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Thursday Jul 9 | Monsters and Critics

Trail of the Lonesome Pine - DVD Review

Screen legends Henry Fonda and Fred MacMurray star in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine - one of the first films ever to be filmed outdoors in glorious Technicolor! Deep ... more US Release: 2009-07-07 UK Release: - MoTB details vulnerabilities in TwitPic The HP Compaq Mini - I'd buy that for a dollar! LucasArts brings classic games to Steam Facebook ...

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Related Topix: Henry Fonda

Tue Jul 07, 2009

DVD Verdict

The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine

Their hatred is their patriotism. Their quaint customs are their religion. Call in the young'uns and find the parson, 'cause there's a-feudin' and a-fightin' comin' down from the hills.

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Related Topix: Sylvia Sidney, George 'Spanky' McFarland

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Laura's Miscellaneous Musings

Tonight's Movie: Woman's World

WOMAN'S WORLD features a stellar cast in an entertaining tale of mid-'50s New York business life.

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Related Topix: Film Noir, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Laura, Cornel Wilde, Executive Suite, June Allyson, Comedy Movies, How to Marry a Millionaire

Thu Jul 02, 2009

AskMen

Avoid Double Indemnity: Unnecessary Life Insurance Policies

There's an old movie called Double Indemnity . Fred MacMurray is a life- insurance salesman who gets involved with a married babe who wants to knock off her husband.

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Related Topix: Film Noir, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Double Indemnity, Train Disaster

Mon Jun 22, 2009

FindingDulcinea

Happy Birthday, Billy Wilder, Director of a oeSome Like It Hota and a oeSunset Boulevarda

Billy Wilder arrived in Hollywood in 1934 with $11 in his pocket, making his rise to fame as a producer, director and screenwriter of Hollywood's golden age all the more like a fairy tale.

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Related Topix: Film Noir, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Double Indemnity, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, The Apartment, Hollywood, Musical Movies, Music!

Tue Jun 09, 2009

Books, Inq

Bryan becomes elegiac ...

I almost completely agree. I also agree with Recusant that Fred MacMurray is an underrated actor.

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Related Topix: Film Noir, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Double Indemnity

Fri May 29, 2009

USA Today

The week in Pop: My favorite things

Last week I saw a bunch of movies and read some books, though I can't say there's a lot of good stuff on the tube these days.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Film Noir, Thriller, Double Indemnity, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, The Brothers Bloom, Whatever Works

Sun May 10, 2009

The Sydney Morning Herald

Precious little extras

A doption is a tricky business. We have all felt at some time during our childhood that we must have been adopted when, looking around us, we despair at the distance between our families and ourselves.

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Related Topix: Opinion

Wed Apr 29, 2009

Life at Work

Political Framing: Communications

In organizational politics, one class of toxic tactics is framing - accusing a group or individual by offering interpretations of their actions to knowingly and falsely make them seem responsible for reprehensible or negligent acts.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Film Noir, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Double Indemnity, Barbara Stanwyck

Thu Apr 16, 2009

ETruth.com - Life

Reel World shorts

Capsule reviews of films currently playing at area theaters. Star ratings are by Truth movie columnist Ben Ford; other capsules by the Los Angeles Times.

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Related Topix: Adventureland, Drama Movies, The Apartment, Short, Comedy Movies, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Dragonball: Evolution

Tue Apr 14, 2009

USA Today

Critic's Corner Wednesday

Has tax day left you craving the comfort of a classic Hollywood movie? TCM has two of the best: Double Indemnity , a seminal double-cross film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray ; and Swing Time , which may just be the best of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers films, and is the only one to address hard economic times.

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Related Topix: Film Noir, Thriller, Double Indemnity, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Barbara Stanwyck, My Three Sons, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Comedy Movies, Swing Time, Musical Movies, Fred Astaire, Jazz

Sun Apr 12, 2009

DVD Times

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

Published in 1908, the novel The Trail of the Lonesome Pine , written by journalist and native Kentuckian John Fox, Jr., was apparently well known enough to justify being described as "famous" in the opening credits of Henry Hathaway's 1936 film version.

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Related Topix: Journalism, Hollywood, Short, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, Cecil B. DeMille

Thu Apr 09, 2009

Corrente

Follow Me Boys

For some reason Atrios decided to disquise himself as Fred MacMurray in a trilby hat and have himself photographed for the Philadelphia City Paper stylee section: What is Philadelphia style? I dunno, but please stop it.

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Related Topix: Family, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Follow Me, Boys!

Fri Apr 03, 2009

Daily Herald

Tivoli tops list of best movie theaters

Classic Cinemas' flagship Tivoli Theatre has for a second year been voted "best movie theater" by readers of West Suburban Living magazine.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Downers Grove, IL, Comedy Movies, The Egg and I, Claudette Colbert, Chicago, IL

Sat Mar 28, 2009

Laura's Miscellaneous Musings

Tonight's Movie: No Time For Love

NO TIME FOR LOVE is a terrific romantic comedy starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Film Noir, Horror, Midnight, Crime Movies, Drama, Claudette Colbert, Hands Across the Table, Remember the Night

Fri Mar 27, 2009

KERA-TV Dallas

AFI Dallas: A Return for Repertory?

Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray star in Double Indemnity. At 3 o'clock on Friday afternoon, Terry Walstrom and his 18-year-old son, Nicholas, were settling into a movie at AFI Dallas.

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Related Topix: Film Noir, Crime Movies, Drama, Thriller, Double Indemnity, Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX, Barbara Stanwyck

Fri Mar 13, 2009

Logan Banner

Faux food for thought

Q: I live in northern Pennsylvania, where a popular local dish is called "city chicken." City chicken is seasoned and breaded ground pork and/or other meat prepared on a wooden skewer.

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Related Topix: Short, Drama, Film Noir, Thriller, Double Indemnity, Crime Movies, Barbara Stanwyck, Manhattan, NY, New York, NY, Tribeca (New York, NY), Opinion

Mon Mar 09, 2009

News Observer

Film picks

As always, the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences will be unspooling another campy doozy for its Natural Picture Horror Show this evening.

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Related Topix: Film Noir, Thriller, Double Indemnity, Crime Movies, Drama, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Comedy Movies, Spaceballs, Science Fiction Movies, Greensboro, NC

Sat Mar 07, 2009

Bostonist

Friday Happenings

The MFA concludes its Jean-Luc Godard retrospective this weekend with a pair of his best films.

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Related Topix: Jean-Luc Godard, Boston, MA, Cambridge, MA, Film Noir, Crime Movies, Drama, Pushover, Thriller, Double Indemnity

Wed Feb 25, 2009

Laura's Miscellaneous Musings

Tonight's Movie: Take a Letter, Darling

TAKE A LETTER, DARLING is a delightful comedy starring Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray.

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Related Topix: Hands Across the Table, Remember the Night, Comedy Movies, Drama, Rosalind Russell, Shadow of a Doubt, Film Noir, Thriller, Crime Movies, Macdonald Carey

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