Road to Perdition?1930's era films

[The_Edge]

1930's setting

My favorite films set in the 1930's:

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Dick Tracy (1990)

The Rocketeer (1991)

The Shadow (1994)

Radioland Murders (1994)

The Phantom (1996)

Last Man Standing (1996)

The Mummy (1999)

Road to Perdition (2002)

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

The Aviator (2004)

King Kong (2005)

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Well, it's 20 years before the 1990s, but no film beats "Chinatown" for sartorial accuracy.

 

[Roger]

I don't know. I watched this film, Road to Perdition and like the clothes and enjoyed the cars, but the plot and story was a little boring. I also found the film to be a little to drawn out with the dialogue in monotones.

Chinatown? Excellent film.

 

[up196]

Miller's Crossing

30's - Miller's Crossing - Gabriel Byrne in a Cohn Bros film? Wicked good

I'm reminded of it every time I drive past the "Barton Arms"

 

[Novella]

Road to Perdition is definitely good. I also like Gosford Park, I Capture the Castle, the Indiana Jones films, The Mummy (the modern one), and I also have a soft spot for Swing Kids.

 

[herringbonekid]

Well, it's 20 years before the 1990s, but no film beats "Chinatown" for sartorial accuracy.

apart from 'Miller's Crossing'

 

[nightandthecity]

I take it you like Miller's Crossing!

Me too. One of my favourite films from any era about any era.

 

[herringbonekid]

"i suppose you think you raised hell ?"

"sister, when i raise hell you'll know about it"

 

[carebear]

The "Danny Boy" fight....

"The old man always was an artist with a Thompson."

Excellent characters (played by a fantastic cast), no one is really "good", everybody's got an angle.

Yeah, Miller's Crossing is a great one.

 

[nightandthecity]

"I'm talkin' about friendship. I'm talkin' about character. I'm talkin' about--hell, Leo, I ain't embarassed to use the word--I'm talkin' about ethics..."

you gotta love a film that starts like that!

In fact several Coen brothers films could be contenders in this thread.

 

[Lincsong]

I am very partial to that classic 1941 with John Belushi.:eusa_clap

 

[Benny Holiday]

"Road To Perdition" is brilliant, very atmospheric. More recently I really enjoyed "Seabiscuit" and, somewhat further back, the costuming for "Tucker: The Man and His Dream" was great.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Murder in the First

 

[ramblinBOB]

yah bruce rocked in that movie i still remember when he broke in the motel door and shot up the place great gangster seen.

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

The Great Depression, 1933, on the water front, James Braddock a.k.a the "Bulldog Of Bergen" stands behind locked gates, awaiting to rush in and get an honest pays work at the docks, awaiting with another thousand men behind him. The gates open, he rushes in! Just seconds before the gate closes. This was an everyday in September 1933 in New York Harbor.

This is one of the few GREATEST MOVIES I HAVE SAT AT THE EDGE OF MY SEAT to see. I've only seen it once, in a moviehouse.

this should have won an oscar. 2004 but eh. Great movie

 

[BellyTank]

30's - Miller's Crossing - Gabriel Byrne in a Coen Bros film? Wicked good

40's - LA Confidential - Kim Basinger ooh la la

LA Confidential was set in 1953, just for the record.

And Kim Basinger looks BETTER than Veronica Lake.

B
T

 

[herringbonekid]

And Kim Basinger looks BETTER than Veronica Lake.

not to these here eyes.

 

[Salv]

LA Confidential was set in 1953, just for the record.

And Kim Basinger looks BETTER than Veronica Lake.

B
T

Tough call but Kim Basinger had a sadness in that film that just wins it for her

 

[BellyTank]

It was a line...

"... you look better than Veronica Lake"

Bud
White

 

[dr greg]

not forgetting

Did anybody mention Last Exit to Brooklyn, I reckon that eats Cinderella Man for breakfast, fine movie though it was.