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Dean Jones, Walt Disney, and a Quartet of Monkeys (or rather, Chimps)
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Apr 15, 2024
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 live action films. There have been some pleasant surprises (Emil and the Detectives) and a few major disappointments (Dick Van Dyke wasted in Never a Dull Moment). read more
On Blu-ray: The Glorious Quartet of Loy, Powell, Harlow, and Tracy in Libeled Lady (1936)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Dec 22, 2020
The first time I watched Libeled Lady (1936), in the
midst of my stunned teenage discovery of Jean Harlow, was on a well-worn VHS I’d borrowed
from the library. What a gigantic shift it was to see it on a new Blu-ray from
Warner Archive; it looks and sounds so sharp and clean it feels like a
d read more
Quartet Sum Up | Maugham adaptations
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 29, 2017
When I was in undergrad, I discovered the existence of Secret Agent. I was on a thirties Hitchcock kick and a Maugham kick. The idea of a Hitchcock Maugham adaptation? Should be something. At the time–sixteen years ago–Secret Agent was a major disappointment. I’ve still got an interest in Maugham read more
Quartet (1948, Ralph Smart, Harold French, Arthur Crabtree, and Ken Annakin)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Aug 11, 2017
Quartet opens with what turns out to be a questionable introduction from source story author W. Somerset Maugham. In the rather stodgy introduction to the film–featuring adaptations of four personal favorites from Maugham’s extensive bibliography–Maugham indentifies adjectives critics have given read more
Director | John Carpenter, Part 2: The Studio Quartet
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Feb 26, 2017
With the summer 1982 release of The Thing, John Carpenter finally fully arrived in Hollywood; he’d made a studio picture. And he didn’t come alone. He brought cinematographer Dean Cundey, who shot all of he and Debra Hill’s films, and at least three from Escape from New York: editor Todd C. Ramsey, read more
Jane Russell's Singing Quartet
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on May 26, 2016
In the early 1950s, during a charity night performance for the Hollywood Episcopal Church, Jane Russell took the stage with three other women - Beryl Davis, Connie Haines, and Della Russell ( no relation to Jane ) - and performed the spiritual classic Do Lord. They were such a hit with the audience read more
Jane Russell's Singing Quartet
Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on May 26, 2016
In the early 1950s, during a charity night performance for the Hollywood Episcopal Church, Jane Russell took the stage with three other women - Beryl Davis, Connie Haines, and Della Russell ( no relation to Jane ) - and performed the spiritual classic Do Lord. They were such a hit with the audience read more
W. Somerset Maugham's "Quartet"
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Sep 24, 2015
Released in 1948, Quartet was the first of three anthology films based on W. Somerset Maugham short stories and introduced by the author on screen. The follow-up films were Trio (1950) and Encore (1951). In each of these films, the short stories were treated as stand-alone productions, in that the d read more
Pic of the Day: “Fifth Man in a String Quartet” revisited
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Sep 2, 2014
Today’s pic takes another look at the McCloud episode “Fifth Man in a String Quartet,” first airing on February 2, 1972. Timothy’s unnamed apartment super shows McCloud (Dennis Weaver) around the apartment of a musician accused of murder. Tim definitely was at his heaviest i read more
A Quartet of Shorties
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 15, 2013
Although I’ve been charged with including too many borderline noirs in the Encyclopedia (odd for an encyclopedia to be accused of encompassing too much rather than too little!), in fact quite a few of the entries I wrote I decided later to reject. Some of those then got stuck back in again. read more
Birthday Quartet: Ladies and Gentleman
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on May 10, 2009
A varied group, today, of four people united only in having been conceived in the waning days of summer and born nine months later on the same date.Pioneering aviatrix Harriet Quimby was the first woman to fly the English Channel. Why don't you know that? Probably because she had the misfortune to d read more