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October 15th, 2012: Matango aka Attack of the Mushroom People

Oct15 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Drama, Horror, Killer Plants, Movie of the Day Tagged addiction, AIP, Akira Kubo, allegory, Eiji Tsuburaya, fungi, hallucinations, Hiroshi Koizumi, insanity, Ishiro Honda, it's not over, James H. Nicholson, Japan, Kenji Sahara, Kumi Mizuno, lone survivor, movie stars, mushrooms, musical interlude, radiation, sailors, Samuel Z. Arkoff, scientists, shipwrecks, Takeshi Kimura, temptation, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, transformations, twist, William Hope Hodgson

April 9th, 2012: The Attic (1980)

Apr9 by professormortis

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1 Comment Posted in Black Comedy, Drama, Horror, Independent, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Old Dark House, So-Bad-It's-Good, Thriller, Tragedy, Women's Picture Tagged abusive father, Atlantic Releasing Corporation, attic, Carrie Snodgrass, chimpanzees, disappearance, double cross, fantasy sequence, father-daugther relationship, fiance, fire, Frances Bay, Gary Graver, George Edwards, home movies, it's not over, librarian, library, low-budget, movie theater, murder, overbearing father, paralysis, pyromaniac, Ray Milland, sailors, secret, twist, wheelchair

February 3rd, 2012: South Pacific (1958)

Feb3 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Based on a Play, Event Film, Guerrillas, May-September, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Romance, Special Operations, Suicide Mission, The Original, War Movies Tagged 20th Century Fox, before they were famous, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture Nominee, Best Sound, black market, Doug McClure, forbidden love, island, James Michener, John Kerr, Joshua Logan, Mitzi Gaynor, operator, Oscar Hammerstein II, Pacific, plantation, racism, Ray Walston, Richard Rogers, Ron Ely, sailors, Tom Laughlin, U.S. Navy, World War Two

December 22nd, 2011: Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

Dec22 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Assumed Identity, Black and White, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Holiday, Movie of the Day, Romance, Satire, Screwball, The Original Tagged architect, baby, Barbara Stanwyck, Connecticut, farm, interrupted wedding, Jack L. Warner, nurse, publisher, S. Z. Sakall, sailors, shipwrecks, Sydney Greenstreet, Warner Brothers

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 23rd, 2011: On the Town (1949)

Aug23 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Comedy, Mistaken Identity, Movie of the Day, Musical, Screwball, Slapstick Tagged "One Crazy Night", 24 hour pass, Adolphe Green, Alice Pearce, Ann Miller, anthropologist, Arthur Freed, ballet, Best Music, Betty Comden, Betty Garrett, burlesque, cab driver, cavemen, Coney Island, dinosaur bones, Empire State Building, Florence Bates, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Jerome Robbins, Jules Munshin, lady cab driver, Loew's, MGM, museum, New York City, nightclub montage, sailors, shore leave, Stanley Donen, Technicolor, Vera-Ellen

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