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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Monday, August 25, 2025

Marlon Brando Directs!

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Brando: Director and star. Movie buffs and Western fans should to check out One-Eyed Jacks  (1961), Marlon Brando’s flawed, overlong—but alw...
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Monday, August 11, 2025

Seven Things to Know About Alfred Hitchcock Presents

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1. Alfred Hitchcock's daughter, Pat, appeared in ten episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents . Her first appearance was in the season1 epi...
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Monday, July 28, 2025

Cult Movie Theatre: Black Moon Rising

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Tommy Lee Jones as Quint. To supplement his income as a director early in his career, John Carpenter penned screenplays--several of whic...
Monday, July 14, 2025

Bert I. Gordon's The Food of the Gods

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Marjoe Gortner as Morgan. Is it possible to feel nostalgic about a Bert I. Gordon movie? Mr. B.I.G. was known for making movies about giant ...
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