Sunday, January 29, 2012

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

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You don’t get more of a Depression-era film than director John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath (1940). Based on John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize...
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Friday, January 27, 2012

CMBA Comedy Classics Blogathon: A Shot in the Dark

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It's ironic that A Shot in the Dark , the second Panther Panther film,   turned out to be the one that established the formula for the...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Classic British Spy TV: Sark and Rick Discuss The Avengers, Secret Agent, and The Prisoner

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The best decade for spy television series? The obvious answer is the 1960s, in which British TV produced a plethora of well-regarded espio...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

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I know I am supposed to say Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) is a screwball comedy, but I just can’t do it!  Yes, it has many funny moments ...
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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Doctor Who: Just the Doctor, I Presume?

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The following is meant as a basic introduction to the BBC series Doctor Who and is by no means intended as an exhaustive study of the show’...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Fawlty Towers: Come for the Lodging, Stay for the Laughs

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Back in the mid-1970s, in Torquay, an England seaside town in the county of Devon, visitors to the area could stay overnight at a charming h...
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Saturday, January 14, 2012

I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)

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The Archers, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, collaborated on eighteen films over a thirty year period (1939-72).  While their first ...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

Opening "Christmas Crackers" in "Are You Being Served?"

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This Cafe special, written by natsumi13, was originally published in 2009. It's being reposted this month as part of our tribute to clas...
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