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Favorite 1939 Film

topic posted Fri, May 9, 2008 - 10:33 PM by  cynthia
1939 has been considered a golden year for films.
What is your favorite?
The Women
Gone With The Wind
The Thin Man
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  • Re: Favorite 1939 Film

    Sat, May 10, 2008 - 7:47 AM
    The Wizard of Oz
    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
    Only Angels Have Wings
    The Hound of the Baskervilles
    The Little Princess

    And I have a soft spot for "Babes in Arms."
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    • Re: Favorite 1939 Film

      Sat, May 10, 2008 - 9:26 AM
      The Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu)
      The Women
      Only Angels Have Wings
      Le Jour Se Leve


      and sentimental favorite
      Dark Victory
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      • cynthia
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        Re: Favorite 1939 Film

        Sat, May 10, 2008 - 10:10 PM
        I totally forgot about Dark Victory!
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        • Scott
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          Re: Favorite 1939 Film

          Sat, May 24, 2008 - 10:01 PM

          Hunchback of Notre Dame
          Goodbye, Mr. Chips
          GWTW
          Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
          On Borrowed Time

          sentimental, I know
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          • cynthia
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            Re: Favorite 1939 Film

            Sun, May 25, 2008 - 7:52 PM
            Don't remember 'On Borrowed Time' . Who's in it? What's it about?
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            • Kelly
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              Re: Favorite 1939 Film

              Mon, May 26, 2008 - 9:30 AM
              If I could list "Only Angels Have Wings" as 5 of my top ten, I would. It doesn't have the flash of many of the other masterpieces of that year, or even Howard Hawks' own catalog, but it gets its hooks in and never lets go. It reminds me of Michael Powell's masterpiece "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" which isn't spectacular like "The Red Shoes" or "Black Naricssus" or innovative like "Peeping Tom", but it's the one that moves me the most because it seems the most attached to real human characters.
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              • Scott
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                Re: Favorite 1939 Film

                Mon, May 26, 2008 - 10:10 PM
                >Don't remember 'On Borrowed Time'. Who's in it? What's it about?

                Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke & child actor Bobs Watson, who is terrific. Lionel's an old man who cheats Death by getting him to go up a tree, and then keeps him there. It was (or really appears to be) shot on the same set as the Kansas farm from "Wizard of Oz," released that same year. The play was revived on Broadway by the late George C. Scott.
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