Anybody else like old black-and-white movies?

[Freedom]

Watched a good one last night:

The Sign of the Cross (1932)

You can't go too far wrong with Cecil B. De Mille as director.


Here's some of the better ones I've watched during the past decade:

The Lost Patrol (1934)

City Lights (1931)

Death Takes a Holiday (1934) (Meet Joe Black is the remake, original is better)

The Crusades (1935)

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

The Petrified Forest (1936)

A Tale of Two Cities (1935)

The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) (much better than the silly 1960s version)

Kid Galahad (1937)

Young and Innocent (1937)

Stagecoach (1939)

Les Misérables (1935)

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

Destry Rides Again (1939)

City for Conquest (1940) (One of the best boxing movies)

Tower of London (1939)

Beau Geste (1939)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

This Gun for Hire (1942)

The Glass Key (1942) (Miller's Crossing has basically the same plot)

Gentleman Jim (1942)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

Bataan (1943)

Casablanca (1942)

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)

They Were Expendable (1945)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (194

The Set-Up (1949)

The Third Man (1949)

Winchester '73 (1950)

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

High Noon (1952)

Paths of Glory (1957)

Run Silent Run Deep (195

A Night to Remember (195

The Burmese Harp (1956)

The Seventh Seal (1957)

Pork Chop Hill (1959)

Fires on the Plain (1959) (Ichikawa was probably the best ever at tragi-comedy)

The Longest Day (1962)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

[Beanz]

I don't like all this new fangled nonsense and personally prefer cave paintings

[El Kabong]

I love old movies, the old gangster movies are classics! The original Scarface was brilliant, and Howard Hawkes, what a director! Hitchcock! Kubrick did a few black and white movies as well.

[brocktonblockbust]

i love 1947-1957 sci fi

[bradlee180]

Yes, and on some color films, I adjust the television to black-and-white.

Originally I started turning off the color in the late 1980s because I was making pencil and black ink drawings from VCR tapes. Shifting the tv to black-and-white allowed me to see the highlights, shadows, cast-shadows, reflected light, and especially the half-tones with greater clarity. It's easier that way instead of seeing a color tone and trying to translate that into black-and-white.

I liked it and have kept doing it.

Just yesterday, I was watching The Sons of Katie Elder, but in black-and-white.

A few weeks ago, it was The Searchers, also adjusted to Black-and-White.



I'm eager to see the new Sin City film.

Rumblefish, shot in black-and-white in the early 80s, starred Mickey Rourke as The Motorcycle Boy. When Sin City came out, Rourke's Marv reminded me of an older version of his Rumblefish character.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is fraggin' awesome.
God bless Lee Marvin and Strother Martin!

[Gandalf]

I prefer older films and enjoy many of the films listed above. It isn't so much the lack of colour that I enjoy, but the acting, plot and direction. I'm a big fan of all those early Hitchock films and own most of them. I don't really enjoy watching new films as I struggle to get through the obvious CGI and lack of story. Obviously there are good new films, but I am not someone that wants to go to the pictures every week with the hope that I can get a good film once every couple of months. I am very selective in what I watch.