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In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Kirby Grant starred in a series of Mountie films with "Chinook," a white German shepherd. Each film featured a mixture of adventure and mystery plots set in the wild Northwest territory of Canada. Grant played Corporal Roy Webb, a very personable officer of the Roy read more

Frank Chacksfield has long been one of my favorite conductors. His name on an album pretty much guarantees that you are in for a good listening experience. Mr. Chacksfield was a British conductor/composer/organist who was very popular in the 1960s and he had numerous albums, most of which featured t read more

We have a real easy screenshot to share for this month's Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie Game.... that is, if you have seen the film. If not, then it will be difficult for you! As always, if you are not familiar with the rules to the Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie game or the prize, read more

In this original publicity photo for Rome Adventure (1962), Rossano Brazzi and Suzanne Pleshette are engrossed in "Lovers Must Learn," the novel that Rome Adventure was based on. From the Archives is our latest series of posts where we share photos from the Silverbanks Pictures collection. read more

"Gidget Goes to Rome....and it was never like home!"After riding the waves in Malibu and basking in the Hawaiian sun, our favorite Southern California beach girl, Gidget, traded in her surfboard for a passport and embarked on her most exciting journey yet—a trip to Rome!  In Gidget Goes t read more

Mary, Mary is one of those titles that I have heard about for years but never watched for the simple reason that I could not find a decent version to view. It never played on television, never had a VHS release, and never was put on DVD.... that is, until Warner Archives issued it several years ago. read more

Shooting at air balloons.... it won't ever become a popular hobby, but oddly enough you will see men doing it in several films. Can you guess which film this gentleman with the yellow balloon appeared in?As always, if you are not familiar with the rules to the Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie ga read more

Exchanging Valentine's cards is one of the sweetest things about Valentine's Day and this tradition dates back to 15th century. The first known Valentine's card was sent in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orléans, to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. The holiday itself was celebrated read more

Since Valentine's Day is coming up, I was re-watching An Affair to Remember (1957) for the umpteenth time and that got me to thinking about the original film - Love Affair - and what a great job Deborah Kerr did of stepping into Irene Dunne's shoes when she took on the role of Terry McKay in th read more

 Van Johnson and Deborah Kerr are taking a quick break during the making of the romantic melodrama The End of the Affair (1955). This was several years before Kerr had her most famous affair with Cary Grant in An Affair to Remember (1957).From the Archives is our latest series of posts whe read more

Robert Summerby is not your ordinary brilliant eccentric inventor. He has developed a group of humanoid robots in the laboratory of the country house he shares with his aunt and uses two of them - the clunky "KT" and the much more advanced Eric - to help him build and develop other robots as well as read more

It's time to hit the drive-in and sit back and listen to that famous Polish-American pop star Bobby Vinton as he sings "Great Motion Picture Themes". This Epic album not only boasts a great cover design but does indeed cover a lot of themes from great motion pictures. Many of these songs appeared on read more

Walter Pidgeon and his group of submarine sailors head down into deep waters in the 1961 action-adventure film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, produced by 20th Century Fox. In this scene, Robert Sterling and John Litel share Walter Pidgeon's concern that the Earth will burn up and sync their watche read more

Gidget Grows Up has been playing a number of times on the Cinevault channel on Roku over the past few months and I always happen to catch little bits of it but never had time to sit and watch it all the way through... until today, that is. Like many women, I grew up with the Gidget film series read more

It's a new year and that means a new round of Impossibly Difficult screenshots for you to identify! This one has a couple plotting something together but we won't tell you what that is.... all you have to do is name the movie it comes from and you can win yourself a prize. As always, if you are read more

"Happy New Year 1961!!".... wait a minute, that year passed a long time ago! It's 2025 that's approaching. And as 2024 comes to a close we want to wish all of our readers a very happy and blessed New Year! We have a lot of exciting things that we hope to do next year and hope you do, too. As Frank S read more

If you like sweeping, brassy, bold pop music, then you'll love the albums of Dick Schory and his Percussion Pops Orchestra. Mr. Schory's albums are relatively new to me but I like his style.... especially this album. It's a cross between the music of Enoch Light and the Light Brigade, Herb Alpert an read more

It's that time of year again..... yes, Christmas is just around the corner and so to help speed along the days till then, we've got a puzzle for you to solve. This one is rather easy and - if you watch this film around Christmastime - you'll recognize it in a snap. So get snapping! Leave your guess read more

Atten-shun!! Get ready to muster for some good family entertainment with The Private War of Major Benson, a little-known gem of a comedy from Universal Pictures. Charlton Heston stars as Major Benson, an overly strict army officer but one whose bark is worse than his bite. He opened his mouth o read more

This photo from Come to the Stable (1949) shows Dorothy Patrick, Hugh Marlowe and Louis Jean Heydt in one of my favorite scenes. Dorothy is singing "Through a Long and Sleepless Night" which they all agree will be composer Hugh Marlowe's best song yet... until they hear the nuns from the convent acr read more