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December 28th, 2014: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Dec28 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Black and White, Buddy Flick, Drama, Movie of the Day, The Original, Tragedy Tagged banditos, bandits, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actor, children of famous people, double cross, fate, gold, greed, Humphrey Bogart, Jack L. Warner, John Huston, lottery, luck, Mexico, mine, miners, old timer, prospectors, Tim Holt, train, train attack, train robbery, village, Walter Huston, Warner Brothers

March 28th, 2014: The Devil’s Backbone

Mar28 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Ghost, Homefront, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Uncategorized, War Movies Tagged before they were famous, ghost story, gold, Guillermo Del Toro, homage, kid ghost, Mexico, orphanage, Spain, Spanish Civil War

July 17th, 2012: The Gold Rush (1925)

Jul17 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Black and White, Comedy, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Silent, Slapstick Tagged Alaska, Charles Chaplin, Charles Chaplin Production, gold, Gold Rush, Klondike, National Film Registry, New Year's Eve, prospectors, United Artists

April 30th, 2012: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Apr30 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Epic, Event Film, Movie of the Day, P.O.W., Period Film, Road Trip, Sequel, Spaghetti Western, War Movies, Western Tagged Alberto Grimaldi, Aldo Sambrell, bounty hunters, bridge, buried treasure, Cannon, cemetery, Civil War, Clint Eastwood, Constantin Film Produktion, double cross, Drive-In, Eli Wallach, Ennio Morricone, explosives, gold, graveyard, grindhouse, gunfighter, hanging, homage, interrupted execution, Italy, Lee Van Cleef, Luigi Pistilli, Mario Brega, musical interlude, POW, POW camp, priest, prison, prison warden, Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA), Sergio Leone, shopkeeper, showdown, Spain, train, treasure, treasure hunt, United Artists, wanted poster, West Germany

Dead Snow (2009)

Mar8 by Professor Mortis

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5 Comments Posted in Black Comedy, Comedy, From Beyond the Grave, Full Reviews, Horror, Independent, Revenge, Slapstick, Spoof, Zombies Tagged "spam in a cabin", cabin, gold, gore, grenade, homage, intelligent zombies, isolation, it's not over, low-budget, machine gun, medical student, mountains, Nazis, Norway, outhouse, snow, snowmobile, tool using zombies, treasure, undead, weekend getaway, World War Two

January 8th, 2012: Goldfinger (1964)

Jan8 by Professor Mortis

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6 Comments Posted in Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Crime, Espionage, Event Film, Heist, Independent, Movie of the Day, Sequel Tagged Albert R. Broccoli, Bernard Lee, Best Sound Effects, bomb defusing scene, Britain, Burt Kwouk, CIA, Desmond Llewelyn, Eon Productions, Fort Knox, gadgets, Gert Frobe, gimmick car, gimmick weapon, gold, Guy Hamilton, Harold "Odd Job" Sakata, Harry Saltzman, henchman, Honor Blackman, Ian Fleming, James Bond, John Barry, judo chop, Lois Maxwell, mastermind, Miami, nuke, Paul Dehn, Peter R. Hunt, pilots, Richard Maibaum, Sean Connery, Shirley Bassey, Shirley Eaton, smugglers, Switzerland, United Artists

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

March 17th, 2011: The Return of Sabata

Mar17 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Sequel, Spaghetti Western Tagged acrobats, circus, Civil War Veterans, double cross, gold, Irish, Italy, Lee Van Cleef, magician, United Artists

El Espinazo del Diablo aka The Devil’s Backbone

Nov14 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Arthouse, Coming of Age, Drama, Fantasy, Full Reviews, Ghost, Period Film, Reviews, Thriller Tagged gold, Guillermo Del Toro, homage, kid ghost, Mexico, orphanage, Spain, Spanish Civil War

Adios, Sabata

Apr29 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Full Reviews, Reviews, Sequel, Spaghetti Western, War Movies, Western Tagged cash-in, dubbed, execution, gadgets, gatling gun, gold, Guerrillas, in-name-only-sequel, Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA), Sabata, secret police, United Artists, Yul Brynner

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