nmr: recs for hollywood's golden age

neuroboy · **Posted:** Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:51 pm

i'm want to pack my netflix queue with golden age movies. what do you recommend?

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

I always fuck up the distinction of what is a golden age movie. Does the Maltese Falcon count? Thin Man? Casablanca?

d · **Posted:** Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:17 pm

I just got done watching a bunch of Chaplin movies recently, so you can't go wrong there. So many to choose from:

"The Gold Rush"
"The Kid"
"Modern Times"
"The Great Dictator" -- really funny one, and one of the few "talkies" he did

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

does The Apartment count?

neuroboy · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:55 am

seen the apartment--great movie. casablanca is in the queue already. stuff like philadelphia story, etc. i've never seen a move with garbo or grace kelly.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

The Talk of the Town
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Father of the Bride
A Streetcar Named Desire

Rick Derris · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:44 pm

Treasure of the Sierra Madre is the shit. Love Bogart in that. "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!!!"

On the Waterfront also. Brando in his prime. Classic.

My fave Hitchcock flick: Strangers on a Train. Creepy as hell.

Leon · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:45 pm

The Roaring Twenties is good

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

grace kelly acted in movies in the 50's so while it's not the golden age these were pretty good:

rear window--hitchcock
to catch a thief--hitchcock
high society--comedy/musical

as for one of my personal all-time favorites:
his girl friday with rosalind russell. it's a remake of the front page and miss russell has quite the mouth on her in this film. one of my heroes.
and cary grant ain't too bad on the eyes either.

Evil Dr. K · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:51 am **Posts:** 6327

neuroboy Wrote:

seen the apartment--great movie.

Weird, I almost picked this up today. Ended up getting The Graduate instead.

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

Rick Derris Wrote:

Treasure of the Sierra Madre is the shit. Love Bogart in that. "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!!!"

Totally--for those who didn't know--the Bogey character is the Bugs Bunny cartoon with the penguin ("Pardon me, but, could you help a fellow American...") is from Treasure.

I'll add The Caine Mutiny, and if 1964 is still considered "Golden Age", The Train (kick-ass Burt Lancaster).

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

Billzebub Wrote:

The Caine Mutiny

most excellent.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:26 pm

The African Queen

duckyboy · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:59 pm

Sunset Blvd.
In a Lonely Place
Out of the Past
Gun Crazy
The Big Sleep
Vertigo
Stalag 17
The Searchers
Sullivan's Travels
Palm Beach Story
The Lady Eve
My Man Godfry

Anyway, if you want this kind of stuff you should in general check out movies by directors like Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Ernst Lubitsch, Frank Capra, George Cuckor.

tkyd · **Posted:** Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:50 am

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