"It Happened One Night". The scene between Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in the cabin the first night in the auto camp is one of the most romantic scenes in movie history.
"Ball of Fire". The scene where Barbara Stanwyck first enters the mansion in her sequined dress sparkling like the Milky Way.
I really don't think "Psycho" would have worked in color. Or, for that matter, "A Streetcar Named Desire."
There is a really good old silent movie with Gloria Swanson called "Men and Women." She plays the daughter of a wealthy old money family, with a much put-upon butler who does everything for them and doesn't get much respect in return. One day they all go out on the yacht, run into a storm and are shipwrecked on a deserted island.
Since the butler is the only one with any skills, he becomes the leader and the defacto king of the new community and Swanson's character, admiring his abilities (as well as aspiring to be at the top of the new social structure) falls in love with him.The butler, now king, puts all the useless wealthy people to work and everyone falls into line, grudgingly.
And then they are rescued. Do things change for the butler once they get back to the civilized world? Watch and see.
I got introduced to b/w as a youngster. I went to a Charlie Chaplin movie, all kids in the theater and everyone was hooting and hollering specially at this scene. I got hooked on his movies. Too many favs as an adult.
Actually that was a remake of an Italian movie where the actress says "Sodomizé me" a number of times (it was said in Italian so I used the accent for emphasis).
A lot of them. I dislike chaplin; Marx Brothers (except the time Groucho speaks, the rest of the movies are crap highlighting the musical number that all of them have); and casablanca.
But I love, in no particular order: Elephant man; The Saragossa manuscript; The Big Heat; Triumph des Willens (documentary); Sin City (it has a coloured part, but it is a african american & cracker movie anyway); Ed Wood; Clerks; Tales of a Pale and Mysterious Moon After the Rain/Ugetsu monogatary; Ivan the Terrible; Lady for a Day; Häxan; Sons of the desert; and Freaks.
Me, too! It wasn't until I was much older that I found out that the original ending had been changed to make it LESS creepy. I don't think 10-year-old me could have handled it!
I love this one, too! Particularly how the women were shot from below to make them appear much stronger than they look. And I always cry when **spoiler** dies.
Test Pilot with Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracey. Arsenic and Old Lace with Cary Grant. Psycho with Anthony Hopkins. It's a Wonderful Life with James Stewart. Just so many.
all of the below, love that this got such great responses! also (sorry if i'm repeating) the last picture show, rear window, manhattan -- loved everything with shirley temple when i was little.
Sunset Blvd., On the Waterfront, Double Indemnity, Marty, The Lady Vanishes, Anything with Barbara Stanwyke or Charles Laughlin, The Ladykillers (original), Some Like It Hot, Casablanca, 12 Angry Men, Mildred Pierce, Many Bette Davis movies. P.S. Rear Window is in color.
Not a film: "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (that's how much I love that show television show—someone asks for a favourite "film", and I give them that answer). ?
Night of the Hunter
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ReplyDelete"Casablanca," of course! (I'm a guy!)
"Three faces of Eve!" (I love how Joanne Woodward would change personalities! It was as if she was changing her mind! Excellent acting!)
Sunset Boulevard
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ReplyDeleteI love the old LA looked in this film.
ReplyDeleteAny black and white Hitchcock film.
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ReplyDelete"It Happened One Night". The scene between Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in the cabin the first night in the auto camp is one of the most romantic scenes in movie history.
ReplyDelete"Ball of Fire". The scene where Barbara Stanwyck first enters the mansion in her sequined dress sparkling like the Milky Way.
I really don't think "Psycho" would have worked in color. Or, for that matter, "A Streetcar Named Desire."
There is a really good old silent movie with Gloria Swanson called "Men and Women." She plays the daughter of a wealthy old money family, with a much put-upon butler who does everything for them and doesn't get much respect in return. One day they all go out on the yacht, run into a storm and are shipwrecked on a deserted island.
ReplyDeleteSince the butler is the only one with any skills, he becomes the leader and the defacto king of the new community and Swanson's character, admiring his abilities (as well as aspiring to be at the top of the new social structure) falls in love with him.The butler, now king, puts all the useless wealthy people to work and everyone falls into line, grudgingly.
And then they are rescued. Do things change for the butler once they get back to the civilized world? Watch and see.
A Place in the Sun with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters.
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It's a Wonderful Life
"Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" is another good one, as far as modern black and whites, as well as "Young Frankenstein" and "The Artist."
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Ninochka, and any movie with Garbo for that matter. She was wonderful
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ReplyDeleteThe Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin
ReplyDeleteI got introduced to b/w as a youngster. I went to a Charlie Chaplin movie, all kids in the theater and everyone was hooting and hollering specially at this scene. I got hooked on his movies. Too many favs as an adult.
