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What are your Favorite movies from before 1961


The tale of Zatoichi
7 Samurai
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Dracula
Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein
Nosferatu
12 Angry Men

What do you like?

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Touch of Evil

A Night At the Opera

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Vertigo

The Wizard of Oz

The Great Dictator

Rebel Without A Cause

To name but a few.......

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Any Will Hay Movie

Any George Formby movie

Any Norman Wisdom movie.

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I like a lot of the movies others have posted so far.

I would also add the Val Lewton produced horror movies like Cat People.

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The thing from another world

Them

The Crisome Pirate

All Basil Rathbone sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Robin Hood

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Ben-Hur
The Ten Commandments
Citizen Kane
Miracle on 34th Street
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Wizard of Oz
The Spirit of St. Louis
Gone With the Wind
Spartacus
Giant
Psycho
Casablanca
Singin' in the Rain

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Man that’s a good list

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Thanks! The one movie I think people may not be familiar with is The Spirit of St. Louis (1957). It was criticized at the time for casting a 47-year-old Jimmy Stewart to portray a 25-year-old Charles Lindbergh. All these years later, I don't think it matters much. I think it is a wonderful film.

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I saw it start to finish. I looked on its MovieChat page to see if I commented but didn’t see anything. I was on a Jimmy Stewart kick at the time and trying to see all his movies. I don’t remember too much about it except the flying scenes were well done and I recall some special effects with a fly in the cockpit

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Black Sunday (1960)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
King Kong (1933)
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Haxan (1922)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Metropolis (1927)
Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
Snow White (1937)
Brides of Dracula (1960)
Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Wizard of OZ (1939)

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Way too many to list.. I'll come back to this later.

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Can I ask, 'why 1961?'

I don't like movie aesthetics from before the 70s, so my list is not that great.

High Noon
12 Angry Men
City Lights
Sanjuro
It Happened One Night


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Listed in chronological order, here are twenty favorites that I own ...
Modern Times (1936) - Blu-ray
Captains Courageous (1937) - DVD
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - Blu-ray
Casablanca (1942) - Blu-ray
Battleground (1949) - DVD
Twelve O'Clock High (1949) - Blu-ray
The African Queen (1951) - Blu-ray
Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) - DVD
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - DVD
Stalag 17 (1953) - Blu-ray
Rear Window (1954) - DVD
The Court Jester (1955) - DVD
The Dam Busters (1955) - Blu-ray
Forbidden Planet (1956) - Blu-ray
The Ten Commandments (1956) - Blu-ray
12 Angry Men (1957) - DVD
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) - DVD
Ben-Hur (1959) - Blu-ray
The Apartment (1960) - Blu-ray
Spartacus (1960) - Blu-ray

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I forgot to list The African Queen...a fave of mine!

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