Favorite b/w movies

[jbrainey]

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

[arrow 68]

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.

[ponderbear]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

"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.

[Retro Stereo]

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[Filmboydoug]

Originally Posted by arrow 68

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?

[6thumbs]

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

[Web Police]

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

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.

[JerryM]

Several more not yet mentioned:

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

and my favorite Jimmy Cagney film, White Heat.

[Hyperion]

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

[Andyman]

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.............

[Cosmic]

...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.

[Snade]

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

Sink the Bismarck, 1960

The Hustler, 1961

[ekmanning5]

Any Marx Brother's movie.

[Toasted Almond]

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

[Mystic]

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