Old Black and White Films

I love some of the old black and white films, my favourites being Rebecca (1940), Double Indemnity (1944) Jane Eyre (1944) and Mildred Pierce (1945) to name but a few.
 
Does anyone know the name of the film where a girl says she was kidnapped by an old woman and kept in a house.The woman says the girl has never been into the house yet the girl describes the room she was kept accurately
The woman is arrested and there is a court case but it turns out the girl had stayed out with a boyfriend.
She was able to describe the room as she had seen it from the top of a bus.

many thanks
 
The 39 Steps (The original with Robert Donat)
Inherit the Wind (Spencer Tracy & Fredric March)
Double Indemnity (Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck (Babe) & Edward G. Robinson)

and for comedy...
Bringing Up Baby (Katherine Hepburn & Cary Grant)
The Philadelhia Story (Hepburn, Grant and James Stewart)
His Girl Friday (Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell (Hot!))
Duck Soup (Marx Brothers)
 
When I was at uni, I attended lectures on German Expressionist Cinema, we were treated to The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari , only it was silent, (not even a musical score) complete silence for about two hours. That was pretty tough going, I came out of there with the mother of all headaches. It's still an amazing movie though.

The Golem is also a pretty amazing film.
 
Another one, not so far mentioned, 'The Sweet Smell of Success': British director, filmed in the US and starring Tony Curtis and an EVIL Burt Lancaster. Brilliant.
And while I'm here, 'Lonely are the Brave' with Walter Matthau and Kirk Douglas in his finest role. A latter day Cowboy trying, and failing to come to terms with the modern world. Every time I watch more of our freedoms being lost, I think of this film.

They just keep coming, how about Joseph Losey's The Servant.
I just looked up another of his films 'Figures in a LanRABcape' with Robert Shaw and Malcolm Mcdowell, which has stuck in my brain for years and I thought was B&W: but IMDB says colour...

And 'The Last Picture Show' still makes me cry.
 
I wonder why Carlton even bothered to buy the Rank library years ago.

ITV actually own the largest archive of films and tv series of any British company .

Even today ,when they are far more willing to screen older films than they were when they bought it ,they rarely show them.

Although they do get released on dvd.

A return of Carlton Cinema in a new guise with older tv repeats aswell is an obvious gap in the market ,but presumably not profitable enough for ITV
 
Although shot in colour it was done very low budget and resulted in a rather washed out look not helped by that fact that it was shot in the dirty days of king coal around the Barnsley area, so it looked pretty much black and white.
 
"Chase a crooked Shadow"
Richard Todd and Anne Bancroft, filmed on the Costa Brava in the mid 50s. Excellent plot that keeps you gripped to the end, and shots of the glorious empty bay and quiet fishing village that a couple of years later became the victim of strip development as Tossa del Mar. Still not on DVD sadly. There are colour shots of the same area in Dirk Bogarde's "The Spanish Gardener".
 
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