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May 28th, 2012: Twelve O’Clock High (1949)

May28 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Air Operations, Based on a Book, Black and White, Campaign History, Drama, Movie of the Day, War Movies Tagged 20th Century Fox, B-17, Best Actor Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Recording, Best Supporting Actor, bombers, Darryl F. Zanuck, Dean Jagger, Gary Merrill, Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, stock footage, U.S. Army Air Force, World War Two, World War Two Veterans

OSS117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

May10 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Comedy, Espionage, Fish-Out-of-Water, Period Film, Quick Reviews, Reviews, Satire, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged Canal+, CineCinema, double cross, Egypt, France, Gaumont, Jean Dujardin, M6 Films, Mandarin Films, Michel Hazanavicius, musical interlude, Nazis, OSS117, princess, Soviets, Suez Canal, World War Two, World War Two Veterans

April 14th, 2012: The Beast of War aka The Beast (1988)

Apr14 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Based on a Play, Guerrillas, Independent, Movie of the Day, War Movies Tagged Afghanistan, before they were famous, behind enemy lines, captured by the enemy, doomed expedition, Erick Avari, George Dzundza, horrors of war, insanity, Israel, Jason Patric, Kevin Reynolds, left to die, less famous siblings, massacre, noble enemy, revenge, Soviet Union, Stephen Baldwin, tank, translator, tyrannical officer, Vietnam allegory, village, war is hell, World War Two Veterans

February 23rd, 2012: The Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Campaign History, Drama, Homefront, Movie of the Day, War Movies Tagged alcoholic, Amblin Entertainment, Best Sound Editing Nominee, Best Sound Mixing Nominee, Dreamworks, father, father-son relationship, homefront, Iwo Jima, Malpaso Productions, non-linear timeline, Pacific, photographer, post traumatic stress disorder, President Truman, reporter, staged photograph, war bonds drive, Warner Brothers, World War Two, World War Two Veterans

January 19th, 2012: Bloodlust! (1961)

Jan19 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Great White Hunter, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Remake, So-Bad-It's-Good, Thriller Tagged alcoholic, before they were famous, crazed veteran, crossbow, Drive-In, henchman, hunters, insanity, island, low-budget, mastermind, most dangerous game, rip-off, Robert Reed, sniper, teens, uncharted island, veteran, World War Two Veterans

August 6th, 2011: Gojira (1954)

Aug6 by professormortis

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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

July 16th, 2011: Them! (1954)

Jul16 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Giant Insects, Horror, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged A-Bomb Test, Best Special Effects Nominee, catatonic survivor, Drive-In, Edmund Gwenn, FBI, Fess Parker, it's not over, James Arness, James Whitmore, lone survivor, Los Angeles sewers, New Mexico, radiation mutation, scientists, state police, Warner Brothers, White Sands, World War Two Veterans

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