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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 24th, 2012: Brigadoon (1954)

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Leave a comment Posted in Romance, Fantasy, The Original, Movie of the Day, Musical Tagged MGM, alcoholic, New York City, warnings from townsfolk, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Scotland, cursed town, curse, Best Sound Recording Nominee, Gene Kelly, Arthur Freed, miracle, village, love at first sight, "love breaks the spell", Vincente Minnelli, Cyd Charisse, Van Johnson, Elaine Stewart, deus ex machina

May 13th, 2012: Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Cults, Demons, Drama, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, The Original, Thriller Tagged apartment, Charles Grodin, creepy neighbors, D'Urville Martin, deal with the devil, demon, doctor, Elisha Cook Jr., Ira Levin, John Cassavetes, Maurice Evans, Mia Farrow, new home, old men, pregnancy, Ralph Bellamy, Roman Polanski, Ruth Gordon, Satan, satanism, Victoria Vetri, William Castle, William Castle Productions

May 12th, 2012: The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Horror, Adaptation, Thriller, The Original, Silent, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Based on a Book, Stalker Tagged insanity, Universal Pictures, secret identity, obsessed fan, color sequence, opera, apprentice/mentor relationship, Paris, "Cast of Thousands", masquerade, Lon Chaney Sr., sewers, Norman Kerry, "Phantom of the", Carl Laemmle, Paris sewers, sewer lair, opera house

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 22nd, 2012: The Food of the Gods (1976)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animals Attack, Based on a Book, Disaster, Ecological Disaster, Event Film, Giant Animals, Giant Insects, Horror, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original Tagged "this enormous X could feed the world", AIP, bad animation, bad rear projection, bad special effects, Belinda Balaski, Bert I. Gordon, Drive-In, evil businessman, farm, farmers, flood, football player, football team, freely adapted, giant chicken, giant maggots, giant rats, giant wasps, H.G. Wells, Ida Lupino, it's not over, John Cypher, Marjoe Gortner, Ralph Meeker, rats, Samuel Z. Arkoff, scientists, shotgun, tunnel

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 17th, 2012: 28 Days Later (2002)

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Leave a comment Posted in Apocalypse, Arthouse, Horror, Indy, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original, Zombies Tagged Alex Garland, attempted rape, Brendan Gleeson, Britain, British Film Council, Christopher Eccleston, Cillian Murphy, coma, Danny Boyle, deserted city, digital, homage, hospital, insanity, it's not over, land mines, London, low-budget, multiple endings, Naomi Harris, rip-off, scientists, virus zombies

April 10th, 2012: The Crazies (1973)

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Leave a comment Posted in Disaster, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, The Original, Thriller Tagged "too expensive to show", allegory, biological warfare, burning, Drive-In, fire, firefighters, George A. Romero, grindhouse, helicopter, high school, incest, insanity, it's not over, low-budget, Lynn Lowry, murder, National Guard, nurse, Pennsylvania, priest, pyromaniac, quarantine, rape, scientists, self immolation, small town, spineless bureacrats, suicide, town doctor, tragedy of errors, veteran, Vietnam allegory, Vietnam veterans

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