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August 29th, 2014: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Arthouse, Based on a Board Game, Based on a Poem, Comedy, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Prison, Road Trip, Slapstick Tagged 1930s, absent father, bank robber, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, buried treasure, chain gang, Charles Durning, Classical allusion, Classical Mythology, convict, crossroads, dam, deal with the devil, escaped convicts, father, George Clooney, Holly Hunter, homage, husband, John Goodman, John Turturro, Mississippi, music contest, pomade, radio station, Roger Deakins, Studio Canal, T Bone Burnett, Tim Blake Nelson, Touchstone Pictures, Universal Pictures, wife, Working Title Films

March 26th, 2014: The 13th Warrior (1999)

Mar26 by Max Roland Ekstrom

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1 Comment Posted in Action, Adventure, Based on a Book, Based on a Poem, Based on Myths, Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Uncategorized Tagged Antonio Banderas, Beowulf, Grendel, mead, myth, Persia, Vikings

March 4, 2014: Troy (2004)

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2 Comments Posted in Action, Adaptation, Based on a Poem, Drama, Epic, Revenge, Sword and Sandals, War Movies Tagged Achilles, Brad Pitt, CGI, epic, Eric Bana, Greece, Hector, Homer, Iliad, Julie Christie, Orlando Bloom, Peter O'Toole, Priam, Sean Bean, Trojan War, Troy, Warner Brothers, Wolfgang Petersen

August 20th, 2012: The Haunted Palace (1963)

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Poem, Based on a Short Story(ies), Cults, Gothic Horror, Horror, Monster, Movie of the Day, Possession Tagged AIP, cash-in, Charles Beaumont, cursed town, Debra Paget, Edgar Allan Poe, Elisha Cook Jr., H.P. Lovecraft, James H. Nicholson, Lon Chaney Jr., Roger Corman, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Vincent Price, warning from beyond the grave

April 18th, 2012: Gunga Din (1939)

Apr18 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Poem, Black and White, Buddy Flick, Cavalry, Comedy, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, War Movies, Western Tagged Alfred Newman, Ben Hecht, Best Cinematography Nominee, brawl, Britain, British Army, bugle, captured by the enemy, Cary Grant, cult leader, cultists, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Eduardo Ciannelli, elephant, fanatic, fiance, George Stevens, India, Joan Fontaine, John Sturges, loosely adapted, Montagu Love, National Film Registry, noble savage, noble servant, RKO, Rudyard Kipling, Sam Jaffe, schemer, Thuggee, treasure, Victor McLaglen, water boy

January 29th, 2011: The Raven (1935)

Jan29 by Professor Mortis

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4 Comments Posted in Based on a Poem, Black and White, Horror, Movie of the Day Tagged Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, double cross, Jack P. Pierce, mad surgeon, torture chamber, Universal Pictures

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