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Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

31.03.2025

Classic Film and TV Café: Charles Bronson Stages a Breakout

Charles Bronson as Colton. When her husband is framed for murder (by his grandfather, no less!) and tossed into a Mexican prison, Ann Wagner...

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

10.03.2025

Classic Film and TV Café: The Crime Doctor Solves the Millerson Case

One of the more offbeat "B" detective series of the 1940s was the Crime Doctor. Based on a Max Marcin's successful radio series, the premise...

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

25.02.2025

Classic Film and TV Café: The "How to Destroy a Monster According to the Movies" Quiz

In this new quiz, we describe how a "monster" was killed in a specific movie and ask you to identify the film. As with all of quizzes, pleas...

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

17.02.2025

Classic Film and TV Café: Randolph Scott Rides Alone

Randolph Scott as Buchanan. The Ranown Cycle consists of six Westerns made between 1956 and 1960 that starred Randolph Scott and were di...

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

27.01.2025

Classic Film and TV Café: Revisiting The Red Shoes

Moira Shearer as Vicky Page. Black Narcissus is my favorite Michael Powell-Emeric Pressberger film--and I also think it's their masterpiece....

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

13.01.2025

Classic Film and TV Café: Corbucci's The Great Silence

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Silence. The most acclaimed Spaghetti Western filmmaker not named Sergio Leone. That's an apt description for Ser...

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

30.12.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: The Eiger Sanction

The Eiger Sanction (1975). This action thriller, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, follows a former assassin who is coerced into one...

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

16.12.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: That's Dancing in Kiss Me Kate!

Kiss Me Kate (1953) boasts a Cole Porter score full of familiar tunes and was made by MGM during the era when the studio was known for its l...

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

02.12.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: The Conversation and Repeat Performance

Gene Hackman. The Conversation (1974). Francis Ford Coppola directed this overlong, but engrossing look into the life of an intensely priv...

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

18.11.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: All That Heavens Allows and Come September

Rock and Jane in front of the picture window. All That Heaven Allows (1955). My second favorite Douglas Sirk film (after Imitation of Life ...

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

04.11.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: We Name the TV Characters...You Name the Series!

We thought we'd try out a new game this month! For each numbered item below, we have listed three characters from the same TV series. Your t...

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

21.10.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: Ghost Story--The Film Adaptation Dilemma

Fred Astaire as a Chowder Society member. When I watch a film adaptation, I try to evaluate it on its own merits--as opposed to comparing th...

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

07.10.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: Roadgames: A Little Bit of Rear Window, a Dash of Duel

Quid (Stacy Keach) with his harmonica. Directed by Hitchcock admirer Richard Franklin, Roadgames (1981) follows truck driver Patrick Quid (...

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

23.09.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: We Name the Cast...You Name the Movie!

This is our second edition of this new game. Please let us if you enjoy playing it. For each movie below, we have listed three performers th...

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

09.09.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: Dick Powell Transforms His Career with Murder, My Sweet

Dick Powell as Marlowe. My favorite fictional detectives are the erudite, snobbish Philo Vance and the sarcastic, sly Philip Marlowe. Both h...

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

26.08.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: Mandy and A Boy Ten Feet Tall

Mandy Miller as Mandy . Mandy (aka Crash of Silence ) (1952). The lives of Christine and Harry Garland are thrown into turmoil when they dis...

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

12.08.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: Picnic and Written on the Wind

Kim Novak and William Holden. Picnic (1955). Joshua Logan, who directed the stage version William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, also...

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

29.07.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: We Name the Cast...You Name the Movie!

This month, we're hosting a different game at the Café! For each movie below, we have listed three performers that appeared in it (not neces...

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

15.07.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: The All-American and Yankee Pasha

Publicity still with Mamie Van Doren & Tony Curtis. All American (1953). Tony Curtis headlines as Nick Bonelli, a star quarterback who tran...

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

01.07.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: The Case for Anatomy of a Murder

Stewart as Biegler pleads his case. Anatomy of a Murder is the best courtroom drama ever made. Otto Preminger’s enthralling motion picture ...

Classic Film and TV CafÃ©

17.06.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: The Alternate Movie Title Game (James Stewart Edition)

Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a James Stewart film and ask you to name the actual film. Most of these are pre...

03.06.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: The High and the Mighty and Skyjacked

John Wayne as "Whistling" Dan Roman. The High and the Mighty (1954). When a passenger airliner en route from Honolulu to Los Angeles experi...

12.05.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: The Alternate Movie Title Game (Sci Fi Edition)

Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a film and ask you to name the actual film. Most of these are pretty easy. Plea...

29.04.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: Love Is a Ball and A Big Hand for the Little Lady

Love Is a Ball (1963). I thought I had seen every 1960s romantic comedy until the blandly-titled Love Is a Ball popped up on the cable c...

15.04.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: Dean Jones, Walt Disney, and a Quartet of Monkeys (or rather, Chimps)

Yvette Mimieux with one of the chimps. We've been on a Disney movie run at the Cafe, revisiting some of the studio’s lesser-known live a...

01.04.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: The Alternate Movie Title Game (April 2024)

Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a film and ask you to name the actual film. Most of these are pretty easy. Plea...

18.03.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: Klute and Tender Mercies

Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda. Klute (1971). When a businessman suddenly disappears and obscene letters are found among his work papers,...

04.03.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: The Crimson Kimono and The League of Gentlemen

James Shigeta as Detective Joe Kojaku. The Crimson Kimono (1959). Writer-director Samuel Fuller's once-controversial cult film revolves arou...

