While I'm not quite old enough to remember the first run of these movies, they rank along side my favourites from more recent times. I always remember my mother talking about the Saturday matinee, reminiscing about Shirley Temple, The Marx Brothers, Fred & Ginger and all the stars of the "Golden Era". Million dollar megastars and special effects are fine for some, but give me a classic made on the back lot anytime. They really don't mak'em like this anymore.


Well of course this had to be at the top of the list. So much has been written about MGM's Wizard of Oz (1939) starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, that there is little else to say. Everyone gets something from the film, but for me, when Judy sings "Over the rainbow", it gives me hope that there really is a better place out there for anyone that's down and feels like giving up.
If you love the movie, visit the best OZ site on the web
Wendy's Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Hear it again..."We're off to see the The Wizard"...


As Danny Peary says in his 1981 book "Cult Movies", Casablanca (Warner Bros. 1942), maybe the only picture to contain almost every element on an audience checklist. After all it's got; action, adventure, bravery, danger, espionage, exotic locale, friendship, gunplay, humour, intrigue, a love triangle, a masculine hero, a mysterious heroine, politics (though no too much), romance, sentimentality, a theme song, a time factor, a venomous villain and war. "What more can I say"
Hear the famous "always misquoted" line

For Steve :-)
It's his favourite too
"The greatest motion picture ever made". The 1939 MGM production of Margaret Mitchell's sweeping saga of the American Civil War, must come close. With Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara and Clark Gable as Rhett Butler, more has been written about the stories surrounding "Gone With The Wind" than any other movie. For definitive account of the creation of the movie, see Ron Haver's "David O. Selznick's Hollywood" (1980).
Hear one of the greatest parting shots of all time


Well, not really from the Golden Era, but this is one of my favourite Bette Davis films. The 1962, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane has great performances by two of the silver screens great actresses. Bette Davis as Baby Jane Hudson, the demented long forgotten child star and Joan Crawford as Blanche, her disabled long suffering sister whose career came to an end abruptly. Great dialogue and Bette at her knockout best. How did Blanche end up in that wheel chair?
But y'are Blanche, y'are in that chair...


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Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Sunset Boulevard, All about Eve
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