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When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Oct 24, 2021

"Akita osur!"Roughly translated, that means: "Look, there's a dinosaur!" I know this because I got a copy of the promotional Caveman Vocabulary pamphlet distributed by theaters during the original run of Hammer's When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth. Released in 1970, this prehistoric opus is sometimes de read more

The Alternate Movie Title Game (Classic Horror Edition)

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Oct 18, 2021

Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a classic horror film (they're all pre-1960 so that should help) 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 t read more

Ranking All 25 James Bond Films from Best to Worst

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Oct 11, 2021

Sean Connery as the movies' first 007.I originally ranked the first 22 James Bond films back in 2008. After recently watching No Time to Die, I thought it'd be interesting to review my list and update it to include all 25 Bond movies. Surprisingly, my rankings stayed much pretty the same. The t read more

The Moon-Spinners: A Disney Film With a Touch of Hitchcock

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Oct 4, 2021

Hayley Mills as Nikky.What do you get when you cross an Alfred Hitchcock suspense film with a Disney movie? The answer is something like The Moon-Spinners (1965), an attempt to transition 17-year-old Hayley Mills to more grown-up roles.The Moon-Spinners opens with musicologist Fran Ferris (Joan read more

Juggernaut Narrowly Avoids Submersion

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Sep 27, 2021

Richard Harris as Fallon. Made during the 1970s disaster movie craze, Juggernaut (1974) replicates the ocean liner setting from the earlier Poseidon Adventure, but adds a twist. What if there was a bomb on board--seven of them, to be precise--and a limited amount of time to defuse them? read more

The Alternate Movie Title Game (Gregory Peck Edition)

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Sep 20, 2021

Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a Gregory Peck 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!&n read more

Best Seller and Alien Nation: Cop Buddy Films with a Twist

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Sep 13, 2021

James Woods and Brian Dennehy.Best Seller (1987).  Cleve is a professional killer who feels he never got the respect he deserved from his ex-employer, a powerful corporate executive. To gain revenge, Cleve (James Woods) approaches Dennis Meechum to write an exposé about the corrupt busines read more

Cold War Thrills in The Bedford Incident

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Sep 6, 2021

Richard Widmark as Captain Finlander.The 1960s was a grand decade for top-notch Cold War thrillers such as The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Seven Days in May (1964), and Fail Safe (1964). Although it falls a little short of those aforementioned films, The Bedford Incident (1965) read more

Seven Things to Know About the Emmy Awards

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Aug 29, 2021

1. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awarded the first Emmys in 1948. However, the first winner for Best Dramatic Show was not bestowed until 1950. That honor went to Pulitzer Prize Playhouse, which featured 60-minute adaptations of Pulitzer Prize-winning works such as You Can't Tak read more

Seven Things to Know About Roger Corman

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Aug 23, 2021

1. Roger Corman produced Martin Scorsese's second feature-length film Boxcar Bertha (1972). In Corman and Jim Jerome's book How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime, Scorsese recalled: "He once said, 'Martin, what you have to get is a very good first reel because read more

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Aug 15, 2021

Tom Courtenay as Colin Smith."Running was always a big thing in our family, specially running away from the police. It's hard to understand. All I know is that you've got to run, running without knowing why, through fields and woods. And the winning post's no end, even though the barmy crowds might read more

Jamie Lee Boards a Terror Train; The Animals Have Their Day

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Aug 9, 2021

Jamie Lee Curtis.Terror Train (1980).  When a cruel college prank goes awry, its victim, Kenny, seemingly has a nervous breakdown. Three years later, the prank's perpetrators have become senior pre-med students, one of whom has hired a steam-driven train for a masquerade party. After almos read more

If a Man Answers: Treating Your Husband Like a Dog

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Aug 2, 2021

Sandra Dee as Chantel. Romantic comedies were box office gold in the early 1960s with hits like Lover Come Back and Come September (both 1961). Therefore, it was inevitable that a Hollywood studio would make one aimed at the young adult crowd. That's what Universal had in mind w read more

The Alternate Movie Title Game (James Stewart Edition)

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jul 26, 2021

Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a film that starred James Stewart 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 t read more

Michael Caine Meets a Billion Dollar Brain

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jul 19, 2021

Michael Caine as Harry Palmer.It was assuredly no easy task to follow in the footsteps of two of the best spy thrillers of the 1960s: The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin. So, one must cut a little slack for Billion Dollar Brain (1967), Michael Caine’s third outing as thief-turned-spy Harry read more

Michael Asimow Discusses His New Book on Truth and Trickery in Courtroom Movies

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jul 12, 2021

What movie fan doesn’t love a good courtroom drama?In Real to Reel: Truth and Trickery in Courtroom Movies, co-authors Michael Asimow and Paul Bergman dissect over 200 movies that “take place in a courtroom, defined broadly enough to include pretrial discovery, plea negotiations, jury de read more

The Delphi Bureau

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jul 5, 2021

Glenn Garth Gregory is a reluctant spy. Laurence Luckinbill. He believes he was hired to do research for a government agency called the Delphi Bureau. Of course, the bureau has no street address and possibly no other employees. Glenn (Laurence Luckinbill) receives his assignments from Washington read more

The Alternate TV Series Title Game (Volume 4)

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jun 28, 2021

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 defe read more

James Stewart Sings--and Plays the Accordion--in Night Passage

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jun 21, 2021

Night Passage (1957) should have been the sixth Western starring James Stewart and directed by Anthony Mann. The duo's earlier collaborations included some of the finest Westerns ever made (e.g., Winchester '73, Bend of the River). However, according to Jeanine Basinger's biography Anthony Mann read more

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Jun 14, 2021

The 1970s was a fantastic decade for gritty, urban crime dramas. Audiences were treated to fine films like The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Seven-Ups, The French Connection, Dirty Harry, and, of course, The Godfather. A lesser-known movie that could be included in that group is Peter Yat read more
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