Showing posts with label Fabian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fabian. Show all posts
Wednesday, 10 May 2017

The Longest Day, 1962

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THE LONGEST DAY was one of the big ones in that great year 1962. I was 16 at the time but did not see it then, though have seen bits of ...
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Saturday, 20 August 2016

Summer re-views: beach boys

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A wet Saturday as summer slips away from us - here in the UK at any rate. How about some beach boy pix to refresh our memories ..... bring ...
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Sunday, 10 April 2016

Tab & Fab in '59

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Youngsters Tab Hunter and Fabian listen to advice from old timers Frank Sinatra and Gary Cooper back in 1959. Frank was probably shoo...
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Friday, 25 March 2016

Something for the weekend 1: Fabian

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Fabian in stripes! Fab Fabian was only 14 when he was discovered and manufactured into a pop star in the late '50s (Italian-Ameri...
Sunday, 8 November 2015

5 weeks in a balloon

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Back to one of our favourite years 1962 for this enjoyable romp. We liked those Jules Verne extravaganzas at the time - JOURNEY TO THE CE...
Sunday, 12 July 2015

1954: Rock'n'Roll America = my childhood

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Thanks to BBC4, that enterprising music channel, for the three-part series ROCK'N'ROLL AMERICA focusing on that period in the ea...
Friday, 23 January 2015

Something camp for the weekend 3: a lesser Agatha Christie

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A star-laden Agatha Christie from 1974: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE . We quite like those camp all-star Agatha Christie adaptations popular ...
Monday, 14 April 2014

Wild in the country / you ain't nothing but a hound dog! - more teen heart-throbs ...

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HOUND DOG MAN in ’59 may not be a western at all but is an amiable, pleasing backwoods comedy drama by Don Siegel set in rural America...
Monday, 19 August 2013

Forgotten '60s movies: Dear Brigitte

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DEAR BRIGITTE is another of those gloopy comedies 20th Century Fox turned out in the early '60s featuring James Stewart, and directe...
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