I love old black and white movies! Here are some of my favorites, please post yours
All 14 Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
Mr. Blandings builds his dream house - Cary Grant
Arsenic and old lace - Cary Grant
The woman in the window - Edward G. Robinson
The Stranger - Edward G. Robinson
The Philadelphia Story - James Stewart - Cary Grant
House on haunted hill - Vincent Price
The haunting (of Hill house)- Claire Bloom
Young Frankenstein - Gene Wilder
And then there were none - Barry Fitzgerald
All of the Thin Man movies - William Powell - Myrna Loy
Maltese Falcon - Humphrey Bogart
Casablanca - Humphrey Bogart
Key Largo - Humphrey Bogart - Loren Bacall - Edward G. Robinson
The Lady Vanishes - Alfred Hitchcock (actually I love all of the Hitchcock movies)

And so many more....

My Favorite was the Black Eagle ... He was the original Zoro of silent films..
Public television years ago used to play his movies .... I liked the episode
where a host kept a bear chained in the basement and would send guests
down to let them pick out their own bottle of wine....... CHOMP !!! .....
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How about Marty,,,ernest borgnine......Reqium for a Heavyweight,,,,Jackie Gleason,,Mickey Rooney,,,Anthony Quinn,,,,The Harder they Fall ,, Humphrey Bogart,,,Shane ,,Alan Ladd,,,,The Longest Day,,, ,,,Painted Dessert,,,Stage Coach,,,the Duke,,,Red River,,The duke and Montgomery Clift,,,thats a start

Don't forget Dr. Strangelove.

12 angry men - all quiet on the western front (silent version) - (2nd) dr strangelove

12 angry men - all quiet on the western front (silent version) - (2nd) dr strangelove

12 Angery men is a great movie!

Fail Safe
Spellbound
The man who wasn't there

Psycho, most any Hitchcock
Sunset Blvd
Double Indemnity
many of the 50s B-movie horror. The B/W, the music, and the womens' blood curdling screams...

Seven Samurai.
Yojimbo.
The Hidden Fortress.
The Exterminating Angel.
le chien andalou.
Spellbound.
Lifeboat.
Metropolis.
Masculin et Feminin.
The Grand Hotel.
The Third Man.

All my most favorite movies were B&W. It's a real challenge to make B&W that looks good, and when it does it's amazing.

Seven Samurai.
Yojimbo.
The Hidden Fortress.
The Exterminating Angel.
le chien andalou.
Spellbound.
Lifeboat.
Metropolis.
Masculin et Feminin.
The Grand Hotel.
The Third Man.

All my most favorite movies were B&W. It's a real challenge to make B&W that looks good, and when it does it's amazing.

The Third Man strikes a familiar chord with me but I can't place it. Who was in it and what was the plot?:headscrat

Everyone Favorite,, Treasure of the Sierra Madre,, bogart,,, tim holt,,, Francisco Bedoya,,,,,

Everyone Favorite,, Treasure of the Sierra Madre,, bogart,,, tim holt,,, Francisco Bedoya,,,,,

I just watched that last week! I can't believe I forgot to include it! That's a great beer and popcorn movie!

I just watched that last week! I can't believe I forgot to include it! That's a great beer and popcorn movie!If you,ve never seen Reqium for a Heavyweight ,,or The Harder They Fall ,watch them ,,both fantastic stories and suberb acting

How green was my valley or The Egg and I.

"The Third Man" was set in Vienna in 1949. It was a moody film noir about postwar Vienna. The most remarkable thing about it was its use of zither music for the theme. Orson Welles starred in it, IIRC.

The day the earth stood still....."Klaatu barada nikto."

Film Noir is the best! Period! Nothing even comes close. Asking what is your favorite B/W Film is like asking what your favorite song is. The list is endless. TCM did air "The Picture of Dorian Gray" last night. I am not the biggest fan of the film overall because I do not care that much for the ending, but I am quite fond of George Saunders. His quick, cold wit in this film is classic. These movies were made years before the dumbing down of America had begun. I often ask myself, what has happened to us? Most people young, and old alike would be completely lost trying to follow Saunders dialogue throughout the film.

"The Third Man" was set in Vienna in 1949. It was a moody film noir about postwar Vienna. The most remarkable thing about it was its use of zither music for the theme. Orson Welles starred in it, IIRC.

That's the one, yep!

Sandy, you remind me... any list of B&W movies should include...

Citizen Kane
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Lady from Shanghai (flawed but some brilliant cinematography)

And while we are on the subject of Welles..

Gilda. Few women in the movies were more beautiful in B&W than Rita Hayworth in that movie.

Other candidates for that award: Garbo in Ninotchka, Myrna Loy in the Thin man series, Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights, Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca, Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not.

It's A Wonderful Life!



