The best BLACK AND WHITES

82ndtrooper · 08-26-2007, 17:33

Movies that is ! Let's have some more fun. Since SDIVERS thread and the threads on "Best 80's music and "Best Underground movies" had such a success and became HOT I thought I'd start another fun thread.

Simple rules: Just your favorite black and white movies. Include the actors and or actresses, any awards such as Oscars or any other film critic type awards. Any trivia that you know about the movie/s etc.

My first three to get us started.

1. The Longest Day.Possibly the best war film ever made. Story of D-DAY..................need I say anything else ??

Starring John Wayne, Red Button, Richard Burton, Eddie Albert, Paul Anka and a young Sean Connery as Pvt Flanagan.

Won 2 Oscars in 1962.

2. To Kill a Mockingbird. Based on the novel by Harper Lee told through the narration of the adult child of her summer with her brother and father. A rape of a young white woman takes place with a black man being accused. We see the movie through the narration of Gregory Pecks young daughter.

Famous line: "Daddy, if we told on Mr. Boo it would be like killing a Mockingbird"

Possibly the first court room drama played out on the screen, other than 12 Angry Men.

Starring Gregory Peck and a very young Robert Duval as Mr. Arthur "Boo"

Gregory Peck won the Oscar for leading male role.

3. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston and Tim Holt are on a quest for gold after a chance meeting in Tampico Mexico. This movie shows greed in it's ugliest form. The dangers of trust and mistrust, and what the final outcome can mean. Their are suttle cues all along this movie that will become evident when the final scene is viewed.

Walter Huston won the Oscar as best supporting actor in a male role. It was the first and only time in Oscar history that a son directed his father and won an Oscar. The son was director John Huston. Walter Huston wore false teeth and his son talked him into taking them out for the movie.

Trivia: During the filming of "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" Humphrey Bogart kept asking John Huston to be released to go sailing in California and was denied. Finally Humghrey Bogart ask once more and John Huston reached across the desk and grabbed Bogart by the nose twising it and telling him "NO"
They would later bury the hatchet and do more movies together.

Famous line: "Badges? We dont need no stinking badges"

**The Reaper** · 08-26-2007, 17:44

I am watching The Longest Day right now. Best cast ever in a movie together.

Many years ago, I was lucky enough to meet the character Red Buttons portrayed in the film. He was the father of a shooting buddy of mine. I was floored to met him. What a story he told about hanging from the steeple!

Great selection!

TR

PSM · 08-26-2007, 18:01

"Raging Bull" and "The Last Picture Show".

Pat

82ndtrooper · 08-26-2007, 18:50

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Originally Posted by PSM

"Raging Bull" and "The Last Picture Show".

Pat

Raging Bull. Robert DeNiro in possibly his best role to date. Although many would later revert back to "Taxi Driver" as his best role. I cant argue for or against, but both are utterly great movies.

Although this movie was shot in 1980, it was never the less released as a black and white film by Marty Scorcese. A good choice in my opinion.

Robert DeNiro gained SIXTY pounds after they shot they boxing scenes. They took a six month break and then filmed the later part of the film with DeNiro and his extra SIXTY pounds. Marty Scorcese would later say that this was the most excellent "METHOD ACTOR" he would probably ever work with. I cannot disagree.

Gypsy · 08-26-2007, 19:16

Anything with Audrey Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.

The Longest Day

Psycho

For cheap thrills...The Birds.

Rumblyguts · 08-26-2007, 19:20

Arsenic and Old Lace with Cary Grant

A great movie with some good whit. Not to mention...CHARGE!!!!

Also, a good Naval flick, In Harm's Way was on today. Another bang-up cast in that one.

Monsoon65 · 08-26-2007, 19:23

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Originally Posted by Gypsy

For cheap thrills...The Birds.

For cheap thrills, try "Ed Wood"!

82ndtrooper · 08-26-2007, 19:27

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Originally Posted by Gypsy

Anything with Audrey Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.

The Longest Day

Psycho

For cheap thrills...The Birds.

I have every single movie of Hithcocks on DVD.

Guess who's mother (Tipi Hedren) play's the female lead role in the "The Birds" ??

Hint: She's married to Zorro.

Rumblyguts: "In Harms Way" is an excellent film as well. Another of John Waynes better movies.

08-26-2007, 20:02

In addition to some already mentioned: "The Dam Busters".

nmap · 08-26-2007, 20:16

On a lighter note....Topper (1937) and Topper Returns (1941) were pleasant.

From Netflix:

Roland Young offers a wonderful portrayal (he was nominated for an Academy Award for his work) of stuffy bank president Cosmo Topper in this double feature based on a book by Thorne Smith. In the first film, Cary Grant and Constance Bennett co-star as ghosts trying to control Topper; and in Topper Returns, the spirit of a young woman murdered on her 21st birthday pleads with Topper to investigate her death.

Also, The Bishop's Wife (1947)

From Netflix:

This Christmastime angelic intervention sparkles with good humor. Dudley the angel (Cary Grant) is sent to help a bishop (David Niven) and his wife (Loretta Young) survive their attempt to finance a new cathedral and the strain it's putting on their marriage. The Bishop's Wife includes complex undercurrents, especially when the bishop sees Dudley as a rival for his job and his wife.

All three entirely frivolous - but amusing.

82ndtrooper · 08-26-2007, 21:37

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Originally Posted by nmap

On a lighter note....Topper (1937) and Topper Returns (1941) were pleasant.

From Netflix:

Roland Young offers a wonderful portrayal (he was nominated for an Academy Award for his work) of stuffy bank president Cosmo Topper in this double feature based on a book by Thorne Smith. In the first film, Cary Grant and Constance Bennett co-star as ghosts trying to control Topper; and in Topper Returns, the spirit of a young woman murdered on her 21st birthday pleads with Topper to investigate her death.

Also, The Bishop's Wife (1947)

From Netflix:

This Christmastime angelic intervention sparkles with good humor. Dudley the angel (Cary Grant) is sent to help a bishop (David Niven) and his wife (Loretta Young) survive their attempt to finance a new cathedral and the strain it's putting on their marriage. The Bishop's Wife includes complex undercurrents, especially when the bishop sees Dudley as a rival for his job and his wife.

All three entirely frivolous - but amusing.

All three are good movies. I do like The Bishops Wife around Christmas. Good, clean, fun and the children can watch and learn as well.

The Bishops Wife was of course remade with Dezel Washington playing the role of "Dudley" and a crack head as the preachers wife.