19.02.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: Jeff Chandler Plays a Make-Believe Parent in The Toy Tiger

Jeff Chandler as Rick. Had a bad day at work? Relatives causing undue stress? If so, then perhaps you need to sit down and watch a mindless ...

05.02.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: Seven Things to Know About Linda Cristal

1. Linda Cristal was born on February 23, 1931, in Rosario, Argentina, as Marta Victoria Moya Burges. In addition to her native language of ...

22.01.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: The Alternate Movie Title (January 2024)

Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a film and ask you to name the actual film. Most of these are pretty easy. Plea...

15.01.2024

Classic Film and TV Café: Working Girl and The Verdict

Melanie Griffith and Harrison Ford. Working Girl (1988). Mike Nichol's R-rated update of a familiar comedy formula, Working Girl earned si...

31.12.2023

Classic Film and TV Café: Top Ten Posts of 2023

A canine friend visits the Classic Film & TV Cafe. As the year draws to a close, the Classic Film & TV Café traditionally ends it with a cou...

18.12.2023

Classic Film and TV Café: The Laughing Policeman and Warning Shot

The Laughing Policeman (1973) . Walter Matthau starred in two of the finest crime dramas of the 1970s: Charley Varrick (1973) and The Taki...

11.12.2023

Classic Film and TV Café: Tubi or Not Tubi?

It's never been a better time to watch classic movies--even if you don't have TCM. I know classic film buffs who still bemoan the demise of ...

27.11.2023

Classic Film and TV Café: The V.I.P.s and The Fog

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The V.I.P.s (1963). A fogged-in London airport provides the setting—and serves as the catalyst—in play...

13.11.2023

Classic Film and TV Café: The Movie Quote Game (John Ford Edition)

This month, we're focusing on quotes from John Ford films. We will list a quote from one of his movies and ask you to name it. Try to answer...

30.10.2023

Classic Film and TV Café: Of Vampire Bats and Manitous!

Nick Mancuso as the hero. The late 1970s saw the release of two horror films based on popular novels that featured Native American protagoni...

16.10.2023

Classic Film and TV Café: A Study in Terror and The Detective

A Study in Terror (1965). Murder By Decree (1979) may be the best known pairing of Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper--but it wasn't the...

13.10.2023

Classic Film and TV Café: Cornel Wilde's No Blade of Grass

Nigel Davenport as John Custance. Actor Cornel Wilde directed eight films, beginning with 1955's Storm Fear . His best picture is The Naked ...

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Classic Film and TV CafÃ© - Movies & Series

Classic Film and TV Café: Charles Bronson Stages a Breakout

Classic Film and TV Café: The Crime Doctor Solves the Millerson Case

Classic Film and TV Café: The "How to Destroy a Monster According to the Movies" Quiz

Classic Film and TV Café: Randolph Scott Rides Alone

Classic Film and TV Café: Revisiting The Red Shoes

Classic Film and TV Café: Corbucci's The Great Silence

Classic Film and TV Café: The Eiger Sanction

Classic Film and TV Café: That's Dancing in Kiss Me Kate!

Classic Film and TV Café: The Conversation and Repeat Performance

Classic Film and TV Café: All That Heavens Allows and Come September

Classic Film and TV Café: We Name the TV Characters...You Name the Series!

Classic Film and TV Café: Ghost Story--The Film Adaptation Dilemma

Classic Film and TV Café: Roadgames: A Little Bit of Rear Window, a Dash of Duel

Classic Film and TV Café: We Name the Cast...You Name the Movie!

Classic Film and TV Café: Dick Powell Transforms His Career with Murder, My Sweet

Classic Film and TV Café: Mandy and A Boy Ten Feet Tall

Classic Film and TV Café: Picnic and Written on the Wind

Classic Film and TV Café: We Name the Cast...You Name the Movie!

Classic Film and TV Café: The All-American and Yankee Pasha

Classic Film and TV Café: The Case for Anatomy of a Murder

Classic Film and TV Café: The Alternate Movie Title Game (James Stewart Edition)

Classic Film and TV Café: The High and the Mighty and Skyjacked

Classic Film and TV Café: The Alternate Movie Title Game (Sci Fi Edition)

Classic Film and TV Café: Love Is a Ball and A Big Hand for the Little Lady

Classic Film and TV Café: Dean Jones, Walt Disney, and a Quartet of Monkeys (or rather, Chimps)

Classic Film and TV Café: The Alternate Movie Title Game (April 2024)

Classic Film and TV Café: Klute and Tender Mercies

Classic Film and TV Café: The Crimson Kimono and The League of Gentlemen

Classic Film and TV Café: Jeff Chandler Plays a Make-Believe Parent in The Toy Tiger

Classic Film and TV Café: Seven Things to Know About Linda Cristal

Classic Film and TV Café: The Alternate Movie Title (January 2024)

Classic Film and TV Café: Working Girl and The Verdict

Classic Film and TV Café: Top Ten Posts of 2023

Classic Film and TV Café: The Laughing Policeman and Warning Shot

Classic Film and TV Café: Tubi or Not Tubi?

Classic Film and TV Café: The V.I.P.s and The Fog

Classic Film and TV Café: The Movie Quote Game (John Ford Edition)

Classic Film and TV Café: Of Vampire Bats and Manitous!

Classic Film and TV Café: A Study in Terror and The Detective

Classic Film and TV Café: Cornel Wilde's No Blade of Grass

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