BOT's top 100 Black And White films.

[terrestrial]

4 hours ago, ZeeSoh said:

I will get to them eventually, I’m making a list of which ones to watch and this countdown will help me decide on that greatly. But I have huge backlog of movies, shows and games to catch up to. For example just finished God of War (2018) and moving yo Skyrim special edition now. Also currently tackling Supernatural which will take me around 2 months to finish. So it’ll take me time getting around to this stuff. 

Supernatural is still running?????

 

12 hours ago, Tower said:

I'm throwing out the lists of both Hydrogen and JCS. 

An annoying waste of time but it turned out for the best, since JCS trying to cheat this list is what led to him being exposed (I noticed that his lists were suspiciously similar and contacted the mods).

Great catch, and great that you did take action!!!

 

Wow, great, one was already on my 'will probably soon on my ignore list'

 

I feel like the last few months a lot of the newer, but also a few of the older accounts sound strangely familiar, maybe I should start to do some save to.... for a comparison.

Never will understand why people feel the need to ~ support themselves or their POV with multi accounts. In my POV a sign of ~ weakness and missing sportsmanship.

 

If you need someone to help with excel ... next week summer school holidays start here, so I am pupil free, you can PM me then anytime.

 

[Tower]

11 minutes ago, terrestrial said:

If you need someone to help with excel ... next week summer school holidays start here, so I am pupil free, you can PM me then anytime.

 

Thanks for the offer, but I have everything set up already and scored the lists that have been submitted, so it's just a matter of waiting for the rest of the lists to come in.

[ZeeSoh]

1 hour ago, terrestrial said:

Supernatural is still running?????

Yup, 15th and final season coming out this October. I had wanted to start it for years but never got around to it. But I started a few weeks back, I am on season 4 now. Hoping to finish all the seasons before the last one comes out. 

[4815162342]

My list cobbled together tonight

 

 

Spoiler

1. The Manchurian Candidate
2. Arsenic and Old Lace
3. Anatomy of a Murder
4. Strangers on a Train
5. 12 Angry Men
6. Rebecca
7. Dr. Strangelove
8. Casablanca
9. High and Low
10. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
11. Duck Soup
12. Paths of Glory
13. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
14. Young Frankenstein
15. Shadow of a Doubt
16. Seven Samurai
17. The Elephant Man
18. 8 1/2
19. The Third Man
20. The Bad Sleep Well
21. All About Eve
22. Diabolique
23. Bringing up Baby
24. Sanjuro
25. His Girl Friday
26. The White Ribbon (2009)
27. La Grande Illusion
28. A Streetcar Named Desire
29.Rashomon
30. Seven Days in May
31. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
32. The Maltese Falcon
33. Double Indemnity
34. The 400 Blows
35. The Hustler
36. Good Night, and Good Luck
37. The Seventh Seal
38. Sunset Boulevard
39. Judgment at Nuremberg
40. Citizen Kane
41. Yojimbo 
42. La Dolce Vita
43. Touch of Evil
44. M
45. The Hidden Fortress
46. Ida (2013)
47. On the Waterfront
48. Ed Wood
49. Notorious
50. Throne of Blood
51. All Quiet on the Western Front
52. Some Like it Hot
53. The Big Sleep
54. The Rules of the Game

55. Fail-Safe
56. Clerks
57. Psycho
58. High Noon
59. Night of The Living Dead
60. The Longest Day
61. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
62. Suspicion
63. Inherit the Wind
64. The Day The Earth Stood Still
65. A Hard Day’s Night
66. Dial M for Murder
67. Much Ado About Nothing (2012)

68. Mrs. Miniver

 

Edited July 23, 2019 by 4815162342

[flynn2000]

The deadline for this has raced up on me!  I have a list of over 50 titles that I still need to do a little more work on, but here is preliminary teaser of my top 20.

 

 

1. Fail-Safe  (1965)
2. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington  (1939)
3. Citizen Kane  (1941)
4. The House on Haunted Hill  (1959)
5. Night of the Living Dead  (1968)
6. Young Frankenstein  (1974)
7. Paths of Glory  (1957)
8. The Fountainhead  (1949)
9. The Canterville Ghost  (1944)
10. The Bedford Incident  (1965)
11. Random Harvest  (1942)
12. A Face in the Crowd  (1957)
13. Saboteur  (1942)
14. The Best Years of Our Lives  (1946)
15. Ed Wood  (1994)
16. Mighty Joe Young  (1949)
17. The Grapes of Wrath  (1940)
18. Seconds  (1966)
19. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn  (1945)
20. Tarzan and His Mate  (1934)

Edited July 23, 2019 by flynn2000
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[Deja23]

6 minutes ago, flynn2000 said:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn  (1945)

This was a made into a movie??!!! How did I not know this? One of my favorite books ever, think I’ve read it over 10 times now. Wow. I’ll have to watch this now. I’d make a list, but the only B&W movies I’ve seen are Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Inherit the Wind. 

