Favorite OLD Black and White flicks?

[Razorblade Smile]

What is your favorite b/w movie?

I specified OLD to indicate a specific time-period. I'm not looking for Schindler's List or the Man Who Wasn't There or Clerks or anything like that.

My top 20

1. The Manchurian Candidate
2. Psycho
3. Notorious
4. Casablanca
5. Strangers on a Train
6. Frankenstein
7. Cape Fear
8. The Maltese Falcon
9. Anatomy of a Murder
10. The Big Sleep
11. Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein
12. Phantom of the Opera
13. To Kill a Mockingbird
14. Nosferatu
15. Metropolis
16. It's a Wonderful Life
17. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
18. Bride of Frankenstein
19. Animal Crackers
20. Spider Baby

[blankpage]

Casablanca
To Kill a Mockingbird
Pyscho
Duck Soup
Manhattan
Citizen Kane
12 Angry Men

[bob]

-The Third Man
-Notorious
-Shadow of a Doubt
-Strangers on a Train
-Seven Samurai
-Yojimbo
-Sanjuro
-The Hidden Fortress

[eraserhead_99]

Psycho (10/10), but I haven't seen alot and am looking forward to seeing Metropolis.

[Jerk Shapiro]

Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Duck Soup
Citizen Kane
It's A Wonderful Life

[Dignan]

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington!:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

[RicochetShaw]

oh dear, the list goes on (these are all 10/10's [i]at least i think[/i[) (Theres many more black and whites i give 10/10, these are juset first that come to mind)

THE 400 BLOWS*
CITIZEN KANE*
CASABLANCA
MODERN TIMES*
YOJIMBO
SEVEN SAMURAI
PSYCHO
ON THE WATERFRONT
DR. STRANGELOVE
A TRIP TO THE MOON
SUNRISE
FRANKENSTEIN
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE*
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
8 1/2*
THE 39 STEPS
STAGE COACH
SOME LIKE IT HOT
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
KING KONG


asterik ones are on my top 10, and many others are on top 30, or favorites.

[notchreturns]

To name a few:

- City Lights
- 12 Angry Men
- Rashomon
- Yojimbo
- The 400 Blows
- Touch of Evil
- Stalag 17

[RicochetShaw]

dangit....HOW COULD I FORGET 12 ANGRY MEN? Bah..its on my top 10!

[Hannibal21]

Citizen Kane
Casablanca
Some Like it Hot
All About Eve
It's a Wonderful Life
Psycho

[A.J. Hakari]

THE THIRD MAN
THE WOLF MAN
FRANKENSTEIN
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
CASABLANCA
CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
PSYCHO
12 ANGRY MEN
SABOTEUR
SHADOW OF A DOUBT

As you can see, I'm a big fan of old-school, Universal Studios horror and Hitchcock.

[Razorblade Smile]

Originally posted by RicochetShaw
dangit....HOW COULD I FORGET 12 ANGRY MEN? Bah..its on my top 10!

Ditto.

I can't believe I forgot it either.

ADD:

12 Angry Men
Inherit the Wind
Wolf Man
Dracula
Harvey

[Scarface King]

1.Mr. Smith goes to washington
2.To kill a mockingbird

[mrdeeds]

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Meet John Doe
It's a Wonderful Life
The Big Sleep
High Noon
Dead End

[The Shootin Surgeon]

CITIZEN KANE
HIGH NOON
KING KONG
THE LONGEST DAY

(in no particular order)

[Tagia_Romero]

1 To Kill A Mockingbird
2 Cape Fear
3 Nosferatu
4 Metropolis
5 Faust
6 Into The Bogieman's Cave
7 The 39 Steps
8 Notorious

[Mick]

Dr. Strangelove
The Killing
Psycho
The Third Man
Citizen Kane
Strangers On A Train
On The Waterfront
Red River
Rashomon

[Voodoodoll]

Am in agreement with most fo these suggestions, just wanted to add:
Goodbye Mister Chips - what a good weepy :cool:

[The Professional]

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3 good ones that seem to be forgotten

[SIREN30]

Originally posted by Scarface King
1.Mr. Smith goes to washington
2.To kill a mockingbird

BOTH of these are in my top five.

[MickeyKnox]

Casablanca
To Kill a Mockingbird
Psycho
Red River
The Third Man
and definantely Citizen Kane a True Classic

[RogueSpear]

Night of the Living Dead

[KyleG]

Dracula and Its a Wonderful Life
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[Morgana]

It's a Wonderful Life
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Some Like it Hot
High Noon
12 Angry Men

[Razorblade Smile]

Originally posted by Morgana
It's a Wonderful Life
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Some Like it Hot
High Noon
12 Angry Men

Morgana, I am sorry to say that it takes me at least 5 attempts before reading any one of your posts as I am eternally distracted by your avatar.

