O/T What's your favourite black and white film of all time?

[gru]

Summer Holiday started off in black & white does that count?

[howdydoo]

Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes films.

Brilliant

[thaimillerfan]

Hitchcock's The Birds

[Jocksgloves1]

Love the war propaganda movies like 'Pimpernel Smith' and 'Went the day Well'.

[Nardendee]

Anything with the Marx Brothers in. Laurel and Hardy, particularly the one where they joined the foreign legion. The camp commandant asking Ollie why he joined the foreign legion:
“I came here to forget”
“What did you come here to forget?”
“I forgot”

The Lady vanishes - 1939
Mutiny on the Bounty - 1935
White Heat - 1931
It’s a Wonderful Life - 1946
The 39 Steps - 1935
Goodbye Mr. Chips 1939

[CTMilller]

I always enjoyed the gritty northern English films of the early 1960s with ‘angry young men’ characters:

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

This Sporting Life

to name just three. They represent a fairly recent world that we knew as kids but which has all but disappeared.

[Brin]

Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes films.

Brilliant

Have to agree, another set of films I'm glued to once they start. Everything has to stop in order to watch one.

[Brin]

Anything with the Marx Brothers in. Laurel and Hardy, particularly the one where they joined the foreign legion. The camp commandant asking Ollie why he joined the foreign legion:
“I came here to forget”
“What did you come here to forget?”
“I forgot”

The Lady vanishes - 1939
Mutiny on the Bounty - 1935
White Heat - 1931
It’s a Wonderful Life - 1946
The 39 Steps - 1935
Goodbye Mr. Chips 1939

Mark Brothers now you're talking pal. I have a CD collection of several although, they have left some sequences out which was disappointing.

The one liners by Groucho always make me smile/laugh. The slapstick comedy and the serious one who always got the gal.
I once watched a documentary on them. There was so much about them I never knew.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Some interesting choices in this thread

Many of them based on books of the same name. I wonder how many saw the film after reading the book or never read the book in the first place.

[CAMiller]

Some interesting choices in this thread

Many of them based on books of the same name. I wonder how many saw the film after reading the book or never read the book in the first place.

I have and it often ends in disappointment. Not B&W but Jaws is one that comes to mind.

A bit O/T but if you liked Chariots of Fire, The Boys in the Boat is a book with a similar theme and is pertinent to the Seattle area where I'm currently living. The film based on the book has just premiered here and is on general release from Christmas Day.