Favorite Black & White movie.

[Ptah]

The Apartment.

[Moondog]

1. Excellent choice. But I have to go with "The Third Man".

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Young Frankenstein.

[lunatica]

3. That's one of my all time favorites too!

"What hump?"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. It is just full of hilarious lines!

[lunatica]

7. The brain was of someone named Abby Normal

LOL!

[kentauros]

32. "After 5 PM Slip Brains Through Slot in Door"

And there's a little receiver box for said brains

[DFW]

51. Absolutely! Young Frankenstein, hands down!

"The nails, the nails!"

"It's pronounced 'EYE-gor'"

"WHAT?"

"Elevate me."
"Here? Now?"
"Yes. The Platform."
"Oh! That. The platform, ja ja."

[Swede]

4. Earth vs the Flying Saucers

[lunatica]

8. I was a little girl when I saw that

It scared me to death! In bed later I pulled the blankets up over my head and laid there as quietly as I could so they wouldn't see that anyone was in the bed if the aliens came in. Scared. To. Death.

Ah! What fond memories!

[Swede]

9. It's always stuck with me.

I can still watch it and enjoy it.

[alphafemale]

27. Are those barracks or prison camps lining the National Mall?

Cool bit of image manipulation for the era.

[Alexander]

6. The Manchurian Candidate (the original from 1962)

The crappy remake with Denzel Washington doesn't even compare.

[dimbear]

10. Maltese Falcon, Bogart version.

It had to be great or they wouldn't have kept filming it so often.

[RebelOne]

11. The original "The Thing From Outer Space" filmed in the early '50s.

I have the tape. Some day I will have it transferred to DVD.

[pipi_k]

12. A Place In The Sun

Tragic story...

[ailsagirl]

48. Good choice

From the book by Theodore Dreiser entitled 'An American Tragedy,' but renamed by studio heads because Dreiser's title was too negative. Mustn't besmirch the sacred cow!

[PassingFair]

67. "Gilda"

Oops, meant to post to the OP.....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Dr. Strangelove.

[Initech]

16. ...

[GoCubsGo]

65. Yep.

One of my most favorite movies, period.

[IntravenousDemilo]

14. Kind Hearts and Coronets for enjoyment.

Citizen Kane for cinematography.

[Major Nikon]

15. I love B&W movies

Hard to pick a favorite. Here's my short list.

Citizen Kane

Psycho

It's a Wonderful Life

Casablanca

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Grapes of Wrath

The Hustler

Stagecoach

The Last Picture Show

Arsenic and Old Lace

They Were Expendable

From Here to Eternity

12 Angry Men

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

The Philadelphia Story

Sin City (not exactly B&W, but close)

Zero Hour!

[Ptah]

18. To Kill a Mockingbird

[alphafemale]

28. WWAD?

You either got that....or I just made you say wtf?

[siligut]

31. What would Atticus do?

Not a bad motto, he is a true hero.

[Tom Ripley]

74. Except for that whole putting the rape victim on trial thing

He not only plays the sexist card, he also plays the class card with her

[ailsagirl]

49. Great list!

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Don't forget:
Double Indemnity
All About Eve
The Haunting
East of Eden
Strangers on a Train
The Miracle Worker

[Major Nikon]

52. I was just trying to narrow the list down a bit

I also like...

Good Night, and Good Luck (should have made my favorites list)

Best Years of Our Lives

Only Angels Have Wings

The Bad and the Beautiful

Schindler’s List

The Asphalt Jungle

A Place in the Sun

High Noon

All Quiet on the Western Front

Anatomy of a Murder

Witness for the Prosecution

Stalag 17

[ailsagirl]

54. Pretty hard to narrow down

There are so many!
Suspicion
Notorious

[Zorro]

17. The Seventh Seal

Highly recommended for all college freshmen.

