# Oldest Movie you enjoyed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 24, 2016, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-movie-you-enjoyed/758240 "2016-06-24T15:22:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-movie-you-enjoyed/758240/61 "2016-06-27T16:39:50Z")
Watched Keaton’s “Go West” last night on TCM. I love[this gag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIcsWpnWAV0) with the guy unloading the box car- it’s just so beautifully timed. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-movie-you-enjoyed/758240/62 "2016-06-28T00:36:43Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > _The Wind_ (1928), with Lillian Gish. > > It heped that I lived in Wyoming when I first saw it. That the one I came in here to note. Amazing picture. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-movie-you-enjoyed/758240/63 "2016-06-28T00:42:11Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Fritz Lang’s _Metropolis_ (1927) is overacted and kind of hokey, but visually it’s really, really cool, so I just ignore the story completely. My son and I watched _Metropolis_ a few months ago. Yea, the story is kinda dumb, but the sets are very cool. ---
**Author:** ![andrewrandhawa7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@andrewrandhawa7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewrandhawa7)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-movie-you-enjoyed/758240/64 "2016-06-28T01:11:00Z")
I need help on this one! Not that old lol! ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-movie-you-enjoyed/758240/65 "2016-06-28T14:50:32Z")
“Birth of a Nation” is very well made but enjoy a movie that glamorizes the Ku Klux Klan? You can root for Keaton in “The General” as he is a little guy battling the odds to catch the train (and I like the fact that one of the Northern generals is former baseball star Turkey Mike Donlin). But the Klan??? There is also Douglas Fairbanks Sr “Thief of Baghdad”. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-movie-you-enjoyed/758240/66 "2016-06-28T15:10:42Z")
I can’t say I’ve watched many B&W movies - only the Marx Brothers ones, _The Great Dictator_ and the _Maltese Falcon_. Of these, I’d say the \*Falcon _takes the first place - not that the Marx are bad per se, far from it, but I don’t reckon they make for very good movies. I could just as well have watched Groucho and Chico banter on a stand-up stage for a couple hours, with Harpo providing the occasional straight man or punctuating duck quack :), and that would have probably been more enjoyable. As for_ The Great Dictator, \*while it’s fun the style of humour is pretty dated and the final speech, while heartfelt, kind of makes me roll my eyes. That said, I will never not laugh out loud at Hynkel’s microphone-frightening speech. If you wanna get all competitive about it, I’ve also watched _The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station_, that is to say one of it not the very first motion picture ever shot, but I found the characters two dimensional and the storyline hard to follow 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-movie-you-enjoyed/758240/67 "2016-06-28T16:33:30Z")
Probably not the oldest movie I’ve ever enjoyed, but the oldest movie I’ve enjoyed recently: Chaplin’s [City Lights (1931)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021749/). ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-movie-you-enjoyed/758240/68 "2016-06-28T23:12:09Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > _The Wind_ (1928), with Lillian Gish. > > It heped that I lived in Wyoming when I first saw it. One of my faves too. Watching Gish freak out as the body is gradually exposed is an amazing piece of acting. I keep a big glass of water handy when I watch it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-movie-you-enjoyed/758240/69 "2016-06-29T00:02:55Z")
Monkey Business (1931) ---
**Author:** ![Labor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Labor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labor)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-movie-you-enjoyed/758240/70 "2016-07-01T17:44:44Z")
Coconuts has that goofy dance scene at the start. I liked that! I’m a bit surprised that nobody has mentioned Freaks (1932). That’s one enjoyably disturbing movie. ---
**Author:** ![urban1a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47c2d/32.png) [@urban1a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1a)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-movie-you-enjoyed/758240/71 "2016-07-02T01:44:48Z")
I came to mention Metropolis, but I’ll just agree with **kunilou** instead. The sets were fantastic although the story was a bit Nazi-ish. I also really enjoyed ‘The Shape of Things to Come’ based on the book by H.G.Wells, although I don’t know how well it followed the book. Interesting take on the future (glass furniture?, world government run by scientists?). Bob ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-movie-you-enjoyed/758240/73 "2016-07-02T15:07:31Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Probably not the oldest movie I’ve ever enjoyed, but the oldest movie I’ve enjoyed recently: “Red-Headed Woman” and “Freaks”, both from '32. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-movie-you-enjoyed/758240/74 "2016-07-02T16:07:59Z")
_Cabinet of Caligari_, _Metropolis_, _The Last Laugh_, and _Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler_ - our varsity film club had a German Expressionist festival once, and i enjoyed all of them. _Mabuse_ was fuck-long, though, we had to watch it over 3 showings… ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-movie-you-enjoyed/758240/75 "2016-07-02T16:22:13Z")
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) is the earliest I actually enjoyed as a whole. Parts of _Intolerance_ (1916) were really good but the film as a whole was only so-so. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-movie-you-enjoyed/758240/76 "2016-07-02T17:26:41Z")
I haven’t seen many of these early films…I’ll have to go with Fritz Lang’s **M** , which is just so damned creepy and compelling. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-movie-you-enjoyed/758240.md?page=3)