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September 26th, 2014: Cool Hand Luke

Sep26 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Crime, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Prison Tagged allegory, Anthony Zerbe, before they were famous, Best Actor Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Original Score Nominee, Best Supporting Actor, chain gang, Charles Tyner, Christ figure, Clifton James, Conrad Hall, Dennis Hopper, George Kennedy, Harry Dean Stanton, J.D. Cannon, Joe Don Baker, Lalo Schifrin, low-budget, National Film Registry, Paul Newman, prison, prison warden, prisoner, Ralph Waite, Rance Howard, Robert Donner, Seven Arts Productions, Strother Martin, Wayne Rogers

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

July 25th, 2014: Mekagojira no Gyakushu aka Terror of Mechagodzilla

Jul25 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Dinosaurs, Drama, Event Film, Kaiju, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Robots, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Tragedy, War with Aliens Tagged "I can't love you, "sound defeats the monster", Akihiko Hirata, Akira Ifukube, aliens from a dying world, Bad Dubbing, black hole, cuts in U.S. version, cyborg, daughter, dinosaurs, disgraced scientist, father, father-daughter relationship, femme fatale, Godzilla, Godzilla noir, gojira, Goro Mutsumi, Henry G. Saperstein, I'm a cyborg", Interpol, Ishiro Honda, Japan, JDF, Kenji Sahara, mad scientist, Mechagodzilla, prison, prison break, prisoner, scientists, silver space man jumpsuit, sonar, sonic weapon, submarine, suicide, superhero Godzilla, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka

May 14th, 2014: Chikyû kogeki meirei: Gojira tai Gaigan aka Godzilla vs. Gigan aka Godzilla on Monster Island

May14 by Professor Mortis

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4 Comments Posted in Aliens, Dinosaurs, Event Film, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Superheroes, War with Aliens Tagged Akira Ifukube, alien abduction, alien warning, aliens from a polluted world, aliens possessing the dead, Angillas, cockroaches, comic books, Drive-In, ecological warning, Ghidorah, Godzilla, hippies, Japan, Jun Fukuda, karate, Odious Comic Relief, prisoner, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, Showa Series, stock footage, stock music, superhero Godzilla, Takeshi Kimura, the declining years, theme park, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, tower

January 28th, 2014: Riki-Oh (1991)

Jan28 by Max Roland Ekstrom

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Based on a Comic Book, Based on the Manga, Dark Future, Horror, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, Prison, Revenge, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Bad Dubbing, bad special effects, breath control, gore, Hong Kong, kung fu, prison, prison warden, prisoner, wooden acting

December 4th: Chopper (2000)

Dec4 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Biopic, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Movie of the Day, Prison Tagged Andrew Dominik, Australia, Australian Film Finance Corporation, before they were famous, Chopper, courtroom scene, Eric Bana, low-budget, Mark Brandon Read, prison, prison warden, prisoner

September 19th, 2013: The Pirates of Blood River

Sep19 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adventure, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Pirate, Swashbuckler Tagged adultery, alcoholic, Andrew Keir, before they were famous, Britain, Caribbean, Christopher Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Drive-In, father-son relationship, fort, Glenn Corbett, Hammer, hidden treasure, Hugenots, island, Jimmy Sangster, John Gilling, Kerwin Matthews, low-budget, Michael Carreras, Michael Ripper, Oliver Reed, Peter Arne, piranha, pirates, prison, prison break, prisoner, religion, treasure

July 29th, 2013: The Devil-Ship Pirates

Jul29 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Homefront, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Pirate, Swashbuckler, War Movies Tagged Andrew Keir, blacksmith, Britain, Christopher Lee, class issues, collaborators, Hammer, homefront, Jimmy Sangster, low-budget, Michael Ripper, prisoner, Spanish Armada, Thames River

January 16th, 2013: Escape from New York (1981)

Jan16 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Dark Future, Independent, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged "but I get results", "New York", "You will self destruct in 24 hours", Adrienne Barbeau, Air Force One, airplane, arena, Avco Embassy Pictures, Bob Minor, bridge, Britain, Charles Cyphers, co-production, Donald Pleasence, double cross, Drive-In, Ernest Borgnine, futures past, George "Buck" Flower, glider, Harry Dean Stanton, helicopter, hostage, Isaac Hayes, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, John Diehl, Kurt Russell, land mines, low-budget, musical interlude, New York City, plane crash, President of the United States, prison, prison warden, prisoner, rescue mission, scientists, Tom Atkins, veteran, World War Three

October 18th, 2012: Crawlspace (1986)

Oct18 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Horror, Movie of the Day, Serial Killer, Stalker, Thriller Tagged "Skinemax", apartment, attempted rape, booby trap, Charles Band, children of famous people, crawlspace, creepy neighbors, David Schmoller, death trap, doctor, Empire Pictures, grindhouse, Klaus Kinski, landlord, less famous spouse, mad surgeon, peeping tom, prisoner, Russian Roulette, soap opera actress, Talia Balsam, Tane McClure, the declining years, traps

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