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Category Archives: Based on a Book

June 19th, 2013: The Lord of the Flies (1963)

Leave a comment Posted in Drama, Arthouse, "Foreign Film", Black and White, Adaptation, Thriller, Adventure, Movie of the Day, Independent, Based on a Book, Survival Tagged Britain, bullies, child death, descent into madness, insanity, island, Nicholas Hammond, Peter Brook, remote island, school boys, shipwrecks, William Golding

June 3rd, 2013: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Based on a Book, Comedy, Coming of Age, Movie of the Day, Music, Stoner, T+A Tagged Amanda Wyss, Amy Heckerling, Brian Backer, Cameron Crowe, Eric Stoltz, Forest Whitaker, high school, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, low-budget, musical interlude, Nicholas Cage, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston, Robert Romanus, Sean Penn, Taylor Negron, teens, Universal Pictures, Vincent Schiavelli

June 2nd, 2013: The Ninth Configuration aka Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black Comedy, Comedy, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Satire, Thriller Tagged "who is the madman?", afterlife, astronauts, asylum, attempted rape, bikers, brothers, castle, it's not over, Joe Spinnell, message from beyond the grave, Moses Gunn, Neville Brand, psychiatrists, rape, Richard Lynch, Robert Loggia, Scott Wilson, Stacy Keach, Tom Atkins, twist, U.S. Army, Vietnam, Vietnam veterans, William Peter Blatty

May 31st: The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

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Leave a comment Posted in Revenge, Period Film, Western, Adaptation, The Original, Movie of the Day, Road Trip, Based on a Book, Revisionist Western Tagged "they killed his family", American Indian, attempted rape, Best Original Score Nominee, Bill McKinney, bounty hunters, California, Chief Dan George, Civil War, Civil War Veterans, Clint Eastwood, Comancheros, Confederate War Veteran, double cross, Doug McGrath, farmer, ferry, gatling gun, Geraldine Keams, Guerrillas, John Russell, John Vernon, Joyce Jameson, Kansas, Len Lessar, massacre, Matt Clark, Philip Kaufman, revenge, Richard Farnsworth, Royal Dano, Sam Bottoms, Sheb Wooley, Sondra Locke, The Malpaso Company, trading post, trappers, Warner Brothers, Will Sampson, Woodrow Pafrey

May 28th, 2013: You Only Live Twice (1967)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Espionage, Event Film, Independent, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Space Travel Tagged Akiko Wakabayashi, Albert R. Broccoli, Anthony Ainley, assassin, astronauts, bad makeup, Bernard Lee, Blofeld, Britain, Burt Kwouk, Charles Gray, Cold War, Desmond Llewelyn, Donald Pleasence, Eon Productions, femme fatale, fishermen, fishing boat, gimmick weapon, gyrocopter, gyrojets, Harry Saltzman, helicopter, hijacking, Ian Fleming, James Bond, Japan, John Barry, Karin Dor, Lois Maxwell, magnets, MI5, Mie Hama, ninja, nuclear war, poison, Roald Dahl, samurai swords, scientists, Sean Connery, Soviet Union, space hijacking, space race, sumo wrestling, undercover, United Artists, volcano, wedding

May 10th, 2013: Mary Poppins (1964)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Book, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film Tagged "England", Alan Napier, annoying children, Arthur Malet, bank, banker, before they were famous, Best Actress, Best Adapted Score Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Effects Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, chimney sweep, comedic working class, David Tomlinson, Dick Van Dyke, Disney, Ed Wynn, Elsa Lanchester, feminist, Glynis Johns, Jane Darwell, Julie Andrews, live action combined with animation, Marnie Nixon, nanny, suffragettes, terrible accent, Walt Disney

May 3rd, 2013: Dracula aka The Horror of Dracula (1958)

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Dracula, Gothic Horror, Horror, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Remake, The Original, Vampires Tagged Peter Cushing, before they were famous, Britain, Christopher Lee, Hammer, Jimmy Sangster, Terrence Fisher, sunlight kills, Bram Stoker, Michael Gough, Switzerland, Michael Carreras, freely adapted, Anthony Hinds, vampire hunter

March 25th, 2013: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Computer Animation, Epic, Event Film, Fantasy, Ghost, Last Stand, Monster, Movie of the Day, Remake, Road Trip, Sequel, Sword and Sorcery, War Movies Tagged Andy Serkis, Annie Lenox, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup, Best Original Song, Best Picture, Best Score, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects, Billy Boyd, Bob Weinstein, Brad Dourif, Bruce Spence, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, curse, cursed objects, Dominic Monaghan, dwarves, Elijah Wood, elves, Fran Walsh, Harvey Weinstein, Hobbits, Howard Shore, Hugo Weaving, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, insanity, John Rhys-Davies, JRR Tolkien, Karl Urban, Liv Tyler, Lord of the Rings, mastermind, Miranda Otto, New Line Cinema, New Zealand, orcs, Orlando Bloom, Peter Jackson, prophecy, Sean Astin, Sean Bean, self immolation, sorcerer, under siege, Viggo Mortensen, Wing-Nut Productions, wizards

March 24th, 2013: The Great Escape (1963)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Buddy Flick, Drama, Epic, Event Film, Independent, Movie of the Day, P.O.W., Period Film, Prison, The Original, War Movies Tagged before they were famous, Best Film Editing Nominee, blind, Charles Bronson, claustrophobia, David McCallum, Donald Pleasence, Elmer Bernstein, James Coburn, James Garner, John Sturges, motorcycle, Nazis, Nigel Stock, pilots, prison, prison break, Richard Attenborough, solitary, Steve McQueen, The Mirisch Corporation, tunnel, World War Two

March 11th, 2013: The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

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Leave a comment Posted in Sci-Fi, Period Film, Horror, Adaptation, Remake, The Original, Monster, Mad Scientist, Movie of the Day, Based on a Book Tagged Anthony Hinds, Britain, Christopher Lee, Drive-In, Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Monster, grave robbing, graveyard, Hammer, Hazel Court, Jimmy Sangster, mad scientist, mad surgeon, Mary Shelley, Michael Carreras, Peter Cushing, reanimation, scientists, Terence Fisher

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