Name the OLDEST movie that's made you cry...

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I'm back, and with a variation on the old theme of what certain movies make you weepy. So, guys and girls, what's the oldest movie you've seen that's succeeded in making you spill tears?

For me, it's easily the 1930 classic "All Quiet On The Western Front". There were many scenes in it that made me lightly teary, but the scene that stood out above the rest was when the main character, a German youth named Paul, is stuck in a trench overnight with a dying French soldier, whom Paul had stabbed in self-defense. It took hours for that French soldier to die, all the while Paul was feeling guilty about having stabbed him; that it was this cursed war that makes enemies of men that could be our friends in different circumstances...

Anyway, when Paul finally lost it and screamed "Stop looking at me with those eyes! I'm sorry! I'll do whatever you want...just forgive me!"...I lost it too, and cried with him...

That's my example...now it's your turn, WP

Usagi1992

I don't watch old movies.

Well, so far I've never actually cried during a movie, but I DO know one film that I've never seen, but I know will make me cry, and that is Passion of the Christ.

a tale of two cities, 1935 version, with ronald coleman

The first that actually made me cry properly was the 1984 version of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

I honestly can't think of a good answer to this one.

I was wondering if Bride of Frankenstein (1935) made me cry - I think it made me sad but not cry.

I've gotten tears from a lot of the early Chaplin films - particularly the Gold Rush - but they weren't tears of sadness.

Well, yes, I agree with you there...even though that part with the blind hermit was touching to the part of becoming 'misty-eyes', I didn't actually cry.

On another note, I think that one movie that might dethrone "All Quiet" as my oldest personal tearjerker is "Greed", released in 1924. (and the first EVER movie released by MGM!) All I need to do is find a copy of the Special Director's 4-hour version, and we'll see, won't we?

The Land Before Time. I always listened to the credit song all the way to the end, and it was the song that made me cry. I'm not sure why.... Movies don't make me cry anymore.

I have never cried when I watched a movie.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

Maybe we need to make you watch Highlander II over and over again until you do cry.

While it didn't make my cry, I thought "Jim Thorpe, All American," was pretty sad. The way he ended up was very sad. Also, his son passed away from the horrible influenza epidemic of 1918.

Actually I laughed while watching that movie . . .