My Top 25 Classic Films

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This list is probably horribly predictable, and it may change tomorrow or the day after that, but as of right now, here are my twenty-five favorite pre-1960s movies arranged in chronological order.

Captain Blood (1935)
G-Men (1935)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Cover Girl (1944)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
Key Largo (1948)
Prince of Foxes (1948)
White Heat (1949)
Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
The Crimson Pirate (1952)
Scaramouche (1952)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Julius Caesar (1953)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
On The Waterfront (1954)
Guys and Dolls (1955)
Funny Face (1957)

Comments

[igenlode]

The Hornblower one is surprisingly not-bad for a Hollywood adaptation (and an omnibus of three novels put together at that!) "On the Waterfront" didn't do anything for me at all; I remember it as a big disappointment :-(

Have you seen any of the various versions of "Mutiny on the Bounty"?

What about Edward G. Robinson films: "Scarlet Street", "Double Indemnity", "The Sea Wolf", "Barbary Coast", "All My Sons"?

Leslie Howard: "Pygmalion", "The Scarlet Pimpernel", "The First of the Few"?

Burt Lancaster: "Elmer Gantry", "Separate Tables", "Vera Cruz", "The Flame and the Arrow", "Brute Force"

Errol Flynn: "They Died with Their Boots On", "The Sea Hawk", "The Charge of the Light Brigade"

No silent films at all?