What is your favorite black and white movie? Mine will always be It's A Wonderful Life. I can watch it every Christmas and love it every time. I notice new things every time, too. I'm a bit of a Jimmy Stuart fanatic. Another one with Jimmy Stuart that I hadn't seen until this year is The Shop Around the Corner, which also stars Margaret Sullavan. It is set in Budapest. It's very funny and sweet. Anyone else?
Red River, Shindler's list, Mildred Pierce, 3:10 to Yuma. There's lots more, I just can't remember 'em all. I love movies, so I don't just have one favorite.
Just about any Bogart movie like 'Key Largo' with Lauren Bacall and 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre'. Henry Fonda in 'Fail Safe'.
Most of the early movies that we saw when I was a child were in black and white, so it is hard to choose a specific one as my favorite. However, I think that the one which I remember the best and have re-watched the most, is probably "Jane Eyre", starring Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine. As a young teenager, I thought it was the greatest love story ever, and the book was one of my most favorites , too. I can't even remember anymore whether I read the book first and then saw the movie, or maybe saw the movie and then found the book in the library and read that, too. Either way, both the book and the movie have always been ones that I have enjoyed and both read and watched over and over. There have been newer renditions of the movie; but truthfully, I do not think that any of them can measure up to the original with Orson Welles,, who was SO perfect for the part of Mr. Rochester.
Oh, Yvonne, that is a good movie. I love Jane Eyre as well, and have read it multiple times. Not to switch to books entirely, but have you ever read Wide Sargasso Sea? I recently read that book, which is a prequel/new take on the story, about Rochester and his first wife. It was utterly fascinating, and I actually now see Jane Eyre a different way. However, if this is your favorite, you might actually prefer not to read that book as it might shatter some of your memories. LOL
To Kill a MockingBird, Psycho, all the Bette Davis movies, all the Susan Hayward movies, can't remember titles. Also loved "Rebecca".
To Kill A Mocking Bird is another one I can watch over and over. Mmmmm, Gregory Peck. Gone With The Wind too!
I agree with It's A Wonderful Life and also To Kill A Mockingbird. Isn't Gone With the Wind in color?
Mine are Charlie Chan movies and Abbot and Costello movies. I can watch marathons and wait for these marathons all the time. Once I watched a Charlie Chan movie marathon on TCM and loved it. Now I wait for marathons for all my favorites! I can watch these marathons all day and night too.
Laura, Key Largo, The Blue Dahlia, Portrait of Jenny, and lately I've been watching all the Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. There is so much about WW2 in those and I love the mysteries, but especially love hearing Sherlock quote Churchill
To Kill a Mockingbird is still a favorite of mine. So much so that I almost gave my son the middle name of Atticus. It had poverty, ignorance, racial tension and legal ambiguity. Something for everyone..
It will always be 'Its a wonderful life' with the fabulous, wonderful Jimmy Stewart Anything with Cagney in it - black, white or in colour
Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds is my favorite black and white movie. I always wondered how they made those birds do those things particularly flying down the chimney.