Classic Film and TV Café

The Classic Film and TV Cafe is a blog devoted to classic movies and television series, ranging from the silent film era to the 1980s. Come into the Cafe and join in the conversation!

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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