Classic films that I've seen
A list of all the pre-1970 movies I've ever watched
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- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsVictor AndréBleuette BernonA group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.lnteresting for its historical importance only. lf it was made today, l would give it a definite zero, if even that....Btw, the moon at the end is really creepy.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsGilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' AndersonA.C. AbadieGeorge BarnesA group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.Another super old film. This one (the first western of all time) had a more elaborate plot, in comparison. But still, movies from this era were very primitive and l can't overlook that.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsPeter LorreEllen WidmannInge LandgutWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.What can you expect from a movie with the shortest title ever? A child murderer (Lorre) is being chased down by cops, criminals and homeless people. Some scenes might have taken a bit too long, but as a whole, you can expect to see a great film!
- DirectorTod BrowningStarsWallace FordLeila HyamsOlga BaclanovaA circus' beautiful trapeze artist Cleopatra agrees to marry Hans the leader of side-show performers, but Hans' deformed friends discover that she is only marrying him for his inheritance. So they seek revenge.The plot is okey, but the execution could've been done better. lt's about a circus containing lots of disfigured people as well as "normal" people.
One of the characters, a vertically challenged dude, falls in love with a normal sized woman, and he gets the impression that the feelings are returned. l think too much focus was made on random scenes, just to show these odd looking people like Schlitze.
The message of the movie is a good one, though, and l admire Tod for doing a daring film like this, in 1932. - DirectorFrank BorzageStarsSpencer TracyLoretta YoungMarjorie RambeauBill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant."Oh look, this movie has Spencer Tracy AND Loretta Young, l'm sure it's awesome"......Well, l was wrong. The movie is forgettable, l don't even rememeber the plot. Some dude decides to take this poor girl home and..... stuff happens(?)......l don't know...
- DirectorJean VigoStarsJean DastéRobert le FlonLouis LefebvreIn a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a celebration day.A French movie that l watched only because of a book that demands me to see it before l die. lt's about a bunch of kids in a boarding school, and the director is clearly trying to do something "artful" but l didn't get it. Je suis désolé, mais ca filme sont très bizarre....
- DirectorRay McCareyStarsMary CarlisleSterling HollowayEdward J. NugentA conceited college track star, used to being "big man on campus", gets a jolt when he loses an election to see who is the most popular man in the school.A boring film about college teens and popularity...l didn't know these types of films existed back then.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsJackie CooperThomas MeighanJackie SearlYoung boy Bill Peck adores his father and tries to be good, but the arrival of Bill's cousin Horace upsets Bill's plans. Horace's brattish ways result in Bill rather than Horace getting in trouble.Jackie Cooper gets into trouble when his cousin comes for visit. An insignificant kid's film.
- DirectorHarlan ThompsonStarsCary GrantGenevieve TobinHelen MackA handsome plastic surgeon has a beauty clinic, where many a beautiful client falls in love with him. His unnoticed secretary is in love with him, too.Cary Grant works as a plastic surgeon. His job is to make average women look beautiful. l should get a job like that! The movie was a bit funny at times, so...yeah...
- DirectorLowell ShermanJack ConwayStarsLoretta YoungCary GrantJackie KelkAn immoral mother blackmails a wealthy businessman after he accidentally hits her delinquent son with his truck.A short and bland movie, about an annyoing little kid, his questionable mother Loretta Young and a gentleman (Cary Grant). Not much to say here.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsClaudette ColbertWarren WilliamRochelle HudsonA struggling widow and her daughter take in a Black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.An awesome movie about a black housekeeper and her light skinned daughter.The daughter can't accept the fact that she's black and wants to distance herself from her mother. Some scenes evoke strong emotions and reactions. It's one of the best films of the 30's so far. There's also this plot about Colbert starting a business with the housekeeper.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsClark GableClaudette ColbertWalter ConnollyA rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.Very overrated, in my opinion. lt doesn't really stand out from all the other romantic comedies. It follows the exact formula for how to make a movie of this genre. In fact, Colbert and Gable were surprised themselves. Also, why is it called "It Happened One Night" when it clearly happened over the past few weeks?
- DirectorMarion GeringStarsSylvia SidneyCary GrantEdward ArnoldA European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.A princess falls ill, and they find a regular woman who looks exactly like the princess. Generic movie with Cary Grant.
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsW.C. FieldsKathleen HowardJean RouverolA henpecked New Jersey grocer makes plans to move to California to grow oranges, despite the resistance of his overbearing wife.This is the kind of humour that we see all the time nowadays. The ones with the unlucky man, the annoying wife and those constant physical comedy sequences. l'm sure it was great back then, but now it just seems so...predictable. But still has its fun moments.
- DirectorJoseph SantleyStarsAnn RutherfordFrank AlbertsonJ. Farrell MacDonaldWhen a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.The movie is about a man who escapes from the police and ends up at her and her father's place. lt was okey, not too bad.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsClaudette ColbertFred MacMurrayRay MillandA stenographer becomes a famed entertainer and is courted by an English nobleman and an informal American reporter.Watching Fred MacMurray eat popcorn and hearing Claudette Colbert singing horribly is NOT entertaining. l'm sorry, but it really isn't.
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsBing CrosbyMadge EvansEdith FellowsLarry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promise an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help.Bing Crosby helps a little girl and her father getting a better house. But there's an orphanage lady who wants to see Edith Fellows there...or something like that, l don't remember all of it :l
- DirectorWilliam Cameron MenziesStarsRaymond MasseyEdward ChapmanRalph RichardsonThe story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.A British science fiction that depicts the coming 100 years in a dystopian manner. lt was pretty cool, until the last third part, then it got a bit too weird. lnterestingly enough, a war did occur 3 years later....
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsWilliam PowellCarole LombardAlice BradyA scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsCarole LombardFredric MarchCharles WinningerAn eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.There are 2 cool things about the film:
1: A young Billy Barty kicks Freddie March in the legs!
2: lt's one of few color movies from the decade.
But if you wanna know what the plot is about, it's basically about a woman (Lombard) who gets mistaken for being terminally ill, so she gets a lot of media attention. - DirectorElmer CliftonStarsLuana WaltersArthur GardnerDorothy ShortA high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends.An okey anti-drugs movie. Maybe a bit preachy, but both Arthur Gardner and Fay McKenzie are still alive. See, kids? Don't do drugs and you will live a looooong time. Yep :p
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsMickey RooneyAnne NagelFrank Shields Sr.A schoolteacher comes to a new town and finds herself caught up in the town's problems and disputes.Please don't ask me what the movie is about...l don't remember, it was so boring.
- DirectorFrank O'ConnorStarsRobert FiskeHelene LeBerthonArthur GardnerA wealthy young woman, racked with guilt because she wasn't there when her mother died, is so desperate to contact her that she gets involved with a phony mystic who promises to put her in touch with her mother's spirit, but who is really after her money. A reporter who loves the young woman sets out to expose the phony "psychic" for the charlatan he is.Oh boy, where to begin? lt's about..umm...someone trying to contact the dead, and some spritiual guy?....or something...sorry, l can't quite remember the plot. That always happens with lousy movies. l'm a terrible reviewer, lol.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsTyrone PowerLoretta YoungAnnabellaFerdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.A relatively young Tyrone Power has plans to build the Suez Canal. Nothing out of the ordinary, really....
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsClaudette ColbertGary CooperEdward Everett HortonAfter learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.This movie was a while ago, so l don't remember exactly what it was about. Something about a guy (Cooper) who's been married many times, and his eight wife wants to make sure she is his last.....But l do remember that l wasn't too impressed with it.