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Johnd
07-24-2015, 12:08 PM
12 O’clock High, 1949. Gregory Peck leads a World War II bomber group.

Goodbye Mr. Chips, 1939. Robert Donat, Greer Garson. A schoolmaster contributes to the growth of his students

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1945. Dorothy McGuire. Growing up in the Brooklyn tenements.

The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, 1947 Cary Grant, Myrna Loy. Some very funny stuff.

The Heiress, 1949. Olivia DeHavilland, Montgomery Clift. Great acting in a love story without a happy ending.

Casablanca, 1942. Predictable you say. I say great story plus Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson

Going My Way, 1944. Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald. Not a terrific movie but overall very satisfying.
jblum315
07-24-2015, 12:18 PM
Enjoyed them all several times
Walt.
08-09-2015, 12:35 PM
All good stuff from my favorite movie era.

Among my very favorites would be:
The Third Man - 1949 / Joseph Cotton - great movie with the perfect ending.
The Search - 1948 / Montgomery Clift - the all-time best tearjerker... it's sort of like "Lassie Come Home" but with orphans.
any of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films.

These can often be seen on TCM (Turner classics)
2BNTV
08-09-2015, 01:52 PM
Several More:

1. The Best Years Of Our Lives - Mryna Loy, Freddie March, Theresa Wright and Dana Andrews.

2. The Maltese Falcon - Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorrie.

3. Dodsworth - Walter Huston, (directors John's father), Mary Astor, Ruth Chatterton and Paul Lucas.

4. Yankeee Doodle Dandy - James Cagney, Walter Huston, Joan Leslie and Jeanne Cagney, (James real life sister).

5. The Thin Man - William Powell and Myrna Loy.

I am a big fan of TCM and record a lot of these types of movies.
JerryP
08-09-2015, 03:08 PM
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932). PauL Muni.
The Public Enemy (1931) James Cagney.
tomwed
08-09-2015, 03:24 PM
The Grapes of Wrath
kellyjam
08-10-2015, 08:19 AM
San Francisco 1936 Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy.
MarkinMd
08-10-2015, 08:34 AM
Gone With The Wind
tkret
08-10-2015, 09:29 AM
all EXCELLENT but I can't believe ...
"It Happened One Night"
has not already been added. Great, fun flick that almost crippled the men's undershirt industry.
Jima64
08-10-2015, 11:44 AM
I like all the Andy Hardy movies with Micky Rooney as the lead character.
Carla B
08-10-2015, 12:42 PM
"Rebecca", 1940 Hitchcock film starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. Based on Daphne du Maurier's gothic novel. I actually prefer the adaptation PBS did at the end of the 90's. It's 3 hours long and I just found it on Amazon available on DVD.
chuckinca
08-10-2015, 12:49 PM
Wizard of Oz.

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Walt.
08-16-2015, 02:05 AM
"Rebecca", 1940 Hitchcock film starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. Based on Daphne du Maurier's gothic novel. I actually prefer the adaptation PBS did at the end of the 90's. It's 3 hours long and I just found it on Amazon available on DVD.

These things often pop up on Youtube. Sometimes they disappear just as fast... but this has been up since April.

Rebecca - 1997 / both parts
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxttM2M5kSMW6pqxjQL26ew/videos

Downton Abbey fans might also enjoy the 10-Episode "Berkeley Square."
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxttM2M5kSMW6pqxjQL26ew/playlists