Favorite(s) pre-1960 American movies

[mix]

The Searchers (Ford), 1956


Imitation of Life (Sirk), 1959


Sunset Boulevard (Wilder), 1950

[mitchum]

1. To your three, I would add Cukor's "A Star is Born"...

Wilder's "Double Indemnity" and "Stalag 17", Sturges' "The Lady Eve" and "Miracle at Morgan's Creek", and Laughton's "Night of the Hunter"

I have been turning people on to "Imitation of Life" forever
It is unbelievable

[mix]

8. I never tire of watching Sirk's movies. nt

[mitchum]

17. Fassbinder's "Ali:Fear Eats the Soul" is a fantastic homage to Sirk...

Leonard Kastle's "The Honeymoon Killers" has a lot of good Sirk-on-a-budget touches.
Paul Schrader's "Forever Mine" misses the mark as a Sirk homage; it's a bit of a mess (and Schrader is one of my favorite director/screenwriters)

[mix]

24. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul was the first Fassbinder film I saw,

I had no idea it was a homage. "The Honeymoon Killers" is sublime. Schrader's work tears me apart, yet I still stare and listen.

[DerekG]

2. The Maltese Falcon!

I dare anyone to name off a more entertaining movie.

[mix]

4. I love that too, Sidney Greenstreet steals the show.

[Iggo]

5. Wayrzh the fawlkin?

Love Bogart's accent.

[Paladin]

3. "Red River," "Twelve O'Clock High"

And a whole bunch of flicks the studios turned out in 1939 ("Gone With The Wind" excluded, as far as I'm concerned).

[Swede]

6. Shane, the Oxbow Incident and of course Forbidden Planet.

Off the top of my head.

[lovemydog]

7. My ten

Off top of head

Citizen Kane
Double Indemnity
The Front Page
Adam's Rib
Sullivan's Travels
Night of the Hunter
Scarface
The Wizard of Oz
High Noon
On the Waterfront

There's tons more.

[mix]

9. Philadelphia Story, another great one

[hayu_lol]

10. Hmmmm,,,

Fantasia and Around The World In Eighty Days.

The Moon Is Blue.

[IcyPeas]

11. someone told me I should see "Meet John Doe"

she said it's a lot like what's going on right now with the teabaggers.

Have any of you seen it? (it's from the 1940s)

[nuxvomica]

12. My short list...

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
The African Queen
The Best Years of Our Lives
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
The Cocoanuts
Dracula
The Enchanted Cottage
Forbidden Planet
It's a Wonderful Life
Jezebel
Julius Caesar
The Letter
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Maltese Falcon
Meet Me in St. Louis
The Miracle at Morgan's Creek
Modern Times
Monkey Business (1931)
Notorious
Plan Nine from Outer Space
Reefer Madness
The Roaring Twenties
A Streetcar Named Desire
Suddenly, Last Summer
Sunset Boulevard
Touch of Evil
The Treasure of Sierra Madre
Vertigo
The Wizard of Oz
The Wolf Man

[Brother Buzz]

13. The Mouse That Roared

Grand Duchess Gloriana (Peter Sellers): How did the war go?

Tulley Bascombe (Peter Sellers): Well, this is a bit of a surprise. A pleasant one, I hope. I think we've won.

Prime Minster Count Rupert Mountjoy (Peter Sellers): My idea was sound. Only an idiot could have won this war, and he did.

[jobycom]

Casablanca, 3:10 to Yuma, Twelve O'Clock High. Home From the Hill was 1960

So I couldn't choose it, but I would have.

[sarge43]

14. So many favorites, so few electrons

The General (Buster Keaton)
Metropolis
All Quiet on the Western Front
It Happened One Night
Young Mr Lincoln
Maltese Falcon
Fantasia
Pimpernel Smith
Murder My Sweet
The Lady Eve
Oxbow Incident
My Darling Clemetine
Fort Apache
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Heiress
Laura
All About Eve
Destination Moon
Mr Roberts
Sunset Blvd
Rope
Singing in the Rain
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Manchurian Candidate
Hobson's Choice
Anatomy of a Murder
Ben Hur

And of course, Casablanca

[jobycom]

15. If you have that many, you don't have any favorites.

:rofl:

[sarge43]

16. Oh very well. If I could take only one to the desert island,

The Heiress. Own the role acting, plot as tight as Mason Jar lid, spot on costumes and sets, oh wow ending, music by Aaron Copland and Monty Cliff at his most beautiful before that car accident messed up his face.

