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April 14th, 2013: The Music Man (1962)

Apr14 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Assumed Identity, Based on a Musical, Comedy, Con, Event Film, Family, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, The Original Tagged before they were famous, Best Adapted Score, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, Buddy Hackett, con artist, Hank Worden, Hermione Gingold, librarian, library, marching band, Meredith Wilson, parade, pool, pool hall, Rance Howard, Robert Preston, Ron Howard, Shirley Jones, small town, train, turn of the century, Warner Brothers

October 31st, 2012: The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

Oct31 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Coming of Age, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Stalker, Thriller, Uninvited Guests Tagged AIP, burial, Canada, cellar, child abuse, child killer, child molestor, co-production, cops, cyanide, ethnic stereotype, France, Halloween, Halloween costumes, Italians, Jodie Foster, landlord, low-budget, Martin Sheen, Mort Shuman, murder, poison, precocious teen, prejudice, professors, Scott Jacoby, small town, sword cane, trick or treaters, WASP

September 28th, 2012: I Drink Your Blood

Sep28 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Cults, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good, Zombies Tagged abortion, before they were famous, cash-in, construction workers, counter-culture, cult, cult leader, cultists, dam, Drive-In, grindhouse, hippies, insanity, it's not over, Jerry Gross, low-budget, Lynn Lowry, meat pies, rabies, rape, rip-off, small town, teens, veterinarian, virus zombies

September 20th, 2012: A Simple Plan (1998)

Sep20 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Crime, Heist, Adaptation, Thriller, Movie of the Day, Based on a Book Tagged Germany, Japan, Billy Bob Thorton, double cross, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, FBI, Paramount Pictures, Toho, Britain, France, BBC Films, small town, farm, airplane, brothers, Bill Paxton, Bridget Fonda, Mutual Film Company, murder, "simple" people, Danny Elfman, bank robbers, snow, snowmobile, Sam Raimi, "money is the root of all evil", found money, Brent Briscoe, plane crash, small plane, manipulative woman

August 18th, 2012: Road House (1989)

Aug18 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Action, Buddy Flick, Independent, Movie of the Day Tagged bar fight, bartender, bouncer, Dean Cundey, doctor, honky-tonk, Jeff Healey, Joel Silver, John Doe, Keith David, Kelly Lynch, Kevin Tighe, Michael Kamen, Patrick Swayze, Red West, Sam Elliot, Silver Pictures, small town, town doctor, United Artists

April 23rd, 2012: Pale Rider (1985)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Coming of Age, Ghost, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Remake, Western Tagged Billy Drago, Carrie Snodgress, Chris Penn, Clint Eastwood, evil businessman, giant, gold panners, gunfighter, John Russell, Michael Moriarty, mine, miners, preacher, Richard Dysart, Richard Kiel, showdown, small town, stealth remake, The Malpaso Company, town vs. rednecks

April 10th, 2012: The Crazies (1973)

Apr10 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Disaster, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, The Original, Thriller Tagged "too expensive to show", allegory, biological warfare, burning, Drive-In, fire, firefighters, George A. Romero, grindhouse, helicopter, high school, incest, insanity, it's not over, low-budget, Lynn Lowry, murder, National Guard, nurse, Pennsylvania, priest, pyromaniac, quarantine, rape, scientists, self immolation, small town, spineless bureacrats, suicide, town doctor, tragedy of errors, veteran, Vietnam allegory, Vietnam veterans

March 20th, 2012: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Mar20 by professormortis

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Comedy, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Western Tagged "Battle of the Sexes", 20th Century Fox, abduction, Albert Hackett, axe dance, bar maid, barn raising, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture, Best Picture Nominee, brothers, cook, Dorothy Kingsley, Frances Goodrich, Howard Keel, Jane Powell, Julie Newmar, Loew's, MGM, mountain men, mountains, Oregon, Plutarch, rape of the Sabine women, Russ Tamblyn, sexism, small town, Stanley Donen, Stephen Vincent Brown, townies, waitress

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Oct21 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Comedy, Full Reviews, Horror, Monster, Reviews, Sci-Fi Tagged Billy Green Bush, Billy Zane, bounty hunters, cash-in, Dee Wallace, Don Keith Opper, Ethan Phillips, it's not over, low-budget, M. Emmet Walsh, Nadine van der Velde, New Line Cinema, rip-off, Scott Grimes, sheriff, small town, under siege

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