[flynn2000]

8 minutes ago, Deja23 said:

This was a made into a movie??!!! How did I not know this? One of my favorite books ever, think I’ve read it over 10 times now. Wow. I’ll have to watch this now. I’d make a list, but the only B&W movies I’ve seen are Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Inherit the Wind. 

In 'A Tree Grows In Brooklyn' Peggy Ann Garner gives one of the best child actor performances I have ever seen.  You should definitely check it out. 

[TalismanRing]

32 minutes ago, flynn2000 said:

The deadline for this has raced up on me!  I have a list of over 50 titles that I still need to do a little more work on, but here is preliminary teaser of my top 20.

 

 

1. Fail-Safe  (1965)
2. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington  (1939)
3. Citizen Kane  (1941)
4. The House on Haunted Hill  (1959)
5. Night of the Living Dead  (1968)
6. Young Frankenstein  (1974)
7. Paths of Glory  (1957)
8. The Fountainhead  (1949)
9. The Canterville Ghost  (1944)
10. The Bedford Incident  (1965)
11. Random Harvest  (1942)
12. A Face in the Crowd  (1957)
13. Saboteur  (1942)
14. The Best Years of Our Lives  (1946)
15. Ed Wood  (1994)
16. Mighty Joe Young  (1949)
17. The Grapes of Wrath  (1940)
18. Seconds  (1966)
19. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn  (1945)
20. Tarzan and His Mate  (1934)

Another fan!  Beautiful film from an all time great novel by James Hilton. (just realized I have 3 movies based on his novels on my list)

 

I forgot about Fail-Safe & A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. 

[flynn2000]

4 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

Another fan!  Beautiful film from an all time great novel by James Hilton. (just realized I have 3 movies based on his novels on my list)

 

I forgot about Fail-Safe & A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. 

I saw Random Harvest randomly one night on TCM and thought it was really neat, though I doubt it makes many of the 'important' B&W films lists, and I posted the first part of my list hoping to give others the idea of putting Fail-Safe on their list too.  I actually prefer Fail-Safe to Dr. Strangelove, even if Strangelove is great too.

[flynn2000]

There's cat's all over this section!

[SLAM!]

1. Ida
2. Rashomon
3. Citizen Kane
4. Breathless
5. Psycho
6. A Man Escaped
7. Roma
8. The Bicycle Thieves
9. Loves of a Blonde
10. Nebraska
11. Persona
12. His Girl Friday
13. The Maltese Falcon
14. Battleship Potemkin
15. Seven Samurai
16. The General
17. Pickpocket
18. The Artist
19. Metropolis
20. Pi
21. The Fall of the House of Usher
22. Man With a Movie Camera
23. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
24. Stagecoach
25. Strike

 

I haven't seen many but I'll try to watch a lot more in the future.

[Cap]

8 hours ago, TalismanRing said:

Just don't overthink or sweat it.  It's not definitive.

This is why night before “stream of consciousness” panic lists are good. 

Edited July 23, 2019 by captainwondyful

[peludo]

Already sent my list

 

It is this one:

 

Spoiler

1. Casablanca (1942)
2. The apartment (1960)
3. A night at the opera (1935)
4. The grapes of wrath (1940)
5. 12 angry men (1957)
6. Plácido (1961)
7. One, two, three (1961)
8. Bicycle thieves (1948)
9. To have and have not (1944)
10. Psycho (1960)
11. The killing (1956)
12. To be or not to be (1942)
13. The man who shot Liberty Valance (1962)
14. The wrong man (1956)
15. City lights (1931)
16. Paths of glory (1957)
17. The big sleep (1946)
18. To kill a mockingbird (1962)
19. The Philadelphia story (1940)
20. Double indemnity (1944)
21. Rebecca (1940)
22. Bringing up baby (1938)
23. Young Frankenstein (1974)
24. Some like it hot (1959)
25. Key Largo (1948)
26. Los olvidados (1950)
27. Duck soup (1933)
28. The shop around the corner (1940)
29. Arsenic and old lace (1944)
30. Stagecoach (1939)
31. Anatomy of a murder (1959)
32. My darling Clementine (1946)
33. Cold war (2018)
34. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
35. Out of the past (1947)
36. The great dictator (1940)
37. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
38. Jane Eyre (1943)
39. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
40. The 39 steps (1935)
41. The General (1926)
42. The gunfighter (1950)
43. Viridiana (1961)
44. The hustler (1961)
45. The night of the hunter (1955)
46. Touch of evil (1958)
47. Good night, and good luck (2005)
48. It's a wonderful life (1946)
49. Ed Wood (1994)
50. The third man (1949)

 

 

Edited July 23, 2019 by peludo

[Tower]

6 hours ago, TalismanRing said:

Another fan!  Beautiful film from an all time great novel by James Hilton. (just realized I have 3 movies based on his novels on my list)

 

I forgot about Fail-Safe & A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. 