And I would pine for all the others.

[jobycom]

18. Well, now you've done it.

I've added another movie to the Netflix Q based on semi-anonymous DU recommendations. :hi:

And I do know how to spell queue, I just didn't feel like it.

[sarge43]

19. Enjoy. A forgotten gem. n/t

[lovemydog]

20. Key Largo

Bogart and Bacall and a bunch of characters stuck in a hotel waiting out a hurricane. Glamour and suspense.

[mix]

22. I'll never forget that film, remember the Seminoles? nt

[lovemydog]

29. yup

Great topic, by the way.

[pokerfan]

21. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

The Battleship Potemkin (1925)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Casablanca (1942)

The Big Sleep (1946)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

(I'm a bit of a Bogey fan)

[pscot]

23. His Girl Friday

Horse Feathers
Swing Time (Ginger at 23--oh my)
My Man Godfrey
The Maltese Falcon
The Third Man
Mr.Roberts
From Here to Eternity
Streetcar Named Desire
Kiss Me Deadly
Psycho

[Dr Morbius]

25. Looking through all the great titles listed above...

I searched for any which had been overlooked.

I found Paths of Glory and His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby.

Did anyone mention Twelve Angry Men?

[Kat45]

26. A lot:

Angels with Dirty Faces
Dead End
Scarface
White Heat
The Public Enemy
The Petrified Forest
Little Caesar
Casablanca
To Have and Have Not
Key Largo
On The Waterfront
The Wild One

[Frank Booth]

27. The Searchers was a good movie, but it's shocking how racist it is by present day

standards. I saw it for the first time a couple years ago, and was a bit disturbed and distracted by the racism towards Native Americans (and I'm not one of those types who jumps to condemn movies for being insensitive).

Favorites:

-- Touch of Evil

-- Vertigo

-- Sweet Smell of Success

In general, I think pre-1960s European and Japanese movies were better than American ones.

[trackfan]

28. Almost all of my favorites are pre 1960.

I love The Crowd; The Best Years of Our Lives; Since You Went Away; The Wizard of Oz; countless others.

[SnohoDem]

30. A Face in the Crowd

Anatomy of a Murder

(just watched those two for the umpteenth time last week - Lee Remick fetish, I guess)

Best Years of Our Lives
Sunset Boulevard
Some Like It Hot
It Happened One Night
The Razor's Edge
Rebecca

[alphafemale]

32. Have you seen the "Face in the Crowd" DVD with the interviews at the end?

That's amazing. Not the least of which because Andy Griffith says "fuck."

I about fell off the couch. There's some people you just don't expect to say that.

:wow:

[SnohoDem]

35. No!

and I would have fallen off the couch too, except that he shows such a range in that movie you know there's more to Andy Griffith than his good ol' country boy image. I was reading about it recently, and there are several movies he's in where he plays 'against type'. I didn't see 'A Face in the Crowd' until about 1990, and my entire image of Andy Griffith came from watching the original show with Ron Howard when I was a kid.

Currently I just have the ripped avi file, but I'll try to find the interview. Thanks for mentioning it.

I just love the movie and find it particularly relevant in today's media demagogue driven political atmosphere.

Andy with Ron Howard, on Obama:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/1028297/

[alphafemale]

36. The interviews were on the one I got from NetFlix

Kazan is also on it.

Amazing stuff. Almost as good as the movie itself.

[mitchum]

37. Griffith is an incredibly underrated actor; no one can play a sonofabitch like he can....

as evidenced by his performances in "Pray for the Wildcats" and "Murder in Coweta County"

[YankeyMCC]

31. Forbidden Planet

The Day the Earth Stood still

Nearly any Humphrey Bogart movie made before 1960

Many others

[alphafemale]

33. I just saw the actual "African Queen" while in the Keys.

And I do love that movie.

I love most of the old ones.

[cleveramerican]

34. "My Darling Clementine" with Henry Fonda by John Ford

Just a great old cowboy movie.

anything with Walter Brennan.

[Mad_Dem_X]

38. "All About Eve" and "Rebel Without A Cause"

[Tuesday Afternoon]

39. The Nick and Nora series with William Powell and Myrna Loy.

[bikebloke]

40. Casablanca

The Adventures of Robin Hood
African Queen
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Grapes of Wrath