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April 18th, 2014: The Music Man (1962)

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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

February 13, 2014: How to Steal a Million (1966)

Feb13 by bellabone

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Assumed Identity, Based on a Short Story(ies), Comedy, Crime, Detective, Heist, Movie of the Day, Romance Tagged art, Audrey Hepburn, Benvenuto Cellini, caper, Eli Wallach, forgery, George Bradshaw, heist, Hugh Griffith, John Williams, Moustache, Paris, Peter O'Toole, romance, Sixties, Venus, William Wyler

January 20th, 2014: Roman Holiday (1953)

Jan20 by Professor Mortis

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5 Comments Posted in Assumed Identity, Black and White, Comedy, Drama, Fish-Out-of-Water, Movie of the Day, Romance Tagged Audrey Hepburn, beat, before they were famous, Best Actress, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Costume Design, Best Director Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Original Screenplay, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, blacklisted writer, Dalton Trumbo, drugged, Eddie Albert, Edith Head, front, Gregory Peck, Italy, location shooting, Paramount Pictures, photographer, press conference, princess, reporter, Rome, scooter, Vespa, William Wyler

December 13th, 2013: 1941

Dec13 by Professor Mortis

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4 Comments Posted in Action, Assumed Identity, Comedy, Event Film, Mistaken Identity, Movie of the Day, Satire, Screwball, Slapstick, War Movies Tagged Battle of Los Angeles, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, Best Visual Effects Nominee, Bob Gale, Christopher Lee, Columbia Pictures, Dan Aykroyd, Dub Taylor, Eddie Deezen, Elisha Cook Jr., Frank McRae, General Stilwell, German Navy, Japanese Navy, Joe Flaherty, John Belushi, John Landis, John Milius, John Williams, Lionel Stander, Lorraine Gray, Los Angeles, model airplanes, Murray Hamilton, Nancy Allen, Nazis, Ned Beatty, riot, Robert Stack, Robert Zemeckis, Slim Pickens, Steven Spielberg, submarine, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, Treat Williams, troubled production, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Universal Pictures, Warren Oates, Wendie Jo Sperber, World War Two, zoot suit riots, zoot suits

January 18th, 2013: The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Jan18 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Assumed Identity, Based on a Play, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Movie of the Day, Romance, Screwball Tagged alcoholic, Best Actor, Best Actress Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Cary Grant, class issues, comedic alcoholic, divorcee, ex-husband, ex-wife, Franz Waxman, George Cukor, interrupted wedding, James Stewart, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Katharine Hepburn, lady reporter, Loew's, MGM, National Film Registry, photographer, publisher, reporter, wedding, wedding night

December 31st, 2012: Trading Places (1983)

Dec31 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Assumed Identity, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Holiday, Movie of the Day Tagged "hooker with a heart of gold", "Not Santa!", "prince and the pauper", Al Franken, before they were famous, Best Music Nominee, bet, Bo Diddley, butler, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Christmas Party, Cinema Group, class issues, Dan Aykroyd, Denholm Elliott, Don Ameche, double cross, drugs, Eddie Murphy, Elmer Bernstein, evil businessman, frame up, Frank Oz, Giancarlo Esposito, gorilla suit, gorillas, homeless, industrial espionage, insider trading, it's not over, jail, James Belushi, James Eckhouse, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Landis, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve Party, New York City, Paramount Pictures, Paul Gleason, prostitutes, Ralph Bellamy, Santa Claus, stock broker, Tom Davis, train, Wall Street, WASP, white collar criminals, wise servant

August 19th, 2012: A Night at the Opera (1935)

Aug19 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Assumed Identity, Black and White, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Mistaken Identity, Movie of the Day, Musical, Satire, Slapstick, Spoof, The Original Tagged Chico Marx, double cross, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Margaret Dumont, MGM, musical interlude, National Film Registry, ocean liner, opera, opera house, The Marx Brothers

January 11th, 2012: ¡Three Amigos!

Jan11 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Assumed Identity, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Mistaken Identity, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Slapstick, Spoof, Western Tagged Alfonso Arau, banditos, Brian Thompson, Chevy Chase, Elmer Bernstein, HBO, Hollywood, homage, Joe Mantegna, John Landis, Jon Lovitz, Lorne Michaels, Martin Short, Mexico, musical interlude, Orion, Patrice Martinez, Phil Hartman, Randy Newman, Saturday Night Live cast, Seven Samurai situation, silent Hollywood, Steve Martin, Tony Plana, village

December 22nd, 2011: Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

Dec22 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Assumed Identity, Black and White, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Holiday, Movie of the Day, Romance, Satire, Screwball, The Original Tagged architect, baby, Barbara Stanwyck, Connecticut, farm, interrupted wedding, Jack L. Warner, nurse, publisher, S. Z. Sakall, sailors, shipwrecks, Sydney Greenstreet, Warner Brothers

September 29th, 2011: Some Like It Hot (1959)

Sep29 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Assumed Identity, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Gangster, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Screwball, Slapstick, Spoof, The Original Tagged all female band, Best Actor Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Costume Design, Best Director Nominee, Billy Wilder, Chicago, con, cross dressing, Edward G. Robinson, ingenues, Jack Lemmon, Joe E. Brown, Marilyn Monroe, Miami, Mike Mazurki, millionaire, mob war, mobsters, musical interlude, musicians, on the lam, Pat O'Brien, The Mirisch Corporation, Tony Curtis, train, United Artists, yacht

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