Year: 2022

We’ve avoided some obvious films here. No “Gone With The Wind”, no “Citizen Kane”, no “Wizard Of Oz”… We know you know these are worth seeing anyway.

“Bringing Up Baby” is the classic.

“It Happened One Night” is great.

Don’t neglect the films of W C Fields.

“The Thin Man”, based on a Dashiell Hammett story, is genuinely hilarious, especially Astor the dog:

The early 1940s brought us war films. High among them, though actually just after the end of the war, is “A Matter Of Life And Death”:

And let’s not forget “Brief Encounter” one of the earliest films of adultery told from a female point of view.

We’re not sure we would call this a screwball comedy, but it is a comedy for sure.

Cary Grant stars in this 1946 film as an account executive who decides to move away from the bustle of New York and renovate an old country house. Myrna Loy is the wife. Problems with the house and the locals make this a difficult job, with hilarious results, as they say.

It’s the kind of role Grant does best, a slightly confused character rather baffled by those around him.

The real house still exists, as does the one from “Miracle On 34th Street” and is basically unchanged.