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Article: Ritzy collection of musicals on tap for film festival: Cable bonanza includes Astaire and Garland.(Arts)(Movies)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 30, 1996
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If nothing else, the latest edition of the annual "Film Preservation Festival" on the American Movie Classics cable channel will end those weirdly recurrent showings of Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman in "All That Heaven Allows," Joan Crawford and Jeff Chandler in "Female on the Beach" and Angie Dickinson and Roger Moore in "The Sins of Rachel Cade." Somehow, they were the only old movies I kept intruding upon while surfing across AMC in recent weeks.
It was uncanny. I feared the AMC libraries had been reduced to three expendable tear-jerkers, perhaps by a cataclysm similar to the outer-space invasion meant to panic moviegoers who rise to the bait of "Independence ...