Classic Hollywood Dramas Tournament (1 Viewer)

[Rob Tomlin]

Second The Night of the Hunter.

 

[Bill J]

Third:
The Night of the Hunter

 

[Gabe D]

I'll second:

The Hustler too new (1961)
The Lost Weekend
Marty
A Place in the Sun

I too think The Shop Around the Corner is a comedy.

 

[Agee Bassett]

Beg your pardon, I didn't read some of the rules.

 

[Lew Crippen]

Nominate:

Heaven Can Wait—how can we have classic dramas without at least one Douglas Sirk?

Someone with a nom left can put up Written on the Wind.


Second:

The Scarlet Empress


Third:

Mutiny on the Bounty

 

[Lew Crippen]

Second:

Bad Day at Black Rock

 

[SteveGon]

Heaven Can Wait—how can we have classic dramas without at least one Douglas Sirk?

I think you mean All That Heaven Allows?

Okay, I ditched The Shop Around the Corner. No biggie.

Five more nominations, seconds, and third for everyone.

 

[Rand]

Second:

The Caine Mutiny

Third:

Marty
A Place in the Sun
Bad Day at Black Rock

 

[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
The Caine Mutiny*
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof*
Dodsworth*
From Here to Eternity*
Gentleman's Agreement
The Lost Weekend*
The Man with the Golden Arm
Mrs. Miniver
My Darling Clementine
The Pride of the Yankees
The Scarlet Empress*
Sweet Smell of Success*
They Were Expendable*
Twelve O'Clock High

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

We're up to 35 on the master list which means we need 29 more!

Also, I'm still debating the inclusion of My Darling Clementine. What do you guys think? Is it too 'westerny?'

 

[SteveGon]

How about nominating some Ronald Colman?

Lost Horizon
Random Harvest
A Double Life
A Tale of Two Cities

 

[Rand]

Second:

All That Heaven Allows

 

[Jeff_A]

Second:

Pride of the Yankees

Third:

The Lost Weekend
Marty

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Second:
The Man with the Golden Arm

 

[Chris_Richard]

I never realized how few pre-60 American dramas I had seen until working on this list.

Nominations
Jezebel
Life of Emile Zola
The Magnificent Ambersons
Now, Voyager
San Francisco
Written on the Wind

Seconds
Mrs. Miniver

Thirds
From Here to Eternity
Pride of the Yankees

 

[Lew Crippen]

I think you mean All That Heaven Allows?

I do indeed.

Is there such a thing as being dyslexic regarding titles?

 

[Lew Crippen]

I’d toss Clementine. A definite Western. John Ford directs and we have the Earps plus Doc Holliday and the Clantons. And its set in Tombstone.

Can’t get much more Western than this.

 

[Agee Bassett]

I agree with Lew on MDC (chalk up its nomination as a little genre-dyslexia on my part). :p)

 

[Brook K]

3rd
The Caine Mutiny
They Were Expendable

Nominate
A Star Is Born '54
Rebel Without A Cause
Imitation Of Life
Out Of The Past
Ben-Hur
Rear Window

 

[Rain]

Pride of the Yankees

Call me a nitpicker, but it's The Pride of the Yankees

So I thought we were getting more noms and seconds? :frowning:

 

[SteveGon]

Five more nominations, seconds, and thirds for everyone.