What're Youre Favorite Black & White Movies?

Question

Be interesting to see what the younger people say....

mine:

To Kill a Mockingbird (MUST see)

A Raisin in the Sun

A Patch of Blue

Someone who was here IMed me & I accidentally deleted. Im again....

Omg- "12 Angry Men" is Very high on my list! How could I forget?? !

Answer 1

Above all - To Kill a Mockingbird
After that, the Hitchcock films.
Christmas - Miracle on 34th St

Answer 2

There is no way I can name a few films. I grew up on lots of b&w films, mainly because televisions were b&w. Also, many movies in the Fifties and Sixties were filmed in that medium. So, I'm drawn to them as much as I am to color. Occasionally, there will be a film I'd like to see colorized, but most are perfect, just as they are.

DRAMA
Casablanca
A Place in the Sun
Specter of the Rose
Sergeant York
Dark Passage
Heidi~Shirley Temple of course!
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
The Elephant Man~newer, yes, but worthy of mention
How Green Was My Valley
The Corn Is Green
Wuthering Heights
The Grapes of Wrath
This Gun for Hire
White Heat
Kiss Me Deadly
Detour
Jezebel
La Strada
The 400 Blows
In a Lonely Place
Shadow of a Doubt
Strangers on a Train
To Have and Have Not
The Letter
The Good Earth
The Petrified Forest
The Maltese Falcon
Nightmare Alley
The Birdman of Alcatraz
The Defiant Ones
A Patch of Blue
Blues in the Night
They Made Me a Criminal
Humoresque
Autumn Leaves
Come Back, Little Sheba
To Kill a Mockingbird
Marie Antoinette
Inherit the Wind
Born Yesterday
A Face in the Crowd
The Night of the Hunter
Cape Fear
Dino
Blackboard Jungle
Shanghai Express
Stella Dallas
Tiger Bay
Gaslight
Laura
Algiers
Lilies of the Field
Angels With Dirty Faces

COMEDY
Harvey
Roman Holiday
Bringing Up Baby
It Happened One Night
My Little Chickadee
It's a Gift
Paper Moon~not as old but a fantastic film
The Thin Man
Some Like It Hot
Bringing Up Baby
Arsenic & Old Lace
Born Yesterday
The Bachelor & the Bobby-Soxer
Ed Wood~It's recent, but I love this one so much! Martin Landau is brilliant as Bela Lugosi, and Johnny Depp's Edward D. Wood, Jr., is funny, adorable and irresistible. I'm pleased they didn't go into all of the troubles later in his life.
Young Frankenstein~worthy of mention, just for its bow to Universal's films

SCIENCE FICTION/HORROR/FANTASY
The Haunting
The Innocents
King Kong
Son of Kong
The Picture of Dorian Gray~It does have a color image of the final stage of the portrait before Dorian tries to destroy it.
Night of the Demon aka Curse of the Demon
I Walked With a Zombie
Cat People
Curse of the Cat People
The Seventh Victim
Isle of the Dead
Bedlam
The Leopard Man
The Body Snatcher~Henry Daniell
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Thing From Another World
The Monster That Challenged the World
Donovan's Brain
The Uninvited~Ray Milland
Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein
Son of Frankenstein
The Mummy~Boris Karloff
The Wolf Man
Mad Love~Peter Lorre
Metropolis
The Lost World
Mighty Joe Young
Nosferatu
The Phantom of the Opera (1924)
Dracula
The Black Cat (1934)
Them!
Things to Come
Portrait of Jennie
Psycho
Dead of Night
On the Beach
I Married a Witch
The Tingler
Repulsion~Like "Psycho", it seems to belong here more.
The Werewolf~Steven Ritch
House on Haunted Hill
Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
Monolith Monsters
White Zombie
The Colossus of New York
20 Million Miles to Earth
Plan 9 from Outer Space~It makes me laugh every time!
Creature from the Black Lagoon
The Incredible Shrinking Man
A Christmas Carol (1938)
Scrooge~Alastair Sim
A Midsummer Night's Dream~This must have been awe-inspiring on the "silver screen", where audiences could have seen details in this magnificent production. Billy Barty is easily spotted as a member of Titania's court.

MUSICALS:
The Great Ziegfeld
Naughty Marietta
42nd Street
Holiday Inn
Dancing Lady
A Hard Day's Night
Yankee Doodle Dandy

There are so many amazing b&w films that I've barely made a dent on the wonderfully watchable movies available.

Answer 3

I assume you are asking for movies made during the B&W era (ending around 1963 or 1964). With one exception, the films listed here were made during that time. Movies with remakes of the same name are followed by the year they were released.

12 Angry Men (1957)
Casablanca
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid *
The Grapes of Wrath
The Haunting (1963)
High Noon
The Hustler
It's a Wonderful Life
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Notorious
On the Waterfront
The Ox-Bow Incident
Psycho (1960)
Stalag 17
To Kill A Mockingbird
Touch of Evil
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre


* "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" was made in 1982, but I include it here because it contains clips from numerous film-noire's from the 40's and 50's.
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Answer 4

- Song of Bernadette
- The Elephant Man
- The Thin Man
- Frankenstein & The Bride of Frankenstein
- Casablanca
- Citizen Kane
- Lillies of the Field
- Eraserhead
- Wuthering Heights
- How Green Was My Valley
- Sahara
- Gaslight
- Hud
- Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
- The Aprartment
- Repulsion
- The Magnificent Ambersons
- Schindler's List
- Double Indemnity
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Metropolis
- The Last Picture Show
- Lenny
- The Man Who Wasn't There

NOTE: - after looking at ALADDINWA'S & MYSTMOONSTRUCK'S Choices - I agree with everything on them, including Dead Men.....).

It's amazing that I could forget so many great films!!

Answer 5

Carry On Sergeant
Private's Progress
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Wicked Lady
Casablanca
Lucky Jim
Q Planes
Odd Man Out
And Then There Were None

Answer 6

Does Young Frankenstein count? Well Casablanca is my favorite movie, I love most Hitchcock's movies, I love Sunset Blvd, Wuthering Heights, I am not including ones you already mentioned although I do agree with your choices, and I think I would have to include The Blob, of course the original one. I know I am forgetting some greats also, I purposely didn't read the other answers so it didn't influence me.

Answer 7

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Answer 8

The 1959 version of anne frank

Answer 9

Clerks

You didn't say it had to be old! :)

To Kill a Mockingbird is indeed a good movie, The Three Faces of Eve is another one of my favorites.

Answer 10

Casablanca
Metropolis
Schindler's List
Sin City (if it counts, lol ^_^.)

Agreed about To Kill a Mockingbird.

EDIT: Whoops! I left out It's a Wonderful Life!