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Title: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Barnes828 on March 09, 2009, 10:13:50 PM
My Favorite is Winchester 73' staring Jimmy Stewart

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Winchester73_trailer_Stewart.png)

second Favorite is Stalag 17, about a traitor in a POW Camp.
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: 1pLUs44 on March 09, 2009, 10:29:15 PM
The Longest Day
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: uptown on March 09, 2009, 10:33:25 PM
The African Queen and Run Silent Run Deep  :aok
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: LYNX on March 09, 2009, 10:37:12 PM
Casablanca and the cruel sea
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: texasmom on March 09, 2009, 11:19:28 PM
to kill a mockingbird was pretty good.
i dont' think i've decided on a favorite b&w though

Oh, one of my all-time favorites is "shenandoah." 
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: klingan on March 10, 2009, 03:42:58 AM
The Longest Day

+ 1
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: oakranger on March 10, 2009, 03:44:16 AM
My Favorite is Winchester 73' staring Jimmy Stewart

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Winchester73_trailer_Stewart.png)

second Favorite is Stalag 17, about a traitor in a POW Camp.

+1
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: moot on March 10, 2009, 05:08:13 AM
Seven Samurai.
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Blooz on March 10, 2009, 05:34:59 AM
(http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/reviews/york.jpg)
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Post by: avionix on March 10, 2009, 05:59:13 AM
The Maltese Falcon
12 O'Clock High
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Post by: Masherbrum on March 10, 2009, 06:08:54 AM
High Sierra (My fav. movie of all-time)
My Darling Clementine
Casablanca

In that order.
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: DREDIOCK on March 10, 2009, 06:46:52 AM
Seven Samurai.

Saw this for the first time about a week or so ago.
Damn good movie.

Add to the list "Battle Ground"
Gunga Din
Beau Geste
Any of the old Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, and Mummy movies (newer high tech versions suck by comparison)
Oh,,and King Kong
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Phaser11 on March 10, 2009, 06:47:04 AM
12 O'Clock High
Pork Chop Hill
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Post by: shuzon on March 10, 2009, 06:51:41 AM
Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Best B52 raid ever
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: DREDIOCK on March 10, 2009, 07:03:29 AM
to kill a mockingbird was pretty good.
i dont' think i've decided on a favorite b&w though

Oh, one of my all-time favorites is "shenandoah." 

Great movie. Ton of great lines in it.

Also about the best, most accurate description of what its like to be a man dealing with a woman I've ever heard

Charlie Anderson: It's no easy job, Sam, to take care of a woman.
Lt. Sam: No, sir.
Charlie Anderson: They expect things they never ask for. And when they don't get them, they ask you why. Sometimes they don't ask... and just go ahead and punish you for not doing something you didn't know you were supposed to do in the first place.

Also contains one of the better prayers I've ever heard.

Charlie Anderson: Lord, we cleared this land. We plowed it, sowed it, and harvest it. We cook the harvest. It wouldn't be here and we wouldn't be eating it if we hadn't done it all ourselves. We worked dog-bone hard for every crumb and morsel, but we thank you Lord just the same for the food we're about to eat, amen.

Just a movie full of great quotes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059711/quotes

Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: AWwrgwy on March 10, 2009, 07:14:14 AM
Battleground (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041163/)
Hell Is for Heroes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056062/)
Go for Broke! (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043590/)


Funny, alot of the movies I remember being black and white are were actually filmed in color.  We had a black and white TV a looong time.



wrongway
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Xasthur on March 10, 2009, 07:16:02 AM
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens  

(http://www.buzzbishop.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/nosferatu.jpg)

killer film.
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: MrBill on March 10, 2009, 09:14:24 AM
Schindler's List

Citizen Kane 

Hell is for Heroes should be as I was a extra in it.
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Post by: caldera on March 10, 2009, 09:21:49 AM
Lifeboat
Dr. Strangelove
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: apcampbell on March 10, 2009, 10:23:15 AM
ahhh the classics...

In Harm's Way and From Here to Eternity immediately come to mind. But I submit to you one movie in color that I desperately want to see again, No Man is an Island. Good stuff there
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Post by: wrag on March 10, 2009, 11:03:06 AM
Harvy (Jimmy Stewart)
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Post by: Blooz on March 10, 2009, 08:36:40 PM
(http://www.navnet.net/~quest/bookstore/images/night_remember_lrg.jpg)
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Post by: Nefarious on March 10, 2009, 08:54:46 PM
A Walk in the Sun

Paths of Glory

Clerks :)
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Simaril on March 10, 2009, 09:11:49 PM
Notorious (the Cary Grant/Ingrid Bergman/Claude Rains/Hitchcock one, not the recent dreck with the same title)  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041959/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041959/)
(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BNDI2NDE3NTcyMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNTU5NjM2._V1._SX291_SY400_.jpg)
....You'd be hard pressed to find a movie that better combines espionage and suspense, ever. Add to that some real relationship chemistry and a subplot of redemption- and you get one of the finest movies ever made.



