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Gee, I'm not sure. Maybe "The Day The Earth Stood Still."
What black and white film have you seen the most times?
I guess, for me, it would be Casablanca.
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Has to be Its a Wonderful Life thanks to holiday showings every year.
After that, probably Young Frankenstein or Touch of Evil.Kevin M. Kruse added,
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Zoonart
(11,861 posts)I get sucked in every time.
ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)FuzzyRabbit
(1,967 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Maybe some of the old Charlie Chaplin movies?
I don't usually watch movies more than once, but those were some exceptions.
skypilot
(8,853 posts)Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)And I'm a David Lynch fan.
I can't think of another B/W film I've seen more than that, it's true.
ZZenith
(4,122 posts)The Seventh Seal
Winter Light
Through a Glass Darkly
Smiles of a Summer Night
and Its a Wonderful Life - but only because my wife insists we watch it every year.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Yep, that's surely the one that I've seen the most.
And then there's the Fox News version of the story:
ZZenith
(4,122 posts)Thanks!
cayugafalls
(5,640 posts)Then King Kong and Frankenstein.
msongs
(67,405 posts)BigMin28
(1,176 posts)Wuthering Heights
The Philadelphia Story
Big Blue Marble
(5,075 posts)Casablanca, and Dr. Strangelove.
Srkdqltr
(6,277 posts)I liked Bogart.
dweller
(23,632 posts)n/t
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Walleye
(31,017 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Casablanca
The Thin Man Movies (I have seen some more than others)
The Awful Truth
The Philadelphia Story
My Man Godfrey
All About Eve
Citizen Kane
It's A Wonderful Life.
I have seen a lot more, probably more than once, but those are the films that I have seen numerous times.
alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)BlueTsunami2018
(3,492 posts)Can quote it word for word.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)blm
(113,055 posts)GP6971
(31,147 posts)Seven Days in May.
Overall, any Bogart movie.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,468 posts)Technically, not completely B&W, but I saw that a whole bunch of times growing up.
Also, the Yearling....that was a real tear-jerker.
RockRaven
(14,966 posts)It's a Wonderful Life would probably be 2nd. But that is "seen" rather than "chosen to watch" the most times. Especially around holiday times I don't often control what's playing in my household. Not that I object to those films, I just would not watch them every single December (or nearly so) of my own volition.
The B&W film I've chosen to watch the most times is Dr. Strangelove, followed by Casablanca and then Clerks.
Jarqui
(10,123 posts)and It's a Wonderful Life
I suppose the latter. Not positive.
To Kill a Mockingbird is my wife's favorite and one of mine.
lkinwi
(1,477 posts)A Christmas Carol and The Bishops Wife
Laffy Kat
(16,377 posts)And "Dr. Strangelove."
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)...although, if we base it on number of classroom viewing sessions in my "Dramatic Construction" course at film school, it would likely be either The Third Man or 3:10 To Yuma.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,614 posts)Great comedies, both of them!
Tikki
(14,557 posts)And like most others...Dr. Strangelove.
Tikki
if..fish..had..wings
(662 posts)Harker
(14,015 posts)though I've seen several others more often. "Rashomon", "Seven Samural", "Sanjuro", and "Yojimbo" among the Japanese films.
if..fish..had..wings
(662 posts)I have quite a few - Japanese and others - that could have been on the list.
And don't forget Gojira!
Harker
(14,015 posts)Shimura Takashi was a great actor.
Duncan Grant
(8,262 posts)Its amazing and Thelma Ritter, too!
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)Niagara
(7,605 posts)Psycho, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Some Like It Hot, and Pleasantville.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,938 posts)It's practically been a Memorial Day ritual for over 40 years.
Meadowoak
(5,545 posts)Upthevibe
(8,044 posts)old movie enthusiast):
It's a Wonderful Life
To Kill A Mockingbird
Twelve Angry Men
Goodbye Mr. Chips
I Remember Mama
Casa Blanca
raging moderate
(4,305 posts)JCMach1
(27,556 posts)Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)
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BunnyMcGee
(463 posts)It's a Wonderful Life, Public Enemy (1931), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), A Christmas Carol (1951, 1938), Marx Brothers: At The Circus, Duck Soup, others. Dracula (1931), Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein (1941), Man of a Thousand Faces, The Mummy (1932)
White Heat (1949), many of the Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone , The Best Years of our Lives (1946)
Amy-Strange
(854 posts)-
Casablanca and Miracle on 34th Street
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Paladin
(28,256 posts)Aristus
(66,329 posts)The most expensive black-and-white movie ever filmed, IIRC.
