'Golden Age of Hollywood' Movie Poll!
Added 2022-04-16 13:03:00 +0000 UTCHelp pick the Golden Age of Hollywood movie we will react to!
Please feel free to suggest other options in the comments for future polls!
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Can I make a suggestion. take a look at "the Verdict" (1980) Its a underrated film, but it inspired me to become an attorney and has always held a special place in my heart. It a wonderful performance by Paul Newman--possibly the best of his illustrious career.
Chris Bruneau
2022-05-13 21:48:28 +0000 UTCAnother classic not on your Poll is "East of Eden"
Michael McDonald
2022-05-11 01:02:40 +0000 UTCI know that it's only getting 6% of the vote, but I feel All Quiet on the Western Front should get some special consideration with Memorial Day coming up.
Smooticus
2022-05-08 14:15:54 +0000 UTCI agree Sunset would be a top choice, as well as AQOTWF, but you cant go wrong with Hitch and this highly entertaining romp
ron clint
2022-05-06 08:15:07 +0000 UTCOne of the funniest movies ever.
Neal Romanek
2022-04-21 09:54:00 +0000 UTCGolden Age of Hollywood? Sunset Boulevard, This is BIG ... it's the other pictures that appear small
Burt_Fuggin_Reynolds
2022-04-17 22:43:28 +0000 UTCSunset Blvd would be the best choice here, but North by Northwest isn't incorrect to choose
Bert Taverner
2022-04-17 10:19:05 +0000 UTCyou guys need to dive into charles bronson, lee marvin and steve mcqueen
dw
2022-04-17 06:07:35 +0000 UTCYeah and the innovation in special effects is still awesome to this day
Ken Veader
2022-04-17 04:41:27 +0000 UTCYeah, let's have a Film Noir poll WITHOUT Bogart films (they'd stack the deck). You've got to include "Out of the Past (1947) a classic noir. Combine Phyllis Dietrichson from Double Indemnity with Kathie Moffat from Out of the Past and you end up with Matty Walker from Body Heat. All scheming, evil, classic femme fatales! Jane Greer to Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past: "You're no good and neither am I ".
David Martin
2022-04-17 01:56:37 +0000 UTCI'm pleased and surprised to see King Kong getting support. Many firsts in that film, the most surprising might be that this was the first movie to get a soundtrack written specifically for the film. My mother told me she was absolutely terrified at that film, as were thousands of others.
David Martin
2022-04-17 01:41:18 +0000 UTCNorth by Northwest was my strong second choice behind Double Indemnity. I see NbN is leading right now.
Keith Sattesahn
2022-04-17 01:08:56 +0000 UTCYeah, I left off some early 60s classics because I arbitrarily sed 1960 as the cutoff. I.e. "Jason and the Argonauts" (1963),"The Time Machine" (1960), "The Last Man On Earth (1964)(based on the book "I Am Legend" and the one movie that was closest to it), etc.
Miles E Coburn
2022-04-17 00:21:23 +0000 UTCAll please! So glad you’ve put out this poll. Hitch winning is ok by me but I voted for Double Indemnity to start the noir train 😀
Michael Soukup
2022-04-16 23:37:06 +0000 UTCI have a very lengthy argument about why I extend the Golden Age of Hollywood up to 1965 and stop at the release of The Sound of Music. The short version is - era of successful Hollywood movie production up to the sixties and My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music- then full stop and Hollywood couldn't recreate the success of the big budget musical era that culminated in The Sound of Music. After came a long line of not so successful big budget musicals - Camelot, Dr. Doolittle, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hello Dolly, Finian's Rainbow, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, etc, etc, etc. Some are still beloved today and some were moderately successful then, most were big flops and killed the musicals, killed some studios, and imo killed the Golden Age. By the time these big budget musicals were decimating the studios in the late sixties, the new youth pictures like Easy Rider came along and plunged the dagger in the heart of the Hollywood studio system.
Mike LL
2022-04-16 22:24:49 +0000 UTCYou had me at The Best Years of Our Lives! 😏
Mike LL
2022-04-16 22:15:23 +0000 UTCI'm geeking out over this entire poll. North by Northwest would be a fabulous reaction. NbN created the mold of the modern action movie. King Kong way back in the thirties created the fantasy action adventure genre. The Searchers would be particularly good, it needs to be seen by a major reactor such as the TBR team. Comedies are my least favorite movie genre. Probably because so few films are truly funny. Exceptions are the funniest comedies that have dozens of reactions of them, such as Blazing Saddles and Airplane. I've seen so many comedies and there are only a handful of comedies that I consider truly funny, such as the two I've already mentioned. Duck Soup is probably the funniest movie ever made.
Mike LL
2022-04-16 21:36:38 +0000 UTCDuck Soup is a great Marx Brothers movie but I would start with Animal Crackers (1930). But I think it would be hard to find a digital version of it. The Marx Brothers are awesome. Loved them since I was a kid
Nicole Johnson
2022-04-16 20:15:45 +0000 UTCVoted for Duck Soup. Would be great to see a younger generation react to that. I would like to recommend a movie for future Golden Age Polls - Twelve Angry Men. Just make sure its the original 1957 version staring Henry Fonda. I promise you two will get into that movie.
Robert Cintron
2022-04-16 20:05:58 +0000 UTCWow, North By Northwest is running away with it. I’ve been waiting for someone to react to it for ages.
Texas Anla'Shok
2022-04-16 19:30:25 +0000 UTCOh, yeah. Have to do Zhivago.
