Whats The Oldest Film On Dvd You Bought

It took me months but eventually I managed to by on DVD all the way from Australia, made over 60 years ago by Dave Fliescher.......

Hoppity Goes to Town.

It pre dates Walt Disney and is a wonderful film for you kids.
I believe it is going to be re-released this year.

 

1939 - Sherlock Holmes with good old Basil Rathbone. I have all of them.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031448/

I wish some of these movies could be remastered.

 

Metropolis released in 1927 I understand and still brilliant.

Cheers
Bri

 

I bought a 4 dvd set of marx brothers movies on a whim a few years ago
I may even get around to watching them one day.

 

Grease.... remastered 2 disc edition with singalong

Leaves

 

M
Metropolis
The Cabinetr of Dr Calagri (spelling?)
Norseretfu
King Solomons temple (old B&W version)


All calssics and KST is a great adventure film.

 

Metropolis is the oldest, although this was a freebie from a newspaper. So my next in line would be my Hitchcock Box Set with 14 of his greatest movies.

 

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020629/

 

The Day the Earth stood still

Fantastic movie and the pre-cursor for all things Sci-fi

 

Without checking the dates it either Oh Mr. Porter with Will Hay or Its A Wonderful Life.

 

Casablanca - 1942
Dead of Night - 1945

 

We've just bought that for only £25 from HMV

All the best

Bei

 

Gone With The Wind (1939).

 

I've got nosferatu as well I'd forgotten about that one.
also I got the creature from the black lagoon and the original mummy with boris karloff as a two disc set.
I really must go through my collection and sort out any of the dvds I still haven't watched years after buying them !

 

That reminds me, forgot about my Universal Horror Boxset with all the classics from the 30s as well as busts of Frankenstein, Dracula and the wolf man. I too haven't got round to watching any of them yet.

 

Yup, that's where I got it from. (with an extra 10% off thanks to quidco )

 

Hi,

Fritz Lang's Metropolis (whcih Brian_S mentioned), but I also own the region 1 edition of "The Good Old Naughty Days" which has material from the early part of the 1910's and 20's on it. Good documentary/film too!


Pooch

 

DW Griffith's The Birth Of A Nation (1915)
The Kid (1921) and a few other Chaplin films
Nosferatu (1922)
Blue Angel (1930)

I probably have a few more, but these are the ones I can remember at the moment.

 

The Wizard of Oz (1939). If it had'nt been for Gone With The Wind that film would have swept the board at the Oscar's.

 

Same here

 

Probably Captain Blood - 1935 if I remember rightly

 

Earliest: King Kong (1933)

other oldies:
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Gone With The Wind (1939)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
Double Indemnity (1944)

 

Man With a Movie Camera (1929)

I really must get round to getting some of the silent classics

 

Forbiden Planet is the oldest movie in my collection

 

on dvd it is...

Brief Encounter (1945)

then
Some like it Hot (1959)
North by Northwest (1959)
I don't know which came first.

 

Some like it Hot was first.

 

Disney's Snow White (1937) is the oldest DVD I've got.

 

The 39 Steps, Criterion Collection, 1935.

 

oldest

Babes In Toyland (aka march of the wooden soldiers) 1934

other oldies

Murder In The Red Barn - 1935
Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - 1935
The Face At The Window - 1939
Crimes At The Dark House - 1940
Hoppity Goes To Town - 1941

and been waiting for the 1934 version of 'The Old Curiosity Shop' to appear on dvd forever.

 

I love these movies much and prefer them to the newer SH.

So much tension. Each one a classic.