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Sat Jan-10-04 01:17 PM
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Ten Favorite Films of the Fourties |
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Some of the greatest movies of all time were made during this Golden Age of Film.
Here are mine:
1. Casablanca 2. The Phildelphia Story 3. It's a Wonderful Life 4. Laura 5. Citizen Kane 6. Pinocchio 7. Rebecca 8. Notorious 9. Arsenic and Old Lace 10. Double Indemnity
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Sat Jan-10-04 01:31 PM
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Edited on Sat Jan-10-04 01:33 PM by ElsewheresDaughter
The Bishops Wife Desk Set To Kill A Mockingbird? Boystown Bells of St Mary Ox-Bow Incident Little Women The Grapes of Warth The Good Earth Gunga Din and not sure of the year but, The Wizard of Oz?
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Kathy in Cambridge
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Sat Jan-10-04 01:57 PM
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5. To Kill a Mockingbird: 1962 |
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Sat Jan-10-04 02:03 PM
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8. if you say so...that's why i had a "?" mark next to it...but it was a B&W |
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Edited on Sat Jan-10-04 02:08 PM by ElsewheresDaughter
wasn't it?...i don't think any B&W films were made in the 60's and Horton Foote wrote it in the 40's about the depression era south....sorry my bad :shrug:
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Sat Jan-10-04 02:11 PM
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B&W Were Still Made in the '60s |
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Especially is the film was low budget.
Gregory Peck won the Best Actor Award for TKAM in 1962...
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Sat Jan-10-04 02:17 PM
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11. thanks RR......the more i live the more i learn |
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Sat Jan-10-04 02:11 PM
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Edited on Sat Jan-10-04 02:11 PM by RationalRose
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Sat Jan-10-04 02:05 PM
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9. Gunga Din is one of my all time favorites, Casa Blanca being #1. |
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Sat Jan-10-04 03:01 PM
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13. Some of your choices aren't from the 40's. |
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Inherit the Wind was made in the 60s; Desk Set is from the 50's. Boys' Town, Little Women, The Good Earth, Gunga Din, and The Wizard of Oz are all from the 30s.
Good choice of films, though.
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Sat Jan-10-04 07:16 PM
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18. And Inherit the Wind was 1960. |
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Edited on Sat Jan-10-04 07:18 PM by greatauntoftriplets
Another great movie, which I remember seeing as a kid as a new release. One I would add: "The Bridge Over the River Kwai". It came out the year I turned 8 -- made my mother take it to me 3 times that summer. Another wonderful 1940s movie -- Blossoms in the Dust. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6301967569/qid%3D1073780263/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-4478364-5844928
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Sat Jan-10-04 01:36 PM
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2. Yours is close to mine: |
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1) Citizen Kane
2) Bringing Up Baby
3) The Thief of Bagdad
4) Double Indemnity
5) Rebecca
6) Notorious
7) The Philadelphia Story
8) Arsenic and Old Lace (my favorite Capra movie)
9) Meet John Doe
10) Laura
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Sat Jan-10-04 01:43 PM
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4. great one..i love all Tracy & Hepburn movies...my favorites |
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Sat Jan-10-04 02:02 PM
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6. My List Is Close to Yours also, except: |
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1. Casablanca 2. The Phildelphia Story 3. Mrs. Miniver 4. Laura 5. Citizen Kane 6. Children of Paradise (France) 7. Adam's Rib 8. Notorious 9. The Bicycle Thief (Italy) 10. Double Indemnity
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Sat Jan-10-04 02:02 PM
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Sat Jan-10-04 02:21 PM
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12. I would add "The Best Years of Our Lives" |
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A great film with a top-drawer cast that was remarkably honest for its time about the effects of war on small-town life. The title itself is a subtle indictment of war.
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Sat Jan-10-04 05:55 PM
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15. Yes! Thanks for including BYOOL... |
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The performances have a degree of realism that was uncommon for the time.
Excellent film.
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Sat Jan-10-04 06:55 PM
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16. I would add "Yankee Doodle Dandy" & Miracle on 34th |
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A biography of song and dance man George M. Cohan, a very proud democrat who would tell you that to your face. They studio system didn't give James Cagney too many chances to dance on screen but in this movie he was given the chance and he was superb. "Proud to be an American" may be Lee Greenwood's call to imortality by the right wing but "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "Over There" helped boost wartime morale and helped to win wars against global tyrrany. Take that, Lee.
I've seen Miracle on 34th Street more times than I can countbut it still has a wonderful message.
Good call on Best Years of Our Lives. It is a very fine human drama, a great character study.
The Ox Bow Incident-excellent
Casablamca, Double Indemnity, It's a Wonderful Life, all excellent
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Sat Jan-10-04 07:04 PM
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17. I'll have to check dates, but agree about Philadelphia Story and Arsenic |
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Sat Jan-10-04 07:23 PM
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19. Philadelphia Story 1940; Arsenic 1944 |
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I'm an idiot savant with dates.
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