Old Black and White Films

Sorry if it's already had a mention (haven't read the whole thread yet) - but...

The Haunting - the 1963 original, obviously, not the crappy remake with that Zeta-Jones bint in it.

The only horror film that has ever actually spooked me (and I've seen pretty-much every horror movie that's worth seeing)
So atmospheric - you don't actually SEE anything - No monsters or ghosts, no blood and guts - just moving shadows, and noises in the night - but IMHO, when done well - that is the worst. Your imagination can conjure-up far worse than special effects can show.
A masterful piece oif scary-cinema.
 
Ideal for those days are the B&W Carry On films ,all of them classics and much better overall than the colour era.

Carry On Cabby ,my favourite -I watched it on one perfect wet Sunday a few weeks ago

Bliss
 
What about all the ace old British films - Billy Liar, A Taste Of Honey, The Leather Boys.. I want to say Up The Junction but I've a feeling that was colour, but still, there were some awesome films being made back then.
 
Ooh! How could I have forgotten that one?

I've also just remembered "Witness for the Prosecution" with Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power and Marlene Deitrich.
Brilliant stuff.
(Yes, even that dodgy bit with Deitrich near the end!)
 
I don't know... they're not that disimilar from the films of today in a way... in as much as that some are very good and some are incredibly dire.
 
I have may favourite Black and White movies which I am lucky enough to have copied from the TV including@

People like Us
Two Thousand Women
The Spy in Black
To Kill a Mockingbird
To have and to have not and
Carve her name with Pride.
 
Freaky! more of my favourites!
We disagree on so much else Kim, but on this, I can easily see us happy with tea and biccies through a wet afternoon
 
Laura is on Channel 4 today at 1.45pm (and Ill-Met by Moonlight at 1pm on BBC 2).

Cottage to Let is on next Tuesday at 1.45pm on 4 which I remember as being a gem!
 
It sounRAB good and I want to see it too! It also sounRAB tantalisingly familiar but out of grasp!

Another good one is So Long at the Fair with Jean Simmons and Dirk Bogarde, although I'm not normally too fond of costume dramas.
 
The Third Man--voted THE greatest British film of all time

Night Of The Hunter

The Magnificent Ambersons

Touch of Evil

The Entertainer (Olivier is simply amazing as 'has-been/never was' Archie Rice)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Burton and Taylor both brilliant)

Night and Fog

Les Diaboliques (1954 original French classic not the 1996 Hollywood travesty)

The Bicycle Thieves

Rome: Open City

ALL the great 1940's and 50's Ealing comedies....
 
There might be a Hitchcock season going on because they showed Dial M.. last week and there were 2 Hitchcock films on this afternoon - 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes - which I had to miss

The Third Man, The Stranger (also with Orson Welles), Some Like It Hot and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane were a few b/w films that I've enjoyed

I've seen some very good Jimmy Cagney films and who could forget Laurel and Hardy!!
 
I did wonder when I wrote that but Sidney Poitier was black and Rod Steiger was white and the whole film was about blacks and whites so all in all.......a Black and White film!:D
 
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