TCM marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of Grace Kelly by honoring her as November's Star of the Month. TCM will show all of Kelly's films, from FOURTEEN HOURS (1951) through HIGH SOCIETY (1956). TCM is also airing a 1952 TV production starring Kelly and the interesting documentary A WEDDING IN MONACO. On Thursday, November 5th, TCM shows FOURTEEN HOURS (1951), HIGH NOON (1952), and MOGAMBO (1953)....
THE MAN IN GREY is a British Regency Era melodrama from Gainsborough Pictures, starring a powerhouse quartet of actors: James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, and Phyllis Calvert. Calvert and Lockwood, at times seeming to channel Olivia de Havilland and Vivien Leigh's characters from GONE WITH THE WIND, meet as schoolgirls. Clarissa (Calvert) is a sweet girl ultimately pushed into a loveless...
Allan Quatermain was introduced to the world by Henry Rider Haggard in the 1885 bestseller, King Solomon’s Mines . Little did the lawyer-turned-author realise that he had created Britain’s first popular action hero, and that Quatermain would not only gain worldwide recognition, but also endure into the twenty-first century. In fact, Haggard killed his hero off in the sequel, Allan Quatermain...
By Abigail Frazier For years now, the video store was the way to get movies. Now, with internet usage exploding, movie downloads are becoming very popular. Let's look at what you might find to watch using a movie download site. Night of the Blood Monster: Lee is fine as Magistrate Jeffrey's who is a vicious judge presiding over "Bloody Assizes" after the Monmouth Revolt opposing Baron James...
Night Out. It wasn’t just any old film - this was the only existing 35 mm archive print of the 1934 classic ‘Lorna Doone’ - R D Blackmore’s classic novel - which was first shown in 1935 at Minehead’s own Regal Cinema. The Cinema itself had had a grand opening in 1934 and it was thrilling to be treated to a short film recording the opening. What a splendid place it looked...
I have dropped one baby off at my mum's, and two (somewhat hairier) babies off at my brothers, and been through loads of roadworks and many rubbish drivers, and am now ensconced in the hotel. Room is lovely, bath is deep, I feel human again now I have had a bath, and the one fly in the ointment is that I can only get wifi in the hotel lobby, because they only have it at reception due to there not being...
When we bought our all-region DVD player last summer, one of the first Region 2 sets that caught my eye was a 12-Disc set of '40s British films starring one of my favorite actors , Stewart Granger. The set contains a significant number of the films which made Granger popular in England before he moved to America, where he signed on with MGM and became an international star in KING SOLOMON'S MINES (1950)....
TV Shows on DVD reports there's a rumor afoot that one of my favorite TV Westerns, the long-running series THE VIRGINIAN , may be coming to DVD. It's not a done deal but it sounds hopeful there will be a release within the year. I enjoyed the show in all its incarnations, whether the ranch was owned by Lee J. Cobb, Charles Bickford, John McIntire, or Stewart Granger. Roberta Shore and Sara Lane were...
Go away. When are you going to be gone? Do I have long to wait? I mean, it's not as though I have all the time in the world, do I? Or, do I? Well, anyway, time or no, I don't really have the desire to keep putting up with visitors, after all. So, when will you get gone? After I give you what you came for. Hmmph. What you came for was...? This ought to be tough for me to figure out. Hmmmm. Let's see...
(US) A few years ago while in Germany I was in the queue at the Naafi when the pretty young female presenter of British forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) pushes in to the front of the counter in which to get served next. Well the gaggle of wives weren’t having none of that and gave her what for. Her reply ( Stupid response at that ) was that as an important television personality (Err love it...
Clue: Head North into the wild from the mines of Solomon. At the halfway mark, you’ll find Thomas giving pointers. Solution: By Templeton: The Wild North (starred Stuart Granger 1952) ,King Solomon’s Mines (starred Stewart Granger 1950) half way point = (1951) – Stuart Granger starred in Soldiers Three Tom Reed was one of the writers of [...]
It's time for my usual random natterings on the films I caught from TCM in the past month. Three of them-- The Seventh Sin , The Light Touch , and The Whole Truth --are 1950s products featuring an aging but still charming George Sanders. The others are Union Pacific , with Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, and Stanley Ridges; The Baron of Arizona , with Vincent Price; Attorney for the Defense , with Edmund...
I just caught the last few minutes of the 1952 A Prisoner of Zenda starring Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr. It’s a shot-for-shot remake in Technicolor of the 1937 black and white classic with Ronald Coleman and Madeleine Carroll. I’m not sure what you can say about it other than Stewart Granger is [...]
For the last couple years our Time Warner Cable service has provided DVR service from Scientific Atlanta Passport which is intuitive and easy to use. I absolutely loved it. Overnight Time Warner "upgraded" us to their new Navigator DVR system. Without entirely recapitulating the two-page memo I wrote today listing the new service's deficiencies, I'll share I found that the Navigator is slower,...
Janowski tries to make most of absenceBrookfield Elm Grove NowEast coach Tim Granger was moved with the way Janowski responded to adversity. "He showed me a side that impressed me," Granger said. ...and more » http://vedasri.com/?q=stewart+granger
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