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

May8 by professormortis

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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 2nd, 2012: The Rundown (2003)

May2 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Guerrillas, Movie of the Day, Road Trip Tagged artifact, chef, children of famous people, Christopher Walken, Columbia Pictures, con artist, double cross, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Ernie Reyes Jr., gimmick weapon, homage, Jon Gries, jungle, mine, mobsters, Peter Berg, retrieval expert, rip-off, Rosario Dawson, Seann William Scott, treasure, Universal Pictures, Vince McMahon, whip, WWE Films

March 31st, 2012: Showdown in Little Tokyo

Mar31 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Buddy Flick, Cops, Crime, DTV, Movie of the Day, Revenge, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged "Fear of a Japanese Planet", Al "Kabong" Leong, Brandon Lee, California, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, children of famous people, code of honor, decapitation, Dolph Lundgren, drug dealers, ethnic enclave, gang conference, Gerald Okamura, homoerotic subtext, Ice, impotent villain, Los Angeles, Mark L. Lester, maverick cops, motorcycle gang, mustache twirling, parade, samurai swords, scar, Tia Carrere, torture, Warner Brothers, Yakuza

March 3rd, 2012: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Mar3 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Dracula, Horror, Lycanthropy/Jekyll and Hyde, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Sequel, Slapstick, Spoof, Vampires, Werewolves Tagged Bela Lugosi, brain transplant, brains, Bud Abbott, children of famous people, delivery men, femme fatale, Frank Skinner, Glenn Strange, in over their heads, Invisible Man, it's not over, Larry Talbot, Lon Chaney Jr., Lou Costello, musical interlude, scientists, Universal International Pictures, Universal Pictures, Vincent Price

January 3rd, 2012: The Hobbit (1977)

Jan3 by professormortis

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4 Comments Posted in Animation, Adaptation, Fantasy, Family, The Original, Adventure, Movie of the Day, Based on a Book Tagged ABC Video Enterprises, Arthur Rankin Jr, Brother Theodore, children of famous people, dragons, eagles, goblins, Hans Conreid, invisibility, John Huston, JRR Tolkien, Jules Bass, Little People, magic ring, Middle Earth, musical interlude, Orson Bean, Otto Preminger, Paul Frees, Rankin/Bass Productions, Richard Boone, Rmeo Muller, spiders, Thurl Ravenscroft, wizards

December 28th, 2011: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Dec28 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Black and White, Buddy Flick, Drama, Movie of the Day, The Original, Tragedy Tagged banditos, bandits, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actor, children of famous people, double cross, fate, gold, greed, Humphrey Bogart, Jack L. Warner, John Huston, lottery, luck, Mexico, mine, miners, old timer, prospectors, Tim Holt, train, train attack, train robbery, village, Walter Huston, Warner Brothers

December 20th, 2011: The Hebrew Hammer

Dec20 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Blaxploitation, Comedy, Crime, Detective, Holiday, Independent, Movie of the Day, Satire, Spoof Tagged Adam Goldberg, Andy Dick, children of famous people, Comedy Central Films, Ed Koch, homage, Intrinsic Value Films, Judy Greer, low-budget, Mario Van Peebles, Melvin Van Peebles, Nora Dunn, Peter Coyote, Rachel Dratch, Richard Riehle, Sean Whalen, Tony Cox

December 17th, 2011: Repo Man (1984)

Dec17 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Comedy, Espionage, Independent, Movie of the Day, Satire, Sci-Fi Tagged Alex Cox, children of famous people, covenience store robbery, Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, homage, Iggy Pop, Michael Nesmith, Miguel Sandoval, punks, repo men, revolutionaries, robbery, robbery gone wrong, scientists, secret agent, secret military project, secret police, Sy Richardson, teens, televangelists, television, Tracey Walter, UFO, Vonetta McGee

Chisum (1970)

Dec7 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Epic, Event Film, Full Reviews, Reviews, Western Tagged Andrew J. Fenady, Andrew Prine, Andrew V. McLaglen, Ben Johnson, Bruce Cabot, cattle rustling, children of famous people, Christopher George, Christopher Mitchum, Forrest Tucker, Glen Corbett, Hank Worden, hostage situation, John Agar, John Mitchum, John Wayne, Lynda Day George, Patrick Knowles, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, posse, Richard Jaeckel

November 25th, 2011: The Searchers (1956)

Nov25 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Buddy Flick, Chase, Epic, Independent, Movie of the Day, Road Trip, The Original, Western Tagged "Native American Face", American Indian, before they were famous, children of famous people, Civil War Veterans, Confederate War Veteran, Frank S. Nugent, Hank Worden, Harry Carey Jr., Jeffrey Hunter, John Ford, John Qualen, John Wayne, kidnapping, massacre, Max Steiner, Merian C. Cooper, Monument Valley, Natalie Wood, National Film Registry, Patrick Wayne, posse, quest, Texas, Texas Ranger, The Border, U.S. Cavalry, Vera Miles, veteran, Ward Bond, Warner Brothers

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