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The Adventures Of Quentin Durward Wednesday, 19:20, TCM Robert Taylor takes the title role in this energetic swashbuckler based on Walter Scott's historical classic.
Here's an absolutely fascinating story on actor Richard Todd , who was the first man to parachute into occupied France on D-Day. Here's another story from the BBC in 2003.
AMBUSH is a solidly made cavalry Western, with good performances and excellent use of location shooting in New Mexico.
Easter offers parade of classic movie picks
Just in time for Easter, here is a sampling of some of my favorite films for this time of year, from sword-and-sandals epics to a few grand musicals to set the tone for one of the holiest and one of the most commercial holiday weekends of the year: "Quo Vadis," With stars like Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr and Peter Ustinov, what's not to like? This ...
Mother claims teacher touched son inappropriately
They're accusations that've stunned the Boulder City Community: that a well-known teacher, soccer coach, and former police officer touched young boys inappropriately and recorded some of the acts.
The Man Who Fought the Hollywood Reds
Once upon a time, there was a conservative anticommunist Hollywood, proudly standing up for America.
Before 300 Before Gladiator Before Ben Hur There was Quo Vadis . The epic has a long and proud tradition, telling the stories of great men on doing great deeds.
Heads up, conservative film fans: Today sees the Blu-Ray debut of two of the all-time great Christian movies, Quo Vadis and The Robe .
'Quo Vadis,' 'The Robe' lead latest Blu-ray releases
A pair of biblical-inspired epics - "Quo Vadis" and "The Robe" - lead this week's release of Blu-ray titles.
Beautifully simple and heartfelt. Warner Bros. has released MGM's 1940 Waterloo Bridge , the hyper-romantic remake of the earlier 1931 filmed version .
The quintessential historical spectacle! - Entertainment Weekly Quo Vadis Now on Blu-ray Hi-Def March 17 from Warner Home Video Burbank, Calif.
Myra and Roy meet on London's Waterloo Bridge during a WWI air raid. They immediately fall in love.
Wilmington on DVD: Magnificent Obsession, George Wallace, Max Payne, The Express, and City of Ember
Wilmington on DVD: Magnificent Obsession , George Wallace , Max Payne , The Express , and City of Ember Mike Wilmington on Friday 01/23/2009 12:00 pm PICKS OF THE WEEK Magnificent Obsession U.S.; Douglas Sirk, ...
Different Visions, Same 'obsession'
HUNKY heartthrobs of two dif ferent generations - Robert Taylor and Rock Hudson - both had career breakthroughs in different versions of "Magnificent Obsession." The 1936 original, co-starring Irene Dunne and ...
Coming to DVD: Waterloo Bridge
It's a great month for Robert Taylor fans: on January 20 his 1935 film MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION will be released as an "extra" in Criterion's release of the Douglas Sirk remake.
Robert Taylor's first scene in HIGH WALL finds him driving at a breakneck pace with the eyes-wide-open corpse of a woman seated next to him.
"Poor Scott Fitzgerald," as Hemingway famously called him, wasn't poor at all, of course: Two of his novels are considered defining works of American literature; his three "Crack-up" essays, originally ...
To lure audiences back to the movie palaces, the industry experimented with spectacle, producing a decade's worth of biblical/Roman epics, until Cleopatra broke the bank.