"What black and white film have you seen the most times?"

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Gee, I'm not sure. Maybe "The Day The Earth Stood Still."

What black and white film have you seen the most times?

I guess, for me, it would be Casablanca.

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Has to be It’s a Wonderful Life thanks to holiday showings every year.

After that, probably Young Frankenstein or Touch of Evil.Kevin M. Kruse added,
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[Zoonart]

1. All about Eve.

I get sucked in every time.

[ailsagirl]

39. Ditto here

[FuzzyRabbit]

2. Dr. Strangelove

[Buckeye_Democrat]

3. Dr. Strangelove, probably.

Maybe some of the old Charlie Chaplin movies?

I don't usually watch movies more than once, but those were some exceptions.

[skypilot]

4. Eraserhead.

[Ron Obvious]

62. It did take me four attempts to get through it anyway

And I'm a David Lynch fan.

I can't think of another B/W film I've seen more than that, it's true.

[ZZenith]

5. Wild Strawberries

The Seventh Seal
Winter Light
Through a Glass Darkly
Smiles of a Summer Night

and It’s a Wonderful Life - but only because my wife insists we watch it every year.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. It's a Wonderful Life.

Yep, that's surely the one that I've seen the most.

And then there's the Fox News version of the story:

[ZZenith]

13. Love it!

Thanks!

[cayugafalls]

6. The Grapes of Wrath

Then King Kong and Frankenstein.

[msongs]

7. a hard days night nt

[BigMin28]

8. Casablanca

Wuthering Heights
The Philadelphia Story

[Big Blue Marble]

10. The Maltese Falcon

Casablanca, and Dr. Strangelove.

[Srkdqltr]

11. Casablanca, To have and have not, Key Largo.

I liked Bogart.

[dweller]

12. The Misfits

n/t

✌🏼

[Walleye]

14. The Night of the Iguana, also Key Largo, great movie

[smirkymonkey]

15. A toss up, because I have seen many of these movies many times so I have lost count.

Casablanca
The Thin Man Movies (I have seen some more than others)
The Awful Truth
The Philadelphia Story
My Man Godfrey
All About Eve
Citizen Kane
It's A Wonderful Life.

I have seen a lot more, probably more than once, but those are the films that I have seen numerous times.

[alwaysinasnit]

16. Captain Blood (1935) Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland

[BlueTsunami2018]

17. Young Frankenstein.

Can quote it word for word.

[Ferrets are Cool]

33. THIS

[blm]

18. Some Like it Hot. Night of the Hunter. Attack of the Giant Leeches.

[GP6971]

19. Most recently

Seven Days in May.

Overall, any Bogart movie.

[OAITW r.2.0]

20. Wizard of Oz?

Technically, not completely B&W, but I saw that a whole bunch of times growing up.

Also, the Yearling....that was a real tear-jerker.

[RockRaven]

21. I'm certain it is Miracle on 34th Street

It's a Wonderful Life would probably be 2nd. But that is "seen" rather than "chosen to watch" the most times. Especially around holiday times I don't often control what's playing in my household. Not that I object to those films, I just would not watch them every single December (or nearly so) of my own volition.

The B&W film I've chosen to watch the most times is Dr. Strangelove, followed by Casablanca and then Clerks.

[Jarqui]

22. It's between To Kill a Mockingbird

and It's a Wonderful Life

I suppose the latter. Not positive.

To Kill a Mockingbird is my wife's favorite and one of mine.

[lkinwi]

23. Probably Christmas movies that I watch each year.

A Christmas Carol and The Bishop’s Wife

[Laffy Kat]

24. Besides the old horror flicks, "Twelve-O'Clock High"

And "Dr. Strangelove."

[regnaD kciN]

25. Probably Casablanca or Citizen Kane...

...although, if we base it on number of classroom viewing sessions in my "Dramatic Construction" course at film school, it would likely be either The Third Man or 3:10 To Yuma.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

26. Young Frankenstein and Dr. Strangelove

Great comedies, both of them!

[Tikki]

27. One Two Three, Days of Wine and Roses, Psycho...

And like most others...Dr. Strangelove.


Tikki

[if..fish..had..wings]

28. Umm

[Harker]

35. "Ikiru" is a favorite of mine...

though I've seen several others more often. "Rashomon", "Seven Samural", "Sanjuro", and "Yojimbo" among the Japanese films.

[if..fish..had..wings]

45. Yes

I have quite a few - Japanese and others - that could have been on the list.

And don't forget Gojira!

[Harker]

46. Never.

Shimura Takashi was a great actor.

[Duncan Grant]

29. "All About Eve"

It’s amazing — and Thelma Ritter, too!

[First Speaker]

30. The Maltese Falcon and Duck Soup

[Niagara]

31. My most watched B&W films

Psycho, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Some Like It Hot, and Pleasantville.

[Hoyt]

32. Not much on rewatching, but Wonderful Life, Psycho, In Cold Blood 2+ times.

[Cirque du So-What]

34. The Longest Day

It's practically been a Memorial Day ritual for over 40 years.

[Meadowoak]

36. Whatever happened to baby Jane.

[Upthevibe]

37. These aren't in order as I've seen them all multiple times - (I'm a major

old movie enthusiast):

It's a Wonderful Life
To Kill A Mockingbird
Twelve Angry Men
Goodbye Mr. Chips
I Remember Mama
Casa Blanca

[raging moderate]

38. Yankee Doodle Dandy, It's a Wonderful Life, Casablanca

[JCMach1]

40. Young Frankenstein FTW

[BunnyMcGee]

42. The most times

It's a Wonderful Life, Public Enemy (1931), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), A Christmas Carol (1951, 1938), Marx Brothers: At The Circus, Duck Soup, others. Dracula (1931), Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein (1941), Man of a Thousand Faces, The Mummy (1932)

[BunnyMcGee]

43. AND

White Heat (1949), many of the Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone , The Best Years of our Lives (1946)

[Amy-Strange]

44. Night of the Living Dead...

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Casablanca and Miracle on 34th Street

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[Paladin]

47. Toss-up between "Red River" and "Twelve-O'Clock High" (nt)

[Aristus]

48. "The Longest Day".

