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March 7th, 2013: King Kong Escapes

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

August 5th, 2012: Mothra (1961)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Event Film, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Killer Plants, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged Akihiko Hirata, allegory, atomic, atomic testing, evil businessman, gods, insects, Ishiro Honda, Japan, Kenji Sahara, kidnapping, music summons the monster, musical interlude, natives, newspaper, nightclub, radiation, radiation mutation, reporter, Robert Dunham, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, shipwrecks, stowaway, Takashi Shimura, telepaths, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, twins

June 3, 2012: The Land that Time Forgot (1975)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Dinosaurs, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original, War Movies Tagged "This Lost World is Gonna Blow!", AIP, Alan Hume, Amicus, Anthony Ainley, Britain, double cross, Doug McClure, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Great War, Kevin Connor, message in a bottle, Michael Moorcock, rod puppets, Samuel Z. Arkoff, submarine

November 24th, 2011: King Kong (1933)

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1 Comment Posted in Black and White, Dinosaurs, Event Film, Giant Animals, Kaiju, Lost World, Monster, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation, The Original Tagged apes, biplane, Bruce Cabot, David O. Selznick, Edgar Wallace, Empire State Building, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Fay Wray, King Kong, Max Steiner, Merian C. Cooper, National Film Registry, natives, New York City, Noble Johnson, obligatory love interest, RKO, Robert Armstrong, sacrifice, Skull Island, Willis O'Brien

September 1st, 2011: At the Earth’s Core (1976)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Camp, Fantasy, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Period Film, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged AIP, Alan Hume, Amicus, Britain, capitalists, Caroline Munro, cash-in, Doug McClure, Edgar Rice Burroughs, hollow earth, Kevin Connor, low-budget, Milton Subotsky, Peter Cushing, psychic, scientists

July 11th, 2011: The Island at the Top of the World

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Animals Attack, Based on a Book, Event Film, Family, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Period Film Tagged "This Lost World is Gonna Blow!", airship, Arctic, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, cash-in, explorers, Jacques Marin, John Whedon, kidnapping, language barrier, Mako, Maurice Jarre, orcas, Robert Stevenson, superstition, Vikings, volcano, Walt Disney, witch doctor

July 8th, 2011: Valley of Gwangi

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Dinosaurs, Event Film, Family, Kaiju, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation, Western Tagged Allosaurus, circus, cowboys, Drive-In, elephant, James Franciscus, Mexico, Ray Harryhausen, Richard Carlson, rip-off, Seven Arts Productions, Stegosaurus, Warner Brothers, Wild West Show

May 18th, 2011: Lost Horizon (1937)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Black and White, Drama, Event Film, Fantasy, Lost World, Movie of the Day, The Original Tagged Best Art Direction, Best Assistant Director Nominee, Best Film Editing, Best Music Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, China, Columbia Pictures, Frank Capra, Himalayas, James Hilton, musical interlude, Robert Riskin, Ronald Coleman, Sam Jaffe, Thomas Mitchell, Tibet, utopia

April 26th, 2011: King Kong Vs. Godzilla

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1 Comment Posted in Adventure, Comedy, Event Film, Kaiju, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Remake, Sequel, Slapstick, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Akihiko Hirata, Akiko Wakabayashi, Drive-In, Ishiro Honda, island, Japan, Kenji Sahara, Mie Hama, music calms the savage beast, musical interlude, natives, ritual, RKO, Shinichi Sekizawa, Toho, Universal Pictures

Land of the Lost

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2 Comments Posted in Based on a TV Show, Comedy, Event Film, Fantasy, Full Reviews, Lost World, Parallel World, Remake, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Time Travel Tagged Bobb'e J. Thompson, Brad Silberling, Danny McBride, dinosaurs, Leonard Nimoy, lizard men, Sid and Marty Kroft, Universal Pictures, Will Ferrell

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