Can you name at least one movie from the 30s, 40s or 50s that you enjoy regularly watching?
Bonus if it's from before 1930.
I think Freaks is always a fun watch.
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Old favorites?
12 Angry Men
I wouldn't say "regularly" but Charlie Chaplin holds up pretty well overall. I've rewatched the modern times recently.
I've only seen The Kid but it was incredible, its a shame we don't see that type of earned melodrama in movies anymore without a heavy degree of ironic detavhment.
Going through Buster Keaton's short films a few months ago was pretty revelatory. I generally don't watch much comedy compared to other comedies but I'm looking forward to exploring other directors that I've heard are influenced by his visual comedy like Tati, Etaix and Jerry Lewis.
It's not even the saddest Chaplin movie, that's City Lights. The best one's Modern Times, though. If you want a full-feature BK then you'd watch the General.
The Maltese Falcon is always enjoyable and I keep going back to it. the Sacha Guitry movies on the Criterion site I like to watch periodically. Jean Renoir's French Cancan is surprisingly funny and the girl is cute.
good choices
I had to turn this off after five minutes. it just annoyed me
What should i add
It's a Wonderful Life, My Darling Clementine, Modern Times, Spartacus, Exodus to name a few
Gilda
Born To Kill
His Girl Friday
downstairs 1932
a conman inserts himself into a rich family estate
>The Lost World (1925)
>Red Dust (1932)
>Can you name at least one movie from the 30s, 40s or 50s that you enjoy regularly watching?
do rifftrax count?
TCM is pretty good with the late night deepcuts, or at least it was when I still had cable. HBO has a whole TCM section that for sure has some gems in it.
Daisies (1966) pic related is an easily digested avant garde sort of flick.
why isn't the girl on the right my gf
accidently made a thread about this without seeing this one
How has this movie aged so well?
Movies that came out decades later look like shit but this movie looks great, and has good writing. So many other movies from this era are just goofy but this is timeless. Same with Lawrence of Arabia.
For example, I think Cool Hand Luke has not aged well at all, despite coming out after both of those.
What are some other pre-1970s movies that have aged like fine wine?
Ages well but some people nowadays say it's "not realistic" for some of the character motivations for whatever reason
Duck Soup
Triumph of the Will
I don't have any movies that I watch regularly, but I have few movies that I like to rewatch.
I haven't watched a lot of movies from the 30s, but Wizard of Oz I guess.
From the 40s my favorites are definitely A Matter of Life and Death and Treasure of Sierra Madre. To make it top3 let's say Double Indemnity.
From the 50s I like noir movies like Touch of Evil, Sweet Smell of Success and The Asphalt Jungle and the sci-fi shlock like Them or Invasion of the Body Snatchers or Twilight Zone episodes. Other than that I really like North by Northwest, Witness for the Prosecution, Bridge on the River Kwai and 12 Angry Men.
>rear window
>shane
>fantasia (it's kino)
>20,000 leagues under the sea
>the third man
this guy is correct about asphalt jungle. actually that whole post is frickin fire
this thread is definitely based. watching movies from better times is the pro strat for current day
I regularly watch Errol Flynn's filmography, at least one Flynn movie a month
Adventures of Robin Hood is kino as frick
I read "My wicked wicked ways" recently and it was a kino as frick book! Im going to watch Robin Hood at some point
>Watch old film
>Everyone is ridiculously thin and healthy looking
We didnt know how good we had it........
Thinner sure, healthier? People aged quicker, died sooner, and got drafted into wars. I bet they were mentally healthier though, more social, went outside more
Part of it was probably all the wartime rationing and the lower amount of fatty consumption, since fast-food was barely a thing at that point. That's why fat people look so ordinary. But yeah, it's also because people were more keen on staying physically active and worked manual jobs either as an occupation or at home.
>died sooner
This is the biggest meme going, literally look at the age that like every single golden era star died at, they all lived into their 80s if not 90s
please die you fat frick
20s
>Haxan
>Sunrise
>Steamboat Bill Jr
30s
>King Kong
>Stagecoach
>The Rules of the Game
40s
>Gilda
>To Be or Not To Be
>The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
50s
>On the Waterfront
>Pather Panchali
>Seven Samurai
Nice
>Freaks is always a fun watch.
Agreed. And how has nobody mentioned
Nosferatu (1922) yet?
I don't really rewatch films, but these are my favorites
>30s
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Gone With the Wind
Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
Make Way for Tomorrow
Pépé le Moko
>40s
A Matter of Life and Death
Out of the Past
Double Indemnity
The Red Shoes
The Maltese Falcon
>50s
Fires on the Plain
Gate of Hell
The Wages of Fear
The Cranes are Flying
The Steel Helmet
1920s:
Jazz Singer
Safety Last
He who gets slapped
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1930s:
The wizard of oz
Duck soup
The rules of the game
Angels with dirty faces
A tale of two cities
M
I am a fugitive from a chain gang
freaks
1940s:
Bicycle thieves
the red shoes
rope
Casablanca
1950s:
Window water baby moving (lol)
Ashes and Diamonds
12 angry men
Nights of Cabiria
Paths of glory
N.Y., N.Y.
