Gold Rush, 1925
The General, 1927
College, 1927
The Circus, 1928
Steamboat Bill, Jr., 1928
The Cameraman, 1928
The Crowd, 1928
City Lights, 1931
The 39 Steps, 1935
Modern Times, 1936
The Lady Vanishes, 1938
Stagecoach, 1939
The Grapes of Wrath, 1940
The Great Dictator, 1940
The Shop Around the Corner, 1940
Citizen Kane, 1941
Maltese Falcon, 1941
The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942
How Green Was My Valley, 1942
Shadow of a Doubt, 1943
Casablanca, 1943 (IMSMR)
Double Indemnity, 1944
Lost Weekend, 1945
The Stranger, 1946
Beauty and the Beast, 1946
The Lady From Shanghai, 1947
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948
Rope, 1948
The Bicycle Thieves, 1948
The Third Man, 1949
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 1949
Sunset Boulevard, 1950
The Flowers of St. Francis, 1950
And I was born in 1982.
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posted on
12/12/2009 3:08:56 PM PST
by
LifeComesFirst
(http://rw-rebirth.blogspot.com/)
To: joeystoy
All Quiet on the Western Front: 1931
My grandfather played a German officer in that movie. I am ashamed to say that I have never seen it. I really need to buy it.
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posted on
12/12/2009 3:09:55 PM PST
by
notpoliticallycorewrecked
(According to the MSM, I'm a fringe sitting, pajama wearing Freeper)
To: B Knotts
I’m glad someone posted a marxbros film. I’d also add WC Fields’s “Never Give a Sucker an Even Break”.
Some great Silents:
The Phantom of the Opera
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Metropolis
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posted on
12/12/2009 3:11:03 PM PST
by
stop_fascism
(Georgism is Capitalism's best, last hope)
To: NativeTxn
It qualifies in the 1950s category and is on my list of favorites, too.
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posted on
12/12/2009 3:12:16 PM PST
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: patriot08
”
Betty Davis, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland or Greer Garson movie” For my money, Betty Davis is the greatest female actor that ever lived.
“Meet Me In St Louis”
Clang, clang, clang went the trolley. Ding, ding, ding went the bell. ...
“Sunset Blvd”
I *am* big. It's the *pictures* that got small.
To: randita
Rebecca - 1940, although the book is better.
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posted on
12/12/2009 3:12:51 PM PST
by
Jean S
To: B Knotts
Destry Rides Again is a great movie
Dead End Bogie plays a bad guy.
Dodge City Errol Flynn one of the coolest guys to ever live.
Angels with Dirty Faces Bogie again as the bad guy and Jimmy Cagney taking a big chance "turning yellow"
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posted on
12/12/2009 3:13:11 PM PST
by
Krankor
To: SmokingJoe
Speaking of Raymond Massey, he was great as a relentless Nazi officer chasing downed allied airmen
Ronald Reagan and Errol Flynn across Germany.
Desperate Journey (1942), though a bit corny and unbelievable by today's standards, was a great and entertaining propaganda flick which kept me up 'til the wee hours on a school night back in 1962 when I first saw it on TV.
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posted on
12/12/2009 3:13:56 PM PST
by
Zman516
(socialists & muslims -- satan's useful idiots. (Zero = U.I. #1))
To: randita
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
A Lady Takes a Chance
The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
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posted on
12/12/2009 3:14:35 PM PST
by
My hearts in London - Everett
(So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.)
To: SmokingJoe
Can you tell it's my all-time favorite? LOL
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posted on
12/12/2009 3:14:53 PM PST
by
6323cd
(I Am Jim Thompson)
To: stop_fascism
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posted on
12/12/2009 3:15:11 PM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: stop_fascism
Yep. One point of clarification: I think Night at the Opera might have been in 1935, lest anyone point that out.
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posted on
12/12/2009 3:15:15 PM PST
by
B Knotts
(Calvin Coolidge Republican)
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