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When Charlie Chaplin made his great black comedy of murders, "Monsieur Verdoux" he planned a sequence where Henri Verdoux contacts a woman through the matrimonial ads of a newspaper, only to discover she is a female serial killer for profit.
From there, Hitchcock's black comedy brings about tension and giggles.
The school scenes were so unrealistic -- c'mon, on her very first day at school a black girl completely befriends her out of nowhere and treats her like she's her best friend, even sticking up for her to every other girl in school.
Plus the film's in black and white, thus there's no chance of seeing anything green.
At last, it has, and I'm buying a copy to see if it's still the barrel of black humor laughs I found it to be in '68 Brando was one of my favorites.
i am not sure what year it was to take place in, but at no time did police cars look like 86' buicks spray painted black.
A black and white throwback to the 1940's and 50's who lives in a world of tough guys and femme fatales, where everyone and everything is covering up for something ...Or someone.
There seems to be an unwritten, but rigidly enforced rule in Hollywood these days, that every movie must be black even if it's not.
I very much liked the use of the black and white footage shot by the director, himself, in Paris.
An added bonus for me was the soundtrack featuring two Bruce Springsteen songs which nicely compliment Pam Springsteen's black and white photographs.
Richard Pryor is just perfect as Wendell Scott, the first black stock-car racing champion.
The pair dress in black.
The supporting cast were on form too. I'm still both haunted and mesmerised by that long black & white sequence leading to Anthony's death and Richard's lonely face at the bus stop, quietly grieving for his little brother.
Tacky 1970s version of the I AM LEGEND story and having the clichés of the period: angry black biker chick, a groovy group living an alternative lifestyle etc.
For entertainment and for a picture of life for black musicians of the time this is indeed good.
However, this remains a high quality fictional story of a fascinating fictional black singer.
The plot was fairly predictable, except for Princess Sarah being the black knight.
I bet every time it's shown on HBO, black on white crime increases all over America.
Marisa is on the telephone, and it looks like a big black adult toy is about to smack Ms. Tomei in the noggin.
I was ALWAYS bringing a kitten home - always a black kitten - and would beg my mom to let me keep the kitten but she'd always say no.
Today, I am happy as hell to say I own a cat (smiles) - and my cat is black .... just as the kittens were that I used to always bring home & the same as J.T.'s cat (minus the white markings, my cat has a white tip at his tail) ....
However, it also presents someone who simply wants to serve the Lord and help people, whether they are poor, black or prisoners.
There weren't a whole lot of things a kid could count on when I was growing up, but there was- and always will be, for as long as life endures- the memories I have of a black and white magazine whose editor shared my love of the Fantastic; an editor who always seemed to me to be a kid at heart.
It's shot in black and white which is a departure from the normal color.
An incident involving a black man who is holed up in a shack with his native American woman escalates after the man is killed by the town constable, a Mexican who had served in the US Cavalry chasing Apaches.
The black man, the Native American woman, the Mexicans, the Anglos, and then the rancher's not so faithful mistress, give this movie a lot of great subplots to think about, but the central story of Valdez first asking and then demanding money for the dead man's woman is simple yet effective as it draws out into chases and ambushes while revealing the characters for who they really are.
Ably directed with real style and fierce economy by William A. Wellman, with a gritty script by Harvey Thew, crisp black and white cinematography by Devereaux Jennings, a vivid and flavorsome evocation of the period, startling outbursts of raw violence (watch out for the infamous grapefruit scene!), a tight 84 minute running time, and an uncompromisingly dark and depressing ending, this extremely hard-edged film still packs one hell of a potent punch even today.
Even in black and white, it was a magical show.
The production quality is poor, splicing in badly color-tinted black and white stock footage and clips from the 1940 Brigham Young to show the westward trek and cricket plague.
Postman Pat and his black and white cat, Jess - legends in their own right.
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