[amerikat]

19. Grapes of Wrath or The Day the Earth Stood Still

or maybe Frankenstein.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

20. Dr. Strangelove for me too

Honorable mentions:
Clerks
Casablanca
Metropolis
The Day The Earth Stood Still

[cherokeeprogressive]

60. Dr. Strangelove.

[General Zod]

21. I have way too many to list just one.

Invasion of The Body Snatchers

The Thing (From Another World)

The Bride of Frankenstein

The Longest Day

The Philadelphia Story

To Kill a Mocking Bird

Night of The Hunter

Casablanca

Double Indemnity

Village of The Damned

Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House

Raging Bull

Dark Victory

Night of The Living Dead

Ed Wood

The Day The Earth Stood Still

Them!

A Hard Day's Night

Cat People

King Kong

Miracle on 34th Street

[pipi_k]

29. Oh yeah...

"Dark Victory"...another one of my favorites.

And just remembered, "Failsafe"

[Curmudgeoness]

68. "King Kong" came to my mind immediately too....but "Them"?

LOL, when I was young, I probably saw that movie a hundred times, but it would never make my top 100 list!

[HeiressofBickworth]

22. My fav

The Heiress -- 1949, Olivia DeHavilland, Montgomery Clift. I've lost count how many times I've seen it. It was remade in 1997 into Washington Square with Jennifer Jason Leigh, but never did reach the depth of the original.

[Curmudgeoness]

69. I love that movie! nt

[HopeHoops]

23. "Haunted Honeymoon"

[mucifer]

24. The Apartment was so great

the dialogue was so clever!

I have to also agree with "The Heiress".

Also "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

[greatauntoftriplets]

25. Casablanca.

[Xipe Totec]

38. Hand down. nt

[Demoiselle]

39. Yup, Casablanca for me too.

We actually saw it in a real movie theater revival showing several years ago. Amazing.

[MichiganVote]

41. No doubt

[alphafemale]

61. We'll always have Paris. nt

[AnneD]

81. It is so good....

that when they show the colorized version on tv.....I would turn down the color. Kurtiz was the master of light and shadow.

[Brickbat]

26. Alexander Nevsky, followed VERY closely by Ivan the Terrible.

Eisenstein + Cherkasov FTMFW

[Paladin]

30. It's A Tie: "The Third Man" and "The Big Sleep"

[Myrina]

79. The Third Man is brilliant!

Love how it was shot - the 'post war zone', the use of shadows and sounds, everything about it!

[OmahaBlueDog]

33. The Defiant Ones

..oh wait, that's not what you meant?

[kentauros]

34. Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse

by Fritz Lang (1933)




I've seen three of his most famous films and consider them some of the best black & white movies ever made. Metropolis, M, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse. I'd like to see the other Mabuse films, but haven't gone looking, yet.


Here's the full movie on YouTube, and it's worth the two hours of your life

[Graybeard]

35. 8 1/2

Fellini's masterpiece. Beautiful B&W cinematography and the music score by Nino Rota. Haunting images stay with you. I can watch it over and over.

[blue neen]

36. Harvey.

Jimmy Stewart. What a great movie.

[Demoiselle]

40. Harvey is a heartbreaker.

Jimmy Stewart is so sweet and lonely and sad in that story.

[tanyev]

37. Does Wings of Desire count?

Most of it is in B & W.

[graywarrior]

42. Toss up between The Third Man and Citizen Kane

[Grantuspeace]

43. The Haunting or White Heat (James Cagney). n/t

[TuxedoKat]

44. Here's a few

42nd Street, Jezebel, Ziegfield Girl, Flying Down to Rio, Casablanca, The Heiress.

[Curmudgeoness]

66. One of my favorites--The Heiress.

That was a movie that just did not get the attention it should have gotten.

[progressoid]

45. In addition to many already listed above...Manhattan.

[trackfan]

46. The Best Years of Our Lives. nt

[Major Nikon]

53. Excellent drama

One of the few films that deals with post WWII lives of returning soldiers. I thought Dana Andrews was outstanding in that film.