The Third Man

(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTI4MDIxMDQ5OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTQ3NzEyMg@@._V1._SX514_SY400_.jpg)

A man shows up in post war Vienna to accept an old friend's job offer...but finds not only that his friend is dead, but that he's assumed to have been an underworld figure. No one's that interested in investigating the death, and when the man finds that there was an unknown "third man" on the scene, he starts investigating on his own.  Orson Wells in his pre-whale days does a bang up job writing, acting, and directing in this one.


Touch of Evil 

(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM1MzM0ODE2NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTc0OTgxMg@@._V1._SX265_SY400_.jpg)

Charlton Heston plays a respected Mexican official who's investigating corruption that crosses to the north of the border, and whose wife (Janet Leigh of Psycho fame) gets kidnapped for his trouble. Orson Welles plays the very large sherriff from the US side. Landmark movie as it's generally considered the last of the true Film Noir school, and one of the very best of them all. Also impressed by the fact that the movie both treats the Mexican character as a straight up protagonist, and that he was married to a beautiful caucasian woman. Really radically aggressive moves in the 50s!




Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Masherbrum on March 10, 2009, 10:57:46 PM
Forgot another favorite of mine:    Men In War
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Cthulhu on March 11, 2009, 01:32:10 AM
Seven Samurai.
+1  :aok (& many more Kurosawa films as well)

Fail Safe
The Philadelphia Story
Cape Fear
Inherit the Wind
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Obie303 on March 11, 2009, 02:49:15 AM
Young Frankenstein.   :D
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Blooz on March 11, 2009, 05:15:58 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SMA1XM81L._SL500_AA280_.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: VonMessa on March 11, 2009, 05:54:04 AM
Nef beat me to it, but Clerks  :aok          :rofl

No mention of Sabrina, yet?       :(  Audrey Hepburn as a young hottie  :aok

(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff107/tymekeepyr/sabrina-audrey-hepburn.jpg)


Night of the Hunter  (Robert Mitchum, Shelly Winters, Lillian Gish)

Also, Kitten With a Whip  (Young Ann Margaret)    :aok

(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff107/tymekeepyr/kitten-ann-margret.png)
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Blooz on March 11, 2009, 07:22:45 AM
(http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/4/b70-2418)
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: apcampbell on March 11, 2009, 08:37:47 AM
+1  :aok (& many more Kurosawa films as well)

Fail Safe



Now there was a damn good movie. I couldn't leave my seat until it was over, and even then the ending was intense! BTW, anyone see the live action remake in 2000? (the entire movie was performed live on the east coast, then live on the west coast) Although I hate his politics, George Clooney definately knows how to entertain.
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Nefarious on March 11, 2009, 10:34:42 AM
Now there was a damn good movie. I couldn't leave my seat until it was over, and even then the ending was intense! BTW, anyone see the live action remake in 2000? (the entire movie was performed live on the east coast, then live on the west coast) Although I hate his politics, George Clooney definately knows how to entertain.

I saw the 2000 remake, good stuff.
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Post by: Cthulhu on March 11, 2009, 10:52:52 AM
Now there was a damn good movie. I couldn't leave my seat until it was over, and even then the ending was intense! BTW, anyone see the live action remake in 2000? (the entire movie was performed live on the east coast, then live on the west coast) Although I hate his politics, George Clooney definately knows how to entertain.
Yeah, I thought Richard Dreyfuss did a pretty good job in the remake as the president, although he's no Henry Fonda.

I remember seeing the original as a kid and how the President's "solution" seemed so darkly "logical". I bet when it hit the theatres in '64 that audiences were left dead-silent and stunned. The Cold War was like the Great Depression, unless you lived thru it, you'll never quite "get" it.


Oh, and I just remembered a couple more of my favorites:

The Defiant Ones
Lonely Are the Brave



Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Denholm on March 11, 2009, 10:58:35 AM
Captain Blood.
(http://abouttocharge.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/captain-blood.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Cthulhu on March 11, 2009, 11:08:07 AM
Captain Blood.
(http://abouttocharge.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/captain-blood.jpg)
Good film. Unfortunately, every time I see Errol Flynn now, I picture him in that stupid "Big Daddy" pressure suit from "Dive Bomber". :lol
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Lusche on March 11, 2009, 11:39:19 AM
A few of mine have been mentioned already, but here are some more:

(http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_01_img0347.jpg)

(http://lichtblick.kooperative.at/Bilder/M_eineStadt1.jpg)
(http://ruthlessreviews.com/pics4/onibaba1.jpg)

