Favorite b/w movies

Moby Dick was color Rome. Pretty washed out though, a deliberate choice. Most critics didn't like Peck as Ahab but I thought he was great, maybe because I saw the movie as a kid when it came out and Peck became my Ahab. I went nuts looking for the "Ahab beckons" thing when I read the book, turns out it was an invention of the scriptwriter.

"I Want to Live", that was a good picture, Robert Wise as I recall. Susan Hayward was the sexiest woman of the 50s IMO, I wanted to do <something> to her even before I knew what that something was. ;)
 
I guess so, TB!

I just saw it a few weeks ago & it surely had no color.
Great movie, indeed!

I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid. The scene where the gas pellets or whatever they were dropped into the bucket still resonates in my mind.

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The Apartment - Jack Lemmon - Shirley McClean - Fred MacMurry. Directed by Billy Wildler My ut most fave
 
Since most of mine have already been mentioned, I will add "Seven Days In May", with Kirk Douglas. I have not seen that one mentioned.
 
ducati_EL34 said:
Since most of mine have already been mentioned, I will add "Seven Days In May", with Kirk Douglas. I have not seen that one mentioned.
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Frankenheimer really had himself a roll in the early 60s with several tightly focused first rate pictures shot in B&W; The Young Savages, The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, Birdman of Alacatraz and the Train. Then he lost it; Gran Prix and the Gypsy Moths (both in color for what it's worth) started his slide down.
 
"Double Indemnity" Fred McMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and an excellent Edward G. Robinson
 
I cannot believe that no one brought up:
NOTORIOUS. Ahhhh Ingrid, such a beauty to behold even in black and white.

And North by Northwest is another always must see.
 
RDecartridge said:
I cannot believe that no one brought up:
NOTORIOUS. Ahhhh Ingrid, such a beauty to behold even in black and white.

And North by Northwest is another always must see.
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North by Northwest is in Technicolor and VistaVison Motion Picture High Fidelity of course. Great looking movie.
 
Reading these comments, I'm reminded of something I haven't thought of for a looong time: that one of the things I really liked about color TV when it became common in the 60s was that black and white movies were in black and white, not dark blue and blue. It did make a difference.
 
A few more:

"Death of a Saleman" -- Caine (excellent)
"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" -- Hepburn, Poitier, Tracy (excellent)
"Watermelon Man" -- Cambridge (excellent)

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A Raisin in the Sun -- Dee, Poitier (excellent)
The Birds -- Taylor (excellent)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? -- Crawford, Davis (excellent)

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