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December 10th, 2014: Billy Jack (1971)

Dec10 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Action, Drama, Independent, Issue Film, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, Revenge, Sequel, Tragedy, Western Tagged "the role that made them famous", animal cruelty, Billy Jack, box office smash, coven, Delores Taylor, double cross, Drive-In, environmental message, Green Beret, half breed, Hapkido, hippies, Howard Hessman, Kenneth Tobey, low-budget, mustangs, one hit wonder, One Tin Soldier, private school, progressive school, pushed too far, racists, rape, rednecks, role-playing, runaway, shoe free ass kicking, stand-off, Tom Laughlin, veteran, Vietnam veterans

October 25th, 2014: 5 Card Stud (1968)

Oct25 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Period Film, Revenge, Western, Whodunnit Tagged before they were famous, card game, church bell, Dean Martin, Hal B. Wallis, hanging, Henry Hathaway, John Anderson, lynching, Maurice Jarre, Mommy issues, musical interlude, Paramount Pictures, poker, reverend, Robert Mitchum, Roy Jenson, vigilantes, Whit Bissell, Yaphet Kotto

August 7th, 2014: Johnny Guitar (1954)

Aug7 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Camp, Drama, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Revisionist Western, Western Tagged "the railroad is coming", attempted lynching, bank, bank robbers, bank robbery, bar, bartender, Cult Film, double cross, Ernest Borgnine, gunfighter, guns, Joan Crawford, John Carradine, lynching, Mercedes McCambridge, mob, National Film Registry, Nicholas Ray, Paul Fix, Peggy Lee, railroad, Republic Pictures, Royal Dano, saloon, Sheb Wooley, stagecoach, Sterling Hayden, Ward Bond

July 16th, 2014: Casa De Mi Padre (2012)

Jul16 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Slapstick, Spoof, Western Tagged Adam McKay, brothers, cartel, Dan Haggerty, Diego Luna, drug smugglers, drugs, father, father-son relationship, Gael Garcia Bernal, international crime cartel, Lionsgate, Mexico, Pedro Armendariz Jr., ranch, rancher, Will Ferrell

June 25th, 2014: Fort Apache (1948)

Jun25 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Based on a Book, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Cavalry, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, Western Tagged American Indian, Anna Lee, Argosy Pictures, Dick Foran, Frank S. Nugent, Guy Kibbee, Hank Worden, Henry Fonda, James Warner Bellah, John Agar, John Ford, John Wayne, Merian C. Cooper, Odious Comic Relief, Pedro Armendáriz, RKO, Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond

February 20, 2014: McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)

Feb20 by Max Roland Ekstrom

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2 Comments Posted in Action, Addicition, Based on a Book, Drama, Movie of the Day, Revisionist Western, Uncategorized, Western Tagged addiction, alcoholic, Best Actress Nominee, corporations, Leonard Cohen, MASH, mining, mumblecore, prostitution, revisionism, revisionist, Robert Altman, Warren Beatty, women's lib

February 18, 2014: Young Guns (1988)

Feb18 by iggyfh

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Action, Adaptation, Based on a Folk Tale, Coming of Age, Movie of the Day, Western Tagged 20th Century Fox, Billy the Kid, Brat Pack, cowboys, Morgan Creek Productions, New Mexico, Regulators, Wild West

December 12th, 2013: Nightmare at Noon aka Death Street U.S.A.

Dec12 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Action, Disaster, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Remake, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good, Western, Zombies Tagged albinos, Bo Hopkins, Brion James, drifter, Drive-In, ex-cop, George Kennedy, Hans Zimmer, helicopter, hitchhiking, intelligent zombies, Kimberly Beck, lawyers, motor home, rip-off, scientists, sheriff, tool using zombies, vigilantes, virus zombies, Wings Hauser, yuppies

December 9th, 2013: Terror in a Texas Town

Dec9 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Revenge, Western Tagged blacklisted writer, corrupt cops, corruption, Dalton Trumbo, evil businessman, flashback, front, gunfighter, harpoon, hired guns, homesteaders, immigrants, Joseph H. Lewis, low-budget, oil, Sebastian Cabot, sheriff, Sterling Hayden, Swedes, United Artists, whaler

October 26th, 2013: Tombstone

Oct26 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in "Based on a True Story", Action, Adaptation, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Western Tagged Arizona, bar, Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Zane, Charlton Heston, children of famous people, Christopher Mitchum, Dana Delaney, Frank Stallone, gunfight at the O.K. Corral, gunfighter, Harry Carey Jr., Hollywood Pictures, Jason Priestly, John Corbett, Kurt Russell, Michael Biehn, Michael Rooker, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Powers Boothe, Robert Mitchum, Sam Elliot, sheriff, Terry O'Quinn, Thomas Haden Church, Tombstone, U.S. Marshall, Val Kilmer, Wyatt Earp

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