Retro

TCM did air "The Picture of Dorian Gray" last night. I am not the biggest fan of the film overall because I do not care that much for the ending, but I am quite fond of George Saunders. His quick, cold wit in this film is classic. These movies were made years before the dumbing down of America had begun. I often ask myself, what has happened to us? Most people young, and old alike would be completely lost trying to follow Saunders dialogue throughout the film.

I haven't seen this one, but I think of George Saunders in Rebecca and All About Eve. Could anyone else play a scoundrel like George Saunders?

wasn,t Raging Bull shot in B&W for the most part to show a time line

Wow all the movies mentioned were great. I love old Black & white movies also. :yes:

Some if my favorites include the Sherlock Holmes films, & Charlie Chan Movies,

Bringing Up Baby,
Arsenic and Old Lace,
Th Maltese Falcon,
The Grapes of Wrath,
Key Kargo,
The Petrified Forest,
The Man who Shot Liberty Valence
To Kill a Mockingbird


And many many more.

Several more not yet mentioned:

The Manchurian Candidate (the original)
Harvey
Rashomon
The Virgin Spring

and my favorite Jimmy Cagney film, White Heat.

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Many of my all time Fav's have already been mentioned but here are five that I really like.

Bringing up Baby
Sink the Bismarck
The First of the Few
Ice Cold in Alex
Winchester '73

(haven't watched them for a while, hoping they are all B&W !)

John

There's just too darn many to name them all!
I love watching TCM for the old B&W classics. Maybe it's all the great stars, who knows, but there are hundreds of classics out there.

Here's a few more:

Captain Blood, w/ Errol Flynn
Angels w/ Dirty Faces, Cagney and Pat O'Brien
DOA, w/ Edmund O'Brien (check out the band at the jazz club)
Kiss of Death, Richard Widmarks' debut as the psychotic Tommy Udo
Dead Reckoning, w/ Bogart
My Darling Clementine, w/ Henry Fonda

This could go on quite a while.............

...many already mentioned; some more from me:

King Kong (1933)
Wages of Fear (Orig. French version)
The Hill (w. Sean Connery)
Touch of Evil (restored version)
Sunrise (Murnau)
Joan of Arc (Dreyer)

Best,
C.

The Train, 1965
D: John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster

Sink the Bismarck, 1960

The Hustler, 1961

Any Marx Brother's movie. :yes:

The ORIGINAL Cape Fear. Mitchum is awesome as Max Cady, and shows just how overboard things have to be these days for people to enjoy themselves (DeNiro's performance in the same role in the re-make).

12 Angry Men
Of Mice and Men (the original of course)
The Grapes of Wrath
Sink The Bismarck

ALL the "B" grade horror flicks from the 50's.
ALL the war movies actually filmed during WWII:

A Wing and a Prayer
God is My Co-Pilot
Fighter Squadron
Air Force
Destination: Tokyo (Cary Grant)
Run Silent, Run Deep

Elia Kazan films in general, but particularly his film Baby Doll from 1956.

Eraserhead by D. Lynch

Also The Night of the Hunter, directed by Charles Laughton and starring, in an unforgettable turn, Robert Mitchum. The original version of Cape Fear, too, with Peck & Mitchum. :thmbsp:

The original Lolita,,,,Bad Day at Black Rock,,Spencer Tracy,, Suddenly,,Frank Sinatra,,anybody mention Objective Burma,with Errol Flynn

"Knife in the Water." Probably a silly movie (saw it forty years ago, so don't really remember what it was about) but you could frame scene after scene as still photos.

Lost Horizon from 1937 is a remarkable film. Meet John Doe also excellent, as is Billy Wilders' Double Indemnity. Key Largo, rollicking. And the unforgettable groundbreaking film The Best Years of our Lives. But there are so many of them. It's like choosing which Ferrari to drive on Sunday. The silver screen was truly sterling then.

Being a lazy sort of guy, my apologies if already mentioned....."Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid", Steve Martin....


Bill

Stalag 17 (Holden)

Sunset Strip (Holden)

Fixed Bayonets! (Basehart)

To Kill a Mockingbird (Peck)

Night of the Hunter (Mitchum)

Wild One (Brando)

Billy Budd (Ustinov)

<I could have a pretty good weekend with just these!>

Kubrick's "The Killing" with Sterling Hayden and "Paths of Glory" with Kirk Douglas are both available on dvd.

"Witness for the prosecution" a classic in black and white.

Kubrick's "The Killing" with Sterling Hayden and "Paths of Glory" with Kirk Douglas are both available on dvd.

"Paths of glory" a great anti war movie. The trench warfare scenes were vivid and riveting;more effective in instilling fear than those from "All quiet on the Western Front".

Holiday
The Bishop's Wife
Almost any war movie
Almost any Cary Grant

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The one with Norman Bates.

A more modern b&w is "Dead Man" with Johnny Depp...very classy
Anything with Errol Flynn...gotta throw a Tasmanian into the mix!!