Old B/W Movies Running Thread

Lord, Citizen Kane not mentioned yet.

 

Citizen Kane is overrated.

 

To Kill A Mockingbird. A young Robert Duval as Boo Radley.

Not in B/W but in same year the original Cape Fear with Robert Mitchum
and Gregory Peck.

 

Evil, I've been searching for the past hour and come up with nothing. Let me know if you figure it out.

 

I've been on this two days ... The movie was on TCM a few years ago (at least once) .. the guy who played the crooked sheriff was a 1940s-50s character actor. Fat guy. He was at least one other film - color - where he played a monk or priest on a Caribbean Island counseling the movie star (i think it was historical character). But I can NOT for the life of me remember the actors' name or the film.

 

Universal Monsters
Dracula, Frankenstein, Invisible Man, Mummy, all the others. Still love the low-brow stuff.

 

Most of my favorites have been mentioned already, so I'll throw out "The Apartment."

Jack Lemmon is tremendous as always, and the young Shirley MacLaine was quite the dish, to use the parlance of an even earlier time.

 

Definitely had a bit of a crush on the lovely Jacee Farrow. Willing to make an exception for this one.

 

Until you realize Welles invented a lot of the techniques he uses in the film (deep focus, low angle and reverse angle shots, lighting, mirror images, etc.).

Sort of like when then-Chicago Sun-Times sports editor Lewis Grizzard chastized Jerome Holtzman for using so many cliches in his columns. Holtzman responded "but those are my cliches!"

 

The Phenix City Story is all I can come up with, but it is about lawyers, not a newspaper .

 

Anybody mentioned "Deadline USA," in which Bogart plays a newspaper editor who wears a tuxedo to the office?

 

That's it!
You got it.
Really enjoyed this movie.