Favorite b/w movies

I second many of your choices and add a few:

Brighton Rock
The Third Man
The Portrait of Dorian Gray
Brief Encounter
The 49th Parallel
Touch of Evil
The Stranger (1946)
Jane Eyre
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Valley of Decision
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (with Charles Laughton)
The Night of the Hunter
How Green Was My Valley
I Know Where I'm Going

and Schindler's List (the little red dress makes the black and white blacker and whiter)

and I'm trying to remember more Charles Laughton titles that I loved: one where he plays a shoemaker with three daughters, and the one where he plays Crippen
 
You may know; but there is another Powell/Pressburger movie (the Life and Death of Colonel Blimp) on BBC 2 at 2.50 today. Not seen it myself, it was made a couple of years before Matter of Life & Death. They did seem to like this life and death theme. :)

Richard
 
Yeah, I know the one you mean. Charles Laughton is the boss and John Mills works for him and marries one (the eldest?) of the daughters. Can't remember the title for the life of me.
 
Just thought of a few more I love: Marlene Dietrich in The Scarlett Empess, Blonde Venus, and The Blue Angel. And Norma Shearer in Marie Antoinette. Also, Claudette Colbert in Tovarich (dunno if the spelling's right -- Charles Boyer co-stars). Also, My Man Godfrey, Sullivan's Travels, The Lady Eve, Midnight (think that's the title -- Claudette Colbert), Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1947), and The Bicycle Thief (De Sica, 1948). There are so many! Also, The Petrified Forest (Bogart, Leslie Howard, Bette Davis).
 
Hi Paul

Colour Police here again I'm afraid. 'Flight of the Phoenix' (the Aldrich version 1964; which I am sure you are refering to; not the recent John Moore remake) was indeed made in colour (by DeLuxe). Funny because I always thought this was in B&W as well. The cover on the DVD makes it look like it is in Brown and White.

Richard
 
I've just seen this - it was on TCM today - it is excellent ..couldn't believe Angela Lansbury though!
Who'd have thought in later life she'd be gigging as a talking teapot!
 
It's a wonderful life,
Mrs miniver,
How green was my valley,
Now voyager (infact anything with bette in)


but my favourite by a green mile = wuthering heights
 
Metropolis and The Weismuller Tarzan Films

For shorts it would have to be Casey Jones
(but remember the Buster Crabb Flash Gordon episodes from the Saturday Cinema, and Champion The Wonder Horse )
 
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