1940's Recommendations
I know it isn't a sure thing the next Countdown is going to be this, noone has said they'll host it yet and it will be ages away if it is anyway but even if it's not this thread will be useful anyway. I'm getting back to watching 40's films right now and i usually use the lists here for stuff like Western's i'm not that familiar with but i noticed there's only three 40's Western's i've not seen from that list yet so some good 40's Western recs would be appreciated. This is for any 40's films though that's just a request from me.
I'll keep all the recs and any links people post in this post like i did with the Sci-Fi one. Will add a few of my own shortly but i'm not very knowledgable of the decade yet. Recommendations: *Along Came Jones (Stuart Heisler, 1945) comedy Western, Gary Cooper, Loretta Young *Angel and the Badman (James Edward Grant) John Wayne, Gail Russell *The Sea of Grass (Elia Kazan, 1947) western drama, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy A Foreign Affair, A Letter to Three Wives, A Matter of Life and Death (1946) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Adam's Rib, All The Kings Men (1949), Robert Rossen Aniki Bobo (1942) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Ball of Fire, Bambi, Beauty and the Beast (1946) Bedlam, Bicycle Thieves (1948) Black Narcissus (1947) Blithe Spirit, Blood on the Moon (Robert Wise,1948 Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes Body and Soul Boomerang! (1947), Elia Kazan Born to Kill (1947) Captain Kidd Casablanca (1942) Cat People (!942), Jacques Tourner Champion (1949) Children of Paradise (1945) Christmas in July, Citizen Kane (1941) Day of Wrath (1943) Dead Reckoning (1947) Dead of Night (1945), Various Detour (1945) Double Indemnity (1944) Dragonwyck Drunken Angel (1948) Duel in the Sun, Dumbo, Fantasia (1940) Force of Evil (1948) Fort Apache (1948) Gaslight (1944) Germany Year Zero (1948) Gilda (1946) Going my Way (1944), Leo McCarey Great Expectations (1946), David Lean Green for Danger, Hail the Conquering Hero, Hamlet (1948) Heaven Can Wait (1943) Here Comes Mr. Jordan, His Girl Friday (1940) How Green Was My Valley (1941) I Shot Jesse James I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Jacques Tourner It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Ivan the Terrible (1944) Jane Eyre (1943), Robert Stevenson Johnny Belinda Jour de fete (1949) Journey For Margaret Jungle Book (1942), Zoltan Korda Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Kings Row (1942), Sam Wood Late Spring (1949) Laura Le Corbeau Leave Her to Heaven Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) Lifeboat, Love On The Dole (1941) Man Hunt (1941) Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) Mildred Pierce (1945) Ministry of Fear (1944) Monsieur Verdoux (1947) Murder, My Sweet (1944) My Darling Clementine (1946) Night Train to Munich, Nightmare Alley (1947) Notorious (1946) Objective Burma Odd Man Out (1947) Oliver Twist Open City (1946) Orpheus (1949) Ossessione Our Town, (1940) Sam Wood Out of the Past (1947) Paisan (1946) Phantom Lady (1944) Pinocchio (1940) Pride of the Yankees (1942), Sam Wood Pursued Rebecca (1940) Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) Red River (1948) Reign of Terror (1949) Ride the Pink Horse (1947) Road to Morocco (1942), David Butler Rope (1948) Saboteur (1942) San Antonio (David Butler, 1945) Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith Santa Fe Trail (Michael Curtiz, 1940)Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland Scarlet Street (1945) Sergeant York (1941) Shadow of a Doubt (1943) She Wore A Yellow Ribbon Silver River(Raoul Walsh, 1948)Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan Somewhere In The Night (1946) Song of the South, Sorry. Wrong Number, Spellbound (1945) Spring in a Small Town (1948) Stranger on the Third Floor. Strawberry Blonde Stray Dog (1949) Sullivan's Travels (1941) Suspicion Tales of Manhattan That Hamilton Woman (1941), Alexander Korda The Adventuress (I See a Dark Stranger), The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, The Bank Dick, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) The Big Clock, The Big Sleep (1946) The Bishop's Wife, The Blue Dahlia The Body Snatcher, The Canterville Ghost The Clock The Dark Corner The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) The Enchanted Cottage The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) The Glass Key (1942) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) The Great Dictator (1940) The Great McGinty, The Heiress (1949) William Wyler The Human Comedy (1943), Clarence Brown The Killers (1946) The Lady Eve (1941) The Lady From Shanghai (1947) The Letter (1940) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) The Little Foxes The Lost Weekend The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) The Maltese Falcon (1941) The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Mortal Storm The Outlaw (Howard Hughes,Howard Hawks, 1943)Jack Buetel,Jane Russell The Ox-Bow Incident The Palm Beach Story, The Paradine Case The Philadelphia Story (1940) The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 The Pride of the Yankees The Razor's Edge The Reckless Moment (1949) The Red Shoes 1948 The Sea Wolf The Search (1948) The Set-Up The Shop Around the Corner (1940) The Spiral Staircase (1945), Roger Siodmak The Story of GI Joe (1945), William Wellman The Stranger (1946) The Suspect The Talk of the Town, The Third Man (1949) The Time of Their Lives The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) The Undying Monster (1942), John Brahm The Univited (1944), Lewis Allen There Was a Father (1942) They Died with Their Boots (Raoul Walsh, 1941)Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) They Were Expendable (1945) This Gun for Hire This Land Is Mine Three Godfathers, To Be or Not to Be (1942) To Have and Have Not (1944) Tom, Dick & Harry, Twelve O'Clock High (1949) Unfaithfully Yours, Virginia City (Michael Curtiz, 1940) Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins Whisky Galore! (1949) White Heat (1949) Who Done It? (1942) Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Michael Curtiz Yellow Sky Stuff worth reading: Jal90 https://www.pastemagazine.com/articl...the-1940s.html https://www.movieforums.com/communit...ad.php?t=49083 |
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Yeah, western recs are a good thing. :up:
Also some horror recs for this decade would be appreciated. |
Originally Posted by jiraffejustin (Post 1656776)
Yeah, western recs are a good thing. :up:
Also some horror recs for this decade would be appreciated. Don't know any 40's horrors i don't think. |
Re: 1940's Recommendations
Perhaps, you could list films from 40s you've already seen. Then it would be easier to recommend. First thing that comes to my mind is to check some of the films with Charles Laughton in it.
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Originally Posted by Nestorio_Miklos (Post 1656781)
Perhaps, you could list films from 40s you've already seen. Then it would be easier to recommend. First thing that comes to my mind is to check some of the films with Charles Laughton in it.
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Here's a post i made in the 40's HOF thread when i wasn't sure if i was going to join. I nominated something i hadn't seen, ended up going with Pursued. Still haven't seen any of these so far all i know they are awful but i saw them mentioned as great under appreciated films by critics i really like and i'm planning on checking them out myself.
When i was thinking about joining this i was going to ask Sean if it was ok if i nominated something i hadn't seen like some have done in a few other HOFs. Simply because i've only really watched the big classics from the decade and i would've rather give something not well known a possible chance at the Countdown whenever we do it.
I read through alot of stuff about lesser known great 40s films: i'm only namedropping this because it sounds like something i'd like from what i've read and i'm planning on watching it soon: Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1943) http://i63.tinypic.com/2qui004.jpg From the same director as The Wages of Fear. I've heard it described as the first French Noir although i'm not sure how accurate that is. Anyway it sounds great and i can't wait to watch it, hope some others do. A few others i was considering after reading about them: Strawberry Blonde (Raoul Walsh, 1941) http://i65.tinypic.com/sgsmc6.jpg The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage, 1940) http://i67.tinypic.com/5dw9c9.jpg This is of particular interest to me since it is from the same year as The Shop Around The Corner which i watched yesterday and loved, and it also stars Stewart, Sullavan and Morgan. Yellow Sky (William Wellman, 1948) http://i64.tinypic.com/f2j0p5.jpg Who knows maybe i'll hate them all but i'm planning on watching alot of lesser known films for this countdown because i think i spend time on the already acclaimed classics for these decade lists too much and my list looks basically the same as the Countdown. |
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Not counting The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, because it probably doesn't really qualify as a western, I think I've only seen four westerns that I can recommend.
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) - proto-noir western/pre-12 Angry Men-ish My Darling Clementine (1946) - One of the best shot final shoot-outs, but I need to watch it again I Shot Jesse James (1949) - It's a Sam Fuller film so expect a different atmosphere than all the others when you pop it in. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) - The prettiest western from this decade I've seen. |
The Paradine Case is a decent court drama I would recommend as well as Tales of Manhattan, that's a comedy. I just love to watch Charles Laughton
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Originally Posted by jiraffejustin (Post 1656786)
Not counting The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, because it probably doesn't really qualify as a western, I think I've only seen four westerns that I can recommend.
