1939 has been considered a golden year for films.
What is your favorite?
The Women
Gone With The Wind
The Thin Man
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 AMThe 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
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Re: Favorite 1939 Film
Sat, May 10, 2008 - 9:26 AMThe 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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Re: Favorite 1939 Film
Sat, May 10, 2008 - 10:10 PMI totally forgot about Dark Victory! -
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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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Re: Favorite 1939 Film
Sun, May 25, 2008 - 7:52 PMDon't remember 'On Borrowed Time' . Who's in it? What's it about? -
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Re: Favorite 1939 Film
Mon, May 26, 2008 - 9:30 AMIf 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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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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