Hell, it took me five attempts just to write this post.

Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing yet.
:p

[Morgana]

Originally posted by Razorblade Smile
Morgana, I am sorry to say that it takes me at least 5 attempts before reading any one of your posts as I am eternally distracted by your avatar.

Hell, it took me five attempts just to write this post.

Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing yet.
:p

I'm not sure of that's a good thing or a bad thing either. lol

At least I listed some good movies, yes? :D

[El Bracamonti]

young frankenstein, psycho, and it's a wonderful life.

[Romero&Juliet]

Grand Hotel and The Little Foxes

[sanshodayu]

12 films older than i am! Not very old of course.

Silent:

Sunrise (Murnau, 1927)

English language:

Some Like it Hot (Wilder, 1959)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls, 1948)
Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
Top Hat (Sandrich, 1935)

Not in English:

Sansho the Bailiff (Mizogchi, 1954)
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi, 1939)
La Regle du Jeu (Renoir, 1939)
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
Pather Panchali (Ray, 1955)

[Dude]

Key Largo
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
The Third Man
The Mark of Zorro
Its a Wonderful Life
Some like it Hot
From Here to Eternity
On the Waterfront
Sunset Boulevard
Angels with Dirty Faces
The Roaring Twenties
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Brother Orchid
The Public Enemy
The Strawberry Blonde
Huckleberry Finn
Boys Town
David Copperfield
A Guy Named Joe
Somebody Up there Likes Me
Soldier in the Rain
Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein
Werewolf of London
Dracula
The Body Snatcher

[Raymond Babbit]

In no particular order:

Manchurian Candidate
Psycho
Stalag 17
To Kill A Mockingbird
12 Angry Men
The Day The Earth Stood Still

Does Elephant Man count as an OLD black and white film? Because if it does, than that one's on my list too

[Ren Hoek]

01) Dr. Strangelove
02) Citizen Kane
03) Night of the Hunter
04) The Third Man
05) Casablanca
06) King Kong
07) Jules et Jim
08) The General
08) The Great Dictator
09) Psycho
10) Nosferatu
11) 8 1/2
12) The Seven Samurai
13) To Kill A Mockingbird
14) City Lights
15) The Manchurian Candidate
16) The Bride of Frankenstein
17) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
18) Strangers on a Train
19) One, Two, Three
20) It's a Wonderful Life

[ilovemovies]

There are alot I have yet to see so the only one I can think of is:

Casablanca


There are a couple of others that I don't know count because even though they are old they were in color when I saw them. I'm talking about Roman Holiday and The King and I. I would put those up as well if they count. I admire Citizen Kane but find it difficult to love and I thought Psycho was good but not great. I think Psycho suffers from a boring and dull first act. I never Marion Krane to be an interesting character. It wasn't until Norman Bates entered the movie when I started getting involved. It's funny because the Gus Van Sant remake has the exact opposite problem. It starts off great with Anne Hache being a major improvement over the dull Janet Leigh in my opinion. I know I may be the only one who thinks that but that is how I feel. The rest of the cast was good but with one glaring exception. Unfortunately the one glaring exception is the MOST important character in the movie, Vince Vaughn as Bates. Vaughn is horribly miscast. To be fair for him, I don't think any actor could have done it justice. I mean after seeing Perkins in one of the greatest performances of all time, if the not greatest, noone could have done it justice. But Vaughn is all wrong for the part. Anyway, I'm getting way off topic here I was just trying to say that put the beginning of the remake with the rest of the original then we would have had a great movie. But as it is I think Psycho is one of the most overrated movies of all time simply because it is not the masterpiece everyone else say it is.

[Grim H.]

Citizen Kane
To Kill a Mockingbird

(Here's one I saw recently, an old Bob Hope flick, I really liked it.)
My Favorite Brunette

[pat00139]

Okay, here goes:

All Quiet on the Western Front
Battleship Potemkin
The Best Years Of Our Lives
Born Yesterday
The Bicycle Thief
Bringing Up Baby
Casablanca
Un Chien Andalou
Duck Soup (but I could ANY Marx Brothers movie, execpt maybe Love Happy)
Dinner At Eight
Les Enfants Du Paradis
The General
The Great Dictator
Greed
Gun Crazy
Harvey
It's A Wonderful Life
Key Largo
Laura
Lenny (does 1974 count?)
Lost Horizon
Metropolis
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Napolean (1927)
Ninotchka
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Palm Beach Story
Paths Of Glory
The Philadelplhia Story
Raging Bull (if Elephant Man counts, this movie can count)
Rashomon
Safety Last
Scarface: Shame Of A Nation
The Seven Samourai
She Done Him Wrong
Some Like It Hot
Sullivan's Travels
The Thin Man
Trouble In Paradise
The Uninvited
White Heat

I'll stop now but I could go on forever...