You could still edit your list if you want, just tell me what you changed.

[4815162342]

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[rukaio101]

Me while writing this list: Ugh, I've wracked my brains for every black and white movie I remember watching and I'm still only on 95. How am I going to fill that last little gap?

 

Me, one minute later: Wait a minute. Village of the Damned was black and white and I love that movie!

 

Me, another minute later: Wait a minute, Eyes Without a Face was also black and white and I also love that movie!

 

Me, a third minute later: Wait a minute, freaking The Haunting was black and white and that's one of my favourite horror movies of all time! Man, this is going great! All I need to do now is fill in those last two spots and I'll be done! That should be easy enough!

 

Me, 20 minutes later: ......Ah fuck it, I'll just put in Reefer Madness, who cares.

 

 

The funny thing is I'm about 90% certain I'm going to have remembered some other film that could've gone on my list instead about an hour after the deadline closes. In the meantime, my full list is in the spoiler box below, if anyone's interested.

 

 

Spoiler

 

1. 12 Angry Men
2. Mad Max Fury Road: Chrome Edition
3. Casablanca
4. Stagecoach
5. The Haunting
6. Paths of Glory
7. Eraserhead
8. It Happened One Night
9. The General
10. Dracula
11. Rashomon
12. Frankenstein
13. Dr Strangelove
14. The Kid
15. Duck Soup
16. The Great Dictator
17. Dead of Night
18. Village of the Damned
19. Young Frankenstein
20. Miracle on 34^th Street
21. The Wolf Man
22. Bride of Frankenstein
23. The Maltese Falcon
24. Gaslight
25. Eyes Without a Face
26. The Invisible Man
27. Harakiri
28. High Noon
29. Sherlock Jr
30. The Thin Man
31. Freaks
32. Battleship Potemkin
33. Stalag 17
34. Strangers on a Train
35. The Gold Rush
36. Some Like it Hot
37. His Girl Friday
38. All Quiet on the Western Front
39. Rebecca
40. Brief Encounter
41. Good Night and Good Luck
42. Man with a Movie Camera
43. Judgment at Nuremberg
44. Night of the Hunter
45. On the Waterfront
46. Them!
47. Seven Samurai
48. Witness for the Prosecution
49. Monkey Business
50. Psycho
51. Night of the Living Dead
52. The Hidden Fortress
53. Modern Times
54. To Kill a Mockingbird
55. Arsenic and Old Lace
56. Yojimbo
57. The Third Man
58. Metropolis
59. Safety Last
60. A Night at the Opera
61. Sudden Fear
62. Whistle and I’ll Come to You
63. The Innocents
64. To Be or Not to Be
65. Nosferatu
66. Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein
67. A Streetcar named Desire
68. Godzilla
69. The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
70. Bringing up Baby
71. Carnival of Souls
72. Shadow of a Doubt
73. Dial M for Murder
74. The 39 Steps
75. 3:10 to Yuma
76. Passion of Joan of Arc
77. La Belle et la Bete
78. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
79. The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
80. M
81. House on Haunted Hill
82. Les Diaboliques
83. The Philadelphia Story
84. Touch of Evil
85. The Killers
86. The Uninvited
87. King Kong
88. The Thing from Another World
89. The Mummy
90. The Ladykillers
91. Sergeant York
92. The Artist
93. Tarantula
94. Creature from the Black Lagoon
95. Kuroneko
96. Breathless
97. The Big Sleep
98. Vampyr
99. Le Roman de Renard
100. Reefer Madness

 

Edited July 23, 2019 by rukaio101

[Tower]

Final day, get your lists in now!

[4815162342]

In my haste to get mine in I forgot one film was in color. Oops.

[SLAM!]

There's definitely gonna be a lot of films on the compiled that I haven't really heard of before now, which is exciting.

[Tower]

3 hours ago, 4815162342 said:

In my haste to get mine in I forgot one film was in color. Oops.

Don't worry, you are not the only one. In fact you are not even the only one to have that specific film...

Edited July 23, 2019 by Tower