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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 7th, 2013: From Here to Eternity (1953)

Dec7 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, War Movies Tagged before they were famous, Best Actor Nominee, Best Actress Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Music Nominee, Best Sound Recording, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, boxing, bugle player, Burt Lancaster, class issues, Claude Akins, Columbia Pictures, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Sinatra, Fred Zinnerman, George Reeves, hard ass seargant, Jack Warden, James Jones, Montgomery Clift, Pearl Harbor, prostitutes, World War Two

August 1st, 2013: The Train (1964)

Aug1 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Action, Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Guerrillas, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Special Operations, Thriller, War Movies Tagged art, Arthur Penn, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, Burt Lancaster, France, Italy, Jeanne Moreau, John Frankenheimer, Maurice Jarre, Nazis, Paris, Paul Scofield, The Resistance, train, train attack, train station, train wreck, United Artists, World War Two Veterans

March 20th, 2013: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

Mar20 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Crime, Detective, Redubbed, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged Alan Ladd, archival footage, Ava Gardner, Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, Brian Donlevy, Burt Lancaster, Carl Reiner, Cary Grant, Charles Laughton, conspiracy, detective, Edith Head, Edmond O'Brien, Fred MacMurray, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, James Cagney, Jeff Corey, Joan Crawford, Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Los Angeles, Miklós Rózsa, Nazis, Rachel Ward, Ray Milland, Reni Santori, scientists, South America, spies, Steve Martin, Veronica Lake, Vincent Price, William Conrad

March 9th, 2013: The Professionals (1966)

Mar9 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Movie of the Day, Revisionist Western, Western Tagged banditos, bandits, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Columbia Pictures, Conrad L. Hall, double cross, explosives, Hispanic-face, hostage, Jack Palance, kidnapping, Lee Marvin, Maurice Jarre, mercenary, Mexico, Pancho Villa, Ralph Bellamy, ransom, Robert Ryan, Texas, trackers, train, veteran, Woody Strode

May 11th, 2012: The Leopard (1963)

May11 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Drama, Epic, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Period Film Tagged "Cast of Thousands", Alain Delon, aristocracy, ball, Burt Lancaster, class issues, Claudia Cardinale, decline, France, Garibaldi, Italy, Luchino Visconti, noble, revolution, revolutionaries, Sicily, Terrence Hill, Titanus

January 24th, 2012: Marty (1955)

Jan24 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a TV Show, Black and White, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Remake, Romance Tagged Best Actor, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Betsy Blair, Burt Lancaster, butcher, dance, Ernest Borgnine, Harold Hecht, Jerry Paris, Joe Mantell, meet cute, mother, New York City, Paddy Chayefsky, Palme D'Or, slice of life, The Bronx, United Artists

January 22nd, 2012: Zulu Dawn

Jan22 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in "Based on a True Story", Campaign History, Drama, Epic, Event Film, Independent, Last Stand, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Prequel, Tragedy, War Movies Tagged Bob Hoskins, Britain, Burt Lancaster, Cy Enfield, Denholm Elliott, Douglas Hickox, Elmer Bernstein, Freddie Jones, incompetent officers, massacre, Netherlands, outnumbered, Peter O' Toole, Peter Vaughn, racism, racists, Simon Ward, South Africa, Zulu War

October 26th, 2011: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Oct26 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in "Based on a True Story", Buddy Flick, Movie of the Day, Remake, Western Tagged attempted lynching, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, brothers, Burt Lancaster, DeForest Kelley, Dennis Hopper, Dimitri Tiomkin, Earl Holliman, Frank Faylen, gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Hal B. Wallis, Jack Elam, Jo Van Fleet, John Sturges, Kenneth Tobey, Kirk Douglas, Lee Van Cleef, Leon Uris, mob, Paramount Pictures, Rhonda Fleming, teens, Tombstone, U.S. Marshall, Whit Bissell

May 5th, 2011: Vera Cruz

May5 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Buddy Flick, Guerrillas, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Special Operations, The Original, Western Tagged Burt Lancaster, Cesar Romero, Charles Bronson, Civil War Veterans, double cross, Ernest Borgnine, France, Gary Cooper, George MacReady, gold, Harold Hect, Jack Elam, lancers, machetes, Mexico, Morris Ankrum, peasants, Robert Aldrich, United Artists

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