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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

August 25th, 2014: Passage to Marseille (1944)

Aug25 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Movie of the Day Tagged airplane, B-17, bad accent, bombers, Claude Rains, Eduardo Ciannelli, ex-pat actors, Fall of France, frame up, France, Free French, French Guiana, Hal B. Wallis, Hans Conreid, Humphrey Bogart, Jack L. Warner, James Wong Howe, Jay Silverheels, Max Steiner, Michael Curtiz, Nazis, newspaper, nickel ore, Peter Lorre, political prisoner, prison, prison break, prison warden, prisoner, prospectors, reporter, sea voyage, ship, South America, strafing, Sydney Greenstreet, Vichy, Warner Brothers, World War Two

August 13th, 2014: High Anxiety

Aug13 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Movie of the Day, Spoof, Thriller Tagged 20th Century Fox, asylum, Barry Levinson, Charlie Callas, Cloris Leachman, Crossbow Productions, Dick Van Patten, frame up, Harvey Korman, hit man, homage, Jack Riley, Madeline Kahn, Mel Brooks, mistaken identity, musical interlude, psychiatrists, Ron Carey

December 31st, 2012: Trading Places (1983)

Dec31 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Assumed Identity, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Holiday, Movie of the Day Tagged "hooker with a heart of gold", "Not Santa!", "prince and the pauper", Al Franken, before they were famous, Best Music Nominee, bet, Bo Diddley, butler, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Christmas Party, Cinema Group, class issues, Dan Aykroyd, Denholm Elliott, Don Ameche, double cross, drugs, Eddie Murphy, Elmer Bernstein, evil businessman, frame up, Frank Oz, Giancarlo Esposito, gorilla suit, gorillas, homeless, industrial espionage, insider trading, it's not over, jail, James Belushi, James Eckhouse, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Landis, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve Party, New York City, Paramount Pictures, Paul Gleason, prostitutes, Ralph Bellamy, Santa Claus, stock broker, Tom Davis, train, Wall Street, WASP, white collar criminals, wise servant

October 4th, 2012: Sherlock Jr. (1924)

Oct4 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Comedy, Independent, Movie of the Day, Romance, Short, Silent, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged Buster Keaton, Buster Keaton Productions, day dreaming, fantasy sequence, frame up, Joe Keaton, meta, projectionist

September 23rd, 2011: Mad Love (1935)

Sep23 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Let's Drive X Mad", Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Horror, Mad Scientist, Movie of the Day, Remake, Thriller Tagged actress, Colin Clive, condemned murderer, frame up, France, Frances Drake, Grand Guignol, Gregg Toland, guillotine, hand transplant, insanity, Karl Freund, Keye Luke, knife thrower, mad surgeon, MGM, musicians, obsessed fan, organ transplantation, Paris, Peter Lorre, pianist, train wreck, wax figure

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