Terrific black and white movies

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Another great John Frankenheimer directed (director of the Manchurian Candidate) b&w picture is “Seven Days in May” (1964) with Fredric March, Burt Lancaster, and Kirk Douglas. Very gripping plot and first class acting all the way.
 
Years ago on a late Suturday night on the ABC we had some surprisingly great old black and white movies showing,mostly English.Very nice humour and twists you couldn’t guess were coming.I didn’t take note of names and titles,but it was like a little treasure box I would like to rediscover 🙂
I could imagine @Rob would have some favourites .
 
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“It Happened One Night” with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable. It won a few Oscars I believe. It’s from the 1930s.
 
It’s a wonderful life is my favourite black and white movie I have others too but i can’t think off the top of my head I prefer the older movies
 
Ok, I’ve just written that down to watch with my parents 🙃
Going to scroll back and jot more down,and take note of anymore good ones.
I think the black and whites make more of an impression on my mind ,recounting the stories later and having a chuckle or thinking about the plot.
There’s just something unique about them 🙂
 
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My mom who was a huge movie buff and made sure I watched it. It’s a screwball comedy and the director is Frank Capra who also directed “It’s a Wonderful Life”.

“Some Like It Hot” is the best comedy of all time (IMHO) and it’s black and white.
 
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I think the black and whites make more of an impression on my mind ,recounting the stories later and having a chuckle or thinking about the plot.
There’s just something unique about them 🙂
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It’s that panchromatic black and white motion picture film. Kodak made Tri-X and Plus-X for movies, but there were other manufacturers. When Technicolor movies were first produced, the cameras used three strips of black and white film.
 
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Night of the Hunter
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With Robert Mitchum? That’s what I immediately thought of as a terrific black and white movie.
But I think the name is Night of the Hunted.
It was pretty scary.
 
No, it’s The Night of the Hunter.

Lillian Gish is great in it too. It’s awesome to have so many movies with Liilian Gish at so many different ages from young teen to 90+ and she’s great in them all.
 
Its Wiki entry says there was a remake of it as a TV movie starring Richard Chamberlain. News to me, and I don’t know why anyone would want to watch a remake of such a classic. I was annoyed when Cape Fear was remade as well.
 
Yes, as I recall, it wasn’t very good.

The remake of Cape Fear was cringe worthy at times. DeNiros accent was awful. Juliette Lewis’ character was just not realistic or believable.
 
Good, I see I made the right decision by never watching it. I was tempted to check it out because it had Peck, Mitchum and Balsam in it and was directed by Scorsese, but given that I generally disapprove of modern remakes (like the what, fourth or is it fifth reboot of “A Star is Born”?) I skipped it.
 
@gracepoole - thanks Grace. the OP started a thread a few days ago on favorite classic movies. i wrote an exhaustive and extensive
list. so most of those would qualify here, but
I just am too tired to rewrite the long list.
 
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Another great John Frankenheimer directed (director of the Manchurian Candidate) b&w picture is “Seven Days in May” (1964) with Fredric March, Burt Lancaster, and Kirk Douglas. Very gripping plot and first class acting all the way.
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One of my favorite black and white movies was also directed by John Frankenheimer and also starred Burt Lancaster. It was called The Train and some say it was the last great black and white action movie.
 
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