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November 8th, 2012: Sahara (1943)

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Last Stand, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original, War Movies Tagged "a picture of my gal", "never say die...oops", "what I'll do when the war is over", Africa, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Sound Recording Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Columbia Pictures, desert, double cross, Humphrey Bogart, J. Carrol Naish, last stand, Lloyd Bridges, Nazis, oasis, Rex Ingram Dan Duryea, Sahara, tank, World War Two

January 14th, 2012: The Petrified Forest (1936)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Black and White, Crime, Drama, Hostage Situation, Issue Film, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Romance, The Original, Thriller, Tragedy, Uninvited Guests Tagged Archie Mayo, bank robbers, Bette Davis, Charles Kenyon, Delmer Daves, desert, Dick Foran, diner, father-daugther relationship, football player, gas station, Hal B. Wallis, hostage, hostage situation, Humphrey Bogart, idealist, Leslie Howard, old men, old timer, paramilitary group, poet, Porter Hall, rest stop, Robert E. Sherwood, Warner Brothers

September 22nd, 2011: Greed (1924)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Black and White, Drama, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Remake, Silent, Tragedy Tagged alcoholic, desert, Erich Von Stroheim, greed, grotesques, Jean Hersholt, location shooting, lottery, love triangle, MGM, studio interference, Zasu Pitts

June 1st, 2011: Pitch Black (2000)

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2 Comments Posted in Action, Aliens, Horror, Monster, Movie of the Day, Space Travel, The Original Tagged Claudia Black, Cole Hauser, convict, David Twohy, desert, desert planet, Interscope Communications, Jim Wheat, Keith David, Ken Wheat, low-budget, PolyGram, Radha Mitchell, rip-off, solar eclipse, spaceship crash, sunlight kills, underground creatures, Vin Diesel

January 31st, 2011: Tarantula (1955)

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Giant Insects, Horror, Kaiju, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi Tagged cash-in, desert, Drive-In, Jack Arnold, John Agar, Leo G. Carroll, Mara Corday, Science!, scientists, spiders, town doctor, Universal Pictures

January 6th, 2011: 3 Godfathers (1948)

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Leave a comment Posted in Based on a Book, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Remake, Western Tagged baby, bank robbery, Ben Johnson, biblical allusion, children of famous people, Christmas, desert, Guy Kibbee, Hank Worden, Harry Carey Jr., hymn, Jane Darwell, John Ford, John Wayne, Mae Marsh, Merian C. Cooper, MGM, orphan, Pedro Armendáriz, Technicolor, Ward Bond

3 Godfathers (1948)

Dec1 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Drama, Full Reviews, Period Film, Remake, Reviews, Western Tagged baby, bank robbery, Ben Johnson, biblical allusion, children of famous people, Christmas, desert, Guy Kibbee, Hank Worden, Harry Carey Jr., hymn, Jane Darwell, John Ford, John Wayne, Mae Marsh, Merian C. Cooper, MGM, orphan, Pedro Armendáriz, Ward Bond

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