Modern Movies Set in the Golden Era

[renor27]

Looking for movies

I am looking to put together a set of films for someone who is new to the golden era.
What movies would you say would be the best to show the period 1936 to 1941. Looking for films that are out on DVD only and they can be vintage as well as well as newer films.

 

[Kent Allard]

I am looking to put together a set of films for someone who is new to the golden era.
What movies would you say would be the best to show the period 1936 to 1941. Looking for films that are out on DVD only and they can be vintage as well as well as newer films.

1. Casablanca
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. The Thin Man
4. Angels with Dirty Faces (available on DVD on 1/18)
5. The Rocketeer
6. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
7. Ninotchka
8. Dark Victory

That's the best I could do off the top of my head. I'll see if I can do a little research and find some more for you later.

 

[kamikat]

For some more light-hearted fare I'd recommend:

It Happened One Night (1934, but still a great movie)
His Girl Friday (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Adam's Rib (1949, but still a great movie)

kamikat

 

[Quigley Brown]

Newer films set in that period:

1. Chinatown
2. Great Gatsby
3. Bonnie and Clyde
4. Ragtime
5. Untouchables
6. The Sting
7. Cabaret...

 

[ITG]

The Glenn Miller Story (Jimmy Stewart)

Newer Ones:
Annie(yes, I'm serious)
Tucker
Forever Young (Mel Gibson)
Swing Kids
Road to Perdition
De-Lovely
Seabiscuit

 

[Jack Scorpion]

The Ride by Night
Citizen Kane
Holiday Inn (come on 1942)
Gone with the Wind
It Happened One Night (come on 1934)

My Man Godfrey? (I haven't seen it)

 

[Nick Charles]

Title

If the movies os They Drive by Night with Bogart as a trucker than it is on dvd.

Thinman
You can't take it with you
Maltese Falcon
Tucker
De-Lovely
Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Anything Abbott and Costello
The Bank Dick
It's a Gift
Bobby Jones Stroke of Genius
Mr. Deeds goes to Town

 

[ITG]

Hey Jack, 'Gone with the Wind' is set during the Civil War...just in case someone else out there goes to rent it and is disappointed that it isn't a Golden Era setting.

 

[Mr. Rover]

The Big Sleep, Midnight, Pearl Harbor?, Chicago, Saving Private Ryan...wait. Isn't there a list at the Fedora Chronicles? Or on The GOlden Era mainpage?

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[MDFrench]

Dead End
Big Sleep
Dark Passage
They Drive By Night
High Sierra
Sullivan's Travels
Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
Philadelphia Story
Mrs. Miniver
Mildred Pierce
You Can't Take It With You
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
It Happened One Night
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Shadow of a Doubt
Grand Hotel
Foreign Correspondent
The Rocketeer
The Shadow
The Phantom
They Made Me a Criminal
Notorious
Spellbound
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Untouchables
Miller's Crossing
Road to Perdition
Petrified Forest
Public Enemy
Angels With Dirty Faces
Key Largo
Bringing Up Baby
The More the Merrier
The Devil and Miss Jones
Intermezzo
A Yank in the RAF
Dark Blue World
Battle of Britain
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Chinatown
Phantom Lady
Detour
The Awful Truth
Arsenic and Old Lace
Only Angels Have Wings
The Thin Man
After the Thin Man
Tucker
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
His Girl Friday
All Through the Night
King of the Underworld
The Wagons Roll at Night
China
Charlotte Grey
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
To Have and Have Not
Hoodlum
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Pride of the Yankees
League of Their Own
Meet John Doe
The Lady Vanishes
The Aviator (in theatres NOW)
Empire of the Sun (China, WWII)
Inn of the Sixth Happiness (set in China, epic w/WWII)
Pearl Harbor (bad film, great scenery)
Dick Tracy (highly stylized comic version of 1930s)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow(all digital, but very 1930s all the same)

 

[Pink Dahlia]

Favorite Movies Set (In and Around) The Golden Era

So what are your favorite modern day films set in and around the Golden Era.

Let me see if I can list all mine:

Film (Decade Setting)

The Great Gatsby (20s)
Of Mice and Men (30s)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (30s or 40s)
The Hours (20s and 50s)
Mrs. Henderson Presents (30s or 40s)

Man this list is so short! List yours and help jog my memory!

 

[HadleyH]

Ben-Hur (1925), with Ramon Novarro and Francis X Bushman as Messala. This production was so lavish that it emerged as the greatest world-wide succes the movie industry had ever produced, except possibly, The Birth of a Nation.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Ben-Hur (1925), with Ramon Novarro and Francis X Bushman as Messala. This production was so lavish that it emerged as the greatest world-wide succes the movie industry had ever produced, except possibly, The Birth of a Nation.

Ben-Hur is my mother's absolute favorite movie. I thus grew up watching it repeatedly.

Not sure if that's put me off it by now or what...but I limit it to the once a year Easter showing....

D...who also blames her mother for the Carmen Miranda/Cesar Romero obsession

 

[jake_fink]

Ben-Hur (1925), with Ramon Novarro and Francis X Bushman as Messala. This production was so lavish that it emerged as the greatest world-wide succes the movie industry had ever produced, except possibly, The Birth of a Nation.

So the Golden Era was really the 1st C CE?

Better let MK know.

 

[Pink Dahlia]

So the Golden Era was really the 1st C CE?

Better let MK know.

It was the original Golden Era. lol

 

[HadleyH]

So the Golden Era was really the 1st C CE?

Better let MK know.

Boo and more Boo jake fink lol lol lol
Yes ,the 1st C was the Golden Era

 

[Pink Dahlia]

Ah forgot:

LA Confidential (40s or 50s)

 

[CharlieH.]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (30s or 40s)

Siiiiigh, now there's one of those rare movies that are nothing short of a miracle, especially when it came to that marvelous blend of cartoons and live action.
But since the apparent focus of the thread is the setting......

Idyllic, eh?

 

[Pink Dahlia]

That's what I'm talking about!

 

[ShooShooBaby]

a league of their own
racing with the moon
radio days
aimee and jaguar
how to make an american quilt (revolves around the stories of women growing up in the golden era)
also i've been netflixing episodes of Carnivale, which i LOVVVVVE!