Suggest a Black and White era movie

[HOF]

Shirley Temple!

Shirley Temple!

 

[sdb]

À bout de souffle and some of the French New Wave classics.

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

Shirley Temple?

Man your reaching with that one.

 

[Jesus Quintana]

 

[Don Draper]

This is one of my favorites.



Hepburn and Cooper. Cool factor goes off the meter!

 

[Nately]

Suggest a black and white film that you enjoy watching!

My first suggestion is The Night of the Hunter. The movie is just so damn creepy...this scary man chasing these two young kids trying to hunt them down. The hymn he chants gives me shivers to this day.

Great pick. That's what I was about to suggest. I never knew Robert Mitchum could act or that Shirley Winters used to be so hot until I saw it on Elwy Yost's movie show.

Orson Welles Touch of Evil is way cool.

Hitchcock The Birds and North by Northwest

Roman Holiday

 

[IFUSEEKAMY]

Agree with you Nately

And I LOVED watching The Birds... so simple and scary hehe

Being a huge Roman Polanski fan my recommendation for today is Repulsion. I found it to be really intense and ofcourse very dreamy.

 

[Art Mann]

Great pick. That's what I was about to suggest. I never knew Robert Mitchum could act or that Shelley Winters used to be so hot until I saw it on Elwy Yost's movie show.

Elwy Yost? Magic Shadows? Saturday Night at the Movies?

Holy Canoly, Nately come lately!!!

Better hope CycleGuy doesn't spot your comment ... or he'll figure out a way to move your post over to the "You know you're getting old" thread.

 

[IFUSEEKAMY]

I watched most of Night of the Eagle last night. It was a very interesting movie. It kept plunging into these weird elements. I'll have to get a copy of it someday to watch all of it. When it was released in North America they titled it Burn, Witch, Burn

 

[IFUSEEKAMY]

Watched Laura today. My gosh, the detective lights up a new cigarette in every scene. Vincent Price looked so different.



I'm trying to locate a B&W era movie that had a woman's name in the title. The movie was mostly a ghost story and there was a big house up on top of cliffs or something. That's all I can recall. Anyone know what I may be referring to?

 

[Jacklyn7]

My goth may be showing but:
Nosferatu
Night of the Living Dead
Last Man on Earth (Any Price film really)

 

[Art Mann]

. . . I'm trying to locate a B&W era movie that had a woman's name in the title. The movie was mostly a ghost story and there was a big house up on top of cliffs or something. That's all I can recall. Anyone know what I may be referring to?

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir . . . a wonderful romantic fantasy

Gene Tierney rents an old sea captain’s cottage; Rex Harrison haunts the place.

She makes the supernatural connection and becomes his “ghost writer.” He dictates his memoirs so she can can move from struggling writer to income-producing author.

Naturally they fall in love, but ultimately he sacrifices his own happiness by telling her their affair is hopeless . . . and he ‘frees’ her to go search for a lover who is a real, live, man.

Directed by the great Joseph Mankiewicz, with stunning cinematography by Charles Lang and musical score by that genius Bernard Hermann.

Truly a seaworthy film, Miss Amy. Thanks for reminding me.



By the way, thanks also for necrobumping this 3-year-old thread. Some great memories here ... not just celluloid but also people (memories of former contributors).

 

[ORAL]

ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS

directed by Luchino Visconti, early 1960's, black and white, Italian

stars Alain Delon and Annie Girardot who gives the greatest female performance i have ever seen

on a 5 star scale, i give it a 6!

 

[IFUSEEKAMY]

Bump!

 

[bolt.upright]

Brilliant, sexy, beautifully made movie, Some Like it Hot, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, considered by some to be the best comedy of all time:

 

[Snail]

Keep them coming.

 

[cristycurves]

Holy Crap! You guys are OLD!

You guys probably even watched the last time the Leafs won Lord Stanley's cup too! (that was in 1967 which ALSO predated colour media...)



I don't!

:tongue:

:go:

Having a love for something from another era doesn't depict anyone's age, but it might suggest their quality of taste. Many of the best movies come from past decades, hence the many that have been remade and never as well!
My picks are:
Harvey
arsenic an ole lace
The thin man series
to name a few...
in my opinion, some of the best actors/actresses are from the 30's and 40's as are some of the best movies.

 

[Bubba]

Rin Tin Tin.

 

[oldguyzer]

Nosferatu. Scared the crap out of me when I was 21.

 

[papasmerf]

Black and White movies of a by gone era, were master pieces in many cases.
They did not has the special effects we have today. So the actors had to sell the scenes not the FX.

When someone got shot or stabbed you did not see bloody gore. Instead you saw acting.
Admittedly in many cases over-acting.

I was never fan of James Dean or other Method actors of that time.
They hammed up every emotion and wrecked what might have been an otherwise great characters.

With that said a few of great moves form time gone by were:

Of Mice and Men
On the Waterfront
12 Angry Men
The Grapes of Wrath
Elmer Gantry