GREAT BLACK AND WHITE MOVIES OF THE PAST

http://zanylol.com/movies.html ^

[glennaro]

Double Indemnity starring Fred MacMurray and Edward G. Robinson

[Sirius Lee]

“Metropolis” for sci fi, “Arsenic and Old Lace” for comedy, and “The Seventh Seal” for Death - yay Death!

[yarddog]

That is interesting because I would have also guessed “The Birds” was in B&W too.

How about “Rear Window”? In my mind I see it as B&W.

[Paisan]

Ditto

[BatGuano]

So you know where I got my name!

Bat Guano
Col. US Army

[Paisan]

Ditto.

I watch over-the-air broadcasts of METV on my computer tuner. Perry Mason, The Rebel & The Rifleman.

Just watched 2 of the first episodes of the Rifleman. Michael Landon was in the 2nd episode. Directed by Sam Peckinpah. 1958. Before Bonanza. Good stuff

Also, saw Leonard Nimoy on a very old episode of The Rebel.

Not movies, but still, high quality B&W films...

Loved The Last Picture Show.

Dr. Strangelove - a CLASSIC

[The Shrew]

This is one of my favorites: The Philadelphia Story

TS

[yarddog]

I liked “Last Picture Show” too. It had a lot of the atmosphere of the era. It was also the time period where I grew up.

There was one thing I noticed which McMurtry got wrong. He had the coaches constantly using profanity. I think the Florida Panhandle was very similar to the Texas Panhandle.

The coaches could make you bend over and then kick you and nobody minded but the parents would not have put up with profanity from a high school coach.

Now college was a different thing.

[BenLurkin]

bkmk

[Dr. Sivana]

The movies on the link are public domain. So, Dr. Strangelove and The Third Man are out.

I would like to suggest a public domain B-movie that was unusually well done, and has, for my money, the nastiest (realistic) villainess I've seen. "Detour". Surprisingly good.

[LibertarianLiz]

Pride and Prejudice with Greer Garson and Lawrence Olivier.

[csmusaret]

From Here to Eternity....In Harms Way....Midway....Red River

[Jim from C-Town]

‘stalag 17’

[Oatka]

Damn your eyes! Going “for a quick glance”, I just spent over an hour looking at the banned commercials and other neat stuff at that site.

“Casey at the bat” will never be the same again: http://zanylol.com/obama_atbat.html

And a tip ‘o the derby to these airline pilots: http://zanylol.com/plane_landing.html

[greene66]

And gee, Ann Savage was such a pleasant leading-lady in little Columbia b-films. She goes over to PRC for “Detour” and becomes an all-out nightmare!

I remember showing “Detour” to a friend of mine in the early-1980s, and he was positively aghast at Savage and her character. Skin-crawling, disquieting. Nothing else remotely like it, from that era.

[americas.best.days...]

The Maltese Falcon-Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre

Out of the Past-Robert Mitchum

Double Indemnity-Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray

i watch each of these several times a year!!

[crosshairs]

My favorite black and white was Blazing Saddles.

[yarddog]

Thunder Road. Robert Mitchum just about totally did every thing about the film. He starred in it, wrote the theme song, directed it, and had his Son play his little Brother.

Another odd thing is a professional singer did the theme song in the movie but Mitchum sang a version which became a hit. Mitchum actually sounded better than the professional singer’s version.

[jimfree]

- - Double Indemnity starring Fred MacMurray and Edward G. Robinson - -

and Barbara Stanwick!

[Fiji Hill]

Ten of my favorite black and white films:

• The Wizard of Oz (1925)

• The Ten Commandments (1923)

• The Birth of a Nation (1915)

• Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)

• Wings (1928)

• The Wind (1928)

• It (1927)

• The Phantom of the Opera (1923)

• Armored Cruiser Potemkin (1925)

• October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928)