# What were the OTHER great movies of 1939?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 15, 2000, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-other-great-movies-of-1939/25700 "2000-07-15T22:17:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-other-great-movies-of-1939/25700/21 "2000-07-17T21:02:20Z")

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**CalMeacham** , you forgot [Yor, the Hunter from the Future](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0084935). A visit to IMDb jogged my memory and I had a vivid flashback of 90 minutes of the **worst** movie of all time (that my friends forced me to watch, so don’t go dissing me!)

And don’t anybody start arguing with me, this is the **worst** movie of all time. Fortunately, most of it has been erased from my memory.

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**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-other-great-movies-of-1939/25700/22 "2000-07-17T21:05:14Z")

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Oh-oh, Arnie’s going to get us started on a Worst Movie thread. If so, I nominate: Under The Cherry Moon.

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-other-great-movies-of-1939/25700/23 "2000-07-18T08:20:43Z")

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**Eve** ,

You’ll get no arguments from me about 1932 (I always thought 1939 a bit overrated–plenty of “classics”, but mostly titles people know rather than all truly great movies).

**However** , I can’t believe you missed 4 of the 5 Best films from 1932:

Lubitsch’s _Trouble in Paradise_  
Ozu’s _I Was Born, but…_  
Dreyer’s _Vampyr_  
Browning’s _Freaks_

(the 5th of course being Mamoulian’s wonderful _Love Me Tonight_)

Good choices, though. Some others include the Marx Brothers’ _Horse Feathers_, Sternberg’s _Blonde Venus_, Hawks’ _Scarface_, _Fanny_ w/Raimu, Renoir’s _Boudu Saved from Drowning, The Mummy, Ecstasy, The Most Dangerous Game, Tarzan the Ape Man, White Zombie_, Capra’s _American Madness_, and two seminal animated shorts: _Flowers and Trees_ and _Minnie the Moocher_ w/Betty Boop

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-other-great-movies-of-1939/25700/24 "2000-07-18T12:58:52Z")

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Well, Arch, I didn’t want to cause old-movie overload . . . But I think we have conclusively proved that 1932 was the high point in movie history, anmd it’s all been downhill since then.

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