Old Black And White Films Are So Much Better Than Whats Churned

[piggynose]

Out today.
Recommendation : The interrupted journey 1949.

[bhg481]

Downham, actually, Ken. Children from my wife's school in the film.

[barry1010]

Some B&W films were rubbish, some were excellent. Same with films made today

[saintpeter48]

The Apartment, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, A Kind of Loving, Billy Liar, Its a Wonderful Life, Scrooge ...... all of these are classic B&W films, I just love the old B&W films.

[Mozz71]

Some are, some are not.

[webbo3]

12 Angry men.
Wages of fear

[Mozz71]

//The Apartment//

Classic.

[naomi24]

Psycho, Gaslight, The Heiress ... all quite brilliant.

[Sunk]

There were very many terrible old films made. Because they were bad, they have been forgotten. What remains are the best.

There are probably many more good films being made now than then. Given time, nostalgia for good modern films will build up.

[LadyCG]

Wuthering Heights and The Song of Bernadette were both beautiful.

[Arksided]

It doesn't amount to a hill of beans Clarence but Casablanca and It's a wonderful life I've watched numerous times, I like the old stop motion films aswel like King Kong.

[Arksided]

Some like it hot. wow!

[naomi24]

Some Like it Hot... my all time favourite.

Not forgetting Fred and Ginger...

[jno]

wasn't The Family Way in colour?

[jennyjoan]

charles laughton and maureen o'hara - "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". very old

I know it wasn't black and white - but could we ever forget the wonderful "The Quiet Man" - superb. I've watched it that many times I could act it.

[webbo3]

Wasn't the quiet man in colour.?
brilliant film tho.

[jennyjoan]

that's what I said webb - it wasn't black and white but omg it was wonderful

another wonderful black and white - "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" - brilliant. bette davis and joan crawford

[jno]

all of Hitchcock's films were black and white till after the war. That includes Rebecca, Notorious (my favourite), The 39 Steps and one of the Men Who Knew Too Much.

[allenlondon]

I think that in some ways it was BECAUSE the films were black & white!

Colour, you just point the camera and shoot.

Black & white, you have to consider the light much more. The contrast in b&w isn’t accidental: it’s rather the result of very skillful photography.

In the worst modern films it often seems that little thought has gone into them.

[webbo3]

Jennyjoan.
\\that's what I said webb - it wasn't black and white but omg it was wonderful//

sorry I obviously missed that.

"no patty fingers now"

[Fairlight]

I don`t think they are better than what is churned out today but I certainly LOVE all the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies.
Lamplight is another favourite. I could list quite a few. Also the atmosphere of a Black and White movie seems better to me. Like when it`s dark and gloomy, it puts the shivers up my spine ha ha. Whenever there was a chase scene I loved the sound of the shoes the men used to wear. Hardly any sound from shoes these days!