On April 15th, 1912, in the early morning hours, the luxury liner RMS Titanic sank in the waters of the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. Over 1,500 passengers perished in one of the worst ocean disasters in history. Today…
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Before Hammer Films began its regular output of horror movies, they made quite a number of dramas and also experimented in other genres…including swashbucklers. One year before Richard Greene became the idol of youth in television’s The Adventures of Robin…
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Some of the best sci-fi films have followed a hero (or heroes) on a journey into the unknown in pursuit of knowledge. Guest writer Constance Metzinger looks at four classic movies whose characters put their lives on the line in strange new worlds.
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Every Saturday night at 7pm, a myriad of loyal fans gather around in front of their television screens to watch an American institution unfold. A fanfare of trumpets heralds the approaching wave of bubbles that float down upon the screen, each one bearing…
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In today’s Guest Post, Constance Metzinger explores some of the funniest horse-racing comedies ever made! Three Men on a Horse (1936) – Frank McHugh stars as a meek salesman who has an uncanny ability to pick horses. For that skill…
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American actress Lynda Carter is best known for playing the beautiful Diana Prince, an Amazonian princess, on the television series Wonder Woman (1975-1979). For four years she entertained television audiences with her superhuman powers, deflecting bullets with her golden bracelet…
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Before Basil Rathbone donned the deerstalker to play Sherlock Holmes in 14 films, he portrayed the dapper sleuth Philo Vance in The Bishop Murder Case (1930), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s first film to feature S.S. Van Dine’s famous detective hero. Paramount Pictures brought…
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Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson were great pals off-screen and they had the good fortune to play together on-screen in 11 films released throughout the 1940s. Most of these were simple comedies in the vein of the popular Bob Hope…
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My sister and I were first introduced to classic movies through the films of the 1960s since this was the decade that our father loved the most growing up in. He started us off on children’s classics from this time…
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As some of you already know, underrated classics are what I love to write about most. There are hundreds of little-known treasures that deserve to be shared, one of which is The Black Orchid. The Black Orchid stars Sophia Loren…
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