Terrific black and white movies

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Love Strangers on a Train, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Gaslight, and Dr. Strangelove.
 
-Angel-A (2005)
-The Hustler (1961) (Paul Newman was born for this role. the sequel to this movie is… The Color of Money (1986))
-Nebraska (2013)
-The Song of Bernadette (1943)

etc.
 
I’m a great lover of Vienna, having once been a student there, and I took The Third Man tour a number of years ago. I always make sure to ride the Riesenrad as well for old times’ sake and walk in the cemetery. Good times!
 
One movie I fogot to list on the favorite classics thread is The Lost Weekend with
Ray Milland. It is black and white so qualifies for this thread also.
 
Nebraska was a very interesting movie. I think b & w really was perfect for this movie.
 
Black and white is an art form in and of itself. Sometimes it lends a creepiness factor (intended or not) that just isn’t there in color. The Twilight Zone seems like it was made for black and white. I’m not sure how a color Twilight Zone would work (I know remakes exist, I’ve just never seen them, and am not so sure I’d want to).

Similarly, I just cannot get my head around a color Andy Griffith Show. It just seems wrong somehow. (But I did like the episode where Howard Sprague goes to live on the Caribbean island of “St Benedict”.)

And you can always make a color movie or TV show black and white — just turn down the color to zero. I guess TV sets still allow you to do that. (I explain to my son, who just turned 12, that we did not have a color TV set until I was 10, and when I was about his age, our town got cable, which furnished us with 7 channels instead of 4. He thinks that’s pretty gross.)
 
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