Tag: 1941

• Extreme Cinema! “Fu-Man Chews”

  Robert Englund makes a cameo as the bus driver in the dream sequence that begins the movie. Christopher Young, an enormously talented film composer, does the score. He did a great score for The Fly II and the Hellraiser movies. I know this because I have several of his scores on tape and compact disc.…

  lawlerd

  January 15, 2017

  Podcast

  12:01, 1941, 1985, 1987, A Nightmare On Elm Street 2 Freddy’s Revenge, action movies, Alex Saltz, Andrew La Ganke, David Lawler, exploitation movies, Extreme Cinema, Francis Coppola, Jack Sholder, Romper Stomper, Supernova, The Hidden, Valerie Sachs, Walter Hill

• Vintage Cable Box: “To Be Or Not To Be, 1983”

  “Listen, if I don’t come back, then I forgive you for anything that happened between you and Lt. Sobinski.  But if I do come back, you’re in a lot of trouble!” To Be Or Not To Be, 1983 (Mel Brooks), 20th Century Fox The story goes that Mel Brooks sought out the widow of Ernst…

  lawlerd

  June 27, 2016

  Blog

  1941, 1983, Alan Johnson, Anne Bancroft, Carole Lombard, Charles Durning, comedy, concentration camp, Ernst Lubitsch, George Gaynes, George Wyner, Germans, Jack Benny, Jews, José Ferrer, Mel Brooks, musical, Nazi Germany, original movie, remake, romance, Tim Matheson, To Be Or Not To Be, war movie, Warsaw, World War II

• Vintage Cable Box: “Romancing The Stone, 1984”

  “What’d you do?  Wake up this morning and say, ‘Today I’m gonna ruin a man’s life!’?” Romancing The Stone, 1984 (Michael Douglas), 20th Century Fox Romancing The Stone begins as a story-within-a-story, the perils of Angelina and her love-interest, Jessie. She exacts revenge on the evil Grogan, while Jessie dispatches Grogan’s equally-evil brothers. Together they…

  lawlerd

  December 14, 2015

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  1941, 1984, action, action adventure, comedy, Danny DeVito, el Corazon, emerald, Indiana Jones, intrigue, Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Robert Zemeckis, romance, Romancing The Stone, South America, Steven Spielberg, The African Queen