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December 13th, 2013: 1941

Dec13 by Professor Mortis

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4 Comments Posted in Action, Assumed Identity, Comedy, Event Film, Mistaken Identity, Movie of the Day, Satire, Screwball, Slapstick, War Movies Tagged Battle of Los Angeles, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, Best Visual Effects Nominee, Bob Gale, Christopher Lee, Columbia Pictures, Dan Aykroyd, Dub Taylor, Eddie Deezen, Elisha Cook Jr., Frank McRae, General Stilwell, German Navy, Japanese Navy, Joe Flaherty, John Belushi, John Landis, John Milius, John Williams, Lionel Stander, Lorraine Gray, Los Angeles, model airplanes, Murray Hamilton, Nancy Allen, Nazis, Ned Beatty, riot, Robert Stack, Robert Zemeckis, Slim Pickens, Steven Spielberg, submarine, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, Treat Williams, troubled production, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Universal Pictures, Warren Oates, Wendie Jo Sperber, World War Two, zoot suit riots, zoot suits

February 26th, 2013: The Last Man on Earth (1964)

Feb26 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Apocalypse, Based on a Book, Black and White, Dark Future, Horror, Independent, Last Man on Earth, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Survival, The Original, Vampires, Zombies Tagged co-production, Drive-In, Italy, kid vampire, low-budget, plague, Richard Matheson, Samuel Z. Arkoff, scientists, troubled production, twist, vampire hunter, Vincent Price

February 15th, 2013: Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster

Feb15 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Event Film, Giant Animals, Giant Crustaceans, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sequel, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, bank robbers, Eiji Tsuburaya, fishermen, Godzilla, Hal Linden, Japan, Kumi Mizuno, Masaru Sato, meltdown, Mothra, nuclear weapons, paramilitary group, Shinichi Sekizawa, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, troubled production, uncharted island, yacht

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 27th, 2011: Aguirre: The Wrath of God

Oct27 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Adventure, Arthouse, Drama, Horror, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Road Trip Tagged Amazon, conquistadors, doomed expedition, Germany, Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), insanity, jungle, Klaus Kinski, low-budget, megalomaniac, natives, Peru, river, South America, troubled production, Werner Herzog, Werner Herzog Filmproduktion

Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

Jul29 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Based on a Play, Biopic, Comedy, Event Film, Full Reviews, Musical, Period Film, Reviews, Screwball, Slapstick Tagged "Battle of the Sexes", "Native American Face", American Indian, annoying children, Arthur Freed, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture, Betty Hutton, circus, Howard Keel, hunters, illiterate, Irving Berlin, J. Carrol Naish, Keenan Wynn, Louis Calhern, MGM, New York City, rednecks, sexism, sharpshooters, Technicolor, travelling show, troubled production

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