Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on August 7, 2023

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 novel Call for the Dead. The plot is more mystery than espionage as Dobbs tries to discover whether a diplomat (re   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on April 7, 2019

I hugely enjoyed Jane Harper’s first novel, The Dry, then enjoyed her second, Force of Nature, even more than that. I think her third, The Lost Man, somehow manages to be the best of the three. I’m awestruck by the talents of this UK/Australian author. The setting is the Australian...   read more

Critica Retro Posted by Lê on September 16, 2018

O Caçador de Aventuras / Harper (1966) Um fato pouco conhecido na comunidade de cinema clássico é que eu queria ser detetive quando era criança. OK, esse pode não ser um fato relevante para a comunidade de cinema clássico, mas é importante para este artigo. Quando criança, minha única referê   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on April 25, 2018

I read Jane Harper’s debut novel The Dry last year and enjoyed it very much, so when I spotted its successor I grabbed it. And quite rightly so, as I discovered: if anything I like Force of Nature the better of the two novels, which is saying something. A Melbourne...   read more

Classic Movies Posted by KC on March 28, 2018

Paul Newman took a crack at playing a gumshoe for the first time in Harper (1966), following that success years later with the sequel, The Drowning Pool (1975). This pair of films was inspired by Ross MacDonald’s novels about the detective Lew Archer, which was changed to Harper for the...   read more

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on July 20, 2015

When Ron Harper was performing in plays for fun at Princeton University, Professor Albert Einstein made an impromptu backstage visit. The famous physicist asked Harper about his future career plans. The young man said he planned to be an attorney. Einstein replied: "You'll have a good life if you de   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on July 14, 2015

I had the great pleasure of being the guest speaker at a celebration of Harper Lee held at the Smyrna Public Library on Monday, July 13, 2015, and it was just about the nicest event a person could possibly imagine. We had a wonderful crowd of fifty people - four...   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on July 14, 2015

I had the great pleasure of being the guest speaker at a celebration of Harper Lee held at the Smyrna Public Library on Monday, July 13, 2015, and it was just about the nicest event a person could possibly imagine. We had a wonderful crowd of fifty people - four...   read more

Pop Culture ImagineMDD Posted by ImagineMDD on October 6, 2012

Thelma Harper is a mother and grandmother. Vicki Lawrence began playing the character of Mama in the Family sketches on The Carol Burnett show in the early 1970s. After that show went off the air, Mama's Family emerged as a spin-off. Thelma is a widow with three children, Vinton, Ellen...   read more

Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Google profile on April 21, 2009

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. This is the first in a short series about '60s actress Pamela Tiffin, with whom I have a developing fascination.Harper (1966) is cool. Cool is the best word I...   read more

Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on November 30, -0001

"I don't think Paul Newman really thinks he is Paul Newman in his head." William Goldman Harper (1966) Paul Newman needed something to get him out of his funk. He was in the midst of a box office drought and the movie he was currently working on was turning out...   read more

Critica Retro Posted by Lê on November 30, -0001

O Caçador de Aventuras (1966) / Harper (1966) Um fato pouco conhecido na comunidade de cinema clássico é que eu queria ser detetive quando era criança. OK, esse pode não ser um fato relevante para a comunidade de cinema clássico, mas é importante para este artigo. Quando criança, minha única   read more

Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on November 30, -0001

"I don't think Paul Newman really thinks he is Paul Newman in his head." William Goldman Harper (1966) Paul Newman needed something to get him out of his funk. He was in the midst of a box office drought and the movie he was currently working on was turning out...   read more