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April 7th, 2013: Easter Parade (1948)

Apr7 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Event Film, Fish-Out-of-Water, Holiday, May-September, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Romance Tagged "There's No Business Like Show Business", Albert Hackett, Ann Miller, Arthur Freed, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture, Broadway, dance, dancers, Frances Goodrich, Fred Astaire, Irving Berlin, Judy Garland, Jules Munshin, Loew's, love triangle, make-over, MGM, New York City, Peter Lawford, pygmalion, shopping for clothes, Ziegfeld Follies

October 12th, 2012: I Married a Witch

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Fantasy, Independent, Movie of the Day, Romance, Screwball, The Original, Witches Tagged "lightning ressurects the dead", Best Score Nominee, burned at the stake, Cecil Kellaway, cranky ghost, curse, family curse, father, father-daugther relationship, fiance, flashback, Frederic March, interrupted wedding, light, love potion, love triangle, politician, Preston Sturges, Puritans, Rene Clair, Salem, Salem Witch Trials, shrew, United Artists, Veronica Lake, wedding, wedding night, witch

May 10th, 2012: The Unknown (1927)

May10 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Revenge, Thriller Tagged amputation, body horror, circus, double amputee, double thumbs, insanity, jilted lover, Joan Crawford, knife thrower, Lon Chaney Sr., love triangle, MGM, Norman Kerry, on the lam, strongman, surgery, Tod Browning, twist

October 3rd, 2011: The Room (2003)

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1 Comment Posted in Drama, Independent, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, Tragedy Tagged "Erotic Thriller", "Skinemax", adults playing teens, alcoholic, amateur actors, bender, cult, femme fatale, Los Angeles, love triangle, low-budget, midnight movie, non-linear timeline, quotably bad dialogue, stilted dialogue, triple threat, vanity project, wooden acting

September 22nd, 2011: Greed (1924)

Sep22 by professormortis

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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

Anchors Aweigh (1945)

Sep1 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Buddy Flick, Comedy, Event Film, Full Reviews, Music, Musical, Naval, Reviews, Romance Tagged before they were famous, Best Actor Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture, Best Picture Nominee, Best Song Nominee, composer, Dean Stockwell, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, George Sidney, Joe Pasternak, Jose Iturbi, Kathryn Grayson, Loew's, Los Angeles, love triangle, MGM, pianist, Rags Ragland, sailors, shore leave, World War Two

August 8th, 2011: La Strada (1954)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Black and White, Drama, Movie of the Day, Neo-Realism, Road Trip, Tragedy Tagged "simple" people, acrobats, Anthony Quinn, Best Foreign Language Picture, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, Carlo Ponti, circus, clowns, Dino De Laurentiis, Federico Fellini, Giulietta Masina, homage, Italy, location shooting, love triangle, murder, Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica, poverty, Richard Basehart, strongman

August 6th, 2011: Gojira (1954)

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Disaster, Drama, Horror, Kaiju, Melodrama, Monster, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged Akihiko Hirata, Akira Ifukube, Akira Takarada, arranged marriage, atomic testing, divers, Eiji Tsuburaya, Godzilla, inventors, Ishiro Honda, Japan, love triangle, natives, palentologists, radiation, radiation mutation, scientists, secret weapon, shipwrecks, Takashi Shimura, Toho, Tokyo, World War Two Veterans

March 6th, 2011: Cyrano De Bergerac (1950)

Mar6 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in "Based on a True Story", Based on a Play, Black and White, Comedy, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Remake, Romance, Swashbuckler Tagged Best Actor, Edmond Rostand, Jose Ferrer, love triangle, low-budget, Stanley Kramer, United Artists

February 14th, 2011: My Bloody Valentine (1981)

Feb14 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Movie of the Day, Slasher, The Original, Whodunnit Tagged "We Can't Close the Beaches!", asylum, Canada, cash-in, Cassandra, Drive-In, Final Couple, it's not over, love triangle, low-budget, mine, miners, Odious Comic Relief, Paramount Pictures, rip-off, twist

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