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There’s a strange effectiveness to The Ewok Adventure during Burl Ives’s narration. With his voice, with the lameness of the script, Ewok Adventure feels like a storybook come to life. Much of the movie is exquisitely produced, whether Peter Bernstein’s score, director Korty’ read more

vt The Wayne Murder Case US / 60 minutes / bw / Chadwick, Monogram Dir: Phil Whitman Pr: I.E. Chadwick Scr: Lee Chadwick, Hampton Del Ruth Story: Arthur Hoerl Cine: Leon Shamroy Cast: Regis Toomey, June Clyde, Lucille La Verne, Jason Robards Sr, William V. Mong, Eddie Phillips, Dwight Frye, Nadine D read more

Simone in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) #FranceOnFilm Blogathon 07 Thursday Jan 2016 Posted by Summer Reeves in 1980s, Blogathon, Camp/Kitsch, Cinema, Comedy, France, Romance ≈ 8 Comments Tags#FranceonFilm, 1980s, Bl read more

This week’s video is another one from the archives. It’s the full-length episode of Ellery Queen known as “The Adventure of Caesar’s Last Sleep”. It first aired on March 14, 1976. It’s brought to you by the good folks at Hulu, so I apologize in advance for the ads read more

Our week begins with another look at the Ellery Queen episode “The Adventure of Caesar’s Last Sleep,” first airing on March 14, 1976. Rent-a-hit-man Bonner is on the phone clearing up some details with his latest client. Also seen in this episode (no scenes with Timothy, unfortuna read more

What you see above is the opening of the format that I remember for Disney’s weekly showcase. Yeah, we’re once again tripping back to that mythical pre-cable time, a time when The Disney Channel would have been… well, I started to say it would have been but a gleam in Uncle Walt&# read more

What you see above is the opening of the format that I remember for Disney’s weekly showcase. Yeah, we’re once again tripping back to that mythical pre-cable time, a time when The Disney Channel would have been… well, I started to say it would have been but a gleam in Uncle Walt&# read more

About halfway through Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, the film becomes truly excellent. Dimwitted metal heads Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves have successfully brought historical figures to the present and loosed them on the modern world–the mall. That sequence of the film, along wit read more

The first--and best--of the 1970s "disaster movies," The Poseidon Adventure has aged well over the years. I sometimes think it gets lumped in with its disaster brethren--The Towering Inferno, Earthquake, etc.--which is a shame, because Poseidon is a superior film that established the formu read more

Let’s kick off the week with another look at Bonner, the dapper freelance hit man of the Ellery Queen episode “The Adventure of Caesar’s Last Sleep”. It was first broadcast on March 14, 1976. Is it just me, or does Timothy very much look like Christopher Lee in this shot? Fi read more

Hey folks, the blog will be going on hiatus for the next week while I take a short vacation. In the meantime, I urge you to check out the latest issue of Classic Images (May 2014 No. 467), where you’ll find this screen cap from Waterhole #3 (1967) accompanying a great article on Claude Akins b read more

  The Duke’s Talisman (original title:  Par l’amour) was a Gaumont  (Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont) Co. production, released in France in 1913, and in January of 1914 in the US.  Director of The Duke’s Talisman, Léonce Perret, Cinematography by Georges Specht; read more

  The Duke’s Talisman (original title:  Par l’amour) was a Gaumont  (Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont) Co. production, released in France in 1913, and in January of 1914 in the US.  Director of The Duke’s Talisman, Léonce Perret, Cinematography by Georges Specht; read more

  The Duke’s Talisman (original title:  Par l’amour) was a Gaumont  (Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont) Co. production, released in France in 1913, and in January of 1914 in the US.  Director of The Duke’s Talisman, Léonce Perret, Cinematography by Georges Specht; read more

Our video for this week is the full-length episode of Ellery Queen, “The Adventure of Caesar’s Last Sleep”. It was first broadcast on March 14, 1976. It’s presented by the good folks at Hulu, so I apologize in advance for the ads. Timothy mostly skulks around throwing dynamit read more

Better late than never for today’s pic, which is another from the Ellery Queen episode “The Adventure of Caesar’s Last Sleep”. It was first broadcast on March 14, 1976. Timothy gets to skulk around as snazzily dressed freelance hit man Jay Bonner. He also played a bad guy na read more

Okay, yeah, the official title is Thor: The Dark World. But at this point it’s almost become Loki 2, hasn’t it? http://youtu.be/xphJMM1ipJo Yeah, there’s lots to like all the way around in that trailer. Of course, there’s Chris Hemsworth being Thor, and there’s more of read more

Okay, yeah, the official title is Thor: The Dark World. But at this point it’s almost become Loki 2, hasn’t it? http://youtu.be/xphJMM1ipJo Yeah, there’s lots to like all the way around in that trailer. Of course, there’s Chris Hemsworth being Thor, and there’s more of read more

The Elephants of Shanghai Stephen Jared Solstice Publishing, 2013 Actor/writer Stephen Jared has long been a friend of Classic Movies. His fiction debut, the rousing adventure story Jack and the Jungle Lion, was one of the first books I reviewed for the blog. Stephen has also distinguished himself read more

Introduction Last year the character of Tarzan celebrated his 100th year in print. A serialized version of the story first appeared in 1912. A hardcover collection of Tarzan of the Apes first appeared in 1914. Being in the middle of the Tarzan centennial period it’s an opportune time to (re)visit read more