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I'll start:
1. Best Years of Our Lives staring Frederick March, DanaAndrews, Theresa Wright and Myrna Loy.
2. The Thin Man staring William Powell and Myrna Loy.
3. The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart.
4. Pride of the Yankess with Gary Cooper and Theresa Wright.
5. The Big Sleep staring Humphrey Bogart.
6. Stagecoach with John Wayne and Clair Trevor.
7. Goodbye Mr Chips with Robert Donat and Greer Garson.
8. Mrs. Miniver with Greer Garson and Theresa Wright.
9. My Man Geoffrey with William Powell and Carole Lombard.
10. Wife vs Secretary with Clark Gable and Jean Harlow.


What are your favorites?
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The Grapes of Wrath, Henry Fonda.
The Fighting 69th, James Cagney.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Paul Muni.
The Bank Dick, W.C. Fields.
Duck Soup, Marx Bros.
A Night at the Opera, Marx Bros.
12 Angry Men, Henry Fonda.
Dead End, Humphrey Bogart.
The Petrified Forest, Humphrey Bogart.
Dark Passage, Humphrey Bogart.
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The Heiress- Olivia de Havilland

Night of The Hunter- Robert Mitchum

Sunset Boulevard- Gloria Swanson

Young Frankenstein- Gene Wilder

Top Hat- Fred Astaire

(and all those mentioned previously!)
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And King Kong!

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A Hard Days Night

Citizen Kane

The Thin Man

It Happened One Night
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I just remembered to add "Dodsworth" with Walter Houston and Mary Astor to the list.
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The Roaring Twenties with Bogart & Cagney.
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Angels with Dirty Fcaes - James Cagney and0 Pat O'Brien

Yankee Doodle Dandy with James Cagney, Joan Leslie and Walter Houston with Rosemary DeCamp.
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All About Eve-- All About Eve (1950) - IMDb

Arsenic and Old Lace-- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) - IMDb

Casablanca-- Casablanca- IMBd

Harvey-- Harvey- IMBd

High Noon-- High Noon- IMBd

Lonely Are the Brave-- Lonely Are the Brave (1962)- IMBd

The Day the Earth Stood Still The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - IMDb

The Front Page-- The Front Page (1931)- IMBd

The Great McGinty-- The Great McGinty (1940) - IMDb

The Maltese Falcon-- The Maltese Falcon (1941) - IMBd

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not old, but Schindler's List..
to kill a mockingbird
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not old, but Schindler's List..
to kill a mockingbird
Funny, for some reason. I have never seen To Kill A Mockingbird, from beginning to end. Only bits and pieces.

How about "The Birdman of Alcatraz" with Burt Lancaster and Karl Malden.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
High Noon (Gary Cooper's best IMHO)
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The Informer

Psycho

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Grapes of Wrath

The Ghost and Mrs Muir

Citizen Kane

Casablanca

High Noon

To Have and Have Not

You Can't Take It With You

Anything with Laurel and Hardy


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