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March 15th, 2013: Theater of Blood

Mar15 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Black Comedy, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Revenge Tagged Britain, cash-in, Diana Dors, diana rigg, Douglas Hickox, Drive-In, Jack Hawkins, low-budget, Milo O'Shea, rip-off, Robert Morley, Stanley Mann, theme murders, United Artists, Vincent Price

December 24th, 2012: The Apartment (1960)

Dec24 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Romance, Screwball, Workplace Tagged adultery, affair, attempted suicide, Best Actor Nominee, Best Actress Nominee, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Picture, Best Sound Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Billy Wilder, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Fred MacMurray, I.A.L. Diamond, Jack Lemmon, New Year's Eve, Ray Walston, Shirley MacLaine, The Mirisch Corporation, United Artists

December 9th, 2012: Bulldog Drummond (1929)

Dec9 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Play, Black and White, Crime, Detective, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Remake, Thriller Tagged awful gay stereotypes, Best Actor Nominee, Best Art Direction Nominee, gay sidekick, Great War veteran, Gregg Toland, Joan Bennett, kidnapping, Montagu Love, Pre-Code, Ronald Coleman, Samuel Goldwyn, Samuel Goldwyn Company, United Artists, veteran, yellow peril

November 24th, 2012: High Noon (1952)

Nov24 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Magazine Article, Black and White, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Revisionist Western, Western Tagged alcoholic, before they were famous, Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, Katy Jurado, Lee Van Cleef, Lloyd Bridges, Lon Chaney Jr., Quaker, Stanley Kramer, Thomas Mitchell, U.S. Marshall, United Artists

October 12th, 2012: I Married a Witch

Oct12 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Fantasy, Independent, Movie of the Day, Romance, Screwball, The Original, Witches Tagged "lightning ressurects the dead", Best Score Nominee, burned at the stake, Cecil Kellaway, cranky ghost, curse, family curse, father, father-daugther relationship, fiance, flashback, Frederic March, interrupted wedding, light, love potion, love triangle, politician, Preston Sturges, Puritans, Rene Clair, Salem, Salem Witch Trials, shrew, United Artists, Veronica Lake, wedding, wedding night, witch

September 7th, 2012: From Russia with Love (1963)

Sep7 by professormortis

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Espionage, Event Film, Independent, Movie of the Day, Road Trip, Romance, Sequel, Thriller Tagged Albert R. Broccoli, Anthony Dawson, Bernard Lee, boat, cat fight, code machine, dancing girls, Desmond Llewelyn, Eunice Gayson, fight in a train car, gadgets, gypsies, Harry Saltzman, helicopter, Ian Fleming, James Bond, John Barry, Lois Maxwell, Lotte Lenya, Martine Beswick, Orient Express, Pedro Armendáriz, revenge, Richard Maibaum, Robert Shaw, Sean Connery, sniper, Soviet Union, Soviets, SPECTRE, train, Turkey, United Artists, Walter Gotell

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

July 17th, 2012: The Gold Rush (1925)

Jul17 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Black and White, Comedy, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Silent, Slapstick Tagged Alaska, Charles Chaplin, Charles Chaplin Production, gold, Gold Rush, Klondike, National Film Registry, New Year's Eve, prospectors, United Artists

May 26th, 2012: Stagecoach (1939)

May26 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Cavalry, Chase, Drama, Event Film, Independent, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, Western Tagged "Native American Face", alcoholic, Andy Devine, before they were famous, Best Art Direction Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Music, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actor, Claire Trevor, Confederate War Veteran, doctor, Donald Meek, fallen woman, falsely accused, John Carradine, John Ford, John Wayne, on the lam, prisoner, showdown, Southern gentleman, stagecoach, The Border, Thomas Mitchell, Tim Holt, Tom Tyler, U.S. Cavalry, United Artists, Walter Wanger Productions, Yakima Canutt

May 5th, 2012: The Killing (1956)

May5 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Crime, Film Noir, Heist, Movie of the Day, Thriller Tagged athlete turned actor, bar fight, bartender, bookie, Coleen Grey, double cross, Elisha Cook Jr., femme fatale, flowers, horse racing, James Edwards, Jim Thompson, Joe Sawyer, Joe Turkel, loan shark, low-budget, non-linear timeline, racetrack, shotgun, sniper, Stanley Kubrick, Sterling Hayden, Timothy Carey, unfaithful spouse, United Artists, wrestler

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