(http://www.tigersweat.com/movies/arsen/arsen09.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Blooz on March 11, 2009, 12:23:05 PM
(http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/68/1176513060_5.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: VonMessa on March 11, 2009, 04:05:54 PM
A few of mine have been mentioned already, but here are some more:

(http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_01_img0347.jpg)

(http://lichtblick.kooperative.at/Bilder/M_eineStadt1.jpg)
(http://ruthlessreviews.com/pics4/onibaba1.jpg)

(http://www.tigersweat.com/movies/arsen/arsen09.jpg)

Mitchum is just scary in that flick.   :noid
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Enker on March 11, 2009, 04:22:37 PM
to kill a mockingbird was pretty good.
+1
You can't forget about some of the old Godzilla movies though, along with King Kong and The Blob (not sure if it was B&W though).
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Cthulhu on March 11, 2009, 04:36:07 PM
+1
You can't forget about some of the old Godzilla movies though, along with King Kong and The Blob (not sure if it was B&W though).
King Kong (1933) Absolutely  :aok
The Blob was in color, but not a bad movie

As far as Godzilla movies go, Gojira (1954) and the American adaptation Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) are great. After that, they seemed to be targeted more for kids, and just got sillier and sillier.
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Shifty on March 11, 2009, 05:52:17 PM
The Best Years Of Our Lives. 1946

(http://www.classicmoviefavorites.com/favmovies/bestyrs.jpg)
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Post by: Selino631 on March 11, 2009, 07:44:50 PM
(http://johnseiler.com/shelto3.jpg)


haha good times watching this movie, My grandfather was in the Navy in the pacific and when he would come and visit we would watch this movie and he would comment on everything, especialy how John Wayne is invincible and ALWAYS has to be the big hero until the end! it was soo funny
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: avionix on March 12, 2009, 11:23:49 AM
The Best Years Of Our Lives. 1946

(http://www.classicmoviefavorites.com/favmovies/bestyrs.jpg)

Great film!!  Always try to catch it when it comes on on cable.  Is sad to see all the planes going to the scrap heap that are in it.  Makes a grown man cry.
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Blooz on March 12, 2009, 11:53:49 AM
(http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MG/194602~The-Monolith-Monsters-Posters.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: VonMessa on March 12, 2009, 01:15:23 PM
The day the Earth Stood Still..........

War of the worlds......

Citizen Kane..........

12 Angry men..........
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Cthulhu on March 12, 2009, 03:47:52 PM
The day the Earth Stood Still..........

War of the worlds......

Citizen Kane..........

12 Angry men..........

 :aok How could I have forgotten Gort?
Nuke?  :confused:
 :aok
 :aok
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Darkish on March 12, 2009, 04:07:19 PM
Ice Cold in Alex

(http://www.mapability.com/blogs/travel/images/2006-11-14/icecold.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Shifty on March 12, 2009, 04:50:24 PM
War of the worlds......

That one's in color.... Oh yeah you're a dog... Sorry.  :D

How about Earth vs the Flying Saucers? That's a great old black and white scifi flick.
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Curlew on March 12, 2009, 05:05:57 PM
young frankenstien ftw
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Post by: Sikboy on March 12, 2009, 08:36:46 PM
There really are just too many to mention. But since it's my all time favorite movie, I'm going to have to go with "The Philadelphia Story."

"Whiskey is a slap on the back.... Champagne is a mist before my eyes..."

"I know a recipe that's said to pop the pennys off the eyes of dead Irishmen"

"Oh, and the night that you got drunk on champagne and climbed out on the roof and stood there, NAKED, with your arms out to the moon, wailing like a banshee"

And Dinah stole every scene that she was in.

Man... I love that movie. It actually makes me happy when I watch it.

-Sik
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: bcadoo on March 13, 2009, 01:28:39 AM
(http://blogs.dixcdn.com/wiandt/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/angel_badman.jpg)

Angel and the Bad Man
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Angus on March 13, 2009, 10:25:57 AM
Schindler's list  :angel:

Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Blooz on March 14, 2009, 10:39:20 AM
The 1939 version...

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514NBTGM46L._SL500_AA280_.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: moot on March 14, 2009, 12:11:17 PM
Hitchcock's probably on a lot of people's lists too.
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: E25280 on March 14, 2009, 02:13:45 PM
Hitchcock's probably on a lot of people's lists too.
Except for "Psycho", I can't think of any that were b&w.  My mind's eye has them all in color.
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: moot on March 14, 2009, 02:58:52 PM
That's right... I somehow remembered The Birds as B&W.. wow..
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Lusche on March 14, 2009, 03:09:15 PM
Except for "Psycho", I can't think of any that were b&w.  My mind's eye has them all in color.

He did an awful lot B&W's.. for example Sabotage!, Rebecca, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Notorious..
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Post by: SKJohn on March 14, 2009, 03:59:23 PM
Great movie. Ton of great lines in it.

