Thursday, February 27, 2020

Seven Things to Know About Angie Dickinson

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1. Angie Dickinson's favorite film role was as the sexy housewife who is brutally murdered after an adulterous encounter in Brian De Pal...
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Monday, February 24, 2020

Christopher Lee in The Brides of Fu Manchu

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This sequel to 1965's The Face of Fu Manchu  is an unexpected improvement on Christopher Lee's debut as the Sax Rohmer's supervi...
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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Hour of the Gun: After the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

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James Garner as Wyatt Earp. A decade after directing the Western classic The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral  (1957), director John Sturges ...
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Monday, February 17, 2020

The Alternate Movie Title Game (Volume 3)

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Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a classic movie and ask you to name the actual film. Most of these ar...
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Friday, February 14, 2020

"Marty" and the Precision of Dialogue

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Ernest Borgnine as Marty. Marty Piletti (Ernest Borgnine) is a lonely 34-year-old butcher who lives with his mother in The Bronx. He has...
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Monday, February 10, 2020

Missing Billy Wilder in "Cactus Flower"

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Goldie Hawn as Toni. I.A.L. Diamond co-wrote some pretty amazing screenplays--his work includes The Apartment  and Some Like It Hot . Of...
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Monday, February 3, 2020

William Holden Leads the Devil's Brigade

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Holden as the brigade commander. A year after the boxoffice hit The Dirty Dozen (1967), David L. Wolper produced another World War II ac...
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Thursday, January 30, 2020

Seven Things to Know About Eva Gabor

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Embed from Getty Images 1. Contrary to their uncanny resemblance, Eva and Zsa Zsa Gabor are not twins. Eva was two years younger than Zsa ...
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Monday, January 27, 2020

Vanishing Point: A High Speed Road to Destiny

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Barry Newman in Vanishing Point . Rural car chase movies were a staple at drive-in theaters in the 1970s, where you could view Grand The...
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Friday, January 24, 2020

Ghidorah Makes His Film Debut in the First Smackdown!

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Ghidorah (center) battling Mothra and Godzilla. When I first saw Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster at the Winston Theatre in 1965, it w...
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Monday, January 20, 2020

Movie-TV Connection Game (January 2020)

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A Robert Preston and Elton John connection. The rules:  You will be given a pair or trio of films or performers and will be required to ...
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Thursday, January 16, 2020

Fahrenheit 451--Bradbury by Way of Truffaut

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Montag prepares to burn. Guy Montag is a "fireman" in a futuristic society--except that he starts fires as opposed to putting ...
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Monday, January 13, 2020

The Brotherhood of the Bell

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Glenn Ford as Andrew Patterson. During an induction ceremony into the Brotherhood of the Bell, St. George College student Philip Dunning...
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Thursday, January 9, 2020

Seven Thing to Know About the Adventures of Superman TV Series

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George Reeves as Superman. 1. Although athletic, George Reeves was not signed to play Superman because of his physique. According to Bru...
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Monday, January 6, 2020

Walt Disney's The Swamp Fox

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Leslie Nielsen as Swamp Fox. During its first decade, Walt Disney's television series featured several action-packed episodes about ...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Turning Back the Clock: A Tribute to the Best Time Travel Movies

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I have always been intrigued by the concept of time travel. The end of the year seems like an appropriate time to list my picks for best tim...
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Sunday, December 29, 2019

Top Ten Posts of 2019

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As the year draws to a close, the Classic Film & TV Cafe traditionally ends it with a countdown of our ten most viewed posts. We publish...
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