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Movies in Shades of Grey: Great B&W Films That Wouldn't Be as Good in Color

My nephew said at a family gathering that if a movie were in black and white he wouldn't watch it. Nothing else mattered - No color, no watch. Black and white movies were old so they should be ignored. He said, "Why would I want to watch something like that?" Here are 100 reasons - 100 movies from 1940 to the present day that could have been shot in color but thankfully weren't ( as colorization has confirmed).
NOTE: While hand-tinting and 2 color Technicolor had been around since the silents, 3 color Technicolor and other processes were not perfected until the late 1930s. By 1940, however, shooting B&W or color became a matter of choice. In the 1940s and early 1950s the choice was often budgetary, but by the late 1950s the choice was almost exclusively creative. By 1970, shooting in B& W was almost unheard of.
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Rebecca (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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Citizen Kane (1941)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
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Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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Casablanca (1942)
Casablanca (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
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Cat People (1942)
Cat People (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
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I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
Rotten Tomatoes®   85%
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Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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Double Indemnity (1944)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
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Laura (1944)
Laura (1944)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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Brief Encounter (1945)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
14
Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1945)
Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1945)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
15
Great Expectations (1946)
Great Expectations (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
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Notorious (1946)
Notorious (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
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The Big Sleep (1946)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
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Brighton Rock (1947)
Brighton Rock (1947)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
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Odd Man Out (1947)
Odd Man Out (1947)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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Out of the Past (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
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The Lady From Shanghai (1947)
The Lady From Shanghai (1947)
Rotten Tomatoes®   84%
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Hamlet (1948)
Hamlet (1948)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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Battleground (1949)
Battleground (1949)
Rotten Tomatoes®   75%
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The Set-Up (1949)
The Set-Up (1949)
Rotten Tomatoes®   85%
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The Third Man (1949)
The Third Man (1949)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
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Rashomon (1950)
Rashomon (1950)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
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Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
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Strangers on a Train (1951)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
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The Thing From Another World (1951)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Rotten Tomatoes®   86%
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The Wages of Fear (1953)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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On the Waterfront (1954)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
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Seven Samurai (1954)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
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The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
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Night of the Demon (1957)
Night of the Demon (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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Paths of Glory (1957)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
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Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
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