good 30s,40s, and 50s films

Wow, I just love the classic films. Especially from that particular bracket of decades! :) There's just something enticing about them. Although I haven't been seeing much of them lately. Of course there's Gone with the Wind, the epic film starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. The story was set in the South America before, during, and after the Civil War so the set and the costume are in period setting, as well. This one is in color, though. But you may just check that out. It's quite long, four hours in duration, but it's a worthy watch. Casablanca is from 1940s starring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart, set in Morocco when the WWII was still quite young. It's considered as one of the greatest films ever, especially the romantic ones. And it's one of my most favorites, too. This one's in black and white. :) You could also check out the musicals like The King and I and South Pacific. Still both in color. Oh well, I could go on with this for like, forever? Hahahaha. Kidding aside, perhaps you would like to look up the list of AFI's 100 Greatest Films. This could help you in your search for what good film to see. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI's_100_Years...100_movies

I haven't seen too many old-time movies, and most of them are Hungarian ones, especially comedies. But from the more well-known, American ones, I love Sunset Boulevard (my favorite ever!!! great twisted narrative, amazingly intellectual silent film era references, great noise and music and a pretty great psychological problem in the middle) and The Maltese Falcon (awesome film noire).

I love the old musicals. Danny Kaye made some great ones - The Court Jester is one of my favorites. Inspector General is another. I also love the old Gene Kelly movies like Singing in the Rain or American in Paris. Oklahoma, South Pacific, and West Side Story are also great.

Another of my old time favourites is the 1939 version of 'Wuthering Heights' adapted from Emily Bronte's classic novel.(one of my favourite books) This was the first film dramatization of Emily Bronte's 1847 masterpiece, with a screenplay written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur with Laurence Olivier as the leading actor the film is what many people feel among the very best romantic dramas of all-times. This is a truly dark and brooding film perfectly encapsulating the very spirit of the bleak, chilling, Yorkshire Moors that Bronte described in her wonderfully evocative book. The film starts when a stranger visits Wuthering Heights - a dark and lonely estate on the Yorkshire Moors as he is lost in a blinding snowstorm. During the night Heathcliff is awakened by the visitor's shouts. The visitor told Heathcliff that he had seen a woman at the window and she touched his hand. Her hand was ice cold. With that Heathcliff bursts from the house and runs out onto the moor, and the housekeeper begins her tale in a long flashback. The settings are as important as the characters - Wuthering Heights is gloomy and deteriorating, Thrushcross Grange, home of the Linton family is the pleasant but lifeless. The main star is the wild, mysterious Yorkshire moors, the only place where Heathcliff and Cathy are ever really happy. These settings are all well fashioned and photographed, and provide an apt backdrop to the events that unwind. If you haven't watched this film you really should - it is just WONDERFUL!! I need to watch it again now!

My favorites from black and white era are The Great Dictator, with Charlie Chaplin, it was made in 1940.It's a comedy with deep meaning.If you like dancing and singing, you should see one of the best Fred Astaire movies - Top Hat(1935).If you like Clark Gable, you might like Mutiny on the Bounty.I enjoyed Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, based on novel.Great, charming love story,it has both mystery and thriller elements.You might like it too.Maybe you will like Greta Garbo in Camille(1936).It's a love story with dramatic ending.The costumes look great for a black/white era movie.

why not go to list of mystery movies wikipedia, the free encylopedia and you can choose a whole list of black and white movies.

‘Brief Encounter’ released in 1945 and directed by British director David Lean is a fantastic old film.It received Oscar nominations for Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay. It won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. It is at second place in the British Film Institute Top 100 films, behind only ‘The Third Man’ My geographical claim to fame with this film is that the famous station scene with ‘that’ clock was shot at Carnforth station, Lancashire, which is about 10 miles away from where I live.This is a classic film;I know that it is very dated and I know that the cut glass accents can be rather annoying – but all in all the 86 minutes that it runs just fly by. The film is supremely and unaffectedly English, from the steam trains, the clipped vowels, and the tortured middle class decency of the main characters. There is not really a plot to this film, it is the simply story of an ill-fated romance, complicated by a middleclass obsession with shame and guilt. It is a story that is well known by many and it is a story that we know the ending of at the beginning of the film – the wonder is in how we get there. The film begins with a shot of a train arriving at the station; the white smoke fills the screen in a haunting, very stunning way. Most of the story is told as a flashback, after an opening scene that really represents the end of the story. It is Laura herself who tells the story, as though she is telling it to her husband Fred, although he never actually hears her voice-over confessions. Well worth watching.