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April 3rd, 2013: Guys and Dolls (1955)

Apr3 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Comedy, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Romance Tagged "I bet you can't x that girl", Ben Hecht, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture Nominee, bet, cops, craps, Cuba, Damon Runyon, Frank Sinatra, gambler, George E. Stone, Havana, Jean Simmons, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Marlon Brando, MGM, missionary, prohibition, Samuel Goldwyn, Samuel Goldwyn Company, Stubby Kaye

October 17th, 2012: Gilda (1946)

Oct17 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Movie of the Day, Music, Romance, Thriller Tagged abusive relationship, Argentina, cartel, casino, Columbia Pictures, double cross, gambler, George MacReady, Glenn Ford, innuendo, musical interlude, nightclub, Rita Hayworth, tacked on ending

August 21st, 2012: Walking Tall (1973)

Aug21 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Biopic, Cops, Crime, Independent, Issue Film, Movie of the Day, Revenge, The Original, True Crime, Western Tagged "you can't go home again", before they were famous, brothel, Bruce Glover, courtroom scene, Deep South, Dixie Mafia, double cross, Drive-In, election, gambler, Hicksploitation, honky-tonk, Joe Don Baker, Kenneth Tobey, Leif Garrett, low-budget, lumberyard, mobsters, moonshine, Noah Beery Jr., prostitutes, pushed too far, Red West, Sam Laws, sheriff, sleeper hit, Tennessee

January 30th, 2012: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

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1 Comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Espionage, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Romance, Sequel Tagged 007, Albert R. Broccoli, attempted suicide, Bernard Lee, biological warfare, Blofeld, bobsled, Britain, car racing, casino, Desmond Llewelyn, diana rigg, Eon Productions, father-daughter relationship, gambler, George Lazenby, Harry Saltzman, Ian Fleming, it's not over, James Bond, Joanna Lumley, John Barry, John Glen, Lois Maxwell, MI6, mobsters, overbearing father, Peter R. Hunt, Richard Maibaum, scientists, skiing, SPECTRE, Switzerland, Telly Savalas, undercover

January 4th, 2012: Zatôichi kyôjô-tabi aka Zatoichi the Fugitive (1963)

Jan4 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Chanbara, Drama, Jidaigeki, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Sequel, Tragedy Tagged Akira Ifukube, Daiei, double cross, gambler, Japan, Kan Shimosawa, Masaichi Nagata, master swordsman, Ronin, samurai swords, sumo wrestling, Tokuzo Tanaka, Yakuza, Zatoichi

September 16th, 2011: The Big Sleep (1946)

Sep16 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Crime, Detective, Film Noir, Movie of the Day, Mystery, The Original, Whodunnit Tagged adult bookstore, blackmail, Bob Steele, Dorothy Malone, double cross, drug addict, Elijah Cook Jr., femme fatale, gambler, hit man, Howard Hawks, Humphrey Bogart, Jack L. Warner, Lauren Bacall, Max Steiner, mobsters, musical interlude, National Film Registry, Phillip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler, shelved, William Faulkner

June 11th, 2011: The Shootist

Jun11 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Based on a Book, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Western Tagged Bill McKinney, Dino De Laurentiis, Don Siegel, Elmer Bernstein, gambler, gunfighter, Harry Morgan, James Stewart, John Carradine, Lauren Bacall, living legend, Paramount Pictures, Richard Boone, Ron Howard, Scatman Crothers, undertaker

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