I fucking hate John Wayne, and the 56 year-old racist asshole non-acting his way through the role of the gallant 27 year-old Lt Colonel Benjamin Vandevoort is a crime.
But the rest of the film is excellent.
malthaussen
(17,194 posts)Started by watching it about six times the day it premiered in my neighborhood. The usher kept coming by at each showing asking "weren't you here already," and my brother and I answered "We didn't see the beginning."
-- Mal
Zorro
(15,740 posts)Bergman's best.
yellowdogintexas
(22,252 posts)Most views overall: Laurel and Hardy in the original "Babes in Toyland" which is an absolute hoot. Hokey and campy as hell and a huge tradition in our house when we were kids. This was back when local stations had to scrounge up whatever they could get to fill up afternoons, and one of our stations must have owned this because we saw it often every year. I now own a copy.
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All of the classic 1930s Horror Movies
Marx Brothers
Arsenic and Old Lace ( we still watch it every Halloween)
Young Frankenstein
Both of the black and white versions of "A Christmas Carol"
Miracle on 34th Street
It's a Wonderful Life
Some Like it Hot
WC Fields & Mae West
I am certain there are others, but since we had B & W TV, it was hard to know if a film was color. I probably saw "The Wizard of Oz" 7 times before I finally saw it in color.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,438 posts)"oh, I didn't know that was in color."
Svengoolie shows a lot of black and white movies.
a kennedy
(29,658 posts)jalan48
(13,864 posts)jrandom421
(1,003 posts)An underrated picture that catapulted Ernest Borgnine to fame and the 1955 Academy Award winner. A Paddy Chayefsky film, it was the film that launched his career as a writer. One of the best films I've ever seen. A timeless story.
Amy-Strange
(854 posts)-
Remember the Poseidon Adventure?
I call the 70s the disaster decade, because there were so damn many of disaster movies at the time, and then came Jaws and finally STAR WARS!
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Skittles
(153,160 posts)many, many times
betsuni
(25,504 posts)Wonderful, I'm weeping pretty much through the whole thing. "Life can be wonderful. All you need is imagination, courage ... and a little dough."
Manhattan
Roman Holiday
The Third Man
The Spiral Staircase
Dracula
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Shop Around the Corner
Grand Hotel
It's a Wonderful Life
Bucky
(54,005 posts)Strongly recommended. It's supposed to be a fantasy of how a strong president can rescue the country from the Great Depression. but from historical hindsight, it's clearly Randolph Hearst fascist blueprint for the nation.
I show it to my government students at the end of the semester every year. When I showed it in December 2016, the kids walked out of the auditorium like zombies. If you ever want to see how FDR saved democracy, or how things would have turned out with Huey Long as president, rent this movie
Gabriel Over the White House
betsuni
(25,504 posts)Interesting talk on this movie:
Amy-Strange
(854 posts)-
I don't know how I forgot that one, because I've seen it more times than the Night of the Living Dead, Casablanca, and Miracle on 34th Street--all put together.
It was a good movie, but what's weird is that the first time I saw it was almost right after seeing Silence of the Lambs, and it took me TEN viewings before I realized that the Doctor was Anthony Hopkins.
That just blew me away...
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Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)I've been surprised a few times in both directions anyway.
And no, I don't think it had to do with colourised versions either.
hunter
(38,311 posts)Maybe Horse Feathers.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,438 posts)watch Batman, but this was different. Say, isn't that ...?
Holy Rewatch Batman! The Sandman Cometh / The Catwoman Goeth
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The Sandman Cometh / The Catwoman Goeth
Written by Ellis St. Joseph and Charles Hoffman
Directed by george waGGner
Season 2, Episodes 33 and 34
Production code 9715
Original air dates: December 28 and 29,
The Bat-signal: The Sandman, whos in Gotham from Europe, has teamed up with Catwoman on a scheme to relieve J. Pauline Spaghetti of her great fortune. They each intend to betray the other as well. However, the GCPD was actually on the ball, for a change, having embedded an undercover detective in Catwomans gang. Unfortunately, Policewoman Mooneys cover is blown by Catwoman just as shes reporting in. Now Mooneys in trouble, so Gordon calls Batman.
The Sandman Cometh