Would you prefer colorization of B&W films if done well?

I think colorization is a natural for Miracle On 34th Street.  I'm guessing it was shot in B/W for purely budget reasons.

I have only ever seen one colorized version a film; the 1935 SHE (the colorization was supervised by Ray Harryhausen, and a friend persuaded me). I was not impressed, and I have no desire to see any other colorized versions of films.

No no a thousand times no. I cringe at the thought of a colorized Night of the Hunter, Alexander Nevski or Double Indemnity.

If that was ever the case, it would have been down to the printing process. In those days, there was a lab function called Color Timing, which determined the saturation of each primary color. If it was overdone in one print run, it could be corrected in another. But there's a "however" to that.

One of the requirements of using the Technicolor process at the time was the employment of a "Technicolor Consultant," who was an employee of that company. One name that often appeared in credits was that of Natalie Kalmus, ex-wife (but still very much active in the company) of founder Henry Kalmus. By all accounts she was a thorn in the sides of producers, directors, art directors and lab technicians, constantly complaining about just such oversaturation and over-illumination, advocating instead for a more natural look. But studio people wanted what they wanted, so those results may often have been intentional. 

All those creative and technical people are long gone, so when a vintage film is remastered today for HD (or 4K or 8K or however many Ks they have these days), different sensibilities can prevail.  

No, no, no! I love the art of black-and-white. Love color, too, but it's a different modem entirely, one with different virtues, for sure, but completely different. I love the "poetic abstraction" of B & W. When done right, it's heavenly.

generally said, no.

but i kinda like the colourised version of Frank Lloyd's Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), so that is an exception. most other originally b&w movies wouldnt work with colours tho at all.

No i don`t want that.

Maybe on a few old musicals and children's movies--Stan Laurel's daughter once stated that her father would have loved the colorized version of Babes in Toyland, for instance, since the bright candy-coated colors fit in nicely with the Mother Goose setting and the child-friendly story. But instead of colorization, studios should instead invest in digital restoration of some older films--a movie in crisp, sharp B & W is as attractive as anything in color.

An odd memory.
Years ago, when I first saw (on TV) the 1937 film Nothing Sacred, I thought it had to have been colorized.  "A thirties screwball comedy, NOT in black&white?  Impossible!"