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Imitation of Life with Lana Turner. Tear Jerker for sure.
ReplyDeleteDouble Indemnity. If for no other reason than Barbara Stanwyck brooding in the shadows....
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ReplyDeleteNow we know where Maddona got her "Castaway" aspirations from...
ReplyDeletePenny Serenade - Clark Gable and Irene Dunne.
ReplyDeleteHobson's Choice (the original with Charles Laughton).
ReplyDeleteTied for second: Night of the Hunter and The Bad Seed.
On The Waterfront...fav movie period. All about telling the t no matter what.
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ReplyDelete"M" with Peter Lorre is simply fantastic. Thriller/mystery about a German serial killer of children.
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ReplyDeleteMost beautiful woman ever on screen
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ReplyDeleteMe too! Love that movie!
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ReplyDelete"The Thing With Two Heads", starring Rosey Greer and Ray Miland
ReplyDeleteThe Thing with Two Heads (1972)
PG | 1h 31min | Comedy, Sci-Fi | 19 July 1972 (USA)
Doctors are forced to transplant the head of a dying, racist surgeon onto the body of a black death row inmate.
That was such a sad movie.
ReplyDeleteThe Bad Seed was awesome. Saw that when I was about the girl's age. Scared me silly.
ReplyDeleteActually that was a remake of an Italian movie where the actress says "Sodomizé me" a number of times (it was said in Italian so I used the accent for emphasis).
ReplyDeleteOh Me Too!!!
ReplyDeleteThis one is really tough for me. The first thing that popped into my head was the Thin Man movies, so I'll go with them. Very witty, fast dialogue.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I'll probably think of many more after I hit "Post Comment".
Everytime I listen to Grieg I remember that movie.
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ReplyDeleteA lot of them.
ReplyDeleteI dislike chaplin; Marx Brothers (except the time Groucho speaks, the rest of the movies are crap highlighting the musical number that all of them have); and casablanca.
But I love, in no particular order:
Elephant man; The Saragossa manuscript; The Big Heat; Triumph des Willens (documentary); Sin City (it has a coloured part, but it is a african american & cracker movie anyway); Ed Wood; Clerks; Tales of a Pale and Mysterious Moon After the Rain/Ugetsu monogatary; Ivan the Terrible; Lady for a Day; Häxan; Sons of the desert; and Freaks.
Good lord, I wrote too many.
Arsenic and Old Lace, all the Astaire-Rogers or Hayworth movies, All About Eve. Love old Hollywood
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ReplyDeleteJean Cocteau: "Orpheus", "The Eternal Return" +....
ReplyDeleteArsenic and Old Lace: yes, yes, yes...
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ReplyDeleteMe, too! It wasn't until I was much older that I found out that the original ending had been changed to make it LESS creepy. I don't think 10-year-old me could have handled it!
ReplyDeleteI love this one, too! Particularly how the women were shot from below to make them appear much stronger than they look. And I always cry when **spoiler** dies.
ReplyDeleteThis is kind of cheating...(combines B&W with color)
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The Astonished Heart (Noel Coward)
ReplyDeleteTest Pilot with Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracey.
ReplyDeleteArsenic and Old Lace with Cary Grant.
Psycho with Anthony Hopkins.
It's a Wonderful Life with James Stewart.
Just so many.
Talk about Sophie's Choice ...... have to go with "It's a Wonderful Life" cause we watch it every year. Or "Casablanca".
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ReplyDeleteme three!
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ReplyDeleteall of the below, love that this got such great responses! also (sorry if i'm repeating) the last picture show, rear window, manhattan -- loved everything with shirley temple when i was little.
ReplyDelete"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"
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ReplyDeletePlace in the sun is a favorite.. Wuthering Heights and old Shirley temple movies.
ReplyDeleteYoung Frankenstein, His Girl Friday & Clerks.
ReplyDeleteGood one!
ReplyDeleteThe Caine Mutiny, Casablanca, Double Indemnity & On The Waterfront
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ReplyDeleteSunset Blvd., On the Waterfront, Double Indemnity, Marty, The Lady Vanishes, Anything with Barbara Stanwyke or Charles Laughlin, The Ladykillers (original), Some Like It Hot, Casablanca, 12 Angry Men, Mildred Pierce, Many Bette Davis movies.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Rear Window is in color.
Also, I recently saw "12 Angry Men", (the original) and that was really very good.
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ReplyDeleteToss up between The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) and Time of Their Lives (1946)
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ReplyDeleteThat's funny because I nearly answered "Breakfast At Tiffany's" and remembered that that's in colour too!
ReplyDeleteThe blood looked black in that one. LOL.
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