Classic Movies (1 Viewer)

[xinxin89]

What are some of the old black and white classic movies you have watched? Any personal favourites? I recently watched A Streetcar Named Desire with Marlon Brando and Hitchcock's Birds.....anyone recommend any others?

 

[UnIqUe_PrInCeSs]

I don't watch black and white movies at all. I can't stand them.


I had to watch 'lord of the flies' for english in year 11, and it was killing my eyes.
so yeah.

 

[tlodg]

watched a bit of Psycho
but I couldn't understand it at all....
I thought it was porn at first,
oh well.....
heard they spent 7 days filming the "shower" scene
and watched that part too

 

[ledzeppelin]

watched a bit of Psycho
but I couldn't understand it at all....
I thought it was porn at first,
oh well.....
heard they spent 7 days filming the "shower" scene
and watched that part too

i watched Psycho the other day too
interestingly enough (or not), it was actually a conscious decision for Psycho to be filmed in black and white, not colour, because apparantly, it would have been "too gory" in colour

 

[icecreamdisco]

just to rescue this thread from retardedness...

a few excellent b&w classic hollywood films of the top of my head:

any billy wilder (some like it hot, double indemnity, sunset boulevard, the apartment)
in a lonely place
it's a wondeful life
to have and have not
white heat
the lady eve
the sweet smell of success
out of the past
stage door

not really into classic hollywood films for the nostalgic aspects; though those above films have plenty to offer in that regard and simply as great works of cinema.

 

[fOxYcLeOpTrA89]

Casablanca
The Egg & I
Some Like it Hot
Psycho
Singing in the Rain
Breakfast at Tiffany's (cant remember if it is in b/w or colour)
I love black n white movies... sooo entertaining on a rainy day!

 

[nwatts]

I'm not a huge fan of old stuff, but some of my favourites include:
The Third Man
Casablanca
Sunset Blvd.
Wild Strawberries
The Seventh Seal
Rashomon (this is hard to find)
Fritz Lang's M

 

[spiny norman]

Breakfast at Tiffany's (cant remember if it is in b/w or colour)

It's colour.

I quite like the best of classic Hollywood - obviously anything from Hitchcock or Wilder is likely to be brilliant, but there's so much greatness out there to be had. My favourites would include:

The Big Sleep
The Searchers
City Lights (or any other Chaplin film, really)
Doctor Zhivago
Ben-Hur
Arsenic and Old Lace
The African Queen
The Red Shoes

That'll do. I have a soft spot for epics and screwball comedy, God help me.

 

[bubz :D]

12 angry men


ummm when i've had some sleep i'll post more

 

[nwatts]

The Red Shoes

Forgot about this one. Superb.

 

[fOxYcLeOpTrA89]

Yeah Hitchcock's are great. I love Chaplim films too!

 

[crazyhomo]

no one's mentioned citizen kane?

 

[ledzeppelin]

Rear Window's another good'un

 

[Shell]

To Kill a Mocking bird?? is that in black and white? i likes that movie. especially when she was in the Ham suit. BAHAHAHAHAH hilarious

 

[thejosiekiller]

marx brothers movies for me

 

[sirius_g]

Hey

some of my favourite old flicks include

Meet John Doe (Gary Cooper)
It Happened One Night (Clark Gable)
Sabrina & Roman Holiday (Audrey Hepburn)
Brief Encounter
So Long at the Fair (Dirk Bogarde)
Arsenic and Old Lace (Cary Grant)
Suspicion (Cary Grant)
Bringing up Baby Cary Grant
Gaslight ( Bergman and Angela Lansbury)

too tired to list any more though

Sirius.

 

[Mc_Meaney]

To Kill a Mocking bird?? is that in black and white? i likes that movie. especially when she was in the Ham suit. BAHAHAHAHAH hilarious

Agreed/

"The Great Dictator" (CHarlie Chaplin) Funniest movie ive ever seen

 

[SuNrIsE_oVa_sEa]

I lOVEEE gaslight

Paula: If I were not mad, I could have helped you. Whatever you had done, I could have pitied and protected you. But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart!


and....

A streetcar named desire STELLAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rear Window
Time enough at last
The secret life of walter mitty
Gertrude Griswold: Walter, what's that awful smell?
Walter Mitty: It's that cologne you gave me for Christmas.
Gertrude Griswold: It's lovely, isn't it?
All about eve
Blue angel (German film)
Rebecca
Whatever happened to Baby Jane?
Wuthering Heights
Zorba the Greek
Spellbound
Casablanca
Rick :But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid.

and soooo many more!!

 

[Benny_]

Psycho is the only later Hitchcock movie in black and white.

A few classic hollywood, black and white favourites

Casablanca
Modern Times
It's A Wonderful Life
Rebecca
All About Eve
It Happened One Night
The Philadelphia Story
Double Indemnity
The Apartment

 

[Sarah168]

To Kill a Mocking bird?? is that in black and white? i likes that movie. especially when she was in the Ham suit. BAHAHAHAHAH hilarious

Lol. I love the beginning sequence of that movie so much *hummms*

Fav scene when I first watched it was when Jem and Dill stuffed her in the tyre and rolled her down the street

I don't watch many classics but I love TKAM (Whoever said Hitchcock's "Birds...my God, that was a freaky movie )