Monday, January 22, 2024

The Alternate Movie Title (January 2024)

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Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a film and ask you to name the actual film. Most of these are pretty ...
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Monday, January 15, 2024

Working Girl and The Verdict

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Melanie Griffith and Harrison Ford. Working Girl (1988). Mike Nichol's R-rated update of a familiar comedy formula, Working Girl  earne...
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Sunday, December 31, 2023

Top Ten Posts of 2023

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A canine friend visits the Classic Film & TV Cafe. As the year draws to a close, the Classic Film & TV Café traditionally ends it wi...
Monday, December 18, 2023

The Laughing Policeman and Warning Shot

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The Laughing Policeman  (1973) . Walter Matthau starred in two of the finest crime dramas of the 1970s: Charley Varrick  (1973) and The Taki...
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Monday, December 11, 2023

Tubi or Not Tubi?

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It's never been a better time to watch classic movies--even if you don't have TCM. I know classic film buffs who still bemoan the de...
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Monday, November 27, 2023

The V.I.P.s and The Fog

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Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The V.I.P.s (1963).  A fogged-in London airport provides the setting—and serves as the catalyst—in play...
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Monday, November 13, 2023

The Movie Quote Game (John Ford Edition)

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This month, we're focusing on quotes from John Ford films. We will list a quote from one of his movies and ask you to name it. Try to an...
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Sunday, October 29, 2023

Of Vampire Bats and Manitous!

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Nick Mancuso as the hero. The late 1970s saw the release of two horror films based on popular novels that featured Native American protagoni...
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Monday, October 16, 2023

A Study in Terror and The Detective

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A Study in Terror   (1965).  Murder By Decree (1979) may be the best known pairing of Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper--but it wasn't...
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Monday, October 2, 2023

Cornel Wilde's No Blade of Grass

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Nigel Davenport as John Custance. Actor Cornel Wilde directed eight films, beginning with 1955's Storm Fear . His best picture is The Na...
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Friday, September 15, 2023

Seven Things to Know About Walt Disney's Zorro TV Series

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Guy Williams as Zorro. 1. Walt Disney launched his  Zorro TV series on ABC in October 1957. Despite airing on Thursday nights against the To...
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Monday, September 4, 2023

The Killers (1964) and Tenebrae

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Clu Gulager and Lee Marvin. The Killers  (1964).   Don Siegel's adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1946 short story "The Killers...
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Monday, August 21, 2023

The Alternate Movie Title Game - Greatest Hits (Vol. 1)

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This month, we're doing something a little different for the Alternate Movie Title Game. The "titles" below have been compiled...
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Monday, August 7, 2023

The Deadly Affair and Harper

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James Mason as Charles Dobbs. The Deadly Affair  (1967).  James Mason stars as Charles Dobbs--a renamed George Smiley--in Sidney Lumet's...
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Monday, July 24, 2023

Lon Chaney, Jr. Makes a Strange Confession

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Chaney Jr. and the black bag. The most incongruent entry in Universal's six-film Inner Sanctum series is also one of the best. Where...
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Monday, July 10, 2023

The Alternate Movie Title Game (Musicals Edition)

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Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a movie musical and ask you to name the actual film. Most of these ar...
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Monday, June 26, 2023

Rod Serling Saddles the Wind

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John Cassavetes glares. The opening of notes of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans's title tune--a torch song whispered intimately by Julie Lo...
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Monday, May 29, 2023

The Alternate Movie Title Game (Private Eye Edition)

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Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a private eye film and ask you to name it. Most of these are pretty e...
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Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Seven Things to Know About "The Jimmy Stewart Show"

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In support of National Classic Movie Day on May 16th, we are participating in the Classic Movie Blog Association's Big Stars on the Sma...
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