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This may seem like an odd question, but does anyone have a complete list of all the black and white films the studios have released on blu-ray?

Askew wrote:This may seem like an odd question, but does anyone have a complete list of all the black and white films the studios have released on blu-ray?

This probably needs its own thread, but here are three labels' b/w output to star the ball rolling...

Arrow Academy
Ashes and Diamonds
Bicycle Thieves
Les Diaboliques
Rififi

BFI
L'Age d'or
Before the Revolution
The Bill Douglas Trilogy
Bronco Bullfrog
The Complete Humphrey Jennings Volume 1: The First Days
The Crowded Day/Song of Paris
A Day in the Life (John Krish compilation)
Duffer/The Moon Over the Alley
Early Summer
The Edge of the World
The Great White Silence
The Innocents
Institute Benjamenta
Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary/My Wife's Lodger
Late Spring
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Loving Memory
Lunch Hour
The Party's Over
Penny Points to Paradise/Let's Go Crazy
The Pleasure Girls
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Separation
That Kind of Girl
Tokyo Story
Turksib
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot

Eureka/Masters of Cinema
Le amiche
The Burmese Harp
City Girl
Coeur fidèle
Une Femme mariée
Harakiri
M
Make Way For Tomorrow
Metropolis
Pigs and Battleships
La signora senza camelie
Sunrise

Kino (counting tinted):

Strike!
Battleship Potemkin
The General
Our Hospitality
Steamboat Bill, Jr
Sherlock Jr./Three Ages
Buster Keaton Short Films Collection
Go West/Battling Butler (forthcoming)

Criterion

The Phantom Carriage (forthcoming)
People on Sunday
M
Island of Lost Souls
Modern Times
The Rules of the Game (forthcoming)
Stagecoach (with Bucking Broadway)
The Great Dictator
Beauty and the Beast
The Third Man
Orpheus
The Wages of Fear
The Seven Samurai
Diabolique
Smiles of a Summer Night
Night of the Hunter
Kiss Me Deadly
The Killing (with Killer's Kiss)
The Seventh Seal
Paths of Glory
Sweet Smell of Success
12 Angry Men (forthcoming)
The Magician
The Music Room
Le beau Serge (forthcoming)
The 400 Blows
Les Cousins (forthcoming)
Breathless
Yojimbo
Sanjuro
Last Year at Marienbad
Leon Morin, Priest
Harakiri
Vivre sa vie
8 1/2
Shock Corridor
High and Low
The Naked Kiss
Pale Flower
Repulsion
The Battle of Algiers
Cul-de-sac
Kuroneko (forthcoming)
Wings of Desire


Off the top of my head, outside of those listed I know Casablanca, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Went the Day Well, Whiskey Galore, You Only Live Once, and Dead Man are all available on blu.

Birth of a Nation and Way Down East are also forthcoming from Kino.

Warner Home Video has...
CASABLANCA (as mentioned above)
CITIZEN KANE
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
THE MALTESE FALCON
KING KONG
LOLITA

Any more?

There's also...

DR. STRANGELOVE
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
DON'T LOOK BACK
AMERICAN HISTORY X

THE ELEPHANT MAN
ERASERHEAD (eventually)
THE STRANGER (Welles '46 - Public Domain)
TOUCH OF EVIL (forthcoming)

Warners' upcoming Ben Hur includes the silent version on blu.

Paramount released It's a Wonderful Life, and one of their releases of The Ten Commandments included the silent version on blu. That seems to be it from them.

MGM:
The Manchurian Candidate
Raging Bull
The Misfits
Some Like It Hot

Sony:
The White Ribbon

Warner also released Clooney's Good Night and Good Luck.

Sony's also got:

In Cold Blood
Dr. Strangelove (as mentioned)
Earth vs the Flying Saucer
20 Million Miles to Earth
It Came from Beneath the Sea

There's a public domain release of Night of the Living Dead

Universal seems to be just Psycho

ALL ABOUT EVE
ANDREI RUBLEV
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
THE INNOCENTS
JAILHOUSE ROCK

If TV counts...TWILIGHT ZONE

(sorry - I'm just grasping at straws now!)

Fox:

Young Frankenstein (as mentioned)
The Longest Day
The Hustler
The Diary of Anne Frank
Miracle on 34th Street
12 O'Clock High
All About Eve
The Day the Earth Stood Still

MPI's big Sherlock Holmes set
Milestone's forthcoming Rogosin stuff
Image's Phantom of the Opera

From Sony:

It Came from Beneath the Sea
Earth vs. the Flying Saucer
20 Million Miles to Earth (all three of these available in the Ray Harryhausen Collection)

There might be more from Sony, but those were the only three I could come up with off the top of my head.

Thanks for all of the help so far guys.

matrixschmatrix wrote:Sony's also got:

Earth vs the Flying Saucer
20 Million Miles to Earth
It Came from Beneath the Sea.

It's interesting to hear Ray Harryhausen--on at least one of the commentary tracks to this set--exclaim several times how impressed and delighted he is by the colorized versions included on the BDs. I guess innovative, revolutionary stop-motion animators are not conservatives when it comes to black and white photography.

List of pre-90s US Blu releases, divided by decade. Obviously, the pre-70s sections contain a lot of B&W films.

Ripley's Home Video in Italy released Un americano a Roma.

ITV in the UK have released Brief Encounter, Lean's Great Expectations, Olivier's Hamlet, and The 39 Steps.

From French publishers we have at least:
7th Heaven
Lucky Star
Street Angel
La Beauté du diable
Le Blé en herbe
Un Condamné à mort s'est echappé
Du rififi chez les hommes
Le Général della Rovere
La Main du diable
Les Maudits
Pi
La Poison
Razzia sur la Chnouf
Le Rouge est mis
Le Silence de la mer
Les Tontons flingueurs
La Traversée de Paris
Les Yeux sans visage

Add "David Holzman's Diary" and "City of Life and Death" (forthcoming) to the Kino list.
Canadian release of "Polytechnique" from Alliance.
"Boudu Saved From Drowning" from Park Circus, who also has a lot of Chaplins, which Criterion will release eventually.

Not sure how specialized releases you're looking for, but from Denmark:
DFI:
Love One Another / The Bride of Glomdal (Dreyer double bill)
Soul Media:
Laurel and Hardy-films:
Great Guns
The Bullfighters
The Dancing Master
Jitterbugs
A Haunting We Will Go
The Big Noise

Optimum/SC:

Went the Day Well
The Lavender Hill Mob
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Whisky Galore!
Ice Cold in Alex
The Dam Busters

Addendum: Brighton Rock