OK, sable has the definitive list on real classics. Wow. Now I'd say I've seen well less than half of them.
Classic Movies
- Thread starter rmason
- Start date
SmokingPipes.com Updates
Watch for Updates Twice a Week
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
Site Sponsors
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
- Status
A few more of my faves from or around the "Golden Age"
Best Years Of Our Lives - 1946
Mrs Miniver - 1942
How Green Was My Valley - 1941
The Quiet Man - 1952
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House - 1948
The Front Page - in it's various incarnations as well as my favorite adaptation, His Girl Friday
Hells Angels - 1930
Goodbye Mr Chips - 1939
Shop Around The Corner - 1940
Miracle On 34th St - 1947 - The perfect Holiday film
The Devil and Daniel Webster - 1941
A Tale Of Floating Weeds - 1934, and Floating Weeds - 1959 - Classic Ozu
Ikiru - 1952 - My favorite of Kurosawa's many splendid films
Fantasia - 1940 - The film that almost destroyed Disney
Mr Bug Goes To Town - 1941 - Top Notch Fleischer animated feature
Brother Orchid - 1940 - Edward G and Bogie in a gangster comedy
The Public Enemy - 1931
Stagecoach - 1939
Freaks - 1931 - Todd Browning shocker that was banned for years.
Dracula - 1931 - (no, not the English language one, the Spanish language version that was shot at the same time using the same production, just different cast)
The Ghost and Mrs Muir - 1947 - One of Bernard Herrmann's most otherworldly film scores
All About Eve - 1950 - "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night."
Wings - 1927 - Gary Cooper's break out performance
The Pride Of The Yankees - 1942
Footlight Parade - 1938
42nd Street - 1933
Gold Diggers Of 1933, also '35 and '37
A Midsummer Night's Dream - 1935
Enough for now. Still barely grazing the surface.
Best Years Of Our Lives - 1946
Mrs Miniver - 1942
How Green Was My Valley - 1941
The Quiet Man - 1952
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House - 1948
The Front Page - in it's various incarnations as well as my favorite adaptation, His Girl Friday
Hells Angels - 1930
Goodbye Mr Chips - 1939
Shop Around The Corner - 1940
Miracle On 34th St - 1947 - The perfect Holiday film
The Devil and Daniel Webster - 1941
A Tale Of Floating Weeds - 1934, and Floating Weeds - 1959 - Classic Ozu
Ikiru - 1952 - My favorite of Kurosawa's many splendid films
Fantasia - 1940 - The film that almost destroyed Disney
Mr Bug Goes To Town - 1941 - Top Notch Fleischer animated feature
Brother Orchid - 1940 - Edward G and Bogie in a gangster comedy
The Public Enemy - 1931
Stagecoach - 1939
Freaks - 1931 - Todd Browning shocker that was banned for years.
Dracula - 1931 - (no, not the English language one, the Spanish language version that was shot at the same time using the same production, just different cast)
The Ghost and Mrs Muir - 1947 - One of Bernard Herrmann's most otherworldly film scores
All About Eve - 1950 - "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night."
Wings - 1927 - Gary Cooper's break out performance
The Pride Of The Yankees - 1942
Footlight Parade - 1938
42nd Street - 1933
Gold Diggers Of 1933, also '35 and '37
A Midsummer Night's Dream - 1935
Enough for now. Still barely grazing the surface.
Not really from the Golden age but most are 50 years old plus.
Lawrence of Arabia
The Guns of Navarone
The Wild Bunch
The Great Escape
The Magnificent Seven
The Professionals
Midway
The Battle of the Bulge
Lawrence of Arabia
The Guns of Navarone
The Wild Bunch
The Great Escape
The Magnificent Seven
The Professionals
Midway
The Battle of the Bulge
A few of my personal faves are:
It Happened One Night
East of Eden
The Sun Also Rises - good cast featuring an older but still cool, Errol Flynn, and a very young Robert Evans as a matador. I’m biased with this one though, as the Hemingway book of the same name is my favorite novel.
It Happened One Night
East of Eden
The Sun Also Rises - good cast featuring an older but still cool, Errol Flynn, and a very young Robert Evans as a matador. I’m biased with this one though, as the Hemingway book of the same name is my favorite novel.
- Status