Which movie best exemplifies the Golden Era?

• Dec 14, 2009

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ron521

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Watched "Dark Passage" last night, was thinking how the film showcased most of what we see as good about the Golden Era...the postwar optimism, interesting architecture, stylish clothing and cars, etc.

What film do you think shows the Golden Era best?

 

• Dec 15, 2009

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The Cotton Club (1984), directed by Francis Coppola.


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• Dec 15, 2009

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Ethan Bentley

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It's A Wondeful Life.

 

• Dec 16, 2009

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Ethan Bentley said:

It's A Wondeful Life.

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I also vote for Capra - but I nominate American Madness. Of course, this is pre-WWII.

 

• Dec 17, 2009

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astrang1

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Tough one this but I am going to have to opt for
The Rocketeer or The Shadow. I mean art deco, 1930s
adventurers....whats not to like.
Al

 

• Dec 17, 2009

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Movie FROM the golden era that best exemplifies it? Or movie SET in the golden era?

If it's the first, I don't know that I could lay one down.

If it's the second...

Not a movie, but TV series:

The "Jeeves & Wooster" and the "Poirot" series (both set in 1930s London), to me, really showed what the Golden Era looked like in everyday life. The cars, the clothing, the buildings, the furniture, the then-popular Art Deco art-movement, the music...All meticulously decorated, researched and filmed, in full, living colour.

Those two, above all movies, exmplified the Golden Era to me.

 

• Dec 25, 2009

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Harry Street

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It's easy to go with the old B&W films w/Bogart et al. But given the season, I'm going to have to vote for A Christmas Story.

I still love this film 27 years later. It's full of wonderful commonplace Golden Era images and sounds.