Neal Romanek
2022-04-16 19:13:39 +0000 UTCI'm going for North By Northwest though because it's absolutely great and is one of Hitchock's funnest movies - and you really need to get that one in the can fast.
Neal Romanek
2022-04-16 19:13:10 +0000 UTCHoly crap. Every one of these is a must see.
Neal Romanek
2022-04-16 19:10:22 +0000 UTCI might disagree in the "most influential" part. Certainly up for discussion, but North by Northwest overall, probably has more of an impact on cinema. While Searchers guided a genre which peaked the interests of viewers of that genre. I think Kurosawa films had a much larger impact on the film industry as a whole. Especially cinematography.
Erich Bomke
2022-04-16 19:00:15 +0000 UTCMaybe the toughest poll you guys have released. I settled for Sunset Blvd because it's one of my personal favorites, but I hope you guys see all of these at some point.
Mitchell Smilie
2022-04-16 18:59:24 +0000 UTCAlso highly recommend Chinatown --from 1971, a fantastic example of film noir
Chris Bruneau
2022-04-16 18:08:32 +0000 UTCNorth by Northwest is an AWESOME movie.
Arioch
2022-04-16 17:53:01 +0000 UTCI would also recommend King Kong. It still holds up after all these years.
Michael Rhine
2022-04-16 17:30:52 +0000 UTCOne of John Waynes best performances and the cinematography is amazing
Ken Veader
2022-04-16 17:29:49 +0000 UTCBecause you just happened to watch Lawrence of Arabia and True Romance in the same week, I'm going to recommend Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Michael Chavira
2022-04-16 17:17:45 +0000 UTCcould you put universal soldier regeneration (2009) in an action poll, thanks!
Monkey D. Gaddafi
2022-04-16 16:57:50 +0000 UTCOh, you guys are asking for a cruel choice here! All these films are wonderful, and they really can't be compared, but I see why they're listed in this particular poll. Everyone should see "North by Northwest," but may I make a modest suggestion? Hitchcock did so many great films that he might deserve a poll of his own (the same could be said of Spielberg). "The Searchers" is probably John Wayne's greatest film (much better than the Oscar-winning "True Grit"), and maybe the greatest western ever (sorry, Clint). But, although it's probably hopeless, I'm voting for "Rebel without a Cause." Everyone should have the opportunity to see James Dean act: he only made three films before he died, and this is definitely the best. It's the "classic" movie about teenagers in the 1950s, and has a terrific cast. If he had lived, most critics agree that Dean would have been another Brando. Even if it doesn't win in the poll, I hope you guys will watch it!!
William 1611
2022-04-16 16:47:49 +0000 UTCI voted for The Searchers but I think King Kong might be my favorite movie on this list
Ken Veader
2022-04-16 16:46:46 +0000 UTCOther great "classic" films to consider: Sink the Bismarck, the Maltese Falcon, the Big Sleep, and my personal favorite : Casablanca
Chris Bruneau
2022-04-16 14:49:06 +0000 UTC1946 was a great year for film: The Best Years of Our Lives, It’s a Wonderful Life, Notorious, The Big Sleep, Gilda, My Darling Clementine, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, The Razor’s Edge, The Yearling… One could do a poll just in those great releases.
Catherine LW
2022-04-16 14:45:04 +0000 UTCBen Hur (1959)
christopher brown
2022-04-16 14:30:16 +0000 UTCWhen I think of golden age of Hollywood there a few films that coke to mind such as Rebel without a cause, gentlemen prefer blondes and such but my all time favorite is Gone with the Wind 😁
Jovi P
2022-04-16 14:16:33 +0000 UTCI’m going with The Searches but all great selections. The Searchers probably the most influential film on the list.
Charlie Keeler
2022-04-16 14:08:47 +0000 UTCWell, there's, "Casablanca" (1942), "On The Beach" (1959), "To Catch a Thief" (1955), "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" (1954), "The Big Sleep" (1945), "Key Largo" (1948), "To Have and Have Not" (1944), "The African Queen" (1951), "Dial M for Murder" (1954), etc. Many Swords and Sandals epics such as "Ben Hur" (1951), "Quo Vadis" (1851), "The Robe" (1953) , etc. Many 30s and beyond Horror movies (i.e. "The Wolf Man" (1941), "Frankenstein" (1935), "Dracula" (1931), "Creature From The Black Lagoon" (1954), etc.) And of course, 50s Science Fiction movies like "Forbidden Planet" (1956), "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (1951), "This Island Earth" (1955), "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957). My cutoff year was 1960, but there are many others in the 60s that would classify as coming from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Miles E Coburn
2022-04-16 13:37:13 +0000 UTCDamn. You're coming at me with the big guns. So many classics here. I'm actually surprised SUNSET BLVD. and DOUBLE INDEMNITY aren't higher. I think NxNW is everyone's fave because of Hitch, but I voted for DOUBLE INDEMNITY. So great.
Philip Davetas
2022-04-16 13:23:54 +0000 UTCEvery documentary that has ever been made is totally 100% accurate? Is that what you're saying?
dieselbeast
2022-04-16 13:10:49 +0000 UTCAny movie that is totally accurate is called a documentary.
Miles E Coburn
2022-04-16 13:08:13 +0000 UTCGone with wind is a great film from a professional standpoint, acting etc the subject matter is subjective not totally accurate but great film
dieselbeast
2022-04-16 13:05:22 +0000 UTC
