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Originally posted by Irishman12:
[quote]Originally posted by Don Vercetti:
[b] I've noticed that 90% of the films you've seen from the 50's and before were "good, not great" or something similar.
Because most of them are to me, except for Frankenstein that was great [/b][/quote]Irishman, have u seen any 'Film Noir' movies from the 40's or 50's? And have u seen any Crime/Gangster movies from the 30's or 40's ?

Im just asking becuase I think youre maybe missing some of the greatest movies ever made.
The 40's IMO was the best decade for movies.(yes,even better than the 70's)

Check out these 2 lists (pre 60's movies):

Greatest (pre 60's) Film Noir (including some Noir/Gangster combos) :

I Am a Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932)
Fury (1936)
The Letter (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
High Sierra (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Laura (1944)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Gaslight (1944)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Spellbound (1945)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Gilda (1946)
Notorious (1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Dark Passage (1947)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Key Largo (1948)
The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
White Heat (1949)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Vertigo (1958)

Western/Noir Combo :

The Gunfighter (1950)
High Noon (1952)

Greatest pre 60's Crime/Gangster films :

Little Caesar (1930)
M (1931, Ger.)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932)
G-Men (1935)
The Petrified Forest (1936)
Dead End (1937)
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
They Drive by Night (1940)
On the Waterfront (1954)

Crime films already mentioned for their Noir elements :

Key Largo (1948)
White Heat (1949)
High Sierra (1941)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

(Note how the "Film Noir" sub-genre has affected the Gangster genre as well in the 40's)


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