Classic Film and TV Café

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. Please answer no more than three questions per day so othe...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2024/05/alt-movie-title-game-may-2024.html

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 channel Screenpix. It stars Charles Boyer as Etienne P...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2023/08/love-is-ball-big-hand-film-review.html

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 action films. There have been some pleasant surprises...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2018/11/monkeys-go-home-film-review.html

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. Please answer no more than three questions per day so othe...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2024/03/the-alternate-movie-title-game-april.html

Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda. KLUTE (1971). When a businessman suddenly disappears and obscene letters are found among his work papers, the man's wife hires private detective John Klute...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2024/01/klute-tender-mercies-film-review.html

James Shigeta as Detective Joe Kojaku. The Crimson Kimono (1959). Writer-director Samuel Fuller's once-controversial cult film revolves around two police detectives, one Caucasian and one Jap...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2024/03/league-gentlemen-crimson-kimono-film-review.html

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 1950s comedy. You know the kind. It's entertaining ...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2023/03/toy-tiger-film-review.html

1. Linda Cristal was born on February 23, 1931, in Rosario, Argentina, as Marta Victoria Moya Burges. In addition to her native language of Spanish, she became fluent in Italian, French, and Eng...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2024/02/linda-cristal-bio.html

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. Please answer no more than three questions per day so othe...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2024/01/the-alternate-movie-title-january-2024.html

Melanie Griffith and Harrison Ford. Working Girl (1988). Mike Nichol's R-rated update of a familiar comedy formula, Working Girl earned six Oscar nominations, made a star (albeit briefly) o...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2024/01/working-girl-and-verdict.html

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 countdown of our ten most viewed posts. Naturally, th...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2023/12/2023-top-ten-posts.html

THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN (1973). Walter Matthau starred in two of the finest crime dramas of the 1970s: Charley Varrick  (1973) and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three  (1974). Sandwiched betwe...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2023/08/laughing-policeman-warning-shot-film-review.html

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 FilmStruck, TCM's streaming service, which folded in ...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2023/12/tubi-review.html

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 playwright Terence Rattigan’s The V.I.P.s. This ...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2023/11/vips-fog-film-review.html

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 these questions on your own without resorting to Goog...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2023/11/the-movie-quote-game-john-ford-edition.html

Nick Mancuso as the hero. The late 1970s saw the release of two horror films based on popular novels that featured Native American protagonists: The Manitou (1978) and Nightwing (1979). The...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2023/06/nightwing-manitou-film-review.html

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 first. That distinction belongs to the mostly forgot...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2023/10/film-review-study-terror-detective-1968.html

Nigel Davenport as John Custance. Actor Cornel Wilde directed eight films, beginning with 1955's Storm Fear. His best picture is The Naked Prey (1965), in which he also stars as a safari guid...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2023/07/no-blade-grass-film-review.html

Guy Williams as Zorro. 1. Walt Disney launched his Zorro TV series on ABC in October 1957. Despite airing on Thursday nights against the Top 10 show You Bet Your Life, Zorro was an immediat...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2023/08/zorro-tv-series.html

Clu Gulager and Lee Marvin. THE KILLERS (1964). Don Siegel's adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1946 short story "The Killers" is sadly overshadowed by the 1946 film version that made stars ...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2023/08/killers-1964-tenebrae-film-review.html

This month, we're doing something a little different for the Alternate Movie Title Game. The "titles" below have been compiled from some of our previous games--so this is sort of a greatest hits...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2023/08/alternate-title-game-greatest.html

James Mason as Charles Dobbs. The Deadly Affair (1967). James Mason stars as Charles Dobbs--a renamed George Smiley--in Sidney Lumet's moderately successful adaptation of John Le Carre's n...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2023/08/harper-deadly-affair-film-review.html

Chaney Jr. and the black bag. The most incongruent entry in Universal's six-film Inner Sanctum series is also one of the best. Whereas its brethren are psychological suspense tales, Strange ...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2019/06/strange-confession-film-review.html

Here are the rules: We will provide an "alternate title" for a movie musical and ask you to name the actual film. Most of these are pretty easy. Please answer no more than three questions per da...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2023/07/alternate-title-game-musicals.html

John Cassavetes glares. The opening of notes of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans's title tune--a torch song whispered intimately by Julie London--lets you know that Saddle the Wind (1958) won't...

https://www.classicfilmtvcafe.com/2023/06/rod-serling-saddles-wind.html