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Favorite Classic Films (Pre- 1950):

Favorite Classic Films (Pre- 1950):

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I'll put in for The Wizard of Oz.
When I was a kid it both scared the pee out of me and made me laugh 'til I cried.
Edit: 1939

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Originally posted by @trev33
Dumbo
Crazy it was made in 1941.

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"The Song of Bernadette"
1943

Based on the true story of the miracle at Lourdes France.

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Originally posted by @torunn
African Queen (1951...)
Great movie but not pre-1950!!

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Gaslight (1944) - Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer
Fantasia (1940) - Walt Disney
Snow White (1937) - Walt Disney

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Originally posted by @sonhouse
Don't forget 'the big Sleep' with a very young Lauren Bacall and Bogey. I just saw it for the first time on TCM. My wife refuses to watch a B&W movie, we love old western but they better be in color😉
Yes, The Big Sleep (the 1946 version w/ Bogey and Bacall) is a terrific film, despite the vagaries in the story. BTW, Chandler's book is equally vague in places.

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Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce made a series of Sherlock Holmes films in the 1940s; I loved them as a kid, and they still hold up very well.

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Originally posted by @wolfe63
I love older movies. I watch TCM (Turner Classic Movies) as often as I can. What are some of your favorite classic films?

There are so many, but...

- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Gary Cooper
You have to be over 50 for sure! 😉

-VR

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Originally posted by @very-rusty
You have to be over 50 for sure! 😉

-VR
Yes, I am an old man. I've had an interesting path.
When it comes to "Integrity vs. Despair": I'll hold my head high as long as my neck is strong enough. 🙂

Although, I haven't quite reached cuckold-curmudgeon status yet. How about you? 😀

Oh, and regarding my OP, I'm surprised no one has yet selected:
- Citizen Kane (1941) w/ The great...Orson Welles.

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Originally posted by @wolfe63
Yes, I am an old man. I've had an interesting path.

Although, I haven't quite reached cuckold-curmudgeon status yet. How about you?
Why would you want to discuss your sex life in a public chess forum? Or even dare ask anyone else about theirs?

-VR

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Originally posted by @torunn
Gaslight (1944) - Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer
Fantasia (1940) - Walt Disney
Snow White (1937) - Walt Disney
I love Bergman, and Gaslight is awesome.

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Originally posted by @moonbus
Treasure of the Sierra Madre ('48).
“Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!”

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Originally posted by @suzianne
“Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!”
And 'we don't need no stinking badges' from Blazing saddles.

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Originally posted by @torunn
Gaslight (1944) - Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer
Fantasia (1940) - Walt Disney
Snow White (1937) - Walt Disney
Gaslight - a practice of psychological manipulation that came to be named after a 1938 play and subsequent movie. I have to see that movie.