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December 4th, 2014: Aelita aka Aelita: Queen of Mars

Dec4 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Aliens, Arthouse, Black and White, Drama, Event Film, Fantasy, Issue Film, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, Sci-Fi, Silent, Space Travel Tagged aliens as monarchist allegory, allegory, aristocracy, Communism, engineers, extraterrestrial radio signals, king, Mars, Queen, Radio, revolution, Soviet, Soviet Union, Soviets, space exploration, workers

March 17, 2014: The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)

Mar17 by bellabone

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Drama, Mistaken Identity, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Remake, Romance Tagged Alfred Newman, Anthony Hope, coronation, Deborah Kerr, fortress, impersonation, James Mason, Jane Greer, king, MGM, mistaken identity, rescue mission, royal wedding, Ruritania, Stewart Granger, Zenda

December 2nd, 2013: The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

Dec2 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Based on a Folk Tale, Event Film, Family, Fantasy, Independent, Movie of the Day, Remake Tagged Alexander Korda, Arabian Nights, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score Nominee, Best Special Effects, Britain, Conrad Veidt, djinni, king, magic, magician, Michael Powell, princess, Rex Ingram, Sabu, Technicolor, thief, United Artists, wizards

Aelita aka Aelita: Queen of Mars

Dec2 by Professor Mortis

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8 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Aliens, Arthouse, Black and White, Drama, Event Film, Fantasy, Issue Film, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, Sci-Fi, Silent, Space Travel Tagged aliens as monarchist allegory, aristocracy, Communism, engineers, king, Mars, Queen, revolution, Soviet, Soviet Union, Soviets, space exploration, workers

July 8th, 2012: The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)

Jul8 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Black and White, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Romance, Swashbuckler Tagged "the prince and the pauper", Alfred Newman, before they were famous, Best Art Direction Nominee, Best Score Nominee, Bullshitania, C. Aubrey Smith, children of famous people, David Niven, David O. Selznick, double cross, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., forbidden love, George Cukor, identical cousins, James Wong Howe, king, Mary Astor, Montagu Love, National Film Registry, Raymond Massey, reshoots, Ronald Coleman, secret identity, Selznick International Pictures, troubled production, W. S. Van Dyke

October 5th, 2011: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Oct5 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Adventure, Animation, Based on a TV Show, Based on Myths, Comedy, Fantasy, Independent, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Road Trip, Sketch, Slapstick, Spoof, Sword and Sorcery, The Original Tagged Britain, Carol Cleveland, Connie Booth, coward, EMI Films, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, interrupted wedding, John Cleese, king, King Arthur, knights, low-budget, Michael Palin, Monty Python, Neil Innes, surreal, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, wedding, witch

July 27th, 2011: Macbeth (1948)

Jul27 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Play, Black and White, Drama, Movie of the Day, Tragedy, Witches Tagged Alan Napier, Dan O'Herlihy, Jeanette Nolan, king, low-budget, Mercury Productions, murder, Orson Welles, prophecy, Republic Pictures, Roddy McDowall, Scotland, self fulfilling prophecy, studio interference, William Shakespeare

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