My Favorite Films of the 1930s

"Be careful how you're driving."
"Am I driving?"

Directed by Charles Chaplin
Written by Charles Chaplin
Music by Charles Chaplin
Cinematography by Gordon Pollock and Roland Totheroh
Editing by Charles Chaplin and Willard Nico

"Well, you're a free man."
"Free? Can't I stay a little longer? I'm so happy here."

Directed by Charles Chaplin
Written by Charles Chaplin
Music by Charles Chaplin
Cinematography by Ira H. Morgan and Roland Totheroh
Editing by Charles Chaplin and Willard Nico

"Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!"

Directed by James Whale
Written by Garrett Fort and Francis Edward Faragoh
Music by Bernhard Kaun
Cinematography by Arthur Edeson and Paul Ivano
Editing by Clarence Kolster

"How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?"
"I don't know! But some people without brains do an *awful* lot of talking, don't they?"

Directed by Victor Fleming
Written by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf
Music by Harold Arlen and Herbert Stothart
Cinematography by Harold Rosson
Editing by Blanche Sewell

"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."

Directed by Tod Browning
Written by Tod Browning, Louis Bromfield, Max Cohen, Dudley Murphy, Frederick Stephani and Louis Stevens
Music by
Cinematography by Karl Freund
Editing by Milton Carruth

"Tell her they may soon be leaving us. Leaving us for a long, long journey. How is it that Shakespeare says? "From which no traveler returns." Great poet."

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Written by Charles Bennett and D.B. Wyndham-Lewis
Music by Arthur Benjamin
Cinematography by Curt Courant
Editing by Hugh Stewart

"We'll begin with a reign of terror, a few murders here and there, murders of great men, murders of little men - well, just to show we make no distinction. I might even wreck a train or two... just these fingers around a signalman's throat, that's all."

Directed by James Whale
Written by R.C. Sherriff
Music by Heinz Roemheld
Cinematography by Arthur Edeson
Editing by Ted J. Kent

"A fine bunch of water lilies you turned out to be. I'd like to see anybody make me wash, if I didn't wanna."

Directed by William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce and Ben Sharpsteen
Written by Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Rickard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank and Webb Smith
Music by Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith and Edward H. Plumb
Cinematography by
Editing by