After watching 'Rebekah', Alfred Hitchcocks classic of the Daphne Du Murier novel, I felt I had seen a work of art.  The acting was a bit dramatic in some ways, but the story and the direction was flawless.  Same with "The Portrait of Dorian Grey".  They presented a look into the psychological soul of man and made it horrible without it being graphic or gory.  That is the artistic touch at its best.

There are so many movies out there done in B&W that are gems worth watching over and over.  You see something each time you missed.  I love the way they used such lush settings to make up for the lack of color.  It almost made you forget it was in color.  Of course 'Dorian Grey' used color when it wanted to impress upon you the magic of the portrait.  That was impressive and a surprise to me as I had not seen that movie since I was a child and that was on a B&W tv.  It probably would have been wasted on me as a kid, but as an adult, I see the strategy in using color in that way.

Any of Alfred Hitchcocks movies, color or B&W are definetely worth viewing.  He made some of the best mysteries and haunting movies I have ever seen.

Anyone here remember 'Hush, hush Sweet Charlotte'? with Bette Davis, they usually show this around Halloween.  That is just a wonderful B&W movie and is probably one I would recommend to anyone.  I also think you have to see 'Dracula' and 'Frankenstein' and 'The Wolfman' to appreciate B&W horror at its earliest.  "Nosferatu" is very scary even though it is as old as Nosferatu himself.  They also make me laugh a lot at the overly dramatic way they are acted.

If anyone saw 'Ed Wood', the Johnny Depp movie that was in B&W, they know, even though the movie was good and had excellent actors, it is not the same as the early ones.  It lacks something.