Monday, December 19, 2022

Revisiting John Ford's The Searchers

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John Wayne as Ethan. A few months ago, I hosted a Classic Western Films Tournament on Twitter, in which The Searchers  (in a series of close...
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Monday, December 12, 2022

Ranking Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry Movies from Best to Worst

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1. Magnum Force (1973) - The best-written Dirty Harry  film finds Harry trying to track down vigilantes intent on cleaning up the streets of...
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Monday, December 5, 2022

Bud, Lou, and the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

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Buck Privates , the 1941 comedy that made stars of Abbott and Costello, doesn't rank among the team's best films (e.g.,   A&C Me...
Monday, November 28, 2022

The Alternate Movie Title Game (Doris Day Edition)

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Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a Doris Day film and ask you to name the actual film. Most of these a...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Caprice: A Bad Day for Doris

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The 1960s was an uneven decade for Doris Day, beginning with some of her best films and ending with some of her worst. The former include Lo...
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Monday, October 31, 2022

A Halloween Vampire Movie Marathon

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Count Orlock's shadow in Nosferatu . Celebrate this Halloween with seven bloodsucking chillers and a miniseries featuring a variety of v...
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Monday, October 24, 2022

Three Coins in the Fountain: Lookin' for Love

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Louis Jourdan and Maggie McNamara. Time has not been kind to Three Coins in the Fountain , a 1954 blockbuster that earned a Best Picture Osc...
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Monday, October 17, 2022

Disney Takes on a Children's Classic and a Spooky Washington Irving Tale

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Mr. Toad--in disguise--and friends. Released in 1949, Walt Disney's  The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad  consists of two half-hour a...
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Monday, October 10, 2022

The Alternate Movie Title Game (Hammer Films Edition)

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Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a Hammer film and ask you to name it. Most of these are pretty easy. ...
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Monday, October 3, 2022

Weird Woman Shines Its Spotlight on Three Unsung Actresses

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Lon Chaney, Jr. and Evelyn Ankers. Fritz Leiber's 1943 supernatural novel Conjure Wife  has been adapted for the screen three times....
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Monday, September 26, 2022

Charles Bronson Seeks The Stone Killer

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Charles Bronson as Torrey. Made two years after Dirty Harry (1971), The Stone Killer stars Charles Bronson as a Harry clone named Lou Torrey...
Monday, September 19, 2022

Pamela Franklin Reveals the Third Secret and Takes on Miss Brodie

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Actress Pamela Franklin. With the exception of Hayley Mills, Pamela Franklin may have had the best 1960s career of any young actor. She star...
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Friday, September 16, 2022

Classic Film Photo of the Week: Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon with Their Daughter

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Embed from Getty Images Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon with their three-month-old daughter Jennifer in 1966.
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Monday, September 12, 2022

William Holden Seeks Revenge!

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William Holden as Mr. Benedict. Between 1969 and 1972, William Holden made three Westerns: the first was a bona fide classic (Sam Peckin...
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Monday, September 5, 2022

An Interview with Sunset Blvd's Nancy Olson Livingston

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Actress Nancy Olson Livingston shot to fame at the age of 22 when she earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Sunset Blvd. (1950). ...
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