What's your favorite film of the 1930's?

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1

Well, which is it?

  • She (Rider Haggard adventure)
  • Things To Come (H.G. Wells)
  • The Gay Divorcee (Astair & Rogers)
  • The Lost Horizon (Shangri-La)
  • The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn)
  • Any Marx Brothers movie
  • King Kong
  • Bride of Frankenstein
  • Stagecoach
  • The Alamo
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • Gone with the Wind
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein)
  • Triumph of the Will
  • Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)

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Of course I didn’t catch any of these while they were in the theater…

2

It’s gotta be the Marx Brothers.

3

No way. Of course it depends on ones criteria, but if you’re judging by most watchable, as in the type of movie you can watch over and over and over and keep enjoying it, it’s got to be The Wizard of Oz. I only watched bits and pieces of it from time to time on TV as a kid, but I bought the video for my daughter about a year ago and have watched most of it dozens of times now. It’s truly a masterpiece. I admit it’s not perfect: it drags a little and the flying monkey stuff isn’t perfect, but from the moment her house lands in Oz and she steps out into the fabulously multicolored song and dance with the munchkins and then with the fantastically talented strawman, tinman and lion – wow! Immensely captivating and memorable for children and adults for over 6 decades now. You can’t beat that.

4

Oops

5

All Quiet. Hands down. That film has stayed with me FAR more than any of the others.

6

Too many good movies made in the 1930’s. Frankenstein (1931), Dracula (1931).

And then there’s also Grand Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939) by Jean Renoir, the great French director.

Popeye cartoons were also first put out in the 1930’s. And the immortal Betty Boop first appeared in the 1930’s.

Good choice for a discussion. An amazingly productive decade for entertainment. :notworthy:

7

The 30s were kind of depressing. If I could go back to any decade, it would be the roaring 20s.
Gunga Din (1939)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Maltese Falcon, The (1931)

8

Wizard of Oz!
Those flying monkeys, and the odd house tossed in for good measure, get me every time… :charliebrown:

9

Nice poll.
I guess

Mutiny on the Bounty
Captain Blood
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Informer
Frankenstein
City Lights
The Man Who Came Back
The Champ
A Connecticut Yankee
Dracula
The Public Enemy
Angels with Dirty Faces
Block-Heads
Boys Town
Bringing up Baby
The Citadel
The Dawn Patrol
Gunga Din
Holiday
Jezebel
Das Blaue Licht
Blonde Venus
A Farewell to Arms
Freaks
Grand Hotel
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Movie Crazy
The Mummy
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Red Dust
Scarface
Tarzan the Ape Man
Up the River
and
The Lost Patrol

don’t count.

10

You’re right, they don’t. No flying monkeys in any of them except Tarzan, but that film lacks munchkins.

Next.

11

The 39 Steps

12

There’s a lot of movies like that that I know are good but haven’t seen.
Also:
Mutiny on the Bounty
Captain Blood
A Connecticut Yankee
Bringing up Baby
The Dawn Patrol
Gunga Din
Jezebel
A Farewell to Arms

Especially A Connecticut Yankee because I went to Will Rogers High School.

13

What about watching Wizard of Oz while listening to Dark Side of the Moon?

14

On shrooms.

15

On shrooms.[/quote]

with black lighting and carpeted walls, lava lamps. Salty Nuts, tambourines, and belly dancers…
And an endless supply of bombay mojitoes…

:scooby:

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On shrooms.[/quote]

with black lighting and carpeted walls, lava lamps. Salty Nuts, tambourines, and belly dancers…
And an endless supply of bombay mojitoes…

:scooby:[/quote]

I’m there. Send me the date and details in a pm.

17

On shrooms.[/quote]

with black lighting and carpeted walls, lava lamps. Salty Nuts, tambourines, and belly dancers…
And an endless supply of bombay mojitoes…

:scooby:[/quote]

Looks like the next Happy Hour has been planned.

18

Bringing Up Baby isn’t on the list, so I abstain.

19

On shrooms.[/quote]
I went the the theater to see Alice in Wonderland on shrooms.
I went to see Gone With the Wind on acid. I don’t understand that movie at all.

20

The Thin Man series!

Pretty much anything with the Marx Brothers, Fred & Ginger, Carole Lombard, Myrna Loy, or Mia Farrow’s mother, Maureen O’Sullivan (damn you, Production Code, damn you forever).

The 2-DVD release of the Wizard of Oz is absolutely terrific. Everything on it is worth watching.

And King Kong remains a favorite. I can still remember the first time I saw it and the impression it made on me. I was in second grade and snuck out of bed so I could watch it on TV on the late show. I had the sound turned all the way down, so my parents wouldn’t find out. What a great movie.