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December 17th, 2014: Repo Man (1984)

Dec17 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Comedy, Espionage, Independent, Movie of the Day, Satire, Sci-Fi Tagged Alex Cox, children of famous people, covenience store robbery, Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, homage, Iggy Pop, Michael Nesmith, Miguel Sandoval, punks, repo men, revolutionaries, robbery, robbery gone wrong, scientists, secret agent, secret military project, secret police, Sy Richardson, teens, televangelists, television, Tracey Walter, UFO, Vonetta McGee

November 9th, 2014: Top Secret! (1984)

Nov9 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Espionage, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Romance, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged before they were famous, cable staple, Communism, David Zucker, East Germany, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrams, Lucy Gutteridge, Michael Gough, Nazis, Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing, rock and roll, scientists, secret military project, secret police, secret weapon, The Resistance, Val Kilmer, ZAZ

September 30th, 2014: What’s Up Tiger Lily?

Sep30 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Espionage, Independent, Movie of the Day, Redubbed, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged AIP, Akiko Wakabayashi, egg salad, Japan, Kumi Mizuno, Louise Lasser, low-budget, Mie Hama, The Lovin' Spoonful, Toho, triple threat, Woody Allen

July 11th, 2014: OSS117: Lost in Rio

Jul11 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Comedy, Espionage, Fish-Out-of-Water, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged Brazil, Canal+, CineCinema, France, Gaumont, Jean Dujardin, location shooting, M6 Films, Mandarin Films, Michel Hazanavicius, Mossad, Nazis, Neo-Nazis, OSS117, Rio De Janerio, South American Nazis, spy, waterfall, World Cup Week

May 30th 2014: Notorious (1946)

May30 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Drama, Espionage, Movie of the Day, Thriller Tagged alcoholic, Alfred Hitchcock, Ben Hecht, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Brazil, Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Clifford Odets, double cross, Ingrid Bergman, Miami, National Film Registry, Nazis, Rio De Janerio, RKO, uranium

March 18, 2014: La Femme Nikita (1990)

Mar18 by bellabone

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Crime, Drama, Espionage, Film Noir, Hit Man, Juvenile Delinquent, Movie of the Day, Neo-Noir, Romance, The Original, Thriller Tagged Anne Parillaud, assassin, assumed identity, covert, hit woman, Jean Reno, Judo, Luc Besson, Nikita, nineties

March 12, 2014: Where Eagles Dare (1968)

Mar12 by bellabone

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3 Comments Posted in Action, Espionage, Hostage Situation, Movie of the Day, Special Operations, Thriller, War Movies Tagged Alistair MacLean, Clint Eastwood, double agent, Gestapo, MI6, Nazis, OSS, Richard Burton, suspense, World War Two

March 9, 2013: The English Patient (1996)

Mar9 by bellabone

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Drama, Epic, Espionage, Movie of the Day, Romance, Tragedy, War Movies Tagged 1930s, adultery, affair, Africa, amnesia, Anthony Minghella, Best Actor Nominee, Best Actress Nominee, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Director, Best Film Editing, best music original dramatic score, Best Picture, Best Sound, Best Supporting Actress, best writing nominee adapted screenplay, Colin Firth, desert, double agent, Juliette Binoche, Kristin Scott Thomas, mistaken identity, morphine, Naveen Andrews, nurse, Ralph Fiennes, thief, unexploded bombs, Willem Dafoe, World War Two

March 8th, 2014: Harry Knuckles

Mar8 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Comedy, Espionage, Independent, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, Short, Spoof Tagged Canada, Elvis, homage, Lee Demarbe, low-budget, Phil Caracas, spy, trailer

March 2, 2014: The Democratic Terrorist (1992)

Mar2 by bellabone

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1 Comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Action, Adaptation, Based on a Book, Crime, Drama, Espionage, Movie of the Day, Thriller Tagged bombing, CIA, East Germany, infiltration, Jan Guillou, nineties, nordic skiing, Per Berglund, spy, Stellan Skarsgård, Sweden, terrorists, Vasaloppet, West Germany

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