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Category Archives: Adventure

May 25th, 2012: The Hidden Fortress (1958)

Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Action, Adventure, Arthouse, Black and White, Chanbara, Event Film, Jidaigeki, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original Tagged Akira Kurosawa, comedic working class, Japan, peasants, Samurai, samurai swords, Takashi Shimura, Toho, Toshiro Mifune

May 14th, 2012: Cleopatra Jones and the Casinos of Gold

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2 Comments Posted in Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fish-Out-of-Water, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, Sequel Tagged Albert Popwell, Caro Kenyatta, casino, drug dealers, drugs, failed franchise, Hong Kong, Norman Fell, rescue mission, Run Run Shaw, secret agent, smugglers, Stella Stevens, Tamara Dobson, undercover, Warner Brothers

May 7th, 2012: Black Dynamite (2009)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Blaxploitation, Comedy, Crime, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, Revenge Tagged Adrian Younge, Arsenio Hall, Kevin Chapman, Michael Jai White, Salli Richardson, Scott Sanders, Tommy Davidson

May 4th, 2012: Return of the Jedi (1983)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Movie of the Day, Revenge, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Space Opera, War Movies Tagged Anthony Daniels, Billy Dee Williams, Carrie Fisher, David Prowse, Frank Oz, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, James Earl Jones, John Williams, Kenny Baker, Lawrence Kasdan, Mark Hamill, Peter Mayhew, Richard Marquand

April 30th, 2012: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

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Leave a comment Posted in War Movies, Period Film, Western, Event Film, Sequel, Spaghetti Western, Adventure, Movie of the Day, Road Trip, Epic, P.O.W. Tagged Drive-In, homage, musical interlude, Clint Eastwood, double cross, grindhouse, Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA), United Artists, gold, Cannon, Ennio Morricone, train, priest, Italy, bounty hunters, graveyard, Spain, hanging, Sergio Leone, Lee Van Cleef, showdown, gunfighter, Aldo Sambrell, POW, cemetery, explosives, prison warden, prison, Eli Wallach, treasure, Civil War, Luigi Pistilli, Mario Brega, Alberto Grimaldi, Constantin Film Produktion, West Germany, buried treasure, treasure hunt, bridge, POW camp, interrupted execution, wanted poster, shopkeeper

April 28th, 2012: The Secret of NIMH (1982)

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Animation, Based on a Book, Family, Movie of the Day Tagged Aldo Ray, Arthur Malet, Derek Jacobi, Dom DeLuise, Don Bluth, Elizabeth Hartman, Hermione Baddeley, Jerry Goldsmith, John Carradine, Paul Shenar, Peter Strauss, Robert C. O'Brien, Shannen Doherty, Wil Wheaton

April 18th, 2012: Gunga Din (1939)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Poem, Black and White, Buddy Flick, Cavalry, Comedy, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, War Movies, Western Tagged Alfred Newman, Ben Hecht, Best Cinematography Nominee, brawl, Britain, British Army, bugle, captured by the enemy, Cary Grant, cult leader, cultists, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Eduardo Ciannelli, elephant, fanatic, fiance, George Stevens, India, Joan Fontaine, John Sturges, loosely adapted, Montagu Love, National Film Registry, noble savage, noble servant, RKO, Rudyard Kipling, Sam Jaffe, schemer, Thuggee, treasure, Victor McLaglen, water boy

April 4th, 2012: The Magnificent Seven (1960)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Buddy Flick, Independent, Last Stand, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Remake, The Original, War Movies, Western Tagged banditos, bandits, before they were famous, Best Score Nominee, Brad Dexter, Charles Bronson, coward, Eli Wallach, Elmer Bernstein, farmers, greed, gunfighter, Horst Bucholz, James Coburn, John Sturges, knife thrower, mercenary, Mexico, remake of a foreign film, Robert J. Wilke, Robert Vaughn, Steve McQueen, The Mirisch Corporation, under siege, United Artists, Victor French, village, Yul Brynner

March 24th, 2012: 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 10th, 2012: Hell in the Pacific (1968)

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2 Comments Posted in Adventure, Buddy Flick, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Road Trip, Survival, War Movies Tagged Alexander Jacobs, Cinerama Releasing Corporation, Conrad L. Hall, island, Japan, John Boorman, Lalo Schifrin, Lee Marvin, ocean, raft, Toshiro Mifune, uncharted island, World War Two

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