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Best films of the 30s


Here is my list of the best films of the 1930s. Post yours.

1. Gone with the Wind
2. The Wizard of Oz
3. City Lights
4. The Awful Truth
5. M
6. King Kong
7. Modern Times
8. Freaks
9. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
10. The Four Feathers
11. Les Misérables
12. Make Way for Tomorrow

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Chronological order
City Lights
M
Fanny Trilogy
Freaks
King Kong
It Happened One Night
L'Atalante
Top Hat
Modern Times
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
My Man Godfrey
Dodsworth
Shall We Dance
Make Way for Tomorrow
La grande illusion
Easy Living
The Awful Truth
Bringing Up Baby
Angels with Dirty Faces
Only Angels Have Wings
Bachelor Mother
The Wizard of Oz
Ninotchka
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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The 1930's were definitely the golden age of Hollywood.

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All Quiet on the Western Front
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Frankenstein
City Lights
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
The Invisible Man
King Kong
Tarzan and His Mate
It Happened One Night
Mutiny on the Bounty
Bride of Frankenstein
San Francisco
Modern Times
Lost Horizon
La grande illusion
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Angels with Dirty Faces
Stagecoach
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Gone with the Wind

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Any of the Busby Berkeley musicals:
Forty Second Street (1932)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Gold Diggers of 1937 (1937)
Footlight Parade (1934)
Dames (1934)

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I agree with all of the movies posted in this thread. Slapstick comedies are my favorite, also any of the Thin Man series. I especially liked It Happened One Night. I've seen it a dozen times.

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