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Post by spiderwort on Dec 14, 2017 15:36:10 GMT
Here are the choices: 1939 - "Gone with the Wind" 1938 - "You Can't Take It with You" 1937 - "The Life of Emile Zola" 1936 - "The Great Ziegfeld" 1935 - "Mutiny on the Bounty" 1934 - "It Happened One Night" 1932/1933 - "Cavalcade" 1931/1932 - "Grand Hotel" 1930/1931 - "Cimarron" 1929/1930 - "All Quiet on the Western Front" 1928/1929 - "The Broadway Melody" 1927/1928 - "Wings" My favorites are Wings, All Quiet on the Western Front, and It Happened One Night.
Wings, a heartbreaking scene that isn't what it looks like.
All Quiet on the Western Front
It Happened One Night
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Dec 14, 2017 15:50:00 GMT
I love Wings and Mutiny on the Bounty and All Quiet on the Western Front but Gone with the Wind can't be beat.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2017 16:02:50 GMT
I haven't seen many of the films you listed. All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the few war films I rated 10/10.
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Post by bravomailer on Dec 14, 2017 17:21:37 GMT
All Quiet on the Western Front is tops for me. Perhaps heresy to say this but I think the 1979 remake is much better.
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Post by mattgarth on Dec 14, 2017 17:35:53 GMT
I'll go ONE NIGHT with Capra's classic.
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Post by mikef6 on Dec 14, 2017 18:09:24 GMT
1929/30 All Quiet On The Western Front
1935 Mutiny On The Bounty
1934 It Happened One Night
I rate Wings and Cimarron higher than most. I was very moved by Cavalcade.
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1928/29 The Broadway Melody. “All Talking, All Singing, All Dancing" That tag line tells all you need to know about why it won BP and was a box office hit. Everybody wanted to see (and award) the first MGM sound film musical extravaganza and never mind the untalented singers and clunky dancers in a standard show biz plot. The title song is a corker, though.
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Post by teleadm on Dec 14, 2017 18:48:20 GMT
I've seen too few of these. Gone with the Wind, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Great Ziegfield are such classic and grand scale movies, made with old-fashioned Hollywood professionalism, and that's why they work so well with me, though GWTW is a few notches over the other two. Grand Hotel, was so long ago I watched it... It Happened One Night and You Can't Take It With You, is both great and entertaining movies, and very different from each others.  The Walls of Jericho  Capra with cast and crew during You Can't Take It With You. |
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Post by politicidal on Dec 14, 2017 19:04:28 GMT
Mutiny on the Bounty. I saw the '62 version with Brando first and was biased against this for some time. But now I oddly enjoy it more.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2017 19:35:53 GMT
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Dec 14, 2017 22:39:48 GMT
MOTB & GWTW
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Post by gunshotwound on Dec 15, 2017 0:34:59 GMT
My favorites are: All Quiet on the Western Front Grand Hotel It Happened One Night Mutiny on the Bounty You Can't Take it with You Gone with the Wind |
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Post by kijii on Dec 15, 2017 2:32:03 GMT
Gone with the Wind
Some (like me) say that this is the greatest movie ever made!!
I saw in a downtown movie palace in Denver when I was <10 years old.
How can that be if I was born in 1943 and the movie was made in 1939?
It must have be an encore showing....no other explanation seems possible.
I wonder it if was in honor of its 10-year anniversary.
Yes, I could have remembered it at the age of 6 since it was a big thing to go to downtown to see a movie with grandma and some of my cousins.
Actually, I also saw The Wizard of Oz (for the first time) in a theater too.
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Post by mikef6 on Dec 15, 2017 3:01:29 GMT
Gone with the WindSome (like me) say that this is the greatest movie ever made!! I saw in a downtown movie palace in Denver when I was <10 years old. How can that be if I was born in 1943 and the movie was made in 1939? It must have be an encore showing....no other explanation seems possible. I wonder it if was in honor of its 10-year anniversary. Yes, I could have remembered it at the age of 6 since it was a big thing to go to downtown to see a movie with grandma and some of my cousins. Actually, I also saw The Wizard of Oz (for the first time) in a theater too. I believe that GWTW, like The Wizard Of Oz, got periodic theater releases over the next 20 to 30 years after its first release in 1939. I saw it for the first time at about 15 years old in 1960 or thereabouts at a downtown movie palace in San Antonio. |
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Post by kijii on Dec 15, 2017 6:36:36 GMT
I was thinking after I posted the comment above---
In the 50s and some of the 60s, the only way to see movie classics was at a movie theater!!
TV only came into being (in most homes) in the 50s; classic movies on TV only became possible as "Late Night Movies" on major channels; and color TV only became common in the 60s (and early color TV was not too good either).
We sometimes have to realize how lucky we are to even see classic movies again!! As for some of the classics movies we talk about here, I saw many of them--for the first time--on my college campus in the 60s. I remember taking a date to see M for the first time in 1962 at a special college showing of it, and it had not been restored at that time either.
The first non-digital VCRs weren't available until the late 70s or early 80s. So, the idea of even seeing something on TV (that had been home-recorded) is a relatively recent event,at least in my lifetime.
Then, the "digital revolution" and cable TV only came into being (in most homes) after 1980. The first classic movie channel I remember was AMC, in the 80s.
I have lived through a revolution of being able to see old movies againl!!
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 15, 2017 7:59:53 GMT
I choose All of the above except for Emile Zola. huh ? just one ? really ? oh, ok... but this is under protest : IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT with YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU as 2nd choice  |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Dec 16, 2017 12:12:44 GMT
It Happened one Night was just a pure joy to watch.
In will give a nod to The Great Ziegfeld as well, I liked that too.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 16, 2017 14:50:26 GMT
spiderwortFavorites, plural, Bat. Choose as many favorites as you like.
ahhh...the missing "s" in the OP threw me off. My reply above still stands then
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2017 15:34:55 GMT
My choice for best picture of each of those years.
1927 - Napoleon
1928 - Ten Days That Shook the World
1929 - The Cocoanuts
1930 - All Quiet on the Western Front
1931 - M
1932 - Grand Hotel
1933 - Duck Soup
1934 - The Lost Patrol
1935 - The 39 Steps
1936 - Modern Times
1937 - Lost Horizon
1938 - You Can't Take it With You
1939 - (tie) Gone With the Wind / The Wizard of Oz
but to answer the OQ: Gone With the Wind
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Post by taranofprydain on Dec 16, 2017 17:25:16 GMT
1. "Gone with the Wind"
(Sunrise, sole winner of Unique or Artistic Picture)
2. "All Quiet on the Western Front"
3. "Wings"
4. "Grand Hotel"
5. "You Can't Take It with You"
6. "It Happened One Night"
7. "The Life of Emile Zola"
8. "The Great Ziegfeld"
9. "Cavalcade"
10. "The Broadway Melody"
11. "Mutiny on the Bounty"
12."Cimarron"
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