Recommendations for really old movies?

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khelben1979
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10 Apr 2009, 2:11 am

I would like to get some recommendations on really, really old movies which was released during the 1930 to 1960.

I will then search for them at YouTube to see what they got.

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10 Apr 2009, 2:29 am

Here's a few of my favourites:

The Adventures of Robin Hood
All About Eve
The Wizard of Oz
The Court Jester
Random Harvest
Gone With the Wind
The Man in the White Suit
The Ladykillers
Passport to Pimlico
The Lady Vanishes
Bringing Up Baby
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Bridge on the River Kwai

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10 Apr 2009, 2:45 am

And here's a few more:

The Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
The Grapes of Wrath
Some Like it Hot
Dumbo
Citizen Kane
Marx Brothers films
King Kong
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Big Sleep
Casablanca

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10 Apr 2009, 2:47 am

ouinon wrote:

Here's a few:

The Adventures of Robin Hood
All About Eve
The Wizard of Oz
The Court Jester
Random Harvest
Gone With the Wind
The Man in the White Suit
The Ladykillers
Passport to Pimlico
The Lady Vanishes
Bringing Up Baby
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Bridge on the River Kwai

Sounds interesting! (I will be able to check this up in 10 days.. Bad modem at home which needs to get replaced.)

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10 Apr 2009, 3:38 am

Try

"Kind Hearts and Coronets"

which is a 1949 black and white comical film about a man who commits a sting of murders, it is very funny.

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10 Apr 2009, 3:45 am

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10 Apr 2009, 6:41 am

His Girl Friday (1940)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Nothing Sacred (1937)
North by Northwest (1959)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)

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10 Apr 2009, 7:17 am

I second Arsenic and Old Lace

The Quiet Man (John Wayne in Ireland -- very funny)
Mrs. Miniver

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10 Apr 2009, 7:57 am

dunno time periods but;
little shop of horrors,
Freaks (1932),
Fiend Without A Face,
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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10 Apr 2009, 10:51 am

if you want to go WAY back.

Metropolis ( i think thats the name)

Silent movie about a culture that has a underground class doing all the work for them. First sci-fi movie made iirc.

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10 Apr 2009, 12:55 pm

Well Metropolis was in 1927, so that's before 1930. But I think 1930 is an unfair limit if you're talking about really good older movies. If you go earlier than 1930 you can see other german expressionist films like The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Nosferatu, Destiny (der Muede Tod), The Student from Prague, and the Golem. IMO the golden age of German cinema has some of the best movies ever made.

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10 Apr 2009, 2:09 pm

Inherit the Wind
The Passion of Joan d' Arc
Freaks
Things to Come
Metropolis
Harvey
12 Angry Men
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Kitty Foyle
Seven Samurai

A few to get started with...

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