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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 II Veterans, World War Two

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 II Veterans, World War Two

May 8th, 2012: The Big Red One (1980)

May8 by professormortis

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1 Comment Posted in War Movies, Period Film, Adaptation, "Based on a True Story", Movie of the Day, Campaign History Tagged World War Two, children of famous people, Nazis, Lee Marvin, concentration camp, Lorimar Films, Sicily, Mark Hamill, Samuel Fuller, hard ass seargant, U.S. Army, Palm D'Or Nomination, Gene Corman, Israel, Normandy, Robert Carradine, Perry Lang, North Africa, Vichy, Czechoslovakia, D-Day, The Big Red One, amphibious landing

March 24th, 2012: The Great Escape (1963)

Mar24 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Buddy Flick, Drama, Epic, Event Film, Independent, Movie of the Day, P.O.W., Period Film, Prison, The Original, War Movies Tagged before they were famous, Best Film Editing Nominee, blind, Charles Bronson, claustrophobia, David McCallum, Donald Pleasence, Elmer Bernstein, James Coburn, James Garner, John Sturges, motorcycle, Nazis, Nigel Stock, pilots, prison, prison break, Richard Attenborough, solitary, Steve McQueen, The Mirisch Corporation, tunnel, World War Two

March 10th, 2012: Hell in the Pacific (1968)

Mar10 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adventure, Buddy Flick, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Road Trip, Survival, War Movies Tagged Alexander Jacobs, Cinerama Releasing Corporation, Conrad L. Hall, island, Japan, John Boorman, Lalo Schifrin, Lee Marvin, ocean, raft, Toshiro Mifune, uncharted island, World War Two

Dead Snow (2009)

Mar8 by professormortis

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4 Comments Posted in Black Comedy, Comedy, From Beyond the Grave, Full Reviews, Horror, Independent, Revenge, Slapstick, Spoof, Zombies Tagged "spam in a cabin", cabin, gold, gore, grenade, homage, intelligent zombies, isolation, it's not over, low-budget, machine gun, medical student, mountains, Nazis, Norway, outhouse, snow, snowmobile, tool using zombies, treasure, undead, weekend getaway, World War Two

February 26th, 2012: Kenka Erejî aka The Fighting Elegy aka The Born Fighter

Feb26 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Period Film, Drama, Crime, Comedy, Black and White, Adaptation, Coming of Age, Black Comedy, Movie of the Day, Based on a Book, Satire, Juvenile Delinquent, Issue Film Tagged World War Two, Japan, teens, Seijun Suzuki, Nikkatsu, street gang, adults playing teens, Catholic, boarding house, Hideki Takahashi, militarists, Facism, coup, February 26th Incident

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

Feb23 by professormortis

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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 II Veterans, World War Two

February 10th, 2012: All Through the Night (1941)

Feb10 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Crime, Espionage, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, Screwball, Slapstick Tagged Conrad Veidt, Edward Brophy, Frank McHugh, Hal B. Wallis, Humphrey Bogart, Jackie Gleason, Jane Darwell, Judith Anderson, Martin Koslack, Nazis, Peter Lorre, Phil Silvers, sabotage, Wallace Ford, Warner Brothers, William Demarest, William Hopper, World War Two

February 3rd, 2012: South Pacific (1958)

Feb3 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in War Movies, Period Film, Romance, Adaptation, Event Film, The Original, Based on a Play, Movie of the Day, Guerrillas, Based on a Book, Musical, Special Operations, Suicide Mission, May-September 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

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