Do you ever watch black and white movies?

[Bretrick]

I find so many of them to be great movies. Not overly complicated, slower than today's frenetic movies.
What are some of your favourite black and white old movies?
Some memorable movies, All about Eve, The Grapes of Wrath, A Streetcar named Desire, On the Waterfront, Judgement at Nuremberg, Man of Aran

 

[Chris P Bacon]

The Last Picture Show, Eraserhead, great movies!

 

[Jan14]

I’m always looking for what’s new. But one day I intend to go back and watch the great b/w classics.

 

[Feelslikefar]

90 percent of my movie collection are black and white movies.
It's a time warp thing with me.
Speaking of that, I just watched 'Ace in the Hole' earlier today.
One of Kirk Douglas's best movies, IMHO.

 

[palides2021]

I love a lot of black and white movies:
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies
Deanna Durbin movies
Jeanette McDonald movies with Nelson Eddy
Laurel and Hardie movies
Don O'Connor movies when he was young and danced
The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant
Miracle on 34th Street
Cary Grant movies when he was just starting out (and color)
Lots more...

 

[Pink Biz]

All the time! Most of the movies I like were made before color films were common, so b&w is very familiar to me.

 

[katlupe]

I love the old movies! I discovered the movies that were out before my time and have been watching them. It doesn't matter to me if they are black and white and I find I like them even more. Love the old movie stars! I can watch the old movies over and over and never get tired of them.

 

[oldman]

"Young DR. Frankenstein" is a funny movie.

 

[Packerjohn]

Sure did! I watched many when I was younger. I think they were real good because they did not have all those camera tricks and technology they have now. What they did have was great acting. Try "Now, Voyager" with Bette Davis and you will know what I mean. It was leased in 1942 when the war was on.

 

[SmoothSeas]

I absolutely prefer yesterday's Hollywood to today's Hollywood

 

[Geezer Garage]

The great majority of my favorite films were made before 1960. Now this just may be because I'm a Geezer, but I think mostly because it takes me back to a time that I prefer in oh so many ways.

 

[Pinky]

I prefer black & white film, whether old or current, such as Ada ..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_(film)

 

[Nathan]

Do you ever watch black and white movies?

All the time!
Any horror or sci-fi movie from the 40s-50s-60s, or comedy like the 3 Stooges, Laurel & Hardy etc.

 

[Pepper]

 

[JustinCase]

Buster Keaton & Charlie Chaplin were great most recent was Young Frankenstein.

 

[hollydolly]

I love B&W films, seems to be more atmosphere to them.... My favourite B&W films are


Brief Encounter..

All about Eve..

Manhattan

Grapes of wrath

It's a wonderful life

How Green was my Valley..( no matter how many times I watch this I still cry)

More that I can't think of right now

 

[Gaer]

Oh Dear! hate to take up so much space because I LOVE,;PVE,;OVE old black and white movies!
I can'tremember allmy favorites but here's a few!

Kitty Foyle

Ball of Fire

It's a Wonderful life

Heaven can Wait

Lucy Gallant

The Animal Kingdom

Our Town

Random Harvest

Mary and Me

the Ghost and Mrs. Muir

How Green was my Valley

Along Came jones

Ox- Bow Incident

The Fountainhead

The Man who could work Miracles 1930

Invisible man 1930

The Grey Fox

Carnival 1948

Portrait of Jennie

Dragonwyck

Stella Dallas

Angel on My Shoulder

Anything with Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Ginger Rogers,
Gene Tierney, Greer Garson, Monty Wooley,
Sorry to take up so much space!

 

[Della]

Almost all my favorites are B&W.

Bette Davis movies:
Jezebel
Now Voyager (as Packerjohn already mentioned) tops my list
Joan Crawford movies;
Mildred Pierce
Flamingo Road

Barbara Stanwyck movies:
Double Indemnity
Remember the Night
Baby Face
The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers
Stella Dallas

Green Dolphin Street -- Lana Turner and Donna Reed
The Heiress -- Olivia de Haviland and Montgomery Clift
Pinky -- Jeanne Crain
Laura -- Gene Tierney
Leave Her to Heaven -- Gene Tierney
Too Late for Tears -- Lizabeth Scott


I love "women's movies." Movies where women are the main character and not just the star's girlfriend.

 

[Jace]

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Oh! Yes...My very favorite...can watch over & over.

 

[Timewise 60+]

Frequently...many are the best!

 

[Jace]

I get a movie channel...that has a great big "M" as their signage...that shows a lot of black and white movies.
Watch..have pretty good plots!

 

[Timewise 60+]

Jace, Yep, we have that channel also! They have a number of great old movies on. My wife is a complete nut of the old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone and of course the old Charlie Chan movies...all good stuff!

 

[feywon]

When i was a pre-teen and teen in NJ in the late 50s there were two shows that aired the old B&W Hollywood movies: the Early.Show (about 5 pm) and Late Show (10 pm or so) until about 14 i could only watch the Late Show on Fridays or during school breaks. But i watched the Early Show almost every day.

Too many to list.

Laura with Gene Tierney one of my favorite mysteries ever. But there is a sort of quiet 'thriller' with Gregory Peck as a man with temporary amnesia who thinks he may have killed a man for no good reason that i also adore but it doesn't get shown often the title is Mirage.

 

[hollydolly]

WE have a channel here called Talking Pictures which shows ancient old films as far back as the 30's.. and of course the biggest percentage of them are in Black and White

 

[Pepper]

WE have a channel here called Talking Pictures which shows ancient old films as far back as the 30's.. and of course the biggest percentage of them are in Black and White

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) shows the Silent movies from time to time. Some I really liked.

Broken Blossoms (1919)
An abused girl (Lillian Gish) falls in love with a Chinese man (Richard Barthelmess) but her abusive father (Donald Crisp) doesn't approve and will stop at nothing to make sure the two don't see one another. This is certainly one of the greatest love stories of the silent era as it tackles some rather, for the time, taboo subjects including interracial love............
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0009968/reviews