If you don't usually watch classic films, that's all well and good. I don't know anything about opera or French poetry- to each their own. But please, when you write a review, try not to say a movie is good 'for its day' or 'for a black-and-white movie.' However unintentionally, you are being condescending and showing your ignorance. You're talking about the age of Fritz Lang, John Huston, Alfred Hitchcock, and Orson Welles. There have always been good movies and bad movies and movies in between, but few critics would say that we're making the best movies today, or at any time in the last 30 years.