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December 27th, 2014: Touch of Evil

Dec27 by Professor Mortis

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4 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Cops, Crime, Film Noir, Hostage Situation, Juvenile Delinquent, Movie of the Day, Thriller, Uninvited Guests Tagged Akim Tamiroff, before they were famous, bombing, cameos, Charlton Heston, corrupt cops, corruption, Dennis Weaver, double cross, drug dealers, drugged, drugs, fortune teller, frame up, Henry Mancini, Janet Leigh, Joseph Cotton, Keenan Wynn, kidnapping, low-budget, Marlene Dietrich, Mercedes McCambridge, Mexico, motel, National Film Registry, Orson Welles, Ray Collins, The Border, Universal International Pictures, Zsa Zsa Gabor

December 16th, 2014: Castle Keep

Dec16 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black Comedy, Independent, Last Stand, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Satire, War Movies Tagged academic, Al Freeman Jr., Avala Film, baker, Battle of the Bulge, before they were famous, Bruce Dern, Burt Lancaster, castle, Columbia Pictures, Filmways Pictures, France, Henri Decae, historian, James Patterson, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Nazis, Patrick O'Neal, Peter Falk, Scott Wilson, surreal, Sydney Pollack, Tony Bill, William Eastlake, World War Two

December 15th, 2014: Incubus (1966)

Dec15 by Professor Mortis

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6 Comments Posted in Arthouse, Black and White, Demons, Fantasy, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged allegory, before they were famous, Conrad L. Hall, Daystar Productions, game with the devil, homage, incubus, Leslie Stevens, low-budget, rip-off, sacrifice, succubus, William Shatner

December 3rd, 2014: Breathless (1960)

Dec3 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Black and White, Coming of Age, Crime, Drama, Independent, Juvenile Delinquent, Movie of the Day, Neo-Noir, New Wave, Romance, Spoof, The Original, Tragedy Tagged before they were famous, car thief, double cross, femme fatale, Francois Truffaut, hand held camera, homage, Jean Luc Godard, Jean Serberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Melville, jump cuts, low-budget, motorcycle cop, murder, New Wave, newspaper, Paris, press conference

November 15th, 2014: National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)

Nov15 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in College, Comedy, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Slapstick Tagged "make out point", bachelor pad, before they were famous, Cesare Danova, Chris Miller, college, college students, Donald Sutherland, Douglas Kenney, Elmer Bernstein, fraternity, Harold Ramis, Ivan Reitman, John Belushi, John Landis, John Vernon, Karen Allen, Kevin Bacon, Mark Metcalf, motorcycle, oversexed college students, parade, Peter Riegert, ROTC, snobs vs. slobs, sorority, Stephen Furst, Thomas Hulce, Tim Matheson, townies, Universal Pictures, Verna Bloom

November 11th, 2014: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Nov11 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Anti-War, Based on a Book, Black and White, Coming of Age, Drama, Issue Film, Movie of the Day, The Original, War Movies Tagged apprentice/mentor relationship, before they were famous, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Director, Best Picture, Carl Laemmle Jr., cursed objects, Edward L. Cahn, Erich Maria Remaque, French Army, George Cukor, German Army, Germany, Great War, hard ass seargant, horrors of war, hospital, Karl Freund, Lew Ayres, Lewis Milestone, Louis Wolheim, military training, teachers, Universal Pictures

November 10th, 2014: Hawk the Slayer

Nov10 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Sword and Sorcery Tagged before they were famous, Britain, cash-in, dwarves, elf, giant, Jack Palance, John Terry, low-budget, Patricia Quinn, rip-off, William Morgan Sheppard

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

November 7th, 2014: Jack’s Back (1988)

Nov7 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Crime, Giallo, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Serial Killer, Thriller Tagged before they were famous, brothers, cash-in, Chris Mulkey, clinic, hanging, hoodlum, insanity, it's not over, Jack the Ripper, James Spader, low-budget, medical student, prostitutes, prostitution, psychiatrists, Robert Picardo, Rowdy Harrington, serial killer, twins, twist

November 6th, 2014: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

Nov6 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Fantasy, Ghost, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Romance, The Original Tagged "England", 20th Century Fox, Anna Lee, before they were famous, Bernard Hermann, Best Cinematography Nominee, cranky ghost, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, ghost story, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Natalie Wood, R.A Dick, Rex Harrison

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