Yeah, excellent movie I think, although I had to take a second shot at it before I truly fell in love with the film. There's a great audio commentary on the old MGM disc by Jeff Lieberman, and among the anecdotes Lieberman recalls seeing the film on TV courtesy of a small New York station, who mistakenly played the film in b/w which delighted the director -
"I dunno if you can do this on your TV - tweak it, take the color out and watch this whole sequence with no colors and I'm telling you it's 10 times better" 