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March 20th, 2013: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

Mar20 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Crime, Comedy, Black and White, Spoof, Slapstick, Detective, Redubbed Tagged Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Nazis, scientists, Joan Crawford, Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, William Conrad, Vincent Price, Edmond O'Brien, Edith Head, Jeff Corey, Kirk Douglas, conspiracy, spies, Steve Martin, detective, James Cagney, Los Angeles, Bette Davis, South America, Fred MacMurray, Miklós Rózsa, Carl Reiner, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy, archival footage, Alan Ladd, Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, Reni Santori, Rachel Ward

March 9th, 2013: The Professionals (1966)

Mar9 by professormortis

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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

May 11th, 2012: The Leopard (1963)

May11 by professormortis

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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

January 24th, 2012: Marty (1955)

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a TV Show, Black and White, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Remake, Romance Tagged Best Actor, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Betsy Blair, Burt Lancaster, butcher, dance, Ernest Borgnine, Harold Hecht, Jerry Paris, Joe Mantell, meet cute, mother, New York City, Paddy Chayefsky, Palme D'Or, slice of life, The Bronx, United Artists

January 22nd, 2012: Zulu Dawn

Jan22 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in "Based on a True Story", Campaign History, Drama, Epic, Event Film, Independent, Last Stand, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Prequel, Tragedy, War Movies Tagged Bob Hoskins, Britain, Burt Lancaster, Cy Enfield, Denholm Elliott, Douglas Hickox, Elmer Bernstein, Freddie Jones, incompetent officers, massacre, Netherlands, outnumbered, Peter O' Toole, Peter Vaughn, racism, racists, Simon Ward, South Africa, Zulu War

December 16th, 2011: Castle Keep

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black Comedy, Independent, Last Stand, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Satire, War Movies Tagged academic, Al Freeman Jr., Avala Film, baker, Battle of the Bulge, before they were famous, Bruce Dern, Burt Lancaster, castle, Columbia Pictures, Filmways Pictures, France, Henri Decae, historian, James Patterson, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Nazis, Patrick O'Neal, Peter Falk, Scott Wilson, surreal, Sydney Pollack, Tony Bill, William Eastlake, World War Two

December 7th, 2011: From Here to Eternity (1953)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, War Movies Tagged before they were famous, Best Actor Nominee, Best Actress Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Music Nominee, Best Sound Recording, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, boxing, bugle player, Burt Lancaster, class issues, Claude Akins, Columbia Pictures, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Sinatra, Fred Zinnerman, George Reeves, hard ass seargant, Jack Warden, James Jones, Montgomery Clift, Pearl Harbor, prostitutes, World War Two

October 26th, 2011: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

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2 Comments Posted in Western, Remake, "Based on a True Story", Movie of the Day, Buddy Flick Tagged teens, Paramount Pictures, Dennis Hopper, mob, Best Film Editing Nominee, Burt Lancaster, Hal B. Wallis, U.S. Marshall, Kirk Douglas, brothers, Lee Van Cleef, Best Sound Nominee, Whit Bissell, DeForest Kelley, Jack Elam, gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Tombstone, Earl Holliman, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, Frank Faylen, Kenneth Tobey, Dimitri Tiomkin, Leon Uris, John Sturges, attempted lynching

May 5th, 2011: Vera Cruz

May5 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Buddy Flick, Guerrillas, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Special Operations, The Original, Western Tagged Burt Lancaster, Cesar Romero, Charles Bronson, Civil War Veterans, double cross, Ernest Borgnine, France, Gary Cooper, George MacReady, gold, Harold Hect, Jack Elam, lancers, machetes, Mexico, Morris Ankrum, peasants, Robert Aldrich, United Artists

January 20th, 2011: Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

Jan20 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Based on a Radio Show, Black and White, Drama, Film Noir, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Thriller, Women's Picture Tagged Anatole Litvak, Barbara Stanwyck, Best Actress Nominee, Burt Lancaster, Ed Begley, Hal B. Wallis, Hal Wallis Productions, hen pecked husband, hit man, hypochondriac, invalid, Leif Erickson, Paramount Pictures, twist, William Conrad

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