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The Alternate Movie Title Game (Hammer Films Edition)
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Oct 10, 2022
Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a Hammer film and ask you to name it. Most of these are pretty easy. Please answer no more than three questions per day so others can play. You may have an answer other than the intended one--just be able to defend it! 1. read more
Weird Woman Shines Its Spotlight on Three Unsung Actresses
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Oct 3, 2022
Lon Chaney, Jr. and Evelyn Ankers.
Fritz Leiber's 1943 supernatural novel Conjure Woman has been adapted for the screen three times. The best version is 1962's Burn, Witch, Burn (aka Night of the Eagle), an exceptionally chilling tale about academic ambition and witchcraft--real or imagined. It's o read more
Charles Bronson Seeks The Stone Killer
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Sep 26, 2022
Charles Bronson as Torrey.Made two years after Dirty Harry (1971), The Stone Killer stars Charles Bronson as a Harry clone named Lou Torrey. After being suspended for his violent behavior, police detective Torrey transfers from New York City to Los Angeles. After two quiet years, Torrey arrests a fo read more
Pamela Franklin Reveals the Third Secret and Takes on Miss Brodie
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Sep 19, 2022
Actress Pamela Franklin.With the exception of Hayley Mills, Pamela Franklin may have had the best 1960s career of any young actor. She started the decade with a spellbinding performance in The Innocents (1961). She sparkled in the offbeat Disney film A Tiger Walks (1964) and Hammer's underrated susp read more
Classic Film Photo of the Week: Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon with Their Daughter
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Sep 16, 2022
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Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon with their three-month-old daughter Jennifer in 1966. read more
William Holden Seeks Revenge!
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Sep 12, 2022
William Holden as Mr. Benedict.
Between 1969 and 1972, William Holden made three Westerns: the first was a bona fide classic (Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch); the second was taken out of the director's control and became a notorious flop (Wild Rovers), and the third was a conventional revenge read more
An Interview with Nancy Olson Livingston
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Sep 5, 2022
Actress Nancy Olson Livingston shot to fame at the age of 22 when she earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Sunset Blvd. (1950). She subsequently became one of the most in-demand actresses of the 1950s, starring alongside William Holden (Union Station, Force of Arms, etc.), John Wayne (Big read more
Basil of Baker Street is The Great Mouse Detective
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Sep 1, 2022
Basil, the great mouse detective.The 1980s was a rocky decade for Disney animated films. Several animators, led by Don Bluth, left the studio to create their own movies (e.g., The Secret of NIMH). Disney's much anticipated adaptation of Lloyd Alexander's The Black Cauldron--the studio's first P read more
Classic Film Photo of the Week: Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Aug 27, 2022
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Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck after their elopement to San Diego in 1943. read more
The Alternate Movie Title Game (Burt Reynolds Edition)
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Aug 22, 2022
Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a Burt Reynolds film and ask you to name the actual film. Most of these are pretty easy. Please answer no more than three questions per day so others can play. You may have an answer other than the intended one--just be able to defend it!1 read more
Classic Film Photo of The Week: Joan Collins and Gardner McKay
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Aug 14, 2022
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A smiling Joan Collins and a serious
Gardner McKay are attending a party circa 1959 celebrating composer Jimmy McHugh's 35-year career. Collins had recently appeared in the 1958 films Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! and The Bravados. McKay was then starring in the TV series read more
Atragon: The Super Submarine That Flies...and Drills!
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Aug 8, 2022
Atragon's flying submarine.The 1963 Japanese sci fi adventure Atragon is another one of those movies that played frequently on television when I was a youngster. Like many of those films, it seemingly disappeared into the ether for several decades before popping up unexpectedly on Amazon Prime read more
Classic Film Photo of the Week: Suzanne Pleshette and Troy Donahue
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Aug 5, 2022
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Suzanne Pleshette and Troy Donahue were married in a civil cermony at the Beverly Hills Hotel on January 4, 1964. The guests included Rock Hudson, Richard Chamberlain, Gig Young, and Carl Reiner. The couple divorced just nine months later. read more
Seven Things to Know About Buddy Ebsen
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Aug 1, 2022
Ebsen as Jed Clampett.1. In his autobiography, The Other Side of Oz, Buddy Ebsen recalls Beverly Hillbillies creator Paul Henning pitching the show to him by reenacting scenes from the first script: "We were all laughing and wiping tears, and then I got a chilling thought. Most of the laughs were co read more
An Interview with Will Hutchins on Sugarfoot, Elvis, and Working at Warner Bros.
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jul 25, 2022
Will Hutchins in 1971.Star of the beloved Western TV series Sugarfoot (1957-61), Will Hutchins remains a familiar face to fans of 1960s and 1970s films and television series. In addition to Sugarfoot, he starred in the 1960s TV shows Hey, Landlord (the first sitcom created by Garry Marshall) and Blo read more
A Disappointing Ride Up the Elevator to the Gallows
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jul 18, 2022
Maurice Ronet as Julien.Florence and Julien are madly in love. The only obstacle to their happiness is Florence's husband, Simon, who happens to be Julien's boss. Julien devices a near-perfect plan to murder Simon and make it look like suicide."Near-perfect," I said. After Julien coolly commits the read more
The Alternate Movie Title Game (Kirk Douglas Edition)
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jul 11, 2022
Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a Kirk Douglas film and ask you to name the actual film. Most of these are pretty easy. Please answer no more than three questions per day so others can play. You may have an answer other than the intended one--just be able to defend it!1. read more
Chandler: Not Raymond, but Warren Oates
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jul 4, 2022
Warren Oates as Chandler.
After a long career as a supporting actor, Warren Oates was ready to headline a major motion picture in 1971. He had garnered good notices in Sam Peckinpah's controversial Western The Wild Bunch (1969) and earned more acclaim as the lead in Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), a read more
The Movie Quote Game (Billy Wilder Edition)
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jun 27, 2022
This month, we're focusing on quotes from Billy Wilder films. We will list a quote from a movie co-written by Wilder and ask you to name it. Try to answer these questions on your own without resorting to Google searches. As always, please answer no more than three questions per day so others ca read more
Kolchak Returns in The Night Strangler
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jun 20, 2022
Things have not gone well for brash reporter Carl Kolchak since he destroyed a vampire in Las Vegas in The Night Stalker (1972). Most people don't believe his story and those who know it's true have quashed it. After relocating to Seattle, Kolchak (Darren McGavin) convinces his former editor Tony Vi read more