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November 1st, 2012: The Body Snatcher (1945)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Crime, Movember, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Thriller, True Crime Tagged anatomists, before they were famous, Bela Lugosi, body stealing, Boris Karloff, cemetery, doctor, grave robbing, graveyard, Henry Daniell, RKO, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Wise, surgery, Val Lewton

October 28th, 2012: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Family, Ghost, Holiday, Horror, Movie of the Day, Musical, Remake, Short Tagged "And I would have gotten away with it...", Bing Crosby, Disney, farmer, farmers, ghost story, manipulative woman, RKO, teachers, Walt Disney, Washington Irving

May 30th 2012: Notorious (1946)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Drama, Espionage, Movie of the Day, Thriller Tagged alcoholic, Alfred Hitchcock, Ben Hecht, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Brazil, Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Clifford Odets, double cross, Ingrid Bergman, Miami, National Film Registry, Nazis, Rio De Janerio, RKO, uranium

May 6th, 2012: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Tragedy Tagged Agnes Moorehead, Anne Baxter, Bernard Hermann, Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Booth Tarkington, Joseph Cotton, Mercury Productions, Orson Welles, RKO, Robert Wise, studio interference, Tim Holt

April 18th, 2012: Gunga Din (1939)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Poem, Black and White, Buddy Flick, Cavalry, Comedy, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, War Movies, Western Tagged Alfred Newman, Ben Hecht, Best Cinematography Nominee, brawl, Britain, British Army, bugle, captured by the enemy, Cary Grant, cult leader, cultists, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Eduardo Ciannelli, elephant, fanatic, fiance, George Stevens, India, Joan Fontaine, John Sturges, loosely adapted, Montagu Love, National Film Registry, noble savage, noble servant, RKO, Rudyard Kipling, Sam Jaffe, schemer, Thuggee, treasure, Victor McLaglen, water boy

November 24th, 2011: King Kong (1933)

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1 Comment Posted in Black and White, Dinosaurs, Event Film, Giant Animals, Kaiju, Lost World, Monster, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation, The Original Tagged apes, biplane, Bruce Cabot, David O. Selznick, Edgar Wallace, Empire State Building, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Fay Wray, King Kong, Max Steiner, Merian C. Cooper, National Film Registry, natives, New York City, Noble Johnson, obligatory love interest, RKO, Robert Armstrong, sacrifice, Skull Island, Willis O'Brien

June 25th, 2011: Fort Apache (1948)

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Leave a comment Posted in Based on a Book, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Cavalry, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, Western Tagged American Indian, Anna Lee, Argosy Pictures, Dick Foran, Frank S. Nugent, Guy Kibbee, Hank Worden, Henry Fonda, James Warner Bellah, John Agar, John Ford, John Wayne, Merian C. Cooper, Odious Comic Relief, Pedro Armendáriz, RKO, Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond

June 13th, 2011: Mighty Joe Young (1949)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Black and White, Event Film, Family, Giant Animals, Great White Hunter, Independent, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation, The Original Tagged Africa, Argosy Pictures, Ben Johnson, Best Effects-Best Special Effects, cowboys, Ernest B. Schoedsack, fire, gorillas, John Ford, Merian C. Cooper, musical interlude, night club, RKO, Robert Armstrong, Ruth Rose, Willis O'Brien

April 29th, 2011: Citizen Kane

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Arthouse, Black and White, Drama, Movie of the Day, Mystery Tagged Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Hermann, Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration Nominee, Best Music Nominee, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound Nominee, Everett Sloane, Gregg Toland, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Joseph Cotton, Mercury Productions, newspaper, opera, Orson Welles, politician, recluse, reporter, rise and fall, RKO, Robert Wise

April 26th, 2011: King Kong Vs. Godzilla

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1 Comment Posted in Adventure, Comedy, Event Film, Kaiju, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Remake, Sequel, Slapstick, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Akihiko Hirata, Akiko Wakabayashi, Drive-In, Ishiro Honda, island, Japan, Kenji Sahara, Mie Hama, music calms the savage beast, musical interlude, natives, ritual, RKO, Shinichi Sekizawa, Toho, Universal Pictures

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