After last week’s crime drama, there’s a courtroom comedy on the menu today. It is a film from 1992. At least, that’s the mainstream theory.…
CIPC #257: The silent partner
The silent partner was recommended to me by one of my readers – a silent partner, if you like. It is a 1978 movie about…
CIPC #256: Dance of the vampires
Dance of the vampires is a film by Roman Polanski which is supposed to fuse comedy and horror but falls a good distance short of…
CIPC #255: Alcoa aluminium ad
We finished last year talking about a strange advertisement from an American aluminium company. We will start this year by talking about a strange advertisement…
CIPC extra: The best and worst of 2021
I almost forgot about it, but in exactly one week this blog will celebrate its fifth birthday! Well, it will be its fifth birthday, at…
CIPC #254: Bohn ad
Our subject for today is one of the stranger ads I have seen. It appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1952 and was apparently…
CIPC #253: The lone wolf spy hunt
During the course of the years, this blog has put the spotlight on a number of forgotten merchandises: The crime doctor, the Philo Vance series,…
CIPC #252: Chess in literature, the sequel
Long, long time ago — the world was still innocent then1 — I wrote a blog post about chess in literature. In it, I discussed…
CIPC #251: Vogue cover
Let’s continue our discussions of magazine covers. This time, we go all the way back to 1929. Vogue is already a well-established fashion magazine. Chess…
CIPC #250: John Bull 16-12-1950
John Bull apparently started his existence — life seems too strong a word for a fictional character — in an eighteenth century pamphlet.1 Since then,…