Thursday, November 29, 2018

Two Disney Rareties: Rob Roy and Emil

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Richard Todd as Rob Roy. Richard Todd made three British-filmed historical adventures for Walt Disney in the 1950s: The Story of Robin H...
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Monday, November 26, 2018

The Five Best Monty Python Skits

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The members of Monty Python. Everyone has their favorite Monthy Python skits, so compiling a "five best" is an impossible task...
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Thursday, November 22, 2018

Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman Say Bon Voyage!

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Fred MacMurray playing another Dad. Fred MacMurray made seven films for Walt Disney Productions, starting with The Shaggy Dog (1959) an...
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Sunday, November 18, 2018

Stirling Silliphant--The Poet Laureate of 1960s Television

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Stirling Silliphant and his wife Tiana Alexandre. For years, I knew producer-writer Stirling Silliphant as the guy that wrote In the ...
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Thursday, November 15, 2018

Movie-TV Connection Game (November 2018)

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Richard Anderson and Nancy Walker. With Thanksgiving this month, we give thanks for having the smartest classic movie and TV buffs play ...
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Monday, November 12, 2018

Sean Connery Stages the Great Train Robbery

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Sean Connery as Edward Pierce. In addition to writing bestselling novels like Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain , Michael Crichton ...
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Thursday, November 8, 2018

Fairs, Carnivals, and Amusement Parks in Classic Movies

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Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis. Fairs on film have evoked a nostalgic atmosphere of Americana, as typified by the three film versi...
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Monday, November 5, 2018

Classic Movies on Amazon Prime in November 2018

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Aubrey Hepburn has breakfast. It's been a couple of months since we last explored what Amazon Prime had to offer in the way of class...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

The Phantoms of the Opera

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Claude Rains as the Phantom. Just eleven years after Lon Chaney thrilled audiences in The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Universal was p...
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Monday, October 29, 2018

Children of the Damned

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Clive Powell as Paul. Children of the Damned  (1964) is not a sequel to the 1960 science fiction classic Village of the Damned , but rat...
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Thursday, October 25, 2018

Movie-TV Connection Game (October 2018)

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What do these actors have in common? As you enjoy the brisk days of October, you can still pull out your phone or tablet and play the ...
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Monday, October 22, 2018

What's My Line?

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One of the summer's most pleasant--and surprising--viewing experiences was the 1955 season of the long-running CBS quiz show What'...
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Thursday, October 18, 2018

George C. Scott Unravels the Mystery of "The Changeling"

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George C. Scott as John Russell. When we recently asked our Twitter followers to name their favorite scary movie, several responded with...
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Sunday, October 14, 2018

Seven Things to Know About Neil Simon

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1. In a 1979 interview in Playboy , Neil Simon noted: "There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in L...
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