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1931: Frankenstein; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
1932: I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang; The Mummy; Freaks; The Old
Dark House.
1933: King Kong; Island of Lost Souls; The Invisible Man.
1935: Mutiny On The Bounty; Captain Blood.
1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood.
1939: Gone With The Wind; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Stagecoach;
The Wizard of Oz.
1940: The Grapes of Wrath; The Sea Hawk.
1941: The Maltese Falcon; Citizen Kane.
1942: Casablanca.
Follow Ups:
The posts already exhaust most of my list of recomendations but left out two favorites:"A Way of Living" (F. March, G. Cooper) from the play by N.Coward
May not be readily avaiable."Citizen Kane" (O.Wells, J, Cotten) Especially the new resoration on DVD. Even if you've seen it in the theater you missed a lot. A lot of the detail in the shadows just disappeared over the years.
BTW, I agree completely about the restoration of Citizen Kane. The print released in Warner's excellent DVD package, from a negative discovered a year or so back in a European film archive, is jaw-droppingly beautiful; it's a must own for classic film collectors, Welle's fans and film students/scholors.AuPh
and some Chaplin: from 1931, "City Lights"; 1936, "Modern Times"; 1940 "The Great Dictator"...Lubitsch´s "To be or not to be" (1942) would do, too.
Some John Ford, like "Stagecoach" (1939)
And so many more, as that was a pretty fruitful time for cinema.
BF
The 32 recommended are great; but can you make time for these..1930: All Quiet On the Western Front; The Blue Angel
1931: Vampyr
1935: The 39 Steps; The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1936: Modern Times; My Man Godfrey
1937: Grand Illusion
1938: The Lady Vanishes; The Four Feathers
1940: Foreign Correspondent
1941: Sullivan's Travels
1943: Day of Wrath
1944: Double Indemnity
1946: Beauty and the Beast; The Best Years of Our Lives
1948: Red River
1949: A Letter to Three WivesWe have now reached a total of 50 films, which I think is a much better cross-section of the greatest films of the 30's and 40's.
There are a few in the first 2 posts that I have not seen, but I am eagerly looking foreward to finding and viewing them. I suspect that it may be some time before all of the 50 listed so far are out on dvd however.
John_N
... although the list should probably be stretched a bit for movies like:M (P. Lorre, F. Lang dir., Ger., '31)
Scarface (P. Muni, H. Hawks dir., '32)
Duck Soup (Marx Bros., L. McCarey dir., '33)
It Happened One Night (C. Gable & C. Colbert, F. Capra dir., '34)
The Bride of Frankenstein (B. Karloff, J. Whale dir., '35)
Things to Come (R. Richardson, Z. Korda dir., Brit., '36)
Lost Horizon (R. Colman, F. Capra, '37)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (W. Huston, W. Dieterle dir., '41)
The Big Sleep (H. Bogart & L. Bacall, H. Hawks dir., '45 & '46 vers.)
The Treasure of Sierra Madre (H. Bogart, J. Houston dir., '48)
The Third Man (J. Cotton, O. Welles, Carol Reed dir., '49)Of course that brings the total to 32 recommendations, should you agree with my addendum. The only reservations I have about any of the titles on your list are a couple of versions of oft remade films whose signature versions were arguably done before those versions in the 1930's. Specifically, I'm refering to the earlier silent version of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, which contains an awesome rendering of the dual characters by John Barrymore (sans make-up!), and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, whose earlier silent version has a remarkably moving performance by Lon Chaney which comes through in spite of some truly grotesque make-up.
Anyway, I toast your excellent post, Audio Head! This should give folks here some ideas for filling in gaps in their DVD collections! :o)AuPh
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