His color movies are his best.

what about psycho? stage fright? man who knew too much (original)?

Just as good as each other!

It dephines his movies. I think that one color became the new thing he should of kept with black & white. But also his color movies have a strange inoscence about them that freakes me out.

But it doesn't matter really as long as the movie is good.

if i ever see a colourised version of the 39 steps or lady vanishes like they did with suspicion, that,s when we ought to worry.

I'd say the quality of the film doesn't make a difference in color or B&W, but I somehow am more afraid when theres no color...?

Done correctly, they can create more of an eerie feel with the lighting and shadows in the black and whites... create more of an unknown or sinister quality as it were.

just more classic

My favorite ones, with the exception of Rebecca, are in color.

His black and white films have all those brilliant shadows and cinematography which are lacking in his colors (though those are also fantastic, of course).

If you saw the b/w in color today, you would be horrified at the clash of the colors he used to "get" the affect he wanted. This chemistry real defined his uniqueness in playing with intensity of his subjects.
There will never be another Hitchcock!

Word!