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Interesting and informative, thank you. I think the shift to acting I'm able to "get into" happened around late 60s/early 70s.

For me, the shift to acting that I can enjoy happened around the late 60s/early-mid 70s.

For some balance, I saw The Great Gatsby the other day (not quite so old), and thought it was brilliant. And also the SWEATIEST film I've ever seen.

But surely the buck stops at the acting. Regardless of scenery, special effects, cinematography etc. and the acting in so many old films, especially child actors, is just so BAD that it makes it near impossible to "suspend disbelief". Limitations of the time do not explain why the gun fight on...

Just quickly, not looking to start a binfest (although no doubt I will) is there not a bit of a case of "old films are rubbish" sometimes, like "old football is rubbish". Watched the "classic" The Lady Vanishes with the in-laws over Christmas and was having to bite my lip to stop from laughing...