Monday, January 31, 2022

Sandy and Bobby Have That Funny Feeling

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Sandra Dee dressed for success. Imagine a Doris Day-Rock Hudson romantic comedy with Sandra Dee in the Doris role, Bobby Darin in lieu of Ro...
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Monday, January 24, 2022

The One That Got Away

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Hardy Krüger as von Werra. It'd be hard to make up a story as exciting and unlikely as The One That Got Away  (1957), the true tale of a...
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Monday, January 17, 2022

The Alternate Movie Title Game (Vincent Price Edition)

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Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a Vincent Price film and ask you to name the actual film. Most of the...
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Monday, January 10, 2022

Mad Max Ventures Beyond the Thunderdome

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Mel Gibson as Max. The third film in director George Miller's post-apocalyptic Mad Max  series faced a daunting task from the outset...
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Monday, January 3, 2022

Seven Things to Know about Yvonne Craig

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1. Yvonne Craig studied ballet at age 16 as the youngest member of The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. After three years, she left the company ...
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Monday, December 27, 2021

Top Ten Posts of 2021

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As the year draws to a close, the Classic Film & TV Café traditionally ends it with a countdown of our ten most viewed posts. We publish...
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Monday, December 20, 2021

The Movie Quote Game (Holiday Edition 2021)

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This month, we're focusing on quotes from holiday movies--films that revolve around or take place during holidays. We will list a quote ...
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Monday, December 13, 2021

Sean, Gina, and $50 Million

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Sean Connery as Tony. Wheelchair-bound Charles Richmond mistreats his servants, bullies his adult nephew, and fosters tyranny wherever he go...
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Monday, December 6, 2021

Classic Movies About Ballet

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Moira Shearer in The Red Shoes . The challenge of integrating a dynamic theatrical art form into the confines of cinema has proven to be...
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Monday, November 29, 2021

Walt Disney's Live-Action Robin Hood

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Richard Todd as Robin. The Adventures of Robin Hood  (1938) is one of the greatest films ever made--with its perfectly-cast characters, vivi...
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Monday, November 22, 2021

The Movie Quote Game (November 2021)

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This month, we're introducing a new game! We will list a quote from a famous movie and ask you to name the movie. Try to answer these qu...
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Monday, November 15, 2021

Seven Things to Know About George Sanders

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1. In his autobiography Memoirs of a Professional Cad , George Sanders recalled his first film role in The Man Who Could Work Miracles  (193...
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Monday, November 8, 2021

Doris Day Finds the Thrill of It All

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In the early 1960s, Doris Day was romantic comedy royalty. Her films with leading men Rock Hudson, James Garner, and Rod Taylor delighted au...
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Monday, November 1, 2021

Ten Little Indians x Five!

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Agatha Christie's classic 1939 mystery novel Ten Little Indians (the original title is best forgotten) has been adapted multiple times i...
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Sunday, October 24, 2021

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

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"Akita osur!" Roughly translated, that means: "Look, there's a dinosaur!" I know this because I got a copy of the pr...
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Monday, October 18, 2021

The Alternate Movie Title Game (Classic Horror Edition)

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Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a classic horror film (they're all pre-1960 so that should help) ...
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Monday, October 11, 2021

Ranking All 25 James Bond Films from Best to Worst

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Sean Connery as the movies' first 007. I originally ranked the first 22 James Bond films back in 2008. After recently watching  No Time ...
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