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The Alternate TV Series Title Game (British Edition)
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jun 8, 2020
Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a classic television series and ask you to name the actual show. 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 read more
Wee Geordie Throws a Hammer!
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jun 4, 2020
Bill Travers as the adult Geordie.
Young Geordie MacTaggert doesn't like to be called "wee' by the other lads in his rural Scottish community. Yet, it's accurate to say that he's decidedly short for his age. It's a sore point, though, and comes to a head when he and childhood playmate Jean visit an read more
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jun 1, 2020
Miyoshi Umeki as Mei Li.
My elementary school chorus teacher introduced me to the Broadway musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein. To be specific, she favored the catchy songs from The Sound of Music and The King and I. Hence, I always experience some built-in nostalgia whenever I watch those mov read more
Seven Things to Know About Connie Stevens
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on May 28, 2020
1. Connie Stevens was married and divorced twice by the age of 31. Her first marriage was to actor James Stacy (from the TV series Lancer) from 1963-66. They met while he was filming the Disney movie Summer Magic in Palm Springs. Following their divorce, Connie wed Eddie Fisher in 1967. His mar read more
Murder Must Advertise
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on May 25, 2020
My introduction to Dorothy L. Sayers' aristocratic amateur detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, was via the 1972-75 TV series broadcast in the U.S. on Masterpiece Theatre. Set in the 1920s and early 1930s, the series featured adaptations of five Sayers novels. Each mystery comprised four or five episodes a read more
John Wayne and Kim Darby Show Their True Grit
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on May 21, 2020
John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn.
The year 1969 was a remarkable one for the Western genre. The biggest hit of the year was the revisionist Western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Sam Peckinpah's violent The Wild Bunch earned critical raves in the U.S., while Sergio Leone's Once Upo read more
My Picks for the 6 from the '60s Blogathon
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on May 15, 2020
This is our entry for the 6 From the '60s Blogathon in celebration of National Class Movie Day. Since the 1960s was an incredible decade for movies, choosing just six favorites proved to be incredibly difficult. While the half-dozen below are all marvelous films, I might pick a different six movies read more
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on May 14, 2020
Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney.
A year after her husband's death, widow Lucy Muir has made the bold decision to move to the coastal village of Whitecliff-by-the-Sea with her young daughter and housekeeper. It's a decision that's derided by her sister-in-law and mother-in-law--but Lucy (Gene Tierney) read more
The Dark Side of Human Nature in Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on May 11, 2020
Kirk Douglas as Chuck Tatum.
There are plenty of cynics in Billy Wilder's films, but none perhaps can match ambitious newspaper reporter Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas) in Ace in the Hole (1951). Once a star reporter, Tatum's womanizing, drinking, and tendency to bend the truth have gotten him fire read more
The Alternate Movie Title Game (Volume 6)
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on May 7, 2020
Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a classic movie 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! read more
Kevin Costner Looks for a Way Out
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on May 4, 2020
Kevin Costner as Tom Farrell.
Unless you've seen No Way Out (1987) or The Big Clock (1948), be forewarned that this review will contain plot spoilers. The former film is a updated remake of the latter, with both films being based on the 1946 novel The Big Clock by author and poet Kenneth read more
Peter Sellers and Neil Simon? It's After the Fox!
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Apr 27, 2020
The Fox masquerades as a director.
Imagine Peter Sellers starring in a comedy written by Neil Simon and directed by Vittorio De Sica (Bicycle Thieves)! A talented trio, to be sure--but also a seemingly unlikely one. And yet they teamed up in 1966 to make the Italian comedy After the Fox.
It's almo read more
Debbie Reynolds as The Singing Nun
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Apr 23, 2020
Debbie Reynolds in the title role.
In 1963, a Belgian nun named Sœur Sourire--also known as The Singing Nun--had a worldwide hit record with the song "Dominque." Even though the lyrics were in French, the song went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S. It's no surprise that this amazing read more
Seven Things to Know About Donald O'Connor
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Apr 20, 2020
1. Show business was in his blood. His father, John, worked as an acrobat, clown, trapeze artist, and strong man for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. His mother Effie was a circus bareback horse rider and dancer. When Donald was thirteen-months-old, he and his sister Arlene, who w read more
The Original Bad News Bears
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Apr 16, 2020
Tatum O'Neal and Walter Matthau.
Time has been kind to The Bad News Bears, a 1976 baseball comedy pairing a grumpy Walter Matthau with a bunch of misfit kids. The film sparked a minor controversy when originally released due to several of the youths spewing profanity. In hindsight, the language is read more
The Five Best Walter Matthau Performances
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Apr 13, 2020
1. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) - Four men hijack a New York subway and hold the passengers
for ransom, demanding that $1 million be delivered within an hour. One
passenger will be executed for every minute that the money is late. As the
unlikely hero of this tense suspense f read more
The Alternate Movie Title Game (Volume 5 - Errol Flynn Edition)
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Apr 9, 2020
Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a classic movie 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! Good read more
Kotch: Lemmon Directs and Matthau Acts
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Apr 6, 2020
Walter Matthau as Kotch.
Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau had acted together in two films when they made Kotch in 1971. This collaboration was a very different one, however, as Lemmon was the director and Matthau the star.
For his directorial debut, Lemmon chose to adapt Katharine Topkins' novel abo read more
Up Periscope: Early James Garner
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Apr 2, 2020
The same night that he proposes marriage to a recent acquaintance, Navy Lieutenant Kenneth Braden (James Garner) is whisked away to conduct a secret mission in the Pacific. Once aboard the submarine Barracuda, Captain Paul Stevenson (Edmund O'Brien) explains that Braden will be dropped off in a lago read more
Cinema '62: A Book Review
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Mar 30, 2020
In their new book Cinema '62: The Greatest Year at the Movies, authors Stephen Farber and Michael McClellan set out to dispel the popular notion that 1939 was the best year for movies. Farber, a former president of the Los Angeles Critics Association, and McClellan, a former senior executive for Lan read more