This review of Tammy and the Bachelor was chosen in honor of the late Leslie Nielsen, the film’s leading man. I’d never seen the film before, and for the first 15 minutes or so, I wasn’t quite sure what to make…
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After numerous false starts and (failed) attempts to maintain the hoity-toity façade of arguing “nobody does Bond better” for this current entry, I have decided to take a somewhat different approach this time out. Many readers announcing themselves as genuine…
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Bounding Main: Marjorie Main is best known as the “Ma” in the Ma and Pa Kettle series made for Universal Pictures in the 1940s and 1950s. But Ms. Main was also a reliable character actress who appeared in such favorites…
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Here are 10 trivia facts about Fail Safe from 1964, which originally appeared on our Facebook page. There are lots of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to comment and add more trivia we might…
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) The nine films Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made together at RKO between 1933 and 1939 are some of the most magical and sublime movies ever made. They’re also among the wittiest….
Read more →January 27, 1918: Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle lord debuts on screen in Tarzan of the Apes, starring former Arkansas peace officer Elmo Lincoln. January 23, 1932: Educational Films Corporation signs 3 ½-year-old Shirley Temple to appear in a series of…
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“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” “Here’s looking at you, kid.” “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” “Schwing!” Where would Hollywood and its fans be without these and other timeless quotations? Well, back in…
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No doubt this comes as four-year-old news to many Ray Harryhausen fans, but in the whirl and rush of so many DVD and Blu-ray releases of interest, I’d completely missed out on (or perhaps simply forgotten about) the fact that special…
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It started with a girl named Maria and a boy named Tony who thought something was coming. That’s what I usually tell people when they ask how I became a classic movie fan: it happened on a fateful March evening…
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