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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 ...
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.
Tonight's Movie: Woman's World
WOMAN'S WORLD features a stellar cast in an entertaining tale of mid-'50s New York business life.
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.
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.
I almost completely agree. I also agree with Recusant that Fred MacMurray is an underrated actor.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tonight's Movie: No Time For Love
NO TIME FOR LOVE is a terrific romantic comedy starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray.
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.
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.
As always, the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences will be unspooling another campy doozy for its Natural Picture Horror Show this evening.
The MFA concludes its Jean-Luc Godard retrospective this weekend with a pair of his best films.
Tonight's Movie: Take a Letter, Darling
TAKE A LETTER, DARLING is a delightful comedy starring Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray.