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June 7th, 2013: Robin and the 7 Hoods

Jun7 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Folk Tale, Comedy, Crime, Gangster, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Spoof Tagged Best Adapted Score Nominee, Best Song Nominee, Bing Crosby, Chicago, Dean Martin, Edward G. Robinson, Frank Sinatra, gang conference, Hans Conried, mobsters, Paul Frees, Peter Falk, prohibition, Rat Pack, Robin Hood, Sammy Davis Jr, speakeasy, tommy gun, Tony Randall, Victor Buono

February 17th, 2013: Slaughter (1972)

Feb17 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Blaxploitation, Buddy Flick, Crime, Movie of the Day, Revenge, The Original Tagged AIP, casino, Don Gordon, double cross, Drive-In, funk soundtrack, Green Beret, grindhouse, handball, Jim Brown, MacGuffin, Mafia, Marlene Clark, maverick, Mexico, mobsters, racism, racist cops, racists, revenge, Rip Torn, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Stella Stevens, T-Men, veteran, Vietnam veterans

February 12th, 2013: Mitchell (1975)

Feb12 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Cops, Crime, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Allied Artists, Andrew V. McLaglen, cash-in, children of famous people, corrupt cops, corrupt politicians, double cross, Drive-In, drug dealers, drug smugglers, drugs, grindhouse, helicopter, heroin, Hoyt Axton, incompetent cops, it's not over, Jerry Hardin, Joe Don Baker, John Saxon, Linda Evans, low-budget, Martin Balsam, maverick, maverick cops, Merlin Olsen, mobsters, murder, rip-off

November 15th, 2012: Monkey Hu$tle

Nov15 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Coming of Age, Con, Crime, Movie of the Day, Slapstick Tagged "Save the Old X", AIP, apprentice/mentor relationship, Arthur Marks, cash-in, character study, con artist, double cross, low-budget, mobsters, musical interlude, real estate scam, rip-off, Rosalind Cash, Rudy Ray Moore, scam, teens, Yaphet Kotto

August 24th, 2012: American Gangster (2007)

Aug24 by professormortis

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1 Comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Based on a Magazine Article, Cops, Crime, Gangster, Movie of the Day, Period Film, True Crime Tagged Armand Assante, Best Art Direction Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, brothers, Carla Gugino, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Clarence Williams III, Common, corrupt cops, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denzel Washington, drug addict, drug dealers, drugs, heroin, Idris Elba, Imagine Entertainment, John Hawkes, Jon Polito, Josh Brolin, Kevin Corrigan, maverick, maverick cops, mobsters, mother-son relationship, New York City, Nicholas Pileggi, Relativity Media, Ridley Scott, rise and fall, Ruby Dee, Russell Crowe, RZA, Ted Levine, Universal Pictures, Vietnam, Vietnam veterans

August 21st, 2012: Walking Tall (1973)

Aug21 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Biopic, Cops, Crime, Independent, Issue Film, Movie of the Day, Revenge, The Original, True Crime, Western Tagged "you can't go home again", before they were famous, brothel, Bruce Glover, courtroom scene, Deep South, Dixie Mafia, double cross, Drive-In, election, gambler, Hicksploitation, honky-tonk, Joe Don Baker, Kenneth Tobey, Leif Garrett, low-budget, lumberyard, mobsters, moonshine, Noah Beery Jr., prostitutes, pushed too far, Red West, Sam Laws, sheriff, sleeper hit, Tennessee

August 17th, 2012: A Bronx Tale (1993)

Aug17 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Coming of Age, Crime, Drama, Gangster, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film Tagged actor turned director, apprentice/mentor relationship, arson, bikers, bus driver, Chazz Palminteri, father-son relationship, Joe Pesci, juvenile delinquent, Mafia, mobsters, Molotov cocktails, murder, New York City, racial violence, racism, racists, reluctant witness, Robert De Niro, teens, The Bronx, Tribeca Productions

July 30th, 2012: Hercules in New York aka Hercules Goes Bananas aka Hercules -The Movie aka

Jul30 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on Myths, Comedy, Fantasy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Independent, Movie of the Day, Slapstick, So-Bad-It's-Bad, So-Bad-It's-Good, Spoof, Sword and Sandals Tagged Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Stang, before they were famous, Classical Mythology, Drive-In, father, father-son relationship, Hercules, James Karen, low-budget, Michael Lipton, mobsters, New York City, wicked stepmother, wrestler

June 20th, 2012: Black Gunn

Jun20 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Heist, Movie of the Day, Revenge Tagged "rip off the mob", Bernie Casey, Bruce Glover, California, cash-in, Columbia, Drive-In, grindhouse, Herb Jefferson Jr., Jim Brown, Los Angeles, Luciana Paluzzi, Mafia, Martin Landau, militants, mobsters, night club, racism, racists, revolutionaries

June 17th, 2012: Fallen Angels (1995)

Jun17 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Hit Man, Independent, Indy, Movie of the Day, Neo-Noir, Romance, Slapstick Tagged Charlie Yeung, dad bomb, double cross, father, father-son relationship, forbidden love, hit man, homage, Hong Kong, insanity, jilted lover, low-budget, mobsters, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Wong Kar Wai

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