Links 9.17.12

Classic News / Reading Roundup:

New site! Classic Screenings offers “up-to-the minute information about classic screenings to classic film fans the world over”

BLOGS / REVIEWS:

Laura’s Misc Musings has a wealth of stuff, like looking at High Chapparal, Cow Country, Secret Agent of Japan, and her always great blogosphere roundups where you can start work back to the other stuff

DVD Verdict reviews The Hanging Tree

Classic film & TV café reviews Harry O  

the diary of a film history fanatic reviews Warner Archive’s Battle Circus

motion picture gems  looks at the US post Great Film Directors stamps

the Universal Backlot blogathon continues here, go see all the weekend posts

Faded Video Labels – Journey To Italy (1953)

in so many words shows you so Many Faces of Vincent Price

Dear Old Hollywood finds the film locations from Strange Intruder (1956) with Ida Lupino

FUTURE SHOPPING LIST  MATERIAL:

universal delays alfred hitchcock: the masterpiece collection blu-ray set until october 30

cool pic of the day is this Von Trapp a ganza from The Sound of Music, via Old Hollywood, which can also be found on my redesigned tumblr, go follow!

Links 9.07.12

Classic News / Reading Roundup:

Umberto D came out this past week (see my shopping list here) ; want to know other essential Italian films?

Riding the High Country puts the blame on GILDA

Test your western movie knowledge at 50 Westerns from the 50s and possibly win a goodie

“I am the Whistler and I know many things for I walk by night . . .” Each episode involved individuals who wander outside the boundaries of law, propriety, and morality to achieve an unsavory objective. Just when it appears as if they will succeed each is ironically undone by their own greed, avarice, stupidity, and/or the hand of fate guided by the sinister Whistler character who like a Greek chorus narrates his tales, comments on the proceedings, and metes out punishment with vindictive delight…. this is an excerpt from immortal ephemera’s interview with the author of a book on this great B crime/mystery series

Pre KIRK Shatner at silver screenings

Macguffin movies in praise of Marlene Dietrich

Classicmovie chat on George Sanders’ brother Tom Conway

A drifting cowboy has Those Wonderful Movie Horses

Future Shopping List material:

Closer look at the 50^th anniversary, hi def, Blu-ray bonus-laden  Lawrence of Arabia

 

cool pic of the day, GLENN FORD from above linked review of GILDA

related posts at Speakeasy:

glenn ford

 

Your guide to classics on TV in September

a huge roundup of full-month previews and picks! Learn about the month ahead here…

Links 8.31.12

Classic News / Reading Roundup:

from the 1940s through the 1960s, Schuberth was the “tailor to the stars.” his creations were worn by Rita Hayworth, Brigitte Bardot, Princess Soraya, Sophia Loren, and Gina Lollobrigida.

Dorothy B. Hughes wrote Green for Danger, Ride the Pink Horse and In a Lonely Place, and also this great overlooked thriller

BLOGS / REVIEWS:

today is JAMES CAAN day on TCM — watch & read blogathon posts via Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence  or  ScribeHard on Film. and thus endeth Summer Under the Stars month, and the great idea and project hosted by those 2 bloggers. It was fun to follow and fun to contribute

DVD verdict reviews Gunsmoke ssn 6 vol 1

tcm Movie Morlocks – stuff I love (one thing I love is this idea, and will be shamelessly borrowing it)

Films on the Box – The Spiral Staircase 

Talking Classics looks at The Style and Fashion of Perry Mason’s Della Street over at Queens of Vintage

Lasso The Movies recommends a DVD/BD I forgot to mention in this week’s shopping list, the Criterion release of Lonesome 

FUTURE SHOPPING LIST MATERIAL:

wow Olive is doing a great job, here come Rope of Sand (1949), Dark City (1950), Union Station (1950) and Appointment with Danger (1951) in a new film noir set

cool pic of the day from citizen screen’s tumblr, in honor of James Coburn’s birthday

related posts at Speakeasy:

Tyrone Power as Johnny Apollo  /  Kay Francis’ Confession

Links 8.30.12

Classic News / Reading Roundup:

cinematically insane talks about Robert Osborne Taking Time Off from Turner Classic Movies

BLOGS / REVIEWS:

today is WARREN WILLIAM day on TCM, make sure to catch his movies, and then go read up on related posts via Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence  or  ScribeHard on Film

DVD SAVANT  reviews: High Time, Back from Eternity,  My Son John

now for an announcement! look closely and you will find on this site a new banner signifying Speakeasy is pleased to be a member of a brand new group, namely, The Vintage Association of Motion Picture Blogs (VAMP) “an association for bloggers who write primarily about films made before 1980.” Fittingly, the screen’s original vamp, Theda Bara, serves as mascot. Click the pic to go check it out, where you’ll discover many great classic film blogs, and/or join up yourself. It’s a fine group I’ve gotten myself into!

