Greatest Movies Tournament By Decade - Pre 60's nominations

[easytoslip]

The Ladykillers

The Wilmslow Boy

Night of the Hunter 

Attack 

Ace in the Hole

[Total Longo]

The Wages of Fear (still the most tense movie ever made)

Vertigo

Paths of Glory  

A Night to Remember 

Ben Hur

[VladimirIlyich]

The Titfield Thunderbolt.

[Shitty Arse]

North by Northwest

Its a Wonderful Life

Strangers on a Train

White Heat

Angels with Dirty Faces

[easytoslip]

Can swap Ace in the Hole for Inherit the Wind? I knew something escaped my mind. 

[Tony Moanero]

15 hours ago, easytoslip said:

The Ladykillers

The Wilmslow Boy

Night of the Hunter 

Attack 

Ace in the Hole

The Night of the Hunter rep. Brilliant film.

[Bjornebye]

Ok votes closed. 

 

I'll add the final list shortly. 

[Bjornebye]

Ok so it will be 5 groups, 4 of 8, 1 with 7. 2 votes each, top two from each group will go through. 

 

Every film with 2 or more nominations included. (Feel free if anyone wants to sanity check if I've missed any with more than 1 vote) 

 

Wizard of Oz

Sunset Boulevard

Citizen Kane

Rio Bravo

Bridge Over The River Kwai

On The Waterfront

Some Like It Hot

The Wild One

The Cruel Sea

The Lady Killers

The Dam Busters

It's A Wonderful Life

Ben Hur

Vertigo

Rear Window

Casablanca

Metrolpolis

Seven Samurai

Seventh Seal

Dumbo

The Third Man

The Maltese Falcon

Singin' In The Rain

North By Northwest

Angels With Dirty Faces

From Here To Eternity

The 39 Steps

Strangers On A Train

Hound Of The Baskervilles

Pinocchio

Passport To Pimlico

Stagecoach

The Wages Of Fear

Treasure Of Sierra Madre

12 Angry Men

Kind Hearts & Coronets

A Matter Of Life & Death

Way Out West

Rebel Without A Cause

 

 

 

 

[YorkshireRed]

2 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Ok so it will be 5 groups, 4 of 8, 1 with 7. 2 votes each, top two from each group will go through. 

 

Every film with 2 or more nominations included. (Feel free if anyone wants to sanity check if I've missed any with more than 1 vote) 

 

Wizard of Oz

Sunset Boulevard

Citizen Kane

Rio Bravo

Bridge Over The River Kwai

On The Waterfront

Some Like It Hot

The Wild One

The Cruel Sea

The Lady Killers

The Dam Busters

It's A Wonderful Life

Ben Hur

Vertigo

Rear Window

Casablanca

Metrolpolis

Seven Samurai

Seventh Seal

Dumbo

The Third Man

The Maltese Falcon

Singin' In The Rain

North By Northwest

Angels With Dirty Faces

From Here To Eternity

The 39 Steps

Strangers On A Train

Hound Of The Baskervilles

Pinocchio

Passport To Pimlico

Stagecoach

The Wages Of Fear

Treasure Of Sierra Madre

12 Angry Men

Kind Hearts & Coronets

A Matter Of Life & Death

Way Out West

Rebel Without A Cause

 

 

 

 

Did High Noon only get one vote? Fucking GF...

[SasaS]

41 minutes ago, YorkshireRed said:

Did High Noon only get one vote? Fucking GF...

Yep. Forsaken.

[Pidge]

Shite, I thought sweet smell of success was early 60s...

[Tony Moanero]

2 hours ago, YorkshireRed said:

Did High Noon only get one vote? Fucking GF...

I could have easily nominated five Grace Kelly Films. To a Catch a Thief, which I nominated, also failed to make the cut.

[dockers_strike]

On 20/04/2021 at 17:51, Toxteth O'Grady said:

Rebel without a cause

Kind hearts and coronets

The wild one

On the waterfront

The grapes of wrath

Grapes of Wrath gives me painful memories for some reason!

[easytoslip]

On 21/04/2021 at 22:17, Tony Moanero said:

The Night of the Hunter rep. Brilliant film.

It is, the way he serenades the old girl looking after the kids, creepy twat on a mule.