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Category Archives: Period Film

May 26th, 2012: Stagecoach (1939)

Leave a comment Posted in Period Film, Drama, Western, Cavalry, Black and White, Event Film, The Original, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Chase, Independent Tagged "Native American Face", alcoholic, Andy Devine, before they were famous, Best Art Direction Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Music, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actor, Claire Trevor, Confederate War Veteran, doctor, Donald Meek, fallen woman, falsely accused, John Carradine, John Ford, John Wayne, on the lam, prisoner, showdown, Southern gentleman, stagecoach, The Border, Thomas Mitchell, Tim Holt, Tom Tyler, U.S. Cavalry, United Artists, Walter Wanger Productions, Yakima Canutt

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

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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 11th, 2012: The Leopard (1963)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Drama, Epic, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Period Film Tagged "Cast of Thousands", Alain Delon, aristocracy, ball, Burt Lancaster, class issues, Claudia Cardinale, decline, France, Garibaldi, Italy, Luchino Visconti, noble, revolution, revolutionaries, Sicily, Terrence Hill, Titanus

OSS117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

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2 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Comedy, Espionage, Fish-Out-of-Water, Period Film, Quick Reviews, Reviews, Satire, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged Canal+, CineCinema, double cross, Egypt, France, Gaumont, Jean Dujardin, M6 Films, Mandarin Films, Michel Hazanavicius, musical interlude, Nazis, OSS117, princess, Soviets, Suez Canal, World War II Veterans, World War Two

May 9th, 2012: Miller’s Crossing (1990)

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Leave a comment Posted in Arthouse, Crime, Drama, Gangster, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Thriller Tagged "Looks like I'm just gonna have to Yojimbo it", 20th Century Fox, Albert Finney, alcoholic, Barry Sonnenfeld, before they were famous, Carter Burwell, double cross, Ethan Coen, Frances McDormand, Gabriel Byrne, hit man, homage, J.E. Freeman, Joel Coen, John Turturro, Jon Polito, Marcia Gay Harden, Michael Badalucco, Michael Jeter, Mike Starr, mob, mob war, mobsters, moll, Sam Raimi, Steve Buscemi, tommy gun

May 8th, 2012: The Big Red One (1980)

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1 Comment Posted in War Movies, Period Film, Adaptation, "Based on a True Story", Movie of the Day, Campaign History Tagged World War Two, children of famous people, Nazis, Lee Marvin, concentration camp, Lorimar Films, Sicily, Mark Hamill, Samuel Fuller, hard ass seargant, U.S. Army, Palm D'Or Nomination, Gene Corman, Israel, Normandy, Robert Carradine, Perry Lang, North Africa, Vichy, Czechoslovakia, D-Day, The Big Red One, amphibious landing

May 6th, 2012: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Tragedy Tagged Agnes Moorehead, Anne Baxter, Bernard Hermann, Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Booth Tarkington, Joseph Cotton, Mercury Productions, Orson Welles, RKO, Robert Wise, studio interference, Tim Holt

May 3rd, 2012: 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 Anthony Hinds, before they were famous, Bram Stoker, Britain, Christopher Lee, freely adapted, Hammer, Jimmy Sangster, Michael Carreras, Michael Gough, Peter Cushing, sunlight kills, Switzerland, Terrence Fisher, vampire hunter

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 26th, 2012: Titus (1999)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Play, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Political Thriller, Revenge, Tragedy Tagged Alan Cumming, Angus Macfadyen, Anthony Hopkins, Best Costume Design Nominee, Britain, cannibalism, Colm Feore, double cross, Goths, Harry Lennix, insanity, Italy, Jessica Lange, Julie Taymor, Queen, rape, Rome, William Shakespeare

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