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February 5th, 2013: Tight Little Island aka Whiskey Galore

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Comedy, Homefront, Movie of the Day, Period Film, War Movies Tagged alcoholic, Britain, comedic alcoholic, Ealing Studios, Home Guard, Scotland, shipwrecks, whiskey, World War Two

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

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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

August 5th, 2012: Mothra (1961)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Event Film, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Killer Plants, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged Akihiko Hirata, allegory, atomic, atomic testing, evil businessman, gods, insects, Ishiro Honda, Japan, Kenji Sahara, kidnapping, music summons the monster, musical interlude, natives, newspaper, nightclub, radiation, radiation mutation, reporter, Robert Dunham, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, shipwrecks, stowaway, Takashi Shimura, telepaths, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, twins

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

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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

September 6th, 2011: Nosferatu (1922)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Black and White, Dracula, German Expressionism, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, Vampires Tagged Bram Stoker, castle, Expressionism, F.W. Murnau, Germany, Max Schreck, Nosferatu, plague, rats, rip-off, shipwrecks, sunlight kills, superstition, warnings from townsfolk

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

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