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Doug Krentzlin
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Doug Krentzlin is a professional freelance writer, guest lecturer and actor living in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his cats, Buffy and Angel. Doug covers the classics of television, including comedies, dramas, mysteries, thrillers, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, animation and literary adaptations. He has also had articles published in the New York Post and Movie Maker Magazine. Doug can be reached here.


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When the unexpected news that TV wunderkind Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse was being renewed for a second season by Fox was announced, his fans...
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Director John Ford’s 1939 masterpiece Stagecoach almost single-handedly rescued the Hollywood Western from the B-movie status it had been...
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The classic 1959 Western Rio Bravo was born out of director Howard Hawks’ contempt for the highly acclaimed film High Noon starring Gary Cooper....
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Director John Ford was to the Western what Alfred Hitchcock was to the mystery thriller. (Certainly no other filmmaker did more to bring...
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Since film director John Ford knew the real Wyatt Earp personally, one might expect his 1946 20th Century Fox Western My Darling Clementine to be the...
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Veteran screenwriter William Goldman was something of a good luck charm for actor Paul Newman in that he wrote what are arguably Newman’s two...
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For over thirty years, actor/director Clint Eastwood has almost single-handedly saved the Hollywood Western from extinction. Of his many contributions...
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Serials (or cliffhangers, as they were affectionately called) were one of those regular features that made movies so much fun in the days before...
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Like many veteran pulp writers, Elmore Leonard started out in the Western genre before moving on to crime fiction. Several of Leonard’s Western...
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For dedicated film buffs, one of the most frustrating things about the Academy Awards is that even when the Oscar is given to the right person,...
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  7. Sherlock Holmes w/Jeremy Brett
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