What Are Your Favorite Movies Made Before 1950?

Free Republic ^ | 12/12/09 | Randita

[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!

[randita]

Here are a few obvious ones to get the topic started:

King Kong - 1933
It Happened One Night, 1934
Gone With The Wind, 1939
Casablanca, 1942
Gaslight, 1944

Have at it!

[stylecouncilor]

Best Years of Our Lives, 1946

[lonestar]

GWTW-—of course!

[Cricket24]

I love...”I remember Mama” with Barbara Bel Geddes. Not sure if that’s spelled correctly and there were quite a few stars in it. Barabara Bel Geddes grew up to play the mom in the tv show Dallas! I haven’t seen it in a long time but would love to see it again!

[karatemom]

I did enjoy “Double Indeminity”. 1944

[mupcat]

Yikes! Looks like I’m the only one so far brave enough to answer. Not that I saw it when it came out——too young, but my favorite was Laura—1944

[Berlin_Freeper]

Little Caesar - The End of Rico

[karatemom]

That one was good. I remember, in the days before cable, old movies would be played late at night. I watched ‘Mr. Blandings builds his dream house”, and enjoyed it. I am thankful, looking back, that I didn’t have a choice of ten thousand different channels because I would have skipped right past them.

[Tolsti2]

Citizen Kane

[randita]

Some old movies and old TV series (like the 1970 PBS Wives of Henry VIII) have been broken up into 10 min. segments and put up on youtube. I’m watching Elizabeth R (Glenda Jackson) right now in youtube clips - a few each day. I read that I, Claudius is also up on youtube.

So check for I Remember Mama.

[HangnJudge]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/
The Wizard of Oz - 1939

[paddles]

Twelve O’clock High, 1949

[Sawdring]

Sunrise, A Song of Two 1927

Safety Last 1923

Broken Blossoms 1919

[buccaneer81]

King's Row, 1942

It's a Wonderful Life, 1946

The Grapes of Wrath, 1940

Mutiny on The Bounty, 1935

Nosferatu, 1922

[redhead]

Gone With The Wind

Wizard Of Oz

it's a Wonderful Life

Miracle on 34th St.

[ErnBatavia]

A Walk in the Sun - 1945

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Walk_in_the_Sun

[GinaLolaB]

Any thing with Jimmy Cagney, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, or Humphrey Bogart.

"Maltese Falcon"

"The Big Sleep"

"The Wizard of Oz"

"Gone with the Wind"

[Wisconsinlady]

Imitation of Life 1934-I cried my eyes out when Delilah died.

[redhead]

Oops. Left out anything with a screenplay written by Otis Kribblecobblis.

[Ax]

"Mrs. Miniver."

"She Wore a Yellow Ribbon."

"They Were Expendable."

"The Fighting 69th."

[Fresh Wind]

Miracle on 34th Street

[NativeTxn]

I’m not sure of the year but I loved Friendly Persuasion!

[USMCWife6869]

All About Eve was 1950. Can I post that one?

[ScaniaBoy]

There are so many, but here are some (in chronological order):

The Gold Rush (1925)

Scarlet Pimpernel (1935)

Bringin up Baby (1938)

Pimpernel Smith (1941)

To be or not to be (1942)

Casablanca (1942)

Adam’s Rib (1949)

....and many, many more

[GinaLolaB]

“Bad Day at Blackrock”

[randita]

Yes, you may. (Psst - another favorite of mine is The African Queen but it is 1951 - don’t tell anybody.)

[B Knotts]

Maltese Falcon - 1941
Casablanca - 1942
Key Largo - 1948

[buccaneer81]

“Bad Day at Blackrock”

Great movie, but made in 1955.

[Illinois is a Red State]

The 39 Steps... great movie, with a very satisfying ending!

[Harold Shea]

Shane
Stagecoach
Winchester `73

I like westerns

It Happened One Night is my moms favorite movie,Gable & Lombard, great movie

[Marine Inspector]

Casablanca, 1942

Still my all time favorite movie!

[sushiman]

Brief Encounter ; Gaslight ; Mr. Smith Goes To Washington ; You Can’t Take it With You ; It Happened One Night .

[buccaneer81]

Shane is from 1953 and Winchester 73 is from 1950.

[randita]

Anyone see Battleship Potemkin? 1925. Now that is a trip. Netflix has it.

[bobby.223]

great ones!! also, thank you for your service.

[ThomasThomas]

They had movies before 1950? With sound?

[decimon]

Ninotchka, 1939.

A must-see for conservatives and libertarians.

[BlueStateBlues]

Just to think offhand,
“Holiday” (’37?)
“The Wind” (Lillian Gish’s amazing performance)
“The Passion of Jeanne d’Arc”
“The ‘It’ Girl” (don’t know if that was it’s name)
“Rules of the Game”,
and many more, I’ve seldom listed favorites, there are so many. Citizen Kane was my favorite before Holiday, and who can forget The Third Man? Will stop now, too many.

[Fresh Wind]

Three of the best ever. Funny, they all seem to have something in common...

[onyx]

Going My Way - 1944

The Bells of St. Mary’s - 1945

[Doogle]

Top of The World cagney 1949

[Tuxedo]

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - 1949
Top Hat - 1935
The Big Sleep - 1946
Key Largo - 1948
Sands of Iwo Jima - 1949

[BuckeyeTexan]

Gone With The Wind - 1939

[BlueStateBlues]

You’re right, of course, “You Can’t Take It With You”.

[goat granny]

Before 1950, anything with Roy Rogers and Gene Autry..Only went to Saturday matinees

[BlueStateBlues]

That’s what Obama would say, “I’m on top of the world, Ma” on about November 1st, 2012

[WestwardHo]

I was 2 in 1950. Anyone remember the kids tv show in the early ‘50s, “Ding Dong School Bell”? I loved that show.

[MrEdd]

Brother Orchid ~ 1940
To Have And Have Not ~ 1946

[Jemian]

Holiday Inn

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Peter Marshall

[Migraine]

Broadway Melody (1929)
Wizard of Oz (1939)
Dark Passage 1947
High Sierra 1941
Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942