[ailsagirl]

47. Elia Kazan's 'A Face in the Crowd'

(1957)
WAY ahead of its time

[alphafemale]

62. Love this movie

Watch the DVD with the extras.

Andy Griffith says "Fuck." And not in the casual flippant give a fuck way. This is a broad side, full frontal use. I about fell off the couch.

[ailsagirl]

64. One of many things that amazed me

about this film is the fact that this was Griffith's film debut. The juxtaposition between his arrogant and immoral movie character and the kind and laid-back Sheriff Taylor is astonishing! And equally convincing. The theme still resonates today--even more so.

[Tom Ripley]

75. Griffith is a fantastic actor who was great at playing sonsobitches

check out the made for TV movies
Pray for the Wildcats
and
Murder in Coweta County

[alphafemale]

77. Yeah. He can ramp up the Dark

Turn into a scary ass crazy face. Not every actor can do that.

Just watched Real Steal. Never for once bought that the Hugh Jackman was the child abandoning piece of trash he's supposed to be.

[ailsagirl]

82. No kidding?

I'll have to check them out.

[Justice wanted]

84. OH YES!!! Andy Griffith was Wickedly Brilliant.

[kaitcat]

50. To Have and to Have Not.

Slim teaching Steve to whistle.

[Major Nikon]

55. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned "Good Night, and Good Luck" yet

I mentioned it in post #52, but only as one in a list of many.

Although it's not my favorite B&W, it's a great movie. The subject mater, the cinematography, the writing, directing, and acting are all excellent.

[ailsagirl]

56. I didn't know that was a film

I only know those words courtesy of countdown's former host, Keith Olbermann. He will be, and is, sorely missed.

[CBHagman]

76. Olbermann was paying homage to Edward R. Murrow.

Good Night, and Good Luck is an Academy Award-nominated film about McCarthyism. The cast includes George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., Patricia Clarkson and the great David Strathairn.

But the movie employs actual historical footage of Joseph McCarthy.

[ailsagirl]

80. Edward R Murrow

Thanks for the background. Murrow was way before my time (yours too, I'm sure), but his reputation is legendary. JFK was so impressed with him that he appointed Murrow head of the United States Information Agency. This was seen as a vote of confidence in the agency, which provided the official views of the government to the public in other nations. The USIA had been under fire during the McCarthy era, and Murrow brought back at least one of McCarthy's targets, Reed Harris.

[Justice wanted]

85. I forgot about that one. Just watched it a few weeks ago.

[kaitcat]

57. Asphalt Jungle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asphalt_Jungle

[WCGreen]

58. There are quite a few that I love....

Dr. Strangelove, Casablanca, The Third Man, To Kill a Mockingbird, a lot of the noir movies, the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and a couple westerns like She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.

Key Largo was another one as well as Inherit the Wind and the best political movie ever, The Last Hurrah....

[DearHeart]

59. Rebecca and The Enchanted Cottage

[peacefreak]

63. Harvey

Arsenic & Old Lace
You Can't Take It With You
Bringing Up Baby

[ohiosmith]

70. Citizen Kane, Some Like It Hot, Dracula, Ed Wood.

[kwassa]

71. The Seven Samurai by Kurosawa, and Metropolis by Fritz Lang

and most of all other Kurosawa flicks, all beautifully photographed.



Throne of Blood (Macbeth transposed to medieval Japan)



Metropolis

[Tom Ripley]

72. That one with Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins

[Bertha Venation]

73. Put the candle back!

[raccoon]

78. IN COLD BLOOD (1967). Do not miss it! nt

[Justice wanted]

83. His Gal Friday, Arsenic and Old Lace, Young Frankenstein, Take a Letter, Darling, The General

[Mendocino]

86. Failsafe, Of Mice and Men, Sunset Blvd.

along with many of the films already mentioned.