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) - proto-noir western/pre-12 Angry Men-ish My Darling Clementine (1946) - One of the best shot final shoot-outs, but I need to watch it again I Shot Jesse James (1949) - It's a Sam Fuller film so expect a different atmosphere than all the others when you pop it in. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) - The prettiest western from this decade I've seen. |
Re: 1940's Recommendations
Here's a bunch:
Fantasia (1940) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) The Great Dictator (1940) Pinocchio (1940) His Girl Friday (1940) Rebecca (1940) The Philadelphia Story (1940) The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Citizen Kane (1941) The Maltese Falcon (1941) Sullivan's Travels (1941) The Lady Eve (1941) How Green Was My Valley (1941) The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) Man Hunt (1941) Sergeant York (1941) Casablanca (1942) To Be or Not to Be (1942) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Aniki Bobo (1942) The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) Saboteur (1942) There Was a Father (1942) Day of Wrath (1943) Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Le Corbeau (1943) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) Heaven Can Wait (1943) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) Ivan the Terrible (1944) Double Indemnity (1944) Gaslight (1944) To Have and Have Not (1944) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Ministry of Fear (1944) Phantom Lady (1944) Murder, My Sweet (1944) Children of Paradise (1945) Spellbound (1945) Mildred Pierce (1945) They Were Expendable (1945) Scarlet Street (1945) Detour (1945) Dead of Night (1945) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) My Darling Clementine (1946) A Matter of Life and Death (1946) Notorious (1946) Open City (1946) The Big Sleep (1946) Gilda (1946) Beauty and the Beast (1946) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Paisan (1946) The Stranger (1946) The Killers (1946) Black Narcissus (1947) Out of the Past (1947) Monsieur Verdoux (1947) The Lady From Shanghai (1947) Odd Man Out (1947) They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) Nightmare Alley (1947) Born to Kill (1947) The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) Ride the Pink Horse (1947) Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) Bicycle Thieves (1948) Drunken Angel (1948) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Rope (1948) Red River (1948) Germany Year Zero (1948) The Red Shoes (1948) Fort Apache (1948) Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) Force of Evil (1948) Spring in a Small Town (1948) Hamlet (1948) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) The Third Man (1949) White Heat (1949) Orpheus (1949) Stray Dog (1949) Twelve O'Clock High (1949) Late Spring (1949) Reign of Terror (1949) Whisky Galore! (1949) She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) The Reckless Moment (1949) Jour de fete (1949) |
Re: 1940's Recommendations
And someone needs to step up and volunteer. Someone reliable, of course. A Mofo vet. I'm not doing it for a third time!
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Thanks Harry :up:
I'd also like to suggest Ossessione. It's Luchino Viscont's first film, some recognize it as the first Neo-Realist film although that's disputed. Either way i liked it quite a bit, it's an Italian adaptation of The Postman Always Rings Twice. |
Originally Posted by Camo (Post 1656794)
I'd also like to suggest Ossessione. It's Luchino Viscont's first film, some recognize it as the first Neo-Realist film although that's disputed. Either way i liked it quite a bit, it's an Italian adaptation of The Postman Always Rings Twice.
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Re: 1940's Recommendations
That's the only 40's Italian film i've seen :(. I have Bicycle Thieves and Rome, Open City ready to watch though.
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Re: 1940's Recommendations
Two of Charles Dicken's classics films from 40s
Great Expectations 1946 Oliver Twist 1948 |
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Laura
Leave Her to Heaven Dragonwyck The Razor's Edge |
Originally Posted by Nestorio_Miklos (Post 1656798)
Two of Charles Dicken's classics films from 40s
Great Expectations 1946 Oliver Twist 1948 There will probably be some duplicates in the first post btw coz i'm not checking everytime someone posts haha. |
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Never mind duplicates LOL .. I saw The Adventures of Tom Sawyer long time ago, I just went to check the year of release, damn!! it's from 1938.
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The Little Foxes
The Blue Dahlia |
Re: 1940's Recommendations
This is probably last 2 that come to my mind and that I saw
The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 The Red Shoes 1948, but this is a musical thou |
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