Classic Hollywood Dramas Tournament (1 Viewer)

[SteveGon]

Here's an updated list of nominations:

List updated and moved down.

For some suggestions, see posts 35, 40, and 50.

Chris: good call on The Magnificent Ambersons! For it to just now have been mentioned is indicative of a collective brain fart on our part! Yeesh.

Edit: we're up to 41 on the master list. Also, My Darling Clementine is toast.

 

[Rand]

Nominate:

How Green Was My Valley
Random Harvest
Kings Row
None But the Lonely Heart
Moby Dick (1956)

 

[Gabe D]

I'll nominate:

A Face in the Crowd
The Long Hot Summer
The Snake Pit
Suddenly, Last Summer
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

I'll second:

Ben-Hur
The Magnificent Ambersons
Now, Voyager
Out of the Past
Rear Window
Rebel Without a Cause

I'll third:

Sweet Smell of Success*

 

[Lew Crippen]

Hey Brook. Which Imitation of Life. If it’s Sirk’s 1959 version,

Second

I’ll need to think if you mean the version from the 30s.

Second:

How Green Was My Valley?

Written on the Wind


Third:

The Magnificent Ambersons

Rear Window

 

[Bill J]

Third:
Ben-Hur

 

[Tommy G]

Nominate:
All About Eve
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Manchurian Candidate
To Be or Not to Be

 

[Agee Bassett]

Second
Kings Row
A Face in the Crowd
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

To Be or Not to Be is most enthusiastically a comedy (with darker elements).

 

[Jeff_A]

Second:

Imitation of Life if this is the superior 1934 version.

 

[Dome Vongvises]

Third
Rebel Without A Cause

 

[SteveGon]

Tommy G: you're one for four! AAE is already in, TMC is from 1962, TBONTB is a comedy. TBOTRK is fine.

Updated nominations list

All That Heaven Allows*
The Bad and the Beautiful*
The Big Carnival (a.k.a. Ace in the Hole)
Body and Soul
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof*
Dodsworth*
A Face in the Crowd*
Gentleman's Agreement
Imitation of Life
Jezebel
Kings Row*
How Green Was My Valley*
The Life of Emile Zola
The Long Hot Summer
The Man with the Golden Arm*
Moby Dick (1956)
None But the Lonely Heart
Now, Voyager*
Out of the Past*
Random Harvest
San Francisco
The Scarlet Empress*
The Snake Pit
A Star is Born (1954)
Suddenly, Last Summer
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn*
Twelve O'Clock High
Written on the Wind*

Nominations marked with an asterisk have been seconded and are in need of a third.

Some more suggestions:

All the King's Men
Anna Karenina
Grand Hotel
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Of Mice and Men (1939)
On the Beach
Queen Christina
The Search
The Seventh Cross
The Southerner

Lew, considering we've both watched it recently, how the heck did we forget about Grand Hotel? Ay caramba!

How about a third for Dodsworth, someone?

And I'm waiting for clarification on Imitation of Life...

 

[Jan H]

3rd :

Out of the Past
Kings Row
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

2nd:

A Star is Born
Body and Soul
Bridge on the River Kwai

 

[Brook K]

I mean Sirk's '59 version of Imitation of Life. Sorry, I forgot there was a previous one. I haven't seen it.

 

[JenB]

Third:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

I would nominate Here Comes Mr. Jordan but many might think it is too much of a comedy, I would guess.

 

[Gabe D]

I'll third The Bridge on the River Kwai.

 

[SteveGon]

Updated noms list

All That Heaven Allows*
The Bad and the Beautiful*
The Big Carnival (a.k.a. Ace in the Hole)
Body and Soul*
Dodsworth*
A Face in the Crowd*
Gentleman's Agreement
How Green Was My Valley*
Imitation of Life (1959)*
Jezebel
The Life of Emile Zola
The Long Hot Summer
The Man with the Golden Arm*
Moby Dick (1956)
None But the Lonely Heart
Now, Voyager*
Random Harvest
San Francisco
The Scarlet Empress*
The Snake Pit
A Star is Born (1954)*
Suddenly, Last Summer
Twelve O'Clock High
Written on the Wind*


Only 13 slots open!

Five more noms, seconds, and thirds for everyone!

 

[Rand]

Third:

A Star is Born ('54)

Nominate:

Only Angels Have Wings
The Heiress
In A Lonely Place
The Informer

 

[Brook K]

Thanks Rand

can't 2nd/3rd anything, I haven't seen most of the nominees and those I have, I don't think are all that good (The Man With The Golden Arm, Gentleman's Agreement)

Nominate

The Great Moment
The Stranger
The FBI Story (I'm running out of ideas here)
The Quiet Man (too much of a comedy?)
Shadows (ok, not Hollywood, but couldn't think of anything else)

 

[Rain]

Second:

Twelve O'Clock High

 

[Bill J]

Third:
Twelve O'Clock High

 

[Gabe D]

I'll nominate:

All the King's Men
East of Eden
Executive Suite
Somebody Up There Likes Me
The Ten Commandments