Sunday, March 8, 2026

Hollywood Goes Welsh: How Green Was My Valley and The Corn Is Green

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Maureen O'Hara and Walter Pidgeon. How Green Was My Valley  (1941). One of John Ford's most beloved movies, How Green Was My Valley ...
Monday, February 23, 2026

Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting...Vampires!

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John Forbes-Robertson as Dracula. I first saw The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires in a re-edited U.S. print called The Seven Brothers Meet D...
Monday, February 9, 2026

Raquel Welch Races Around the Rink in Kansas City Bomber

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Raquel Welch was at or near the peak of her career when she starred as a roller derby queen in Kansas City Bomber  (1972). It's not the ...
Monday, January 26, 2026

Seven Things to Know About Charles Bronson

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Bronson in The Dirty Dozen . 1. Charles Bronson and Jack Klugman were roommates early in their careers. According to Klugman, Bronson was by...
Monday, January 12, 2026

A Double Bout of Amnesia: Love Letters and The Groundstar Conspiracy

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Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. Love Letters  (1945). During World War II, soldier Allen Quinton (Joseph Cotten) writes eloquent love lett...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Top Ten Posts of 2025

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It's a tradition at the Classic Film & TV Cafe to close out the year with a countdown of our ten most viewed posts. We published a t...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Silly, Sometimes Funny is the Way to Go!

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Shirley MacLaine in an Edith Head gown. When widow Louisa May Hopper Flint Anderson Benson tries to give $211 million to the U.S. treasu...
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Monday, November 17, 2025

Edward G. Robinson Movie Reviews: Good Dad, Bad Dad

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Edward G. Robinson & Margaret O'Brien. Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945).  A year after receiving a special "outstanding chi...
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Monday, November 3, 2025

Seven Things to Know About "The Avengers"

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John S Steed and Mrs. Emma Peel. 1. Patrick Macnee played John Steed in 159 of the 161 episodes of The Avengers  from 1961-69. The two episo...
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Sunday, October 19, 2025

The 25 Greatest Classic Horror Films

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We thought October was the perfect month to unveil our choices for the 25 Greatest Classic Horror Films. Note that these are "classic...
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Monday, October 6, 2025

Green Fire Flames Out

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Grace Kelly starred in five  movies released in 1954, including Rear Window  (a bona fide Hitchcock classic), Dial M for Murder , and The Co...
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Monday, September 22, 2025

Michael Crichton's "Coma" Thrills

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Geneviève Bujold as Dr. Wheeler. Bestselling author Michael Crichton ( Jurassic Park , The Andromeda Strain ) directed seven films during hi...
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Monday, September 8, 2025

Danger in the Skies: It's The Concorde...Airport '79

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Susan Blakely as Maggie. With Airport '77  ranking 19th at the box office in 1977, it was inevitable that another Airport sequel would s...
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