Can anybody.....

[MK]

....come up with a good list of movies from 1930-1949 for The Golden Era ?

 

[Renderking Fisk]

This is going to be a group effort.

First off.. you have to have-

Casablanca
Big Sleep
Key Largo
Across the Pacific
To Have and Have Not
All thought the Night
Dark Passage
Dead Reckoning

The Sting
The Untouchables
The Jones Flicks
Road to Perdition
Empire of the Sun
Pearl Harbor
Seven Years in Tibet
1941
Tucker

And so on...

 

[MK]

I have a pretty thorough list of period movies set in the 30's-40's....but your list Bogie movies is a good start.

Anyone else?

 

[Matt Deckard]

The Groovy Movie
Gold Diggers of 1933
Buck Privates: Andrews sisters and some dancing
The Thin Man
It Happened one Night
The Man Who Knew Too Much: 1934 Hitchcock version
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round: The clothes in that movie the best
Broadway Melody of 1936

 

[mmarosy]

Rope (1948)
Paradine Case, The (1947)
Notorious (1946)
Spellbound (1945)
Lifeboat (1944)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Saboteur (1942)
Suspicion (1941)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Rebecca (1940)
Sabotage (1936)
39 Steps, The (1935)
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)

Yep, I'm a big Hitch fan too. Mr. & Mrs. Smith was Hitch's only foray into comedy. Rope's a great experiment in film. Notorious, great Cary Grant. Lifeboat... great emotional drama, and a fun inclusion of the famous Hitchcock cameo.

Mike

 

[Dr. J]

How about a little comedy relief?

Our Gang Comedies (Little Rascals)
Laurel & Hardy
The Marx Brothers
Buster Keaton
Charlie Chaplin
The Three Stooges
Abbot & Costello

LOL

 

[CoffeeDude]

Citizen Cane
The Shadow
All quiet on the Western Front
Mutiny on the Bounty
Stagecoach
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mr. Deeds goes to town
Animal Crackers
Bringing up baby
My man Godfrey
The Wizard of Oz
King Kong
Gone with the wind
Abbott and Costello movies

 

[SHARPETOYS]

How about
Most Dangerous Game-1932
Adventures of Robin Hood-1938
Gone With The Wind-1939
Grapes of Wrath-1940

 

[MK]

Those are some great suggestions. Some of them I have never seen and need to rent them.

There are some films though like Mutiny on the Bounty
and Robin Hood that are period films but not set in the golden era. So they wouldn't make the list. Perhaps at a later time I might add a great period films made in the Golden era.

Thanks! Keep them coming.

 

[Imahomer]

I second The Grapes of Wrath. A true classic!:cool2:

 

[MK]

OK. The list is up. There are holes, but it is a start. I included China, Dead In, This Gun for Hire & The Maltese Falcon.

Thanks guys. Keep'm coming.

 

[CoffeeDude]

How about "A League of Their Own"?

 

[MK]

Very good.

 

[Imahomer]

Originally posted by CoffeeDude
How about "A League of Their Own"?

Boy I wanted to see that one, but it faded out so quickly at the theaters I never got a chance. I bought the DVD though and watch it every so often. A very good movie, loosely based on the player Jimmie Foxx.

 

[MDFrench]

Please don't forget The Third Man and It Happened One Night.

 

[MDFrench]

Also the Cagney film, 13 Rue Madeline and .... Dick Tracy (snicker)

 

[MK]

I was wondering when you would chime in. I am surprised you didn't give us a bigger list though.

 

[MK]

Originally posted by mmarosy

Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)

Yep, I'm a big Hitch fan too. Mr. & Mrs. Smith was Hitch's only foray into comedy. Rope's a great experiment in film.

I watched The Man Who Knew Too Much tonight. I have to say I didn't care for it much. Although Hitch later became a master film maker and I am fascinated by Peter Lorre's work, the film has the trappings of motion pictures from the late twenties and early thirties. The sound is odd and hard to understand, the edits are very rough and jumpy, and of course the film stock is contrasty and grainy as most films from that early period. I much as I love the period, I find it laborious to watch these films.

Tomorrow I am screening Mr. & Mrs. Smith and will share with you my thoughts on that one.

 

[MDFrench]

You wanna bigger list MK? YOU WANNA A BIGGER LIST, HUH?! Fine! I'll GIVE YOU a bigger list!

When I return in two risings of the sun, you will have a BIGGER LIST!

(Mike retreats into his dark subterranean lab to concoct his elixir of power)

 

[MK]

I knew you would be up to the task.