And the best Black and White movie ever is:

[nycsteve]

That is sadly true, l don't know anyone personally who has seen it. People's minds would be blown by Griffith's performance-certainly streets away from Sheriff Taylor. Should have gotten an Oscar for this. Elia Kazan should have as well, but that wasn't gonna happen.

I've seen A Face In The Crowd. Excellent for reasons mentioned. Completely relevant today.

[wilcox660]

My Man Godfrey.

[nycsteve]

My Man Godfrey.

The Forgotten Man

[Vic2012]

Not the best B&W movie but it's good enough ...... Son of Frankenstein....

[veteranof1000psychicwars]

How about A Hard Day's Night? That's a good one.

[Nijinsky Hind]

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Gaslight
Hard Days Night
Dr. Strangelove

My favorites.

[ronmac]

How about A Hard Day's Night? That's a good one.

4 stars

[veteranof1000psychicwars]

4 stars

Absolutely! And not from what we consider the B&W era. Somehow it would not have worked in color.

[Jerjo]

Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein should always be viewed back to back, as one film. The direction, cinematography, and set design are just phenomenal. And it also makes Young Frankenstein that much funnier.

[ronmac]

Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein should always be viewed back to back, as one film. The direction, cinematography, and set design are just phenomenal. And it also makes Young Frankenstein that much funnier.

Totally agree. Pretty much every scene is iconic. I'd like to think that's not because I've seen them a million times.

[ronmac]

"A Face in the Crowd" is on TCM right now.

I thought for a second that I was watching the news.

[Jerjo]

I see there's a free app through Prime that will allow my wife and I to watch an old favorite, the British horror anthology The Dead of Night. Closer to Halloween, we'll watch the Universal monster flics and of course The Haunting.

[Lopez]

I see there's a free app through Prime that will allow my wife and I to watch an old favorite, the British horror anthology The Dead of Night.

A big favorite of mine, too. Still has some terrifying moments.

[Hal...]

And Then There Were None (1945) on Kanopy. Based on Agatha Christie's novel, it is a good whodunit, only in that there's plenty of misdirection, so it keeps you guessing to the end. Otherwise, I didn't particularly care for the tone of it. There were too many attempts at humor and the soundtrack was never menacing, from what I recall.

Stars Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, and in a supporting role, Judith Anderson, best known for her role as Mrs Danvers in the Hitch classic Rebecca.

5 out of 10 little Indians.

[Jerjo]

We tried to stream the classic horror anthology Dead of Night (1945). It supposedly was on Plex, Plex had a fit when we tried to watch it and wanted me to subscribe. We ordered the DVD and we watched it last night. Yep, still a classic.

[ronmac]

I watched "Ace in the Hole" (1951) with Kirk Douglas. Directed by Billy Wilder, it's about a reporter who gets fired from several newspapers and moves to a small town hoping for a big story to catapult him back to the top. A man gets trapped in an ancient Native American burial cave and Douglas takes over seeing this as his opportunity. Through conniving, scheming and blackmail, Douglas drags out the rescue from one day to seven so he can become famous and stick it to those who fired him in the past.

I won't spoil the ending.

I never saw this one before, but it was quite good.

This movie, along with "A Face in the Crowd," which ran before it on TCM, were very very prophetic. Really ahead of their times.

[nycsteve]

Prime has a 40s movie this month called Affair In Trinidad. Stars Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth . I probably have seen it but dont remember it. Most likely a repairing of the Ford -Hayworth team so successful in Gilda. Looks like a good noir , I'll watch it tonight.

[nycsteve]

So , my thoughts on Affair In Trinidad. Its a '52 movie not 40s. I looked it up on IMDB mostly to see if it was an MGM flick. It is and MGM didn'thave the hard edge of a RKO in the noir department. I missed the studio responsible at the beginning , but it felt watered down a bit. The flick is an attempt to recreate the Gilda chemestry with Hayworth and Ford. Fords character has the same immature emotional spectrum as in Gilda , cartoonish jealousy and long bouts of pouting. It didn't affect its popularity at the time , it was a big hit. Personally , the whole Hayworth schtick of dancing and singing wastes valuable plotline time. I find her dance awkward and unappealing. And the attempt to recreate the hair toss shot is lame. On a plus note , I had not seen this before , that I remember , and seeing something new to me from this era is always a pleasure. Middle of the road , worth a view if you like the genre and era.

[ronmac]

Just turned on the TV and "Psycho" is on TCM. Sure, I missed the first 40 minutes, but this is one movie I simply cannot not watch.

[Jerjo]

A few movies on TCM recently have reminded me, opening credits used to be an artform unto themselves and no one does it well anymore.

[ronmac]

A few movies on TCM recently have reminded me, opening credits used to be an artform unto themselves and no one does it well anymore.

[Hal...]

A few movies on TCM recently have reminded me, opening credits used to be an artform unto themselves and no one does it well anymore.

I agree they used to be an art form but I wouldn't agree no one does it well anymore. Occasionally you'll see some where they put some thought into it. However, in general I agree.

My favorites are either from the depression, where the font was art deco (or similar to it), the kind where they're paging through a book, or the ones that have illustrations (I want to say a Christmas in Connecticut was like that).

Off the top of my head, I believe the best ones were usually Christmas movies, musicals, and family movies.

Hitch had some really good ones, especially the ones done by Saul Bass, such as North by Northwest and Psycho.

For post golden age movies, one that has always stuck out with me is Alien. I still think it's one of the coolest stuff I've ever seen.

I've also always liked the opening credits for Woody Allen movies; the ones with white text on a black background. Even though they're really plain, the text is in a very recognizable, yet distinctive font.

[Jerjo]

Hitch had some really good ones, especially the ones done by Saul Bass, such as North by Northwest and Psycho

Saul Bass was the gold standard!

[nycsteve]

I've always liked cartoon opening credits. The Pink Panther , The Lady Eve are a couple of examples.
Swirly art with a good score , Charade , Arboresque , both Henry Mancini music IIRC.

[ronmac]

Yeah, I was going to mention Saul Bass, too. He was the gold standard as Jerol stated.

The James Bond movies back in the day had good ones, too.