Rear window
Seconding Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, total kino
> The Deadly Mantis
Very Good
> The Black Scorpion
Good to Very Good
> Them
Very Good
> Tarantula
Decent
> The Beast from 20,000 Fathom
Very Good to Near Great
> The Giant Behemoth
Very Good
> The Thing from Another World
Good
> It Came from Beneath the Sea
Decent
> 20 Million Miles to Earth
Good to Very Good
> Creature from the Black Lagoon
Great (tied with Gojira as the 2 best monster movies of the 50s)
> Revenge of the Creature
Decent
> The Creature Walks Among Us
Good
> The Monster of Piedras Blancas
Good
I really really like The Deadly Mantis.
> Good build up of mystery & mood without overdoing it.
> The Mantis gets a lot of screentime.
> The Mantis looks solid & fairly realistic, they thankfully did not give him a humanized silly face like the close up models for BlackScorpion or Crab Monsters.
> Snowy artic setting is unique & a nice change of pace from the Desert setting most of the 50s B movies had.
> Great score.
> Lots of retro military porn & Jet footage.
> They don't waste too much time on romance like It Came from Beneath the Sea.
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ONE OF US
ONE OF US
The Court Jester was a childhood favourite of mine and later went on to be homaged in an episode of Xena .
Also Glynnis Johns gave me boners.
>the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true
I watched the 1930 All Quiet on the Western Front recently and I was surprised at how well it was produced. It felt incredibly modern, coherent and well put together rather than some rinky dink newsreel cheese that I was expecting.
Most old films feel that way
I don't regularly rewatch anything, but Brief Encounter is among my all-time favorites. I've seen multiple times, and recently.
gooble gobble gooble gobble
one of us
one of us
(south park reference)
>rewatching movies
you saw it. why saw it again? there's infinite other movies to saw for the first time.
>what year was any movie made?
Uhhh, these are the ones i'm reasonably sure are pre60s. Not typing all the Disney and kids classics above.
And Then There Were None
Gaslight (both of them?)
Rope (Compulsion too if that's pre60s)
The Lady Killers
So Long at the Fair
Harvey
Night of the Hunter
All About Eve
Sunset Boulevard
And b movie horrors (Dracula, Frankenstein, etc) and noir
>tfw trying to find a noir I saw once where the only things I remember is they worked out a guy wasn't Polish because he couldn't read a Polish surname
This was not a notable plot point for anyone else 🙁
Godzilla 1954
I liked an affair to remember, not a good film for sure, but the piano scene was comfy
In 1927 talkies were invented.
In 1934 Hollywood adopted the Hays Code which imposed a morality code on movies.
Those movies made between 1929 and 1934 are some GOAT old movies. Some of the Classics:
- Frankenstein
- Baby Face
- Red Headed Woman
- The Public Enemy (the first Gangster movie)
- The Jazz Singer (the first talkie, the first hollywood musical)
-The Sign of the Cross (thrid in DeMille's biblical trilogy)
> In 1927 talkies were invente
Actually the first sound feature length movie was Vitaphone’s Don Juan in 1926 with John Barrymore. It is often overshadowed by The Jazz Singer though because the synchronized sound is all music and sound effects. Though there is no dialogue it is the first true sound film.
I said talkies not sound films. I was very clear.
It has crowd cheering which makes it a talkie.
https://www.nytimes.com/1926/08/07/archives/vitaphone-stirs-as-talking-movie-new-device-synchronizing-sound.html
VITAPHONE STIRS AS TALKING MOVIE; New Device Synchronizing Sound With Action Impresses With Its Realistic Effects. NOTED MUSICIANS HEARD Provides Orchestral Accompaniment to Photoplay "Don Juan," With John Barrymore.
> A marvelous device known as the vitaphone, which synchronizes sound with motion pictures, stirred a distinguished audience in Warners' Theatre to unusual enthusiasm at its initial presentation last Thursday evening. The natural reproduction of voices, the tonal qualities of musical instruments and the timing of the sound to the movements of the lips of singers and the actions of musicians was almost uncanny. This "living sound" invention, without a musician being present, also furnished the orchestral accompaniment to an ambitious photoplay entitled "Don Juan," in which John Barrymore plays the title rô1e.The future of this new contrivance is boundless, for inhabitants of small and remote places will have the opportunity of listening to and seeing grand open as it is given in New York, and through the picturing of the vocalists and small groups of musicians, or instrumental choirs of orchestras, the vitaphone will give its patrons an excellent idea of a singer's acting and an intelligent conception of the efforts of musicians and their instruments
>internet archive of 1926
get the frick up on out of here chatgpt
and on the same note if you guys are interested in the "late night drive in" type of movies those would be the ones made by American International Pictures.
These were bundled together and shown at drive ins and small independent movie theaters.
The most famous two are probably The Raven and The Fast and the Furious (the original one by Corman)
I seem to have knocked Crossfire (1947) off, just include it somewhere near the top.
Bumping thread so I can get movie recommendations
I'm sure someone already posted these but
Little Caesar
Scarface (original)
The Public enemy (or enemies I forget) are all great 1930's movies . Pretty sure they're pre-code too