[luffyplayaz]

Can we list down the black and white films that contained a seriously good amount of violence?

I know violence is really common in today's movies, but what about films from the black and white era?

I'll start with one: Schindler's List

[cingularring]

There was nothing good about the violence in Schindler's list. Violence is only fun in films when it is fictional.

On topic: just watch any film on an old TV for instant black and white.

[yharmon6614]

Can we list down the black and white films that contained a seriously good amount of violence?

I know violence is really common in today's movies, but what about films from the black and white era?

I'll start with one: Schindler's List

oh wow that's really ****ing low man. [thumbdown]

[DuesTyr]

oh wow that's really ****ing low man. [thumbdown]

Indeed.. I'm not completely sure that early 1990s was the 'black and white era' either.

[CicyHannyCeli]

Other than WAR documentaries, I expect you've SFA chance. Perhaps you can find a film from a sick sub-culture, but generally they were against the Hayes Commission and public taste at the time!

In some ways, the old days really were better as there wasn't the glorification of violence!

[Niobaralegra]

well all films that are violent when watched on a Black and White telly [yes]

[cingularring]

well all films that are violent when watched on a Black and White telly [yes]

I already said that. Get off my thunder!!!! [help]

[psbiuigw]

Well, Akira Kurosawas earlier films all are good, B&W and violent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYbi7...eature=related

[XarokLasa]

Can we list down the black and white films that contained a seriously good amount of violence?

I know violence is really common in today's movies, but what about films from the black and white era?

I'll start with one: Schindler's List

Why do you state you want to know about films from the black and white era, then start off with Schindler's List?

[cingularring]

Why do you state you want to know about films from the black and white era, then start off with Schindler's List?

I would imagine that in his ignorance of the content, he has also assumed that it must be old as it's in black and white.

[TyncTyncSah]

Mahoujin Tsukai, you don't half post the oddest stuff. It's always asking people to supply information on something old. WTF is your game?

[DuesTyr]

Mahoujin Tsukai, you don't half post the oddest stuff. It's always asking people to supply information on something old. WTF is your game?

I imagine him to be building some kind of incredible theme park where you travel through the ages experiencing the highlights of the era.. only only to be blown to **** by a wireless signal triggering an underwater nuke.

[dyestymum]

Weird thread. Ok. Sin City.

[Snitiendumurn]

It really depends on how you define violent. Howard Hawks' Scarface was considered pretty violent. There's plenty of machinegunings, explosions and car chases but don't expect lots of blood and gore that didn't really enter in to western cinema until the late sixties and early 70s. Thank Arthur Penn for introducing us to that.

That's probably your best area to look for violence in B&W films though 30s gangster films before the Hays Code. Then you've got the more subtler sinister violence of 50s film noir. The Night of the Hunter is fantastic as is Robert Mitchum's Harry Powell. He's also great in Cape Fear. Gun Crazy is a more directly violent film noir that I like.