The best films ever made in black and white

ELEPHANT MAN..IMO.

the exorcist, ice cold in alex, dr who and the daleks,

ATTACK    jack palance
1st film I saw where the film started before the credits came up

CHARLIE CHAPLIN - DIFFERENT CLASS !!!!

The 39 steps - Hitchcock version

Build My Gallows High
Angels With Dirty Faces
Goodbye Mr Chips

hobsons choice  charles laughton and john mills at their best

THE HILL, sean conery, a classic in my eyes.

Some good ones listed.

A more recent one - The Last Picture Show.

Love most of the Ealing comedies, such as...

The Lavender Hill Mob
The Man In The White Suit
Passport To Pimlico

The Rocking Horse Winner
and
House of Cards

Info of either plz
Calling all " oldtimers "

Merry Christmas

The Grapes of Wrath.

Night of the Hunter and Dead of Night

Seven Samurai

Wages of Fear ........Brief Encounter

12 Angry Men
Battleship Potemkin
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Night Must Fall
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Lavender Hill Mob
The Ladykillers
to name but a few

Rumble Fish

A kind of loving (1962)

Alan Bates
Thora Bird
James Bolam
Jack Smethurst

Will make you laugh and cry

Also the screen debut of Brian Mosley as a bus conductor

A young man, inching his way up from working-class traditions via a white-collar job, finds himself trapped by the frightening reality of his girlfriend's pregnancy and is forced into marrying her and moving in with his mother-in-law due to a housing shortage in their Northern England town

Thora Hird is the mother in law from HELL

on that theme then Albert Finney in 'Saturday Night Sunday Morning'

A rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child.

Bates comes in p issed gets an ear full from Hird and then pukes down the back of the sofa. Hird's face is a picture

another good one level stakes

I really loved all those "angry man from North shouts a lot" films.

The Incredible Shrinking Man
Citizen Kane
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The 36th Chamber of Shao Lin
Night of the Hunter
The Apartment NAP
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Loved all the old Will Hay and Abbot and Costello films,and The Marx Brothers.
Also the old westerns,John Wayne and Henry Fonda in a lot of them.
At this time of year it must be "it's a wonderful life",remember every time a bell rings an Angel gets its wings .

"Doris Drops 'em."
"Naughty Nurses."

Both circa 1961, mind you they are a bit grainy.

A bit grainy or a bit granny.

Remember being shocked a good dozen years ago when an employee said she had never seen a black and white movie, they're probably in a big majority now

Some like it hot

Marilyn monroe,tony Curtis,jack Lemmon


was the odd couple black/white?

The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance ......... Wayne and Marvin were never better.

There have to be to many to mention but lots of american film noir also a litte war film operation amsterdam with peter finch and eva bartok never tire of watching.

zulu.............well half of em were black and the the other half white

not bad jw not a bad film either.

all time great about to start sky 328
scrooge

Surprised at The Hill, Casanova, only because I thought it was just me.  In The Heat of the Night's another good one.

alastair sim   
really great film

Most of the bogart and bacall films were exellent.

the ladykillers

and dont forget the original ...al jolson it introduced black people to half the worlds population ...we all thought it was amusing at the time.........climb upon my knee sonny boy

They were goung to do a remake with Jimmy Savile but he wouldn't black up. Said it was immoral.

Kind Hearts & Coronets
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
Casablanca
In The Heat Of The Night
The Hill

Hustler
Some Like It Hot
Paths Of Glory
Goodbye Mr Chips
Man In The White Suit

In the heat of the night and Pyscho end of.

For me the Wizard of oz as though not all done in colour its heralded the new era of colour in
the Film Industry while playing homage to Black and White in artistic license.

The 1934 film of Les Miserable starring Harry Baur is superb.

In the Heat of the Night & Ladykillers both colour

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On the Waterfront.   Great Expectations. Henry V.

quarry     25 Dec 12 11:28 
In the heat of the night and Pyscho end of.


End of what, still at least one of those two was in Black & White

another vote for "The Hustler" (1961)

best movie ever, period, not just the best b&w

Helpmates - my favourite Laurel and Hardy film.

