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December 23rd, 2013: Bell, Book, and Candle (1958)

Dec23 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Comedy, Fantasy, Holiday, Movie of the Day, Romance, Screwball Tagged apartment, beatniks, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Columbia Pictures, Elsa Lanchester, Ernie Kovacs, Greenwich Village, Hermione Gingold, Jack Lemmon, James Stewart, jazz, Kim Novak, musical interlude, New York City, publisher, sexy neighbor, witch, writer

July 26th, 2013: The Spiral Staircase (1945)

Jul26 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Period Film, Serial Killer, Thriller, Whodunnit Tagged alcoholic, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, day dreaming, doctor, dream, Elsa Lanchester, Ethel Barrymore, fantasy sequence, George Brent, insanity, Kent Smith, maid, movie theater, mutes, post traumatic stress disorder, Rhys Williams, RKO, Robert Siodmak, serial killer, storm, turn of the century, willpower can solve anything

May 10th, 2013: Mary Poppins (1964)

May10 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Book, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film Tagged "England", Alan Napier, annoying children, Arthur Malet, bank, banker, before they were famous, Best Actress, Best Adapted Score Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Effects Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, chimney sweep, comedic working class, David Tomlinson, Dick Van Dyke, Disney, Ed Wynn, Elsa Lanchester, feminist, Glynis Johns, Jane Darwell, Julie Andrews, live action combined with animation, Marnie Nixon, nanny, suffragettes, terrible accent, Walt Disney

June 23rd, 2012: Murder by Death (1976)

Jun23 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Detective, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Old Dark House, Spoof, The Original, Whodunnit Tagged Alec Guinness, Asian Face, before they were famous, Columbia Pictures, David Niven, double cross, Eileen Brennan, Elsa Lanchester, ethnic stereotype, James Coco, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, Neil Simon, Peter Falk, Peter Sellers, racism, Truman Capote

October 28th, 2011: Bride of Frankenstein

Oct28 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Black Comedy, Camp, Horror, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Sequel Tagged before they were famous, Best Sound Nominee, Billy Barty, Carl Laemmle Jr., Colin Clive, Dwight Frye, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger, Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Monster, Franz Waxman, grave robbing, graveyard, hermit, interrupted wedding, James Whale, John Carradine, John L. Balderston, Mary Shelley, Odious Comic Relief, scientists, Una O'Connor, Universal Pictures, Walter Brennan, wedding, wedding night

July 22nd, 2011: Willard (1971)

Jul22 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animals Attack, Based on a Book, Black Comedy, Drama, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Revenge, The Original, Thriller Tagged Bing Crosby, Bing Crosby Productions, Bruce Davison, character study, Cinerama Releasing Corporation, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Borgnine, low-budget, pushed too far, rats, Sondra Locke

January 3rd, 2011: The Big Clock

Jan3 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Based on a Book, Black and White, Comedy, Movie of the Day, The Original, Thriller Tagged Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, George MacReady, Harry Morgan, Maureen O'Sullivan, Paramount Pictures, Ray Milland

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