Monday, May 20, 2024

12 Great World War II Movies of the 1960s...and How to Watch Them for Free

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Lee Marvin in The Dirty Dozen . Last year, I asked my 27,000 (awesome) Twitter followers to rate eleven of the finest World War II films of ...
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Saturday, May 11, 2024

The Alternate Movie Title Game (Sci Fi Edition)

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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, April 29, 2024

Love Is a Ball and A Big Hand for the Little Lady

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Love Is a Ball (1963).   I thought I had seen every 1960s romantic comedy until the blandly-titled Love Is a Ball  popped up on the cable c...
Monday, April 15, 2024

Dean Jones, Walt Disney, and a Quartet of Monkeys (or rather, Chimps)

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Yvette Mimieux with one of the chimps. We've been on a Disney movie run at the Cafe, revisiting some of the studio’s lesser-known li...
Monday, April 1, 2024

The Alternate Movie Title Game (April 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, March 18, 2024

Klute and Tender Mercies

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Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda. Klute  (1971). When a businessman suddenly disappears and obscene letters are found among his work papers,...
Monday, March 4, 2024

The Crimson Kimono and The League of Gentlemen

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James Shigeta as Detective Joe Kojaku. The Crimson Kimono (1959). Writer-director Samuel Fuller's once-controversial cult film revolves ...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Jeff Chandler Plays a Make-Believe Parent in The Toy Tiger

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Jeff Chandler as Rick. Had a bad day at work? Relatives causing undue stress? If so, then perhaps you need to sit down and watch a mindless ...
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Monday, February 5, 2024

Seven Things to Know About Linda Cristal

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1. Linda Cristal was born on February 23, 1931, in Rosario, Argentina, as Marta Victoria Moya Burges. In addition to her native language of ...
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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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