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Sunday Matinee: Angels Over Broadway

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Here’s a 1940 film noir caper flick starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Rita Hayworth, and it doesn’t get much better

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Sunday Matinee: The Naked City

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Here’s a great movie from 1948. A dress model is murdered in New York City, and Lieutenant Muldoon is on

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Sunday Matinee: I The Jury

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This movie already changed your life, whether you know it or not. Here’s Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, who lives in

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Sunday Matinee: Hell’s Island

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Here’s a 1956 film noir, in VistaVision Technicolor! Watch this video on YouTube Here’s what the director, Phil Karlson had

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Sunday Matinee: God of War

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Here’s a cool Chinese Ming dynasty era war movie, in Mandarin (Cantonese?) with English subtitles, so you can watch it

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Sunday Matinee: Beyond Mombassa

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Like last week’s trip to 1954 Machu Pichu, here’s a time travelogue to Kenya in 1956. Starring Cornel Wilde and

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Sunday Matinee: Secret of the Incas

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Here’s Charlton Heston as Indiana Jones. No, really. Sort of. 1954, with Nicole Murray as a sexy Romanian Cold War

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Sunday Matinee: Pushover (1954)

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This classic features Fred MacMurray as a cop lured over to the dark side by the lovely Kim Novak, in

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Sunday Matinee: Framed

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This 1947 Glenn Ford film finds our hero in the clutches of a beautiful barmaid who has him figured for

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Sunday Matinee: Farewell My Lovely

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Robert Mitchum is one of the Hollywood stars I would have most like to share a bottle of tequila with.

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy

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Here’s a Hitchcock film that may have escaped your notice. Here’s the plot summary from IMDb: A serial murderer is

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Sunday Matinee: Detour

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If this movie were any more noir, it would be a parody of itself. Here’s what IMDb had to say

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Sunday Matinee: Patterns

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Here’s a 1956 movie with a script written by Rod Serling. It’s about office politics, and naked capitalism. Watch this

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Sunday Matinee: Poolhall Junkies

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Hey. Christopher Walken in a pool hustling movie. With Chazz Palmenteri and a little Rod Steiger. How bad could it

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Sunday Matinee: In Bruges

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The International Movie Database (IMDb, to the cognoscenti) claims that this movie is a comedy, but that’s a stretch. The

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Sunday Matinee: Stiletto

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Over the top characters drive this hyper-violent crime story based on a graphic novel. Watch this video on YouTube Check

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Sunday Matinee: Street Kings

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Here’s a Keanu Reeves movie about dirty cops. Watch this video on YouTube Check it out.

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Sunday Matinee: The Butcher

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Have you had your dose of over-the-top violence today? Here’s an Eric Roberts movie about a ex-boxer who has fallen

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Sunday Matinee: Hammerhead (1968)

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Remember 1968? Yeah, me neither. But I hear it was groovy. And here’s proof. Watch this video on YouTube Here’s

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Sunday Matinee: Game of Aces

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Here’s a World War I movie about pilots and traitors. Watch this video on YouTube Check it out.

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