Also about the best, most accurate description of what its like to be a man dealing with a woman I've ever heard

Charlie Anderson: It's no easy job, Sam, to take care of a woman.
Lt. Sam: No, sir.
Charlie Anderson: They expect things they never ask for. And when they don't get them, they ask you why. Sometimes they don't ask... and just go ahead and punish you for not doing something you didn't know you were supposed to do in the first place.

Also contains one of the better prayers I've ever heard.

Charlie Anderson: Lord, we cleared this land. We plowed it, sowed it, and harvest it. We cook the harvest. It wouldn't be here and we wouldn't be eating it if we hadn't done it all ourselves. We worked dog-bone hard for every crumb and morsel, but we thank you Lord just the same for the food we're about to eat, amen.

Just a movie full of great quotes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059711/quotes


I'm just watching this today as I read this thread.  Add another quote to the list:

"I never saw the state come around with a spare tit when I was raising them!"

Also love Winchester '73 - heck I love ust about any movie with Jimmy Stewart in it!
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Guppy35 on March 14, 2009, 09:26:33 PM
Way too many to pick just one.

Any of the Marx Brothers films up to Night at the Opera for good laughs

Lots of good Westerns. Fort Apache,  Darling Clementine, Destry Rides Again,  Ox Bow Incident is a great film too.

Casablanca, Maltese Falcon with Bogie.  Sahara is a guilty pleasure with Bogie and the tank that never runs out of gas.

Battleground, Best Years of our Lives for WW2 era stuff.  Air Force is my guilty pleasure WW2 aviation film with the B17C "Mary Ann' that wins WW2 by itself.

Philadelphia Story, It Happened One Night for the romantic comedy stuff. 

The list goes on and on.
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: james on March 15, 2009, 06:07:46 AM
The great dictator with Charlie Chaplin.
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: CavPuke on March 15, 2009, 06:13:02 PM
Dr Strangelove

(http://www.indelibleinc.com/kubrick/films/strangelove/images/cockpit.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: E25280 on March 15, 2009, 07:10:57 PM
He did an awful lot B&W's.. for example Sabotage!, Rebecca, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Notorious..
I know he did, he made a lot of movies.  But the ones I remember well (Ex. The Birds, Rear Window, Vertigo) I think were all in color -- or perhaps that awful "colorized" garbage they were all into for so many years.  By comparison, of the four you name, two titles sound familiar, but I couldn't tell you a thing about them.  Not sure if it would be the same for many other people.
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: SKJohn on March 16, 2009, 11:15:45 AM
Good film. Unfortunately, every time I see Errol Flynn now, I picture him in that stupid "Big Daddy" pressure suit from "Dive Bomber". :lol

I loved "Dive Bomber" - all those pre-WWII yellow winged navy planes - what's not to like there?  And actual aircraft, not today's hokey looking CGI stuff.  I'd still like to know what the "RAF Fighter" in that movie was.  Looks like some kind of Italian job, Maachi 200?  IDK, but still overall a good movie.

Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: 1pLUs44 on March 16, 2009, 11:58:34 AM
Just realized... John Wayne: The Searchers.

 :aok
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Cthulhu on March 16, 2009, 01:03:36 PM
I loved "Dive Bomber" - all those pre-WWII yellow winged navy planes - what's not to like there?  And actual aircraft, not today's hokey looking CGI stuff.  I'd still like to know what the "RAF Fighter" in that movie was.  Looks like some kind of Italian job, Maachi 200?  IDK, but still overall a good movie.
A lot of the "actual aircraft" in the movies of that period are actually model airplanes (don't recall the specifics of "Dive Bomber" though). I just remember that Wiley Post pressure helmet.

Just realized... John Wayne: The Searchers.

 :aok
Great movie :aok, but I think you've got the color saturation on your TV turned way down.  ;)
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Skyeho on March 16, 2009, 01:04:11 PM
"The House that would not Die"
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Cthulhu on March 16, 2009, 01:08:06 PM
That reminds me... The Haunting (1963)
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Anaxogoras on March 16, 2009, 02:02:43 PM
The Battle of Algiers
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Shamus on March 16, 2009, 04:55:28 PM
Shaft & The Sound of Music.

shamus
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Sikboy on March 17, 2009, 08:55:39 AM
Shaft & The Sound of Music.

shamus
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 :lol You sir, are a genius. I wish I'd have thought of that.

-Sik
Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: TheZohan on March 17, 2009, 10:46:19 AM
(http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/reviews/york.jpg)

very good movie

Title: Re: Favorite Black and White Movies
Post by: Rich46yo on March 17, 2009, 11:05:19 AM
The greatest War movie was also the first "anti-war movie".

All Quiet on the Western Front. B&W/1930. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020629/