What's your favourite black and white movie?
Old movies kick ass. Many are absolute classics, and I don’t know about you guys, but when I watch a black and white movie, it’s a bit different than a colour one. It’s just not the same as watching colour, and to me it invites my imagination, and many times, offers a great atmosphere.
Actually, my friend says I feel that way because, obviously, most black and white movies come from a generation with cultures that I’m not familiar with, (not to mention that the methods for making movies has changed a lot, not sure what she means though) and it actually has nothing to do with the fact that it isn’t in colour. (as opposed to colour movies set in a period I wasn’t living in, but made in the recent times) Still, whatever, I can’t decide between Nosferatu or Night of the Living Dead. What about you?
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Harvey. Arguably one of Jimmy Stewart’s best. That was the first movie that made me wanna go out and swing around a street light or some shizz.
Give me any of the old Abbot and Costellos boy I love to laugh, they were so funny
@blueiiznh Final Fantasy VI referenced that movie. :D Rosebud, ftw.
Beware My Lovely with Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan
Strangers on a Train
Laura
Adam’s Rib. Casablanca. Manhattan (Not old, but a classic…:) Of almost forgot my fave sci-fi: The Day the Earth Stood Still.
I like Scrooge better in black and white.
It Happened One Night
with Claudette Cobert and Clark Gable.
It was the “When Harry Met Sally” of the time.
Also a fan of the Abbot & Costello movies. SUSQUAHANNA HAT COMPANY!
Brief Encounter.
Adam’s Rib (is hilarious).
It’s a Wonderful Life
12 Angry Men
Duck Soup (or anything with The Marx Brothers)
I also love Hitchcock’s films. Psycho is dated now but it was pretty scary in its time. Rear Window is another good one.
Also, not from the era you are asking about but Schindler’s List is a fantastic movie in black and white (and a little dab of colour).
And what about To Kill a Mockingbird? Brilliant.
Or Cape Fear!!! The remake was good but ugh .. spooky, scary original with Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck.
What about The Big Sleep?
There are so many fabulous black and white films. I wish my kids would watch some of them but as soon as they see it is in B&W… not interested…sighs.
Some Like It Hot
Strangers On A Train
Angels With Dirty Faces
White Heat
The Defiant Ones
I have alot of favorites but To Kill A Mockingbird is my number one.
I also liked All About Eve,Roman Holiday and and a bunch more that I can’t remember because it’s early and I haven’t had my cofffffeeeeeeeee…..;)
@Symbeline, if you like that genre of black and white flicks, check out movies with Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi or Boris Karloff. Kings of horror.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
Harvey with James Stewart
Psycho
Wizard of Oz which is only partially b&w.
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
The Sword of Doom
White Zombie
Eyes without a face
Yojimbo
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Clerks, The Last Man On Earth,
So, so many,
Just watched “Blithe Spirit”, Noel Coward play, on Netflix last night.
Frank Capra’s “Arsenic and Old Lace” or “Meet John Doe” or “Balls Of Fire”
That is like taking a small lick off a giant triple scoop ice cone.
I grew up on black and white tv and sometimes when I just want to mello out…I will block the color out of the tv. It is easier on the eyes and set a mood for comfort.
I love color as I paint and work with mosaic glass art, but give me a good setting with a black and white movie any day.
@Mz_Lizzy Yeah, Psycho is definitely a classic. I also like The Birds. Schindler’s List is great too, and that dab of colour is pretty impacting, I’d say.
@Michael_Huntington What’s Yojimbo? Is that a samurai movie?
@bkcunningham Aye, Vincent Price is awesome. Last night I watched House on Haunted Hill, which is why I asked this question lol.
Lots and lots, but I love the beauty of the 1920s film Pandora’s Box . (The music in this video is NOT the music in the actual movie…the Criterion Collection has a release which features 4 different musical pieces to watch to.) Louise Brooks is so gorgeous and lethal in this film.
@Symbeline Yeah. It’s basically “A Fistful of Dollars” but with Samurai warriors instead of cowboys. In fact, “A Fistful of Dollars” ripped off “Yojimbo”.
@Mz_Lizzy The first Cape Fear! I’d love to see it again.
It was on TV here a few weeks ago. A real treat @faye.
I love old noir films, like Sunset Boulevard and The Maltese Falcon…
Oooh…The Maltese Falcon was amazing.
How about Afican Queen?
@cprevite Another great one! Though, I think Brando should’ve gotten the Oscar that year for Streetcar Named Desire
I really love The Innocents . It’s truly spooky, and a total must see for any horror/thriller fan. It’s like The Others only with much much less Nicole Kidman.
There’s this one scene? Where they play hide and seek and Deborah Kerr is hiding behind the curtain and… (has heart attack)
Mr Hulot’s Holiday, I laugh every time I hear a screen door like that.
That reminds me…I once saw a short black and white skit. I don’t remember all of it…but there was some guy who dug up a corpse from a graveyard, and was carrying in his apartment. Some lady saw the corpse, but since the guy was behind it as he was carrying it, she thought the corpse was walking on its own.
The whole skit is of her catching glimpses of the dead body, but never seeing the guy holding it, and she thinks it’s some zombie or vampire. In the end, the corpse falls down the stairs and out a window…does anyone know what this is at all? Been trying to find it for years, but I remember so little details. It kind of looked like a parody of Frankenstein and Nosferatu.
Steve Martin an Rachel Ward in “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid” that’s not “old” though but it’s intentionally in B&W and styled as an old movie.
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