Tell us about your favorite movie made before 1950.

That was freaking hilarious. And yes, I do love the movie Rebecca, but I figured I’d added enough movies to the thread already.

While we’re at it though, Spellbound, Lifeboat, Shadow of a Doubt, Saboteur, The 39 Steps, Murder!,* Blackmail*, and The Lodger.

I don’t know. She never liked Godfrey, treated him like dirt from the first time they met, and tried to get him arrested. It would take more than “gosh, I guess you’ve shown us all the error of our ways” at the end to make me think she’d changed.

Can’t narrow it down to one film - it would be something with Bogart from the 40s.

I’m not sure about that; I thought that by the end of the movie she had a little crush on him. Heaven knows, in other movies romantic female leads have done worse stuff to romantic male leads and still ended up with him at the end.

This sounds like a good excuse to watch the movie again. :smiley:

Not quite. None of the original Twilight Zone was in color. In that particular episode the modern scenes had sound, and the old-time scenes were silent with title cards for dialogue.

Forgot “Life with Father” starring William Powell, Liz Taylor, and Irene Dunn. Very funny, even now.
And, “Petrified Forest” w/Bogie and Leslie Howard.

My favorites have been mentioned more than once, but for a single choice it would be

King Kong
A film I’ve seen more times than I can count, and probably one of the first I saw from before 1950.

Other favorites, many of which I watch over and over, have already been mentioned:
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
(The Huston/Bogart one. I’ve seen the other versions – they’re not in the same ballpark)

Fantasia
Wizard of Oz
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
A Night at the Opera
(but not A Day at the Races. You can keep it – except for the "Tutti Fruiti Ice Cream routine.)
Metropolis (the fully restored version)
Gone with the Wind
and I’ll add
Mighty Joe Young – a Kinder, Gentler King Kong, but with a few superb scenes.
Phantom of the Opera – with the restored Technicolor and Handschiegl color sequences
The Lost World – the “fan” restored version, not the Eastman House version.

Someone already mentioned this but my candidate would have to be 1934’s The Thin Man and its subsequent series. For me, it was more style over substance, but the way William Powell and Myrna Loy played off each other has to go down as one of the best pairings on the silver screen.

This movie got me into Dashiell Hammett, hard liquor and Myrna Loy. Her character of Nora Charles is the epitome of a fun, witty and classy woman.

Metropolis - I think it still holds up as great SciFi even today.