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May 4th, 2014: The Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)

May4 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Comic Book, Black and White, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Pulp, Serial, Superheroes, The Original, Whodunnit Tagged alter ego, Captain Marvel, cub reporter, explorers, Fawcett Comics, idol, low-budget, MacGuffin, machine gun, masked criminal, mastermind, mystics, reporter, scientific expedition, scientists, secret identity, Siam, Tom Tyler, William Witney

May 3rd, 2014: Black Caesar (1973)

May3 by Professor Mortis

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4 Comments Posted in Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Drama, Gangster, Movie of the Day, Tragedy Tagged absent father, AIP, Al Jolson songs, bad period detail, barber shop, blackface, cash-in, D'Urville Martin, Don Pedro Colley, double cross, father, father-son relationship, Fred Williamson, funk soundtrack, Gloria Hendry, grindhouse, Harlem, homage, James Brown, Julius Harris, Larco Productions, Larry Cohen, ledgers, location shooting, low-budget, MacGuffin, Mafia, mob, mob war, mobsters, mother-son relationship, New York City, rise and fall, shoe shine boy, single mother, spaghetti, Val Avery

September 9th, 2013: Golden Needles aka The Chase for the Golden Needles

Sep9 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adventure, Crime, Detective, Independent, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Bad Tagged "ultimate sexual power", AIP, Ann Southern, Beverly Hills, Burgess Meredith, California, cash-in, detective, double cross, Elizabeth Ashley, erotic dinner, ex-pats, flamethrowers, Fred Weintraub, Hong Kong, Jim Kelly, Joe Don Baker, Lalo Schifrin, MacGuffin, oversexed old people, Paul M. Heller, rip-off, Robert Clouse

February 17th, 2013: Slaughter (1972)

Feb17 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Blaxploitation, Buddy Flick, Crime, Movie of the Day, Revenge, The Original Tagged AIP, casino, Don Gordon, double cross, Drive-In, funk soundtrack, Green Beret, grindhouse, handball, Jim Brown, MacGuffin, Mafia, Marlene Clark, maverick, Mexico, mobsters, racism, racist cops, racists, revenge, Rip Torn, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Stella Stevens, T-Men, veteran, Vietnam veterans

5 Dolls for an August Moon aka Island of Terror

Feb9 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Giallo, Mystery, Quick Reviews, Reviews, Thriller, Whodunnit Tagged chemical formula, chemist, double cross, Drive-In, freezer, grindhouse, inventors, island, isolation, it's not over, Italy, low-budget, MacGuffin, Mario Bava, murder, private island, rip-off, scientists, teens, twist, William Berger

June 19th, 2012: Romancing the Stone (1984)

Jun19 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Movie of the Day, Road Trip, Romance, Screwball, The Original Tagged Alan Silvestri, Alfonso Arau, Best Film Editing Nominee, children of famous people, Columbia, crocodile, Danny DeVito, Dean Cundey, double cross, fantasy sequence, jungle, Kathleen Turner, MacGuffin, Michael Douglas, ransom, rapids, Robert Zemeckis, treasure, treasure hunt, treasure map, waterfall, writer

March 9th, 2012: Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Mar9 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Crime, Detective, Espionage, Film Noir, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery Tagged Albert Dekker, before they were famous, Classical allusion, Cloris Leachman, detective, Ernest Laszlo, ethnic stereotype, femme fatale, Frank DeVol, hitchhiking, Jack Elam, low-budget, MacGuffin, mechanic, Mickey Spillane, Paul Stewart, Ralph Meeker, Robert Aldrich, scientists, Strother Martin, United Artists

September 14th, 2011: The Road Warror

Sep14 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Apocalypse, Chase, Independent, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Thriller, Western Tagged anti-hero, Australia, Brian May, Bruce Spence, convoy, feint, feral child, George Miller, gyrocopter, homage, homoerotic subtext, MacGuffin, Mel Gibson, narration, oil, oil crisis, Ozploitation, under siege, Vernon Wells

May 27th, 2011: The Maltese Falcon (1941)

May27 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Based on a Book, Black and White, Detective, Film Noir, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Remake, Whodunnit Tagged Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, double cross, Elisha Cook Jr., Humphrey Bogart, John Huston, MacGuffin, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, twist, Walter Huston, Ward Bond, Warner Brothers, William Hopper

March 13th, 2011: The Phantom (1996)

Mar13 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Based on a Comic Strip, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Pulp Tagged Billy Zane, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Catherine Zeta-Jones, cliffhangers, evil businessman, globe trotting, inherited the mantle, James Remar, Kristy Swanson, Lee Falk, MacGuffin, Patrick McGoohan, Samantha Eggar, The Phantom, Treat Williams

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