The most expensive black-and-white movie ever filmed, IIRC.

I fucking hate John Wayne, and the 56 year-old racist asshole non-acting his way through the role of the gallant 27 year-old Lt Colonel Benjamin Vandevoort is a crime.

But the rest of the film is excellent.

[malthaussen]

49. Probably "A Hard Day's Night"

Started by watching it about six times the day it premiered in my neighborhood. The usher kept coming by at each showing asking "weren't you here already," and my brother and I answered "We didn't see the beginning."

-- Mal

[Zorro]

50. The Seventh Seal

Bergman's best.

[yellowdogintexas]

51. I am trying to think back which is a long time...

Most views overall: Laurel and Hardy in the original "Babes in Toyland" which is an absolute hoot. Hokey and campy as hell and a huge tradition in our house when we were kids. This was back when local stations had to scrounge up whatever they could get to fill up afternoons, and one of our stations must have owned this because we saw it often every year. I now own a copy.

OK
All of the classic 1930s Horror Movies
Marx Brothers
Arsenic and Old Lace ( we still watch it every Halloween)
Young Frankenstein
Both of the black and white versions of "A Christmas Carol"
Miracle on 34th Street
It's a Wonderful Life
Some Like it Hot
WC Fields & Mae West


I am certain there are others, but since we had B & W TV, it was hard to know if a film was color. I probably saw "The Wizard of Oz" 7 times before I finally saw it in color.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

52. That still happens to me. A movie will come one, and I'll say,

"oh, I didn't know that was in color."

Svengoolie shows a lot of black and white movies.

[a kennedy]

53. Yup, good ole Casablanca for me as well.

[jalan48]

54. Zorba the Greek.

[jrandom421]

55. Marty

An underrated picture that catapulted Ernest Borgnine to fame and the 1955 Academy Award winner. A Paddy Chayefsky film, it was the film that launched his career as a writer. One of the best films I've ever seen. A timeless story.

[Amy-Strange]

61. People forget how good of an actor Ernest Borgnine was...

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Remember the Poseidon Adventure?

I call the 70s the disaster decade, because there were so damn many of disaster movies at the time, and then came Jaws and finally STAR WARS!
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[Skittles]

56. The Haunting (963)

many, many times

[betsuni]

57. I'm watching Charlie Chaplin's "Limelight" on TV right now, again.

Wonderful, I'm weeping pretty much through the whole thing. "Life can be wonderful. All you need is imagination, courage ... and a little dough."

Manhattan
Roman Holiday
The Third Man
The Spiral Staircase
Dracula
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Shop Around the Corner
Grand Hotel
It's a Wonderful Life

[Bucky]

58. Gabriel Over the White House (1933). Basically predicts Trump

Strongly recommended. It's supposed to be a fantasy of how a strong president can rescue the country from the Great Depression. but from historical hindsight, it's clearly Randolph Hearst fascist blueprint for the nation.

I show it to my government students at the end of the semester every year. When I showed it in December 2016, the kids walked out of the auditorium like zombies. If you ever want to see how FDR saved democracy, or how things would have turned out with Huey Long as president, rent this movie

Gabriel Over the White House

[betsuni]

59. Thanks, didn't know that one.

Interesting talk on this movie:

[Amy-Strange]

60. The Elephant Man...

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I don't know how I forgot that one, because I've seen it more times than the Night of the Living Dead, Casablanca, and Miracle on 34th Street--all put together.

It was a good movie, but what's weird is that the first time I saw it was almost right after seeing Silence of the Lambs, and it took me TEN viewings before I realized that the Doctor was Anthony Hopkins.

That just blew me away...
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[Ron Obvious]

63. I don't always remember whether a film I've watched long ago was in B/W or not.

I've been surprised a few times in both directions anyway.

And no, I don't think it had to do with colourised versions either.

[hunter]

64. Marx Brothers.

Maybe Horse Feathers.

[MicaelS]

65. The Day the Earth Stood Still...definitely. n/t.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

66. There was an episode of Batman on over the weekend. Ordinarily, you couldn't pay me to

watch Batman, but this was different. Say, isn't that ...?

HOLY REWATCH BATMAN!
Holy Rewatch Batman! “The Sandman Cometh” / “The Catwoman Goeth”
Keith R.A. DeCandido
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“The Sandman Cometh” / “The Catwoman Goeth”
Written by Ellis St. Joseph and Charles Hoffman
Directed by george waGGner
Season 2, Episodes 33 and 34
Production code 9715
Original air dates: December 28 and 29,

The Bat-signal: The Sandman, who’s in Gotham from Europe, has teamed up with Catwoman on a scheme to relieve J. Pauline Spaghetti of her great fortune. They each intend to betray the other as well. However, the GCPD was actually on the ball, for a change, having embedded an undercover detective in Catwoman’s gang. Unfortunately, Policewoman Mooney’s cover is blown by Catwoman just as she’s reporting in. Now Mooney’s in trouble, so Gordon calls Batman.

The Sandman Cometh

[Mad_Dem_X]

67. A Hard Day's Night n/t