What are your favorite period films?

[betweensunandmoon]

Mine are:

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
Captain Blood (1935)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Prince of Foxes (1948)
The Crimson Pirate (1952)
Scaramouche (1952)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Julius Caesar (1953)
The Music Man (1962)
Mary Poppins (1964)
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
The Sting (1973)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
The Great Gatsby (2013)

Comments

[betweensunandmoon]

*IMDbs all these*

Ooh, Gregory Peck! He's good.

Master and Commander looks like my kind of thing. I'll see if I can find it.

[muccamukk]

There's also the '50s version of Horatio Hornblower also with Gregory Peck, which holds up surprisingly well. I think Forrester was involved in the adaptation.

[betweensunandmoon]

Yeah, I saw that one. I liked it, but I don't know if I'd rank it among my favorites.

[muccamukk]

I probably wouldn't either, but it's very enjoyable if you like Age of Sail stuff, some of the period fighting bits hold up better than more modern movies. Hey, they remembered what chain shot was!

Definitely could have lived without the brownface.