[One]

Only two people so far for NOSFERATU? Well that's what gets my vote. I actually watched it last night too.

Casablanca as well.

[ColinM]

1) Casablanca (1942)
2) It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
3) Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
4) To Have and Have Not (1944)
5) The Seven Samauri (1956)
6) The Maltese Falcon (1941)
7) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
8) King Kong (1933)
9) M (1931)
10) I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
11) On the Waterfront (1954)
12) The Apartment (1960)
13) It Happened One Night (1934)
14) Some Like It Hot (1959)
15) Rashomon (1950)
16) Paths of Glory (1957)
17) Key Largo (1948)
18) The Unknown (1927)
19) Citizen Kane (1941)
20) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Runner-Ups:
12 Angry Men (1957)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Freaks (1932)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Love Affair (1939)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
A Patch of Blue (1965)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Sparrows (1926)
The Stranger (1946)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Notorious (1946)
White Heat (1949)

Man, that took long to make, but it was fun. :)

[kubotakhan01]

These are in not particular order........

A Raisin in the Sun
Seven Samurai
White Heat
Godzilla
Young Frankenstein(It's not REALLY old, but it's in black and white!!)
Casablanca
12 Angry Men
Freaks
Metropolis
20 Million Miles to Earth
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
Them!
It Came From Outer Space
Earth V.S. the Flying Saucers
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Creature from the Black Lagoon

(I love the old school Science fiction classics.....)

[paul calf]

its a wonderful life
somebody up there likes me
invasion of the body snatchers
cape fear
psycho
angels with dirty faces
path's of glory
king kong

[happy OUT here]

I like Colin M's list. And I don't think anyone before him mentioned Whatever happened to Baby Jane.

What a fun movie to show in the dark.

[Razorblade Smile]

Okay...this list has been up for a little while now so....

I figure we can now start including MODERN black and white flicks as well.

Elephant Man
Clerks

[Deckard]

15 Fave Classic B&W, too many to mention all: (Many greats already listed)

M
LE SAMURAI
MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
SECONDS
PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
DARK PASSAGE
RED RIVER
ASPHALT JUNGLE
SHADOW OF A DOUBT
DOUBLE INDEMNITY
SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME
FAIL SAFE
MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
DESPERATE HOURS
IN COLD BLOOD

Some Fave Modern B&W

PI
DEAD MAN
RAGING BULL
DEAD MEN DONT WEAR PLAID
THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE
SUTURE

[ColinM]

Originally posted by The Professional
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Good choice, but not black & white. ;)

[ColinM]

Originally posted by happy OUT here
I like Colin M's list. And I don't think anyone before him mentioned Whatever happened to Baby Jane.

What a fun movie to show in the dark.

Thank you kindly. And yes, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane was quite a movie. Creepy stuff! Bette Davis sure is great, and Joan Crawford isn't so bad either.

[Hannibal21]

I agree with both ColinM and happy OUT here on WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE. The first time I saw that movie I freeeeeeeaaaakkkked. Bette Davis, WHY ARE YOU SUCH A MAGNIFICENT ACTRESS? I'm so jealous! :D

But anyways, my favorite black and white flick will ALWAYS be Citizen Kane. NOTHING is ever going to change that.

I also LOVE these flicks:
It Happened One Night
All About Eve
It's a Wonderful Life
Sunset Boulevard
Casablanca
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (thanks for reminding me Colin)
Schindler's List (the greatest modern flick)
Some Like it Hot
City Lights
The Gold Rush
Modern Times
Psycho
Spellbound
Notorious
Hamlet
Rebecca (I wonder why almost nobody talks about this film)
Touch of Evil
Jezebel
The Philadelphia Story
Dangerous
The Great Dictator
On the Waterfront
Gaslight
Frankenstein
The Maltese Falcon
Roman Holiday
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Petrified Forest
Waterloo Bridge
The Big Sleep
Two Women
Sabrina
Key Largo
Raging Bull (saw it a few days ago and loved it)
The Manchurian Candidate
King Kong
etc. etc. etc.

Some of these films I haven't seen in a long time, but I can still remember how I felt the first time I watched them.