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Category Archives: Adventure

May 12th, 2013: Saving Private Perez

Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fish-Out-of-Water, Gangster, Independent, Movie of the Day, Slapstick, Special Operations, Spoof, Suicide Mission, War Movies Tagged brothers, childhood friend, drug dealers, drug smuggler, Guerrillas, hit man, hostage, Iraq, low-budget, machetes, Mexico, mother, narcos, rescue mission, The Marines, U.S. Army, younger brother

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

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Leave a comment Posted in War Movies, Period Film, Drama, Prison, Adaptation, Event Film, "Based on a True Story", The Original, Adventure, Movie of the Day, Independent, Epic, Based on a Book, Buddy Flick, P.O.W. 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 9th, 2013: The Professionals (1966)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Movie of the Day, Revisionist Western, Western Tagged banditos, bandits, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Columbia Pictures, Conrad L. Hall, double cross, explosives, Hispanic-face, hostage, Jack Palance, kidnapping, Lee Marvin, Maurice Jarre, mercenary, Mexico, Pancho Villa, Ralph Bellamy, ransom, Robert Ryan, Texas, trackers, train, veteran, Woody Strode

March 7th, 2013: King Kong Escapes

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6 Comments Posted in Adventure, Dinosaurs, Espionage, Event Film, Giant Animals, Kaiju, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Robots, Sci-Fi, Sequel, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged "apes love blondes", Akira Ifukube, Akira Takarada, apes, Arthur Rankin Jr, cash-in, co-production, doppelganger, Eiji Tsuburaya, Eisei Amamoto, goofy monster suit, gorilla suit, Ishiro Honda, Japan, killer robots, King Kong, Mie Hama, Paul Frees, Rankin/Bass Productions, Rhodes Reason, robot servant, scientists, submarine, suitmation, T-Rex, the declining years, Toho, Tokyo, Tomoyuki Tanaka, uncharted island, United Nations

February 26th, 2013: The Last Man on Earth (1964)

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Apocalypse, Based on a Book, Black and White, Dark Future, Horror, Independent, Last Man on Earth, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Survival, The Original, Vampires, Zombies Tagged Drive-In, twist, low-budget, Italy, scientists, Vincent Price, Samuel Z. Arkoff, plague, troubled production, co-production, vampire hunter, kid vampire, Richard Matheson

February 16th, 2013: The Mummy (1999)

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4 Comments Posted in Action, Period Film, Romance, Comedy, Screwball, Remake, Event Film, Fantasy, Slapstick, The Original, Adventure, Movie of the Day, Mummy Tagged buried alive, biblical allusion, Universal Pictures, fire, before they were famous, cult, storm, sorcerer, Odious Comic Relief, reincarnation, library, librarian, Jerry Goldsmith, World War One, Arnold Vosloo, thief, "This Lost World is Gonna Blow!", plague, pilots, doomed expedition, Egypt, ethnic stereotype, Erick Avari, deserted city, cultists, cult leader, buried treasure, Rachel Weisz, Great War veteran, Brendan Fraser, John Hannah, Kevin J. O'Connor, Oded Fehr, Jonathan Hyde, Stephen Sommers, "re-imagined", French Foreign Legion, Legionnaire, secret society, Egyptians, riverboat, scarab

February 15th, 2013: Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Event Film, Giant Animals, Giant Crustaceans, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sequel, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, bank robbers, Eiji Tsuburaya, fishermen, Godzilla, Hal Linden, Japan, Kumi Mizuno, Masaru Sato, meltdown, Mothra, nuclear weapons, paramilitary group, Shinichi Sekizawa, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, troubled production, uncharted island, yacht

February 11th, 2013: The Goonies (1985)

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6 Comments Posted in Adventure, Comedy, Coming of Age, Event Film, Family, Movie of the Day Tagged "Save the Old X", Amblin Entertainment, Anne Ramsey, before they were famous, booby trap, buried treasure, cash-in, children of famous people, Chris Columbus, Corey Feldman, Frank Marshall, Industrial Light and Magic, inventors, Joe Pantoliano, John Matuszak, Josh Brolin, Lupe Ontiveros, Martha Plimpton, Mary Ellen Trainor, pirate ship, pirates, Richard Donner, Robert Davi, Rube Goldberg devices, Sean Astin, skeleton, snobs vs. slobs, Steven Spielberg, teens, treasure, treasure hunt, treasure map, Warner Brothers, wishing well

January 20th, 2013: Anaconda (1997)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Animals Attack, Giant Animals, Great White Hunter, Horror, Kaiju, Monster, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Amazon, anaconda, before they were famous, boat, Columbia, Danny Trejo, documentary film crew, Eric Stoltz, filmmaking, Frank Welker, Ice Cube, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, Kari Wuhrer, National Geographic, Owen Wilson, rip-off, snakes

December 17th, 2012: Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adventure, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Event Film, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, Screwball Tagged "martial arts", 20th Century Fox, Al "Kabong" Leong, Alan Howarth, brothel, California, card game, Carter Wong, Chinatown, cult, Dean Cundey, demon, Dennis Dun, Donald Li, flop, gambling debts, Gerald Okamura, homage, immigrants, it's not over, James Hong, John Carpenter, kidnapping, Kim Cattrall, Kurt Russell, madame, prostitutes, sacrifice, San Francisco, sorcerer, street gang, Triads, truckers, undead, Victor Wong

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