cool pic of the day from the movie the Killing. If you are a true classic movie nerd  and noirnut you can name everyone in this pic; go check your answers at the the Timothy Carey experience

related posts at Speakeasy:

THREE ON A MATCH

Links 8.29.12

Classic News / Reading Roundup:

RIP STEVE FRANKEN – TV’s ”The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”, Bewitched , The Missouri Breaks

10 great Simpsons movie references (mostly classic)

The first known motion picture political ad came during the heated 1912 election fight between Woodrow Wilson and Howard Taft

BLOGS / REVIEWS:

50 Westerns From The 50s wishes George Montgomery a happy birthday

Lasso The Movies – Sam Fuller’s Shock Corridor

It Rains… You Get Wet – The Yakuza

classic movie man links to info on The Birds on the big screen for a one-night showing September 19

beguiling hollywood has a nice post on Edith Head

Thrilling Days of Yesteryear has a nice look at Charlie Chan

dvd verdict reviews HARVEY blu /  THE COOL ONES

TCM Summer Under the Stars blogathon today is Ingrid Bergman  -go follow the fun at either Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence  or  ScribeHard on Film.

cool pic of the day from the silver screen affair

related posts at Speakeasy:

SAM  FULLER’S PARK ROW

King of the Shopping List

Classic entertainment new to DVD/BD this week of AUGUST 28

Links 8.28.12

Classic News / Reading Roundup:

RIP Lloyd Hiroya (Kino) Kinoshita - Godzilla, McHale’s Navy, Hawaii 5-O, Star Trek, Happy Days – boot hill

Vera Farmiga has been cast as Norma Bates in the A&E miniseries “Bates Motel,” a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 horror classic “Psycho.

are these the The Greatest Movie Endings ?

BLOGS / REVIEWS:

the TCM Summer Under the Stars blogathon rolls on towards its end unfortunately, yesterday was  Jeanette MacDonald , today is Ava Gardner -go follow the fun at either Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence  or  ScribeHard on Film. 

TCM’s Classic Movie Blog looks ahead to Thursday’s great star Warren William

Laura always has tons more links and also kindly links to me in her Around the Blogosphere This Week 

DVD Verdict reviews Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (Blu-ray)  and  Airport (Blu-ray) 

back to school with The Silver Screen Affair’s look at Blackboard Jungle

another old movie blog - Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young in Claudia

FUTURE SHOPPING LIST MATERIAL:

Leonard Maltin looks ahead to some great new movie books coming out

Dick Tracy – 75th Anniversary Edition  /   Joan Crawford in the Fifties

cool pic of the day from the TCM blog Warren William post, here with his dog Jill

come back soon for this week’s Classic DVD/BluRay release shopping list

more at Speakeasy:

Glenn Ford   /   Warren William in LADY FOR A DAY

Links 8.26.12

Classic News / Reading Roundup:

RIP Jeffrey Stone, He was a model for Prince Charming for Disney’s 1950 animated classic “Cinderella”, lots of film, TV

Mary Pickford Biopic Now Has a Title: ‘The First’

The Girl dramatizes the experience that a young Tippi Hedren had working with the British director during The Birds and Marnie. watch the trailer

Hitchcock Mania Continues With Brit TV Remake Of ‘The Lady Vanishes’ 

Remake of the Murder Mystery ‘The Last of Sheila’ 

Jean Marais Becoming Cocteau’s Beast via Bill Crider

BLOGS / REVIEWS:

yesterday’s TCM star was Tyrone Power, & I hope you enjoyed my post on his JOHNNY APOLLO. Today it’s Gary Cooper. Go to SUTS blogathon central Sittin on a Backyard Fence, to catch up on many many other great posts on the movies TCM is showing or the other HQ at ScribeHard’s blog

classic movie man reviews new book Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews by Carl Rollyson

Classic Film and TV Cafe - The Five Coolest Cars on Classic TV

Vince Keenan’s Cocktail of the Week: The Block and Fall

FUTURE SHOPPING LIST MATERIAL:

2-disc Billy Wilder set will contain Five Graves to Cairo (1943) and A Foreign Affair (1948)

cool pic of the day from Beguiling Hollywood- 1969 parade in New York City for astronauts; Buzz Aldrin, Mike Collins, Neil Armstrong

Tyrone Power as Johnny Apollo

The plot of Johnny Apollo seems pretty basic—“college man, banker’s son, now a mobster” said the posters—and mostly the audience in 1940 was motivated by curiosity to see what the “new Tyrone Power” would be like, for it was a different, darker and grittier role than they were used to seeing from him, but despite those flimsy-sounding attractions, Johnny Apollo actually has a lot going for it both thematically and visually that make it a fun, fast moving, and sometimes thought provoking movie.