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The Five Best Vincent Price Performances

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Mar 16, 2017

A little devil provides bad advice! 1. Champagne for Caesar (1950). It's a shame that Vincent Price didn't make more straight comedies because he's hilarious as a business tycoon in this underrated gem. He plays Burnbridge "Dirty" Waters, owner of the Milady Soap company ("the soap that sancti read more

The Five Best Vincent Price Performances

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Mar 16, 2017

A little devil provides bad advice! 1. Champagne for Caesar (1950). It's a shame that Vincent Price didn't make more straight comedies because he's hilarious as a business tycoon in this underrated gem. He plays Burnbridge "Dirty" Waters, owner of the Milady Soap company ("the soap that sancti read more

Celebrate National Classic Movie Day with the Five Stars Blogathon!

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Mar 11, 2017

For the third consecutive year, the Classic Film & TV Cafe will celebrate National Classic Movie Day on May 16th by hosting a blogathon. This year, we will shine the spotlight on those actors and actresses that made the Golden Days of Hollywood glitter brightly. The Five Stars Blogathon in read more

The Birds--A Matter of Misdirection

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Mar 9, 2017

Alfred Hitchcock’s most divisive thriller finds the Master of Suspense in magician mode. On the surface, The Birds is a traditionally-structured horror film, in which the bird attacks build progressively to three of Hitchcock’s most intense sequences. However, this is just Hitchcock perf read more

The Birds--A Matter of Misdirection

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Mar 9, 2017

Alfred Hitchcock’s most divisive thriller finds the Master of Suspense in magician mode. On the surface, The Birds is a traditionally-structured horror film, in which the bird attacks build progressively to three of Hitchcock’s most intense sequences. However, this is just Hitchcock perf read more

The Liquidator: "Life is not all sex and sun lamps"

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Mar 8, 2017

One of the first spy spoofs in the wake of Goldfinger (1964), The Liquidator stars Rod Taylor as Boysie Oakes, a reluctant secret agent--or assassin, to be more precise. Boysie enjoys the swinging bachelor pad, the expensive sports car, and the ladies that come with the job. He just doesn' read more

The Liquidator: "Life is not all sex and sun lamps"

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Mar 8, 2017

One of the first spy spoofs in the wake of Goldfinger (1964), The Liquidator stars Rod Taylor as Boysie Oakes, a reluctant secret agent--or assassin, to be more precise. Boysie enjoys the swinging bachelor pad, the expensive sports car, and the ladies that come with the job. He just doesn' read more

Dark of the Sun: Mercenaries with Mixed Motives

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Mar 6, 2017

Rod Taylor as a mercenary. This 1968 Rod Taylor action picture can count Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino among its admirers. That's pretty good for what Variety described at the time as "a raw adventure yarn with some glib philosophizing." Taylor plays Curry, a mercenary who has accepte read more

Dark of the Sun: Mercenaries with Mixed Motives

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Mar 6, 2017

Rod Taylor as a mercenary. This 1968 Rod Taylor action picture can count Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino among its admirers. That's pretty good for what Variety described at the time as "a raw adventure yarn with some glib philosophizing." Taylor plays Curry, a mercenary who has accepte read more

Dirk Bogarde Cultivates the Seeds of Friendship in "The Spanish Gardener"

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Mar 2, 2017

Dirk Bogarde...as Jose? British filmmakers practically cornered the market on quiet, personal dramas in the 1950s. A prime example is The Spanish Gardener (1956), an unassuming film that subtly hooks its audience with a tale about a shattered man, his lonely son, and a part-time gardener that chang read more

Dirk Bogarde Cultivates the Seeds of Friendship in "The Spanish Gardener"

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Mar 2, 2017

Dirk Bogarde...as Jose? British filmmakers practically cornered the market on quiet, personal dramas in the 1950s. A prime example is The Spanish Gardener (1956), an unassuming film that subtly hooks its audience with a tale about a shattered man, his lonely son, and a part-time gardener that chang read more

Logan's Run: What Lies Beyond the Dome

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Feb 27, 2017

In the distant future, civilization's survivors live inside a huge dome controlled by a computer. When the city's inhabitants reach the age of 30, they are "renewed" by participating in a ritual called the Carousel. Dressed in white robes and masks, they are literally lifted off the ground and disap read more

Logan's Run: What Lies Beyond the Dome

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Feb 27, 2017

In the distant future, civilization's survivors live inside a huge dome controlled by a computer. When the city's inhabitants reach the age of 30, they are "renewed" by participating in a ritual called the Carousel. Dressed in white robes and masks, they are literally lifted off the ground and disap read more

Son of Dracula: "Don't say that word. We don't like it."

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Feb 23, 2017

Yes, Alucard spelled backward is.... Universal's best 1940s fright film was a rare collaboration between brothers Robert and Curt Siodmak. Robert, who directed, injects his noir sensibilities into the horror genre. He makes Son of Dracula a visually and thematically dark picture with a downbeat end read more

Son of Dracula: "Don't say that word. We don't like it."

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Feb 23, 2017

Yes, Alucard spelled backward is.... Universal's best 1940s fright film was a rare collaboration between brothers Robert and Curt Siodmak. Robert, who directed, injects his noir sensibilities into the horror genre. He makes Son of Dracula a visually and thematically dark picture with a downbeat end read more

Cloris Leachman Channels Garfield; Peter Graves Arm Wrestles Clint Walker

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Feb 19, 2017

This post of part of the Cafe's Movie of the Week Blogathon. Please check out the other awesome reviews by visiting the blogathon schedule. The hotel at the Portals of Eden. Haunts of the Very Rich (1972). The opening scene introduces seven people who are en route to a paradise resort known as t read more

Cloris Leachman Channels Garfield; Peter Graves Arm Wrestles Clint Walker

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Feb 19, 2017

This post of part of the Cafe's Movie of the Week Blogathon. Please check out the other awesome reviews by visiting the blogathon schedule. The hotel at the Portals of Eden. Haunts of the Very Rich (1972). The opening scene introduces seven people who are en route to a paradise resort known as t read more

The Movie of the Week Blogathon is Here!

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Feb 19, 2017

The Classic Film & TV Cafe is proud to host the first annual Movie of the Week Blogathon, celebrating made-for-TV movies broadcast between the mid-1960s and 1989. This era is widely considered to be the "Golden Age" of telefilms and included a number of now-classic movies such as Duel read more

Classic TV Themes Quiz #2 (American edition!)

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Feb 16, 2017

We received such positive feedback about last month's Classic British TV Themes Quiz that we're back with a second edition. This time, though, the themes are from American television shows of the 1960s and 1970s. That should make this quiz a little easier! As before, we'll play a snippet of an open read more

Classic TV Themes Quiz #2 (American edition!)

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Feb 16, 2017

We received such positive feedback about last month's Classic British TV Themes Quiz that we're back with a second edition. This time, though, the themes are from American television shows of the 1960s and 1970s. That should make this quiz a little easier! As before, we'll play a snippet of an open read more
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