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

[greerwatson]

I'm very fond of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Made in 1969 (based on a 1961 book), it's another one set in a period that would have been familiar to quite a few middle-aged people at the time, i.e. the Spanish Civil War.

A lot of "interpretation" went into its making. I read the book long after I saw the movie; and I was astonished at the differences. IMO, it's much better. It's a crafted whole, in a way that the book wasn't.