Thursday, December 31, 2020

Top Ten Posts of 2020

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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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Monday, December 28, 2020

Even Elsa's Cute Cubs Can't Redeem an Unnecessary Sequel

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Elsa and Joy (Susan Hampshire) Although Joy Adamson's book Born Free topped the bestseller charts in 1960, no one anticipated that ...
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Monday, December 21, 2020

Movie-TV Connection Game (December 2020)

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Tony Curtis. The rules:  You will be given a pair or trio of films, TV series, or performers and will be required ...
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Monday, December 14, 2020

Seven Things to Know About George Peppard

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Peppard in Breakfast at Tiffany's . 1. George Peppard didn't get along with either of his female co-stars on the set of Breakfast at...
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Monday, December 7, 2020

Billy Wilder's The Front Page

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Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. Hildy Johnson (Jack Lemmon) has decided to give up his career as the star reporter for the Chicago Exami...
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Monday, November 30, 2020

Abbott & Costello Meet the Killer

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The first murder victim and Lou. Following the huge success of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Universal Pictures was anxious ...
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Monday, November 23, 2020

Danger: Diabolik

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John Phillip Law as Diabolik. Made in 1968, Danger: Diabolik is both a psychedelic ode to the movie industry's grooviest decade and ...
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Monday, November 16, 2020

The Alternate Movie Title Game (7th Edition)

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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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Monday, November 9, 2020

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season Two

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Since Alfred Hitchcock Presents  debuted on Peacock TV last spring, we've been working our way through the show's entire run. Last J...
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Saturday, October 31, 2020

A Hammer Duo: Twins of Evil and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

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Neither Collinson twin looks evil here. In 1970, Hammer Films launched the Karnstein trilogy, which was loosely based on Sheridan Le Fanu...
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Monday, October 26, 2020

Vincent Price Returns as Dr. Phibes

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Vincent Price as Dr. Phibes. When we last saw Dr. Anton Phibes (Vincent Price), he was laying beside his dead wife in an hidden chamber,...
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Monday, October 19, 2020

Roald Dahl's The Witches

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Anjelica Huston as the Grand High Witch. "Real witches dress in ordinary clothes, and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ...
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Monday, October 12, 2020

Hammer's Frankenstein Films Ranked from Best to Worst

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Peter Cushing as Dr. Frankenstein. 1. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) - The series' fourth film finds Victor Frankenstein perform...
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Thursday, October 8, 2020

Scott Eyman Discusses His New Biography "Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise"

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On October 20th, Simon & Schuster will publish Scott Eyman's new biography  Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise . Eyman, a former liter...
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Monday, October 5, 2020

Hammer Time: Hands of the Ripper and The Satanic Rites of Dracula

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Angharad Rees as Anna. After movies featuring mummies, vampires, Frankenstein, and generic psychos, it was inevitable that Hammer Films ...
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