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Favourite Films from the 1930s,1940s,1950s
UEAAddick
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Following on from the Michael Caine thread the other day on his top 5 films. I'm sure this may have been done before, but what are people's favorite films from the three decades in question. Not necessarily one for each, but a top 5 of all.
For example, here would be mine.
1. Casablanca
2. Went The Day Well
3. Passport To Pimlico
4. A Canterbury Tale
5. I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
Just to say it's my favourite period of films, so could easily do a top 50.
For example, here would be mine.
1. Casablanca
2. Went The Day Well
3. Passport To Pimlico
4. A Canterbury Tale
5. I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
Just to say it's my favourite period of films, so could easily do a top 50.
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This is just as difficult as the music one, even the Michael Caine one.
So many films...2 -
Wizard of Oz.5
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Philadelphia Story - Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn
Holiday - Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn
Blockheads - Laurel and Hardy
The Thing from Another World
12 Angry Men - Henry Fonda1 -
Singing In The Rain. The scene where Gene Kelly performs the main song is one of my favourite moments of any film.2
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It’s a wonderful life & Twelve Angry Men .7
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The Big Sleep
Key Largo
Mildred Pierce
Sunset Boulevard
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Not in any particular order, and there are others that I'd probably include that I haven't rewatched lately so I don't know how well they'd stand up these days but the first 5 that spring to mind are:
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (famous for Alec Guinness playing multiple roles, but I have a soft spot for Dennis Price who plays the lead too)
- The Philadelphia Story (Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart, 3 of my favourites in the one film)
- Some Like It Hot (Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis on the run from the mob meet Marilyn Monroe)
- Witness For The Prosecution (Charles Laughton and Marlene Dietrich version)
- It Happened One Night (Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert on a road trip)
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This is my favourite era of movies. I could do a lot of honourable mentions as well.It's a Wonderful LifeNorth by NorthwestSeven SamuraiDouble IndemnityTokyo Story - really haunting, introspective, and makes you think about your own relationships with elderly family. Way ahead of its time too.3
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Gosh, memories. I’d definitely go along with Twelve Angry Men. But - at the time I remember Ivanhoe as being a favourite and White Christmas. All the Rodger’s and Hammersteins, carousel and Oklahoma etc. Any film with Alec Guinness. Just remembered African Queen.0
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Gotta have The Third Man5
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One of my favourites too. They've been playing it in a few cinemas lately.redlanered said:Gotta have The Third Man0 -
The Woman In The Window - 1944
The Lodger - 19440 -
The Music Box, 1932
Close the thread…..2 -
Mine have been said on here already......
The Philadelphia Story
Some Like It Hot
12 Angry Men
Casablanca
It's a Wonderful Life
And then a Brucie Bonus........
Dial M for Murder.2 -
i love all of the films mentioned so far and I could spend weeks on end watching films from this era! These are just a couple of my highlights:
Angels With Dirty Faces - James Cagney
African Queen - The great Bogart
The Band Wagon - Too many Fred Astaire films to chose from
The Dam Busters
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Another 5.
The Treasure of Sierra Madre
In Which We Serve
Bad Day at Black Rock
Rio Bravo
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp0 -
As others have said, so many great films, but my top one in that era is the 1951 version of "Scrooge/Christmas Carol". Wonderful film that I watch every Christmas. What a cast, and Alistair Sim made for the part. Merry Christmas everyone
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Some great films mentioned already.Must add the early Disney films from that era too, as they showed how far you could go with animation.4
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All subject to change tomorrow.
1935 Alfred Hitchcock’s enjoyable adventurous romp ‘The 39 Steps’.
1942 one of the absolute great films ‘Casablanca’.
1959 almost the very definition of an epic cinematic film ‘Ben Hur’.
1960 wanted at least one European film of the 60’s. So from a huge choice of great films the prison break out film ‘Le Trou’.
1972 the seventies were a decade where you could easily pick two dozen greats, like Godfather parts one and two, but this time I vote for ‘Deliverance’ because it is film making as neat and economical as Casablanca.
1984 ‘This is Spinal Tap’ one of the most perfect comedies in cinema.
1990 had to have a Mike Leigh film so the fantastic ‘Life is Sweet’ with a cast so awesome, acting at a phenomenal level.1 -
A Matter of Life and Death, and with that, we can shut the thread down3
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You missed out Carry on up the Khyber!?seth plum said:All subject to change tomorrow.
1935 Alfred Hitchcock’s enjoyable adventurous romp ‘The 39 Steps’.
1942 one of the absolute great films ‘Casablanca’.
1959 almost the very definition of an epic cinematic film ‘Ben Hur’.
1960 wanted at least one European film of the 60’s. So from a huge choice of great films the prison break out film ‘Le Trou’.
1972 the seventies were a decade where you could easily pick two dozen greats, like Godfather parts one and two, but this time I vote for ‘Deliverance’ because it is film making as neat and economical as Casablanca.
1984 ‘This is Spinal Tap’ one of the most perfect comedies in cinema.
1990 had to have a Mike Leigh film so the fantastic ‘Life is Sweet’ with a cast so awesome, acting at a phenomenal level.1 -
The cat and the canary - 19391
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The Ladykillers and The Titfield Thunderbolt3
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As others have mentioned, too many to choose from, but:
La Belle et La Bête - 1946
Hobson's Choice - 1954
The Lost Weekend - 1945
The Seven Samurai - 1954
The Seventh Seal - 1957
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Brief Encounter
The 400 Blows
Breathless (A Bout de Souffle)2 -
So many but…..
Casablanca
White Heat
The Searchers
The Apartment
Snow White and 71 -
Would add; "All Quiet on the Western Front" the original was brilliant3
