Sunday, October 20, 2024

Ghost Story--The Film Adaptation Dilemma

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Fred Astaire as a Chowder Society member. When I watch a film adaptation, I try to evaluate it on its own merits--as opposed to comparing th...
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Monday, October 7, 2024

Roadgames: A Little Bit of Rear Window, a Dash of Duel

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Quid (Stacy Keach) with his harmonica. Directed by Hitchcock admirer Richard Franklin, Roadgames (1981) follows truck driver Patrick Quid (...
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Monday, September 23, 2024

We Name the Cast...You Name the Movie!

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This is our second edition of this new game. Please let us if you enjoy playing it. For each movie below, we have listed three performers th...
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Monday, September 9, 2024

Dick Powell Transforms His Career with Murder, My Sweet

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Dick Powell as Marlowe. My favorite fictional detectives are the erudite, snobbish Philo Vance and the sarcastic, sly Philip Marlowe. Both h...
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Monday, August 26, 2024

Mandy and A Boy Ten Feet Tall

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Mandy Miller as Mandy . Mandy (aka Crash of Silence ) (1952). The lives of Christine and Harry Garland are thrown into turmoil when they dis...
Monday, August 12, 2024

Picnic and Written on the Wind

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Kim Novak and William Holden. Picnic  (1955).  Joshua Logan, who directed the stage version William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, ...
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Sunday, July 28, 2024

We Name the Cast...You Name the Movie!

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This month, we're hosting a different game at the Café! For each movie below, we have listed three performers that appeared in it (not n...
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Monday, July 15, 2024

The All-American and Yankee Pasha

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Publicity still with Mamie Van Doren & Tony Curtis. All American (1953). Tony Curtis headlines as Nick Bonelli, a star quarterback who ...
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Monday, July 1, 2024

The Case for Anatomy of a Murder

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Stewart as Biegler pleads his case. Anatomy of a Murder  is the best courtroom drama ever made. Otto Preminger’s enthralling motion picture ...
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Monday, June 17, 2024

The Alternate Movie Title Game (James Stewart Edition)

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Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a James Stewart film and ask you to name the actual film. Most of the...
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Monday, June 3, 2024

The High and the Mighty and Skyjacked

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John Wayne as "Whistling" Dan Roman. The High and the Mighty (1954). When a passenger airliner en route from Honolulu to Los Ange...
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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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