What's your favourite black & white film?

[Brightonfan1983]

Scrooge for me, Alistair Sim is masterful

 

[Lankyseagull]

The Longest Day

The Elephant Man

Brief Encounter

A Square Peg

 

[CoCoa]

machine

 

[CoCoa]

machine

wrong title I Dead Man with J Depp

 

[Billy in Bristol]

The Good German
(Made last year, had the boy Clooney in it!)

Though of course Casablanca, Some Like It Hot, It's A Wonderful Life and Citizen Kane don't half stand the test of time.

 

[The Maharajah of Sydney]

Witness For The Prosecution .

1957 , Agatha Christie courtroom drama .

Tyronne Power
Marlene Dietrich
Charles Laughton


Witness for the Prosecution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Trufflehound]

Dead Man with J Depp

Of "recent" (last 20 years) B&W films, I agree.

 

[CoCoa]

Of "recent" (last 20 years) B&W films, I agree.

older films then
Repulsion
Cul-De-Sac

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Zulu

That was blacks against whites( well the Welsh really)

 

[London Calling]

Zulu

That was blacks against whites( well the Welsh really)

read somewhere that's a myth, mainly zulu's agangst english

 

[Publius Ovidius]

read somewhere that's a myth, mainly zulu's agangst english

The main regiment was the B company, 2nd Battalion, 24th Foot: later the South Wales Borderers and now the Royal Regiment of Wales.

The 24th Foot were actually a South Warwickshire Regiment, however they were mostly Welshmen.


There were men of the Royal Artillery, Engineers, Army Service Corps, Commissariat and Medical Corps also there, some of whome had escaped the battle of Isandlwana which was the greatest single battle to be lost by the Empire against "natives".

Yes I am a nerd

 

[Publius Ovidius]

also...even more nerdy.....at the end of the Film where the Zulu's were supposed to be saluting the soldiers ( who were incredibly brave let it be said), they actually called off the attack as their scouts had reported a colum of soldiers and four batteries of guns approaching ....led by Lord Chelmsford.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Eraserhead
The Elephant Man

Good calls

Also

A Matter of Life and Death

 

[countrygull]

Dambusters, Whisky Galore, Passport to Pimlico