Monday, May 30, 2022

Movie-TV Connection Game (May 2022)

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It's back for this month only after a long hiatus! The rules:  You will be given a pair or trio of films, TV series, or performers and w...
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Monday, May 23, 2022

Book Review: The Films of Delmer Daves by Douglas Horlock

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At long last, the career of Delmer Daves, one of Hollywood's most under-appreciated filmmakers, has received an in-depth, scholarly trea...
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Sunday, May 15, 2022

The Four Favorite Noirs Blogathon in Support of National Classic Movie Day

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As is our tradition at the Café, we are celebrating  National Classic Movie Day on May 16th by hosting a blogathon. This year's  Four F...
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Our Picks for the Four Favorite Noirs Blogathon

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To celebrate National Classic Movie Day on May 16th, we're participating in our own Four Favorite Noirs Blogathon . For our quartet of ...
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Monday, May 9, 2022

Petrocelli: Night Games

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Barry Newman as Petrocelli. There are few instances of an actor reprising a character from a theatrical film in a television series. Richard...
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Sunday, May 1, 2022

The Columbus Moving Picture Show: A Festival for Classic Movie Fans

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The inaugural Columbus Moving Picture Show will take place May 26 - 29, 2022, at the Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel in Columbus, Ohio....
Monday, April 25, 2022

The Movie Quote Game (Bette Davis Edition)

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This month, we're focusing on quotes from Bette Davis films. We will list a quote from a famous Bette Davis movie and ask you to name it...
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Monday, April 18, 2022

My Name Is Julia Ross

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Nina Foch as Julia Ross. After reviewing Gun Crazy , the Cafe's staff decided to seek out more of director Joseph H. Lewis' wor...
Monday, April 11, 2022

Seven Things to Know About Barbara Eden

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1. Born Barbara Jean Morehead in 1931, she was using her stepfather's last name, Huffman, as a young actress in Hollywood. In her autobi...
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Monday, April 4, 2022

Rosemary Clooney's Red Garters

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Rosemary singing the title song. For years, I assumed that Red Garters  was Rosemary Clooney's follow-up to White Christmas . In rea...
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Monday, March 28, 2022

The Movie Quote Game (Westerns Edition)

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This month, we're focusing on quotes from Western films. We will list a quote from a famous Western and ask you to name it. Try to answe...
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Monday, March 21, 2022

Master of the World, or 6,000 Feet in the Air

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Vincent Price as Robur. Jules Verne was a hot property in the late 1950s and 1960s, with movie theaters filled with big-budget adaptations o...
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Monday, March 14, 2022

The Quiller Memorandum

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George Segal as Quiller. When two of its agents are murdered in Berlin, the British intelligence agency MI-6 employs an American spy to loca...
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Monday, March 7, 2022

The Four Favorite Noirs Blogathon in support of National Classic Movie Day

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To celebrate National Classic Movie Day on May 16th, we are hosting the Four Favorite Noirs Blogathon. Per its title, each participating blo...
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Monday, February 28, 2022

The Wild Geese: Action in Africa

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Richard Burton as Faulkner. When an African dictator's actions threaten to lower British copper prices, influential banker Sir Miles Mat...
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Monday, February 21, 2022

The Movie Quote Game (Alfred Hitchcock Edition)

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This month, we're focusing on quotes from Alfred Hitchcock films. We will list a quote from one of his movies and ask you to name it. Tr...
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Monday, February 14, 2022

Abbott and Costello's The Time of Their Lives

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Bud and Lou in one of their few scenes together. One of Abbott and Costello's most atypical films ranks among their best. The Time of Th...
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Monday, February 7, 2022

Seven Things to Know About Richard Long

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1. In his film debut, Richard Long played the adult illegitimate son of Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles in the 1946 drama Tomorrow Is For...
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