'Just My Luck' with Norman Wisdom.

Norman cops an accumaulator at Glorious Goodwood off a bookie played by Leslie Philips.

Great Stuff!

Square Peg In A Round Hole.
Norman Wisdom.
On The Beat.
Norman Widom.
Any Norman Wisdom or Laurel & Hardy film.
Pro`s of their trade.

Cannot beat a bit of Norman Wisdom

Casablanca, watching on More 4 now, with Ingred Bergman surely one of the worlds most beautiful women!

manxy 24 Dec 12 20:43 
the exorcist, ice cold in alex, dr who and the daleks,

Know i'm getting old but The exorcist in B/W surely knot!

12 angry men...apt for today....RIP jack klugman

it was originally banned,and only on video, in black n white, pretty sure about that, but i could be wrong, i may have watched it on a black n white tv, but i dont think so, either way i wouldnt stand a bet on it, i know ive watched it in black n white.

Both the Dr who films in the 60's with Peter Cushing were in Colour.

have to agree with:
wuthering heights
dorian gray
goodbye mr chips


also
the haunting, the scariest film ive seen, not to be confused with the awful remake.
mutiny on the bounty with charles laughton

the funniest film ive ever seen is laurel and hardy's murder case

The Exorcist, Ice cold in Alex, as well as Dr Who and the Daleks.....Seen all three.....IC in A, the only one in black and white...The first two good films....The 3rd not bad, but as a kid loved it and have nostalgia on my side.

Whatever happened to Baby Jane was a brilliant film with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, also loved Cagney in Love me or leave me with Doris Day. Afraid that modern day film stars just don't cut the mustard as far as acting is concerned.

whisky galore 1948 always wanted to visit where it was filmed then i found out it was filmed on 5 different scottish islands .

Bit of a cheat as it must have been about 1973 Paper Moon

sergeant york with gary cooper in the title role

Some great choices...



...recently,  Schindler's List .

The Public Enemy.  The grapefruit scene is a classic.

Mind you, that gangsters moll deserved it !   

Agreed.

Flash  Gordon - not really the film, but the series that was shown on BBC on a Saturday morning.

It was superb.

Larry 'Buster' Crabbe played Flash Gordon in that and Ming the Merciless was played by a guy called Charles Middleton I think?

Loved Edward G Robinson in 'Little Ceasar'

Levlstakes1 or Mactheknife,can you tell me in which Norman Wisdom film did he play a drum solo.I can remember seeing this years ago but cannot remember the title.
cyprusal,you sir have made my day(and I have had a very good one)to think of Charles Laughton's drunken stroll,through to Will Mossop's (John Mills) hairstyle and the actress that played Maggie(sorry I cannot remember her name)An absolute joy.Thankyou for reminding me.

Norman Wisdom

4 min in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5NpB7mNyYQ

Key Largo.

Thankyou pumphol.I as happy as the pianist 4.18.

am      alcoholic interference      sorry

the bird man of alcatraz with bert lancaster,sure that was black and white.
had a laurel and hardy box set for christmas,best pressie i had.

Kid Gallahad

burt ffs,karl malden also stared in it.

I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang

another good b&w prison movie

Rebecca starting soon on BBC2 is a cracking oldie.

Zulu?

Good choice if it was in b&w

Jump in late and this one has probably been mentioned...

"This Sporting Life"....

Richard Harris in his best role.1963.....

It was kenny.nap

The colour was added later because the Welsh Battalions complained.

The original version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame with Charles Laughton must rank highly./

Was that the one when the bell hit Charnier?

GT Charnier ducked at the last second and the Priest copped it.

Maltese Falcon (NAP)
On the Waterfront (nb)

His face rang a bell.

I'm re-entering 12 angry men to this thread because it's that good

just watched it again...classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0NlNOI5LG0

The Grapes Of Wrath

laurel and hardy when they join the foreign legion and forget what they came to forget about!! classic

its a wonderful life

and all the johnny weismuler tarzan films epic