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October 28th, 2014: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949)

Oct28 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Family, Ghost, Holiday, Horror, Movie of the Day, Musical, Remake, Short Tagged "And I would have gotten away with it...", Bing Crosby, Disney, farmers, ghost story, manipulative woman, RKO, teachers, Walt Disney, Washington Irving

June 25th, 2014: Fort Apache (1948)

Jun25 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Based on a Book, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Cavalry, Independent, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, Western Tagged American Indian, Anna Lee, Argosy Pictures, Dick Foran, Frank S. Nugent, Guy Kibbee, Hank Worden, Henry Fonda, James Warner Bellah, John Agar, John Ford, John Wayne, Merian C. Cooper, Odious Comic Relief, Pedro Armendáriz, RKO, Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond

May 30th 2014: Notorious (1946)

May30 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Drama, Espionage, Movie of the Day, Thriller Tagged alcoholic, Alfred Hitchcock, Ben Hecht, Best Original Screenplay Nominee, Best Supporting Actor Nominee, Brazil, Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Clifford Odets, double cross, Ingrid Bergman, Miami, National Film Registry, Nazis, Rio De Janerio, RKO, uranium

May 10th, 2014: Top Hat (1935)

May10 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Mistaken Identity, Movie of the Day, Musical, Romance, Screwball Tagged "England", Best Art Direction Nominee, Best Dance Direction Nominee, Best Original Song Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, dance, dancers, designer, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, high fashion, hotel, Irving Berlin, Italy, London, Max Steiner, meet cute, models, RKO, Venice

July 26th, 2013: The Spiral Staircase (1945)

Jul26 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Period Film, Serial Killer, Thriller, Whodunnit Tagged alcoholic, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, day dreaming, doctor, dream, Elsa Lanchester, Ethel Barrymore, fantasy sequence, George Brent, insanity, Kent Smith, maid, movie theater, mutes, post traumatic stress disorder, Rhys Williams, RKO, Robert Siodmak, serial killer, storm, turn of the century, willpower can solve anything

November 1st, 2012: The Body Snatcher (1945)

Nov1 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Crime, Movember, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Thriller, True Crime Tagged anatomists, before they were famous, Bela Lugosi, body stealing, Boris Karloff, cemetery, doctor, grave robbing, graveyard, Henry Daniell, RKO, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Wise, surgery, Val Lewton

May 6th, 2012: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

May6 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Drama, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Tragedy Tagged Agnes Moorehead, Anne Baxter, Bernard Hermann, Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Booth Tarkington, Joseph Cotton, Mercury Productions, Orson Welles, RKO, Robert Wise, studio interference, Tim Holt

April 18th, 2012: Gunga Din (1939)

Apr18 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Poem, Black and White, Buddy Flick, Cavalry, Comedy, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Period Film, The Original, War Movies, Western Tagged Alfred Newman, Ben Hecht, Best Cinematography Nominee, brawl, Britain, British Army, bugle, captured by the enemy, Cary Grant, cult leader, cultists, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Eduardo Ciannelli, elephant, fanatic, fiance, George Stevens, India, Joan Fontaine, John Sturges, loosely adapted, Montagu Love, National Film Registry, noble savage, noble servant, RKO, Rudyard Kipling, Sam Jaffe, schemer, Thuggee, treasure, Victor McLaglen, water boy

November 24th, 2011: King Kong (1933)

Nov24 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Black and White, Dinosaurs, Event Film, Giant Animals, Giant Apes, Kaiju, Lost World, Monster, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation, The Original Tagged "apes love blondes", apes, biplane, Bruce Cabot, David O. Selznick, Edgar Wallace, Empire State Building, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Fay Wray, King Kong, Max Steiner, Merian C. Cooper, National Film Registry, natives, New York City, Noble Johnson, obligatory love interest, RKO, Robert Armstrong, sacrifice, Skull Island, Willis O'Brien

June 13th, 2011: Mighty Joe Young (1949)

Jun13 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Black and White, Event Film, Family, Giant Animals, Great White Hunter, Independent, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation, The Original Tagged Africa, Argosy Pictures, Ben Johnson, Best Effects-Best Special Effects, cowboys, Ernest B. Schoedsack, fire, gorillas, John Ford, Merian C. Cooper, musical interlude, night club, RKO, Robert Armstrong, Ruth Rose, Willis O'Brien

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