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• Norma Shearer: Proudly and Inescapably Neurotic

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 441
  Two radically different Norma Shearer characters: as loving (ditched) wife and mother in The Women, with Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell (top); as a woman with a penchant for pointed feathers in Lady of the Night (bottom). She also enjoyed to be slapped around by Clark Gable in A Free Soul (below right)Mike ...
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• ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT – Lew Ayres – d: Lewis Milestone

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 441
  All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)Direction: Lewis MilestoneScreenplay: Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews; from Erich Maria Remarque’s novelCast: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, Russell Gleason, John Wray, William Bakewell, Raymond Griffith, Beryl Mercer, Ben Alexander, Slim Summerville, Yola D’Avril Lew ...
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• Set your DVR now

  
  Lake Neuron — Authority: 134
  Turner Classic Movies will air “Christmas In Connecticut,” about which I blog at least once every holiday season, at 11 a.m. Central time on Sunday, Dec. 6. Set those DVRs now, before you forget it. Most classic movie fans know about this 1945 movie, but I’m always surprised at the people who don’t know ...
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• Easy Bake Lovin’ – Thanksgiving

  
  Retrovision Internet TV — Authority: 124
  Happy Thanksgiving Bachelors! As “Easy Bake Lovin” sits and stuffs her turkey this year, She reflects on the things she’s most thankful for…like YOU! And pre-natal vitamins... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• 11 Christmas Cartoons – Twas the Night Before Christmas

  
  Retrovision Internet TV — Authority: 124
  ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the houseNot a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,In hopes that St. Nicholas soon... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Alfred Hitchcock’s British Thrillers at LACMA

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 441
  Dame May Whitty, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave in The Lady Vanishes (top); Robert Donat in The 39 Steps (bottom)On Nov. 27-28, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will present the last four films in its "Hitchcock: The British Thrillers" series. They are: The 39 Steps (1935), starring Robert Donat and Madeleine ...
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• BRIEF ENCOUNTER – Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard – d: David Lean

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 441
  Brief Encounter (1945)Direction: David LeanScreenplay: David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan; from Noel Coward’s play Still LifeCast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter Synopsis:A married doctor (Trevor Howard) and ...
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• More Sex and Violence Please, We’re British – The Story of Hammer Horror

  
  Obsessed With Film — Authority: 538
  A re-posting of an OWF favourite from our archives. Its a great read and I thought on this miserable November morning, it might be a nice one to re-visit...More Sex and Violence Please, Were British - The Story of Hammer HorrorIt was Scars of Dracula I think, or maybe Dracula Has Risen from the Grave. I was 14 and not ...
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• CAVALCADE – Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 441
  Cavalcade (1933)Direction: Frank LloydScreenplay: Reginald Berkeley, Sonya Levien; from Noel Coward’s playCast: Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Herbert Mundin, Una O’Connor, Beryl Mercer, Irene Browne, Merle Tottenham, Frank Lawton, Ursula Jeans, Margaret Lindsay Synopsis:Upstairs (Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard) and ...
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• Movie Review: The Godfather Part 2 (1974) -- Classic Movies

  
  Speak Out Loud with Ellen Kimball — Authority: 100
  The Godfather Part II (1974) Original broadcast dates of this review: January 6-13, 1975 Classic movies are now available on DVD at NetFlix and other distributors. PLEASE NOTE: This review may contain spoilers. Frank Coppola would have been a great painter. Since he decided to be a film director, his ...
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• A PASSAGE TO INDIA – Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft – d: David Lean

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 441
  A Passage to India (1984)Direction: David LeanScreenplay: David Lean; from E. M. Forster’s novelCast: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, James Fox, Richard Wilson, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth Judy Davis in A Passage to India Synopsis: In the early 20th century, a British ...
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• Phil Hall’s 25 Most Important Corporate-Sponsored Films

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 441
  At Film Threat: Phil Hall has posted an excerpt from his book The History of Independent Cinema, listing the 25 most important corporate-sponsored films of all time.Among those listed are:The Yanks Are Coming (1918). "The Dayton-Wright Airplane Co. produced this feature-length film about its de Haviland DH-4 ...
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• Top 10 Thanksgiving Movies

  
  Behind The Scenes TV - The Making of New Movies, TV Shows and DVDs — Authority: 432
  On Thanksgiving Day, after all the exhausting preparations and eating a hearty meal at the table most people like to relax on a comfortable chair and watch a good movie. Below are 10 of my favorite movies that feature Thanksgiving scenes. I like comedies the most, so of course they’ll be at the top of my list. ...
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• Grace Kelly: TO CATCH A THIEF, HIGH SOCIETY, THE SWAN

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 441
  Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra in High SocietyTurner Classic Movies‘ Grace Kelly series comes to a close with a screening of the actress’ last three films: Alfred Hitchcock’s comedy-adventure To Catch a Thief (1955), co-starring Cary Grant; Charles Walters‘ musical High Society (1956), a remake of The Philadelphia ...
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• Time Spent Giggling with my Girl

  
  Traveling Through Time and Space — Authority: 457
  Ive been working my way through some classic films with the kids, expanding my cultural literacy as well as theirs. Youll recall that we recently watched Metropolis and were struck by the image of workers dehumanized by industrialists putting them in mindless, mechanical jobs. That film was a lot more grim than ...
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• Sonar Kella (1974) - DVD rip - 700 MB [us,rs] ** Team FD **

  
  FuN 'n' DoWnLoAdS — Authority: 139
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• The Actor’s Director as Actor

  
  Behind The Scenes TV - The Making of New Movies, TV Shows and DVDs — Authority: 432
  Sydney Pollack (1934-2008) was an affable authority figure in Hollywood, a former acting teacher who directed 21 features and many more television episodes, and produced 47 movies during his half-century career. But his best work may well have been a supporting performance in another director’s film, his 20 minutes ...
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• Michael Murphy at MANHATTAN Screening

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 441
  Actor Michael Murphy attended a special screening of the 1979 classic Manhattan presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the "Monday Nights with Oscar" series on Monday, November 16, at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International in New York City.Directed by Woody Allen, ...
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• Boris Karloff Blogathon, Day 1: “I end as I began!”

  
  Thrilling Days of Yesteryear — Authority: 476
  Good day to Karloff fans one and all! For those of you who have never visited Thrilling Days of Yesteryear (and confidentially, I don’t blame you for staying away—my mother was always singling out which neighborhood kids I could associate with, too) let me take a quick moment to introduce myself. My name ...
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• Ernest Borgnine at FROM HERE TO ETERNITY Screening

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 441
  Ernest Borgnine and Lou Diamond Phillips pose next to a poster of Fred Zinnemann’s From Here to Eternity, prior to a screening of the 1953 classic presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday, November 18, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Phillips hosted the ...
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