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Movies in Shades of Grey: Great B&W Films That Wouldn't Be as Good in Color - Page 2

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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The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
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The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
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Wild Strawberries (1957)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
44
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958)
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
45
Touch of Evil (1958)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
46
Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
47
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
48
The 400 Blows (1959)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
49
Black Sunday (1960)
Black Sunday (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes®   86%
50
Breathless (1960)
Breathless (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
51
La Dolce Vita (1960)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
52
L'avventura (1960)
L'avventura (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
53
Psycho (1960)
Psycho (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
54
The Apartment (1960)
The Apartment (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
55
The Virgin Spring (1960)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Rotten Tomatoes®   88%
56
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
57
The Innocents (1961)
The Innocents (1961)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
58
Jules and Jim (1962)
Jules and Jim (1962)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
59
La Jetée (1962)
La Jetée (1962)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
60
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
61
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
62
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
63
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
64
8½ (1963)
8½ (1963)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
65
The Haunting (1963)
The Haunting (1963)
Rotten Tomatoes®   86%
66
The Servant (1963)
The Servant (1963)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
67
This Sporting Life (1963)
This Sporting Life (1963)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
68
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
69
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
70
Seven Days in May (1964)
Seven Days in May (1964)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
71
Zorba the Greek (1964)
Zorba the Greek (1964)
Rotten Tomatoes®   79%
72
Alphaville (1965)
Alphaville (1965)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
73
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
74
Persona (1966)
Persona (1966)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
75
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
76
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
77
Paper Moon (1973)
Paper Moon (1973)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
78
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
79
Eraserhead (1977)
Eraserhead (1977)
Rotten Tomatoes®   90%
80
Manhattan (1979)
Manhattan (1979)
Rotten Tomatoes®   94%
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