Monday, July 30, 2018

Star Trek: Is Gary Seven a Hero or Villain?

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Robert Lansing as Gary Seven. While on a Federation time travel mission to conduct research about Earth in 1968, the Enterprise  crew in...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Greene Goes Red as Captain Scarlett

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He sports a long red cloak, a red vest, a red sash around his waist, and a red plume in his hat. If his name wasn't Carlos Scarlett, t...
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Monday, July 23, 2018

Movie-TV Connection Game (July 2018)

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Come in out of the heat...and play the latest edition of the Cafe's most popular game. As always, you will be given a pair or trio of fi...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2018

The Eagle Has Landed

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Michael Caine as Kurt Steiner. Toward the end of World War II, Hitler commissions a "feasibility study" to determine the plaus...
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Sunday, July 15, 2018

The Five Best Coronet Blue Episodes

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Series star Frank Converse. A former Cafe contributor wrote about Larry Cohen's cult TV series Coronet Blue  back in 2009 . The show...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

The Doctor: A Tale of Transformation

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William Hurt as Dr. Jack McKee. Jack McKee (William Hurt) is a highly-skilled surgeon with a loving family, an expensive home, and a Mer...
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Sunday, July 8, 2018

The Five Best Bob Hope Films

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John Greco, the classic movie blogger behind the delightful Twenty Four Frames , recently listed his favorite comedies of the 1940s. Not sur...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2018

The Alternate TV Series Title Game

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Happy Independence Day! Today, we thought it'd be fun to try a new game. We will provide an "alternate title" for a classic TV...
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Sunday, July 1, 2018

The Vengeance of She

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Olinka Berova as Carol/Ayesha. I've been a Hammer Films aficionado since my youth and I've seen almost  all its movies. One whic...
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Thursday, June 28, 2018

William Powell as Philo Vance: The Benson Murder Case

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William Powell as Vance. William Powell made his third appearance as erudite detective Philo Vance in this loose adaptation of S.S. Van...
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Monday, June 25, 2018

Seven Obscure Movies That I Curiously Remember (Volume 5)

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The guy at the top doesn't look like Caine. 1.  The Destructors   (1974) - As a teenager, I watched this French-British crime thri...
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Thursday, June 21, 2018

Hayley and Horst in Tiger Bay

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Horst Buccholz and Hayley Mills in Tiger Bay. It's taken me over 40 years to finally see Tiger Bay , the 1959 film debut of Hayley M...
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Monday, June 18, 2018

Movie-TV Connection Game (June 2018)

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Walter Matthau and Steve Martin. Welcome to the latest edition of the Cafe's most popular game. As always, you will be given a pair ...
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Thursday, June 14, 2018

Seven Things to Know About Anne Baxter

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Anne in The Ten Commandments . 1. Producer David Selznick considered Anne Baxter for the title role in Rebecca . He allegedly deemed her...
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Monday, June 11, 2018

Search: The Curious TV Series That Should Have Been Named Probe

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Burgess Meredith and Hugh O'Brien. It was like Time Tunnel without the tunnel and the time travel. That's one way to describe Se...
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Wednesday, June 6, 2018

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

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Gordon Liu. Even film buffs who don’t normally watch martial arts movies may enjoy this 1978 classic that made a star of Gordon Liu (aka...
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