Favorite Films From 30s,40s,50s

[O Fenômeno]

1.Angels With Dirty Faces
2.Little Ceasar
3.White Heat
4.Maltese Falcon
5.On the Waterfront



As you can see im mostly a film noir fan...the marlon brando's line in On The Waterfront is one of the greatest IMO.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prXXOxCPNek

[riverplate]

God, there are almost too many to bring up.

I don't knock noir, but I consider it a genre which is no more valid than any other. And I think of it as an extension of the gangster/detective genre, anyway--not the other way around.

I'll post about favorites of mine from various eras and genres sometime today.

[riverplate]

To me, the 30s are primarily about the horror pictures of the era. Mainly, but not exclusively, the ones from Universal.

Recommendations (listed according to release date):

1931-
Dracula (Bela Lugosi)
Frankenstein (Boris Karloff)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Fredric March)
1932-
Freaks (Tod Browning)
The Most Dangerous Game
The Mask of Fu Manchu (Boris Karloff)
The Mummy (Boris Karloff)
1933-
Island of Lost Souls (Charles Laughton)
King Kong
The Invisible Man (Claude Rains)
1934-
Death Takes a Holiday (Fredric March)
The Black Cat (Karloff/Lugosi)
1935-
Werewolf of London
Bride of Frankenstein
The Raven (Karloff/Lugosi)
Mad Love (Peter Lorre)

Things tend to peter out in the last half of the decade and there are a few films just edged out because I didn't want to start an endless list--almost everything produced in 1932 is really worth seeing, for instance. But every one of these films are terrific and a fine start for anyone looking for a traditional horror education.

(Yes, I know, some aren't exactly "horror." But I feel they are aimed at the same audience. Which means: Yours truly.)

[Soccernova78]

the marlon brando's line in On The Waterfront is one of the greatest IMO.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prXXOxCPNek

One of my all time favorite scenes in movie history.

[Via_Chicago]

Favorite films, by year:

1930:

Earth (Dovzhenko)

1931:

M (Lang)

1932:

Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch)

1933:

Man's Castle (Borzage)

1934:

L'Atalante (Vigo)

1935:

Bride of Frankenstein (Whale)

1936:

Rose Hobart (Cornell)

1937:

The Awful Truth (McCarey)

1938:

Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein)

1939:

The Rules of the Game (Renoir)

1940:

His Girl Friday (Hawks)

1941:

The Lady Eve (Sturges)

1942:

The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles)

1943:

Day of Wrath (Dreyer)

1944:

Laura (Preminger)

1945:

Mildred Pierce (Curtiz)

1946:

My Darling Clementine (Ford)

1947:

Out of the Past (Tourneur)

1948:

Letter From an Unknown Woman (Ophuls)

1949:

Le Silence de la Mer (Melville)

1950:

In a Lonely Place (Ray)

1951:

Ace in the Hole (Wilder)

1952:

Park Row (Fuller)

1953:

Ugetsu (Mizoguchi)

1954:

The Wages of Fear (Clouzot)

1955:

Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich)

1956:

The Searchers (Ford)

1957:

What's Opera, Doc? (Jones)

1958:

Vertigo (Hitchcock)

1959:

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Resnais)

[CrewDust]

No Mention of "All's Quiet on the Western Front".

[The Wisdom Cube]

Favorite films, by year:

...

1957:

What's Opera, Doc? (Jones)



Since this one is on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D74Bk3uvGj4

[GringoTex]

1930 Âge d'or L' Luis Buñuel
1931 M Fritz Lang
1932 Trouble in Paradise Ernst Lubitsch
1933 Land Without Bread Luis Buñuel
1934 Atalante L' Jean Vigo
1935 The 39 Steps Alfred Hitchcock
1936 A Day in the Country Jean Renoir
1937 The Awful Truth Leo McCarey
1938 The Human Beast Jean Renoir
1939 The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir
1940 His Girl Friday Howard Hawks
1941 Citizen Kane Orson Welles
1942 Casablanca Michael Curtiz
1943 Day of Wrath Carl Dreyer
1944 A Canterbury Tale Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger
1945 I Know Where I'm Going! Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger
1946 My Darling Clementine John Ford
1947 Kiss of Death Henry Hathaway
1948 Letter From an Unknown Woman Max Ophuls
1949 Thieves' Highway Jules Dassin
1950 The Flowers of St. Francis Roberto Rossellini
1951 Early Summer Yasujiro Ozu
1952 Casque d'or Jacques Becker
1953 The Golden Coach Jean Renoir
1954 Vera Cruz Robert Aldrich
1955 Kiss Me Deadly Robert Aldrich
1956 Seven Men from Now Budd Boetticher
1957 3:10 to Yuma Delmer Daves
1958 Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock
1959 The Four Hundred Blows François Truffaut

[Ismitje]

I think 1939 may be "home" to morw of my favorite films than any other year; in addition to the "classics" such as Gone with the Wind and Wizard of Oz, I really enjoy these:

Destry Rides Again (perhaps my favorite film ever, with Jimmy Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Mischa Auer, and Charles Winninger)

Gunga Din

Juarez (a little remembered film about the French occupation of Mexico and the man who resisted them, Benito Juarez; Brian Aherne is terrific as the misbegotten and doomed Emperor Maximilian - Bette Davis plays his wife. A very positive portrayal of Mexicans - and a full blooded Indian president at that - at a time when these didn't exist)

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

...and a host of others.

Yes, 1939, that's the year for me and movies!

[Kenobi]

Anything with the Marx Brothers. And I have a strange attachment to Arsenic and Old Lace. The guy who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt never fails to make me laugh.