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

[thisbluespirit]

Good question!

My film watching is always kind of random, but some favourite historicals are:

The Mummy (1999)

The Three Musketeers/The Four Musketeers (the 1970s version, aka where they only paid them for one film but made two)

Gosford Park

Enigma (2001)

Shakespeare in Love

The Wicked Lady (1947, with Margaret Lockwood playing highwayman)

Plus a bunch of adaptations and things, too.

[betweensunandmoon]

The Three Musketeers/The Four Musketeers (the 1970s version, aka where they only paid them for one film but made two)

I've seen the first one, but not the second.

The Wicked Lady (1947, with Margaret Lockwood playing highwayman)

Sounds fascinating!

[thisbluespirit]

The Wicked Lady is good fun if you like old films! Margaret Lockwood is always great, anyway.