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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)

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I love period films, I think some of my favourites are:

A Man for All Seasons, about Thomas More and Henry VIII.

Stage Beauty, which is about actors in the court of Charles II of England.

Master and Commander: Far Side of the World, an age of sail war movie.

A Dangerous Man, about T. E. Lawrence and Emir Feisal at the Paris Peace Conference.

Design for Living, OT3 Noel Coward comedy.

Love and Friendship, a Lady Susan adaptation with a fun ending.

Twelve O'Clock High, about the US bomber command in WWII.

The Guns of Navarone, WWII action movie, mostly because it's immensely slashy.

Man in the Grey Flannel Suit, about processing war trauma in the 1950s.

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*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.

Edited Date: 2018-12-12 03:53 pm (UTC)

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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.

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

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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.

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