Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings and Series
Language: English
Pages: 225
ISBN: 0786408936
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This work includes over 670 entires on a variety of film themes, settings, and series. Each entry contains a mini-essay that defines the topic, followed by a chronological list of representative films. Example entries are alcoholism, the RBI, oil wells and twins.
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bad guy, but turned good in later installments. He was also discovered in a similar fashion, when a plane containing an atomic bomb crashed in the Arctic. The giant turtle’s initial appearance was not a total surprise, however, as a scientist in the dubbed version of ¡965’s Gamera confessed: “I heard there were giant turtles that lived on the Arctic continent.” Gamera flew by withdrawing into his shell and rotating like a flying saucer. The original seven film series ended in ¡97¡. An eighth
Brain (aka Madmen of Mandoras) (¡963); The Producers (¡968); Flesh Feast (¡970); Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (¡972); Hitler: The Last Ten Days (¡973); Undercovers Hero (aka Soft Beds and Hard Battles; Soft Beds, Hard Battles) (¡973); Rogue Male (¡976 TVM); The Boys from Brazil (¡978); The Lucifer Complex (¡978); Our Hitler, a Film from Germany (¡980); The Bunker (¡98¡ TVM); Inside the Third Reich (¡982 TVM); To Be or Not To Be (¡983); Zelig (¡983); Hitler’s S.S.: Portrait in Evil (¡985
monkey-to-man experiment in ¡942’s Dr. Renault’s Secret. Malcolm McDowell accidentally discovered a pig-man in an experimental hospital in the ¡973 satire O Lucky Man! Similar medical experiments yielded disappointing results in bottomof-the-barrel horror pictures like Terror Is a Man and Twilight People. Not all humanimals were produced by science or reincarnation. Puppet boy Pinocchio fell in with a crowd of naughty kids on Pleasure Island and they were all transformed into donkeys in Disney’s
in the ¡939 Wizard of Oz— made a rather brief appearance. But it made a lasting impression (e.g., the sight of Miss Gulch morphing into the Wicked Witch inside the funnel) and provided Dorothy with transportation to Oz. However, in terms of big budget special e›ects, Twister (¡996) rates as the tornado’s finest hour. Although its melodramatic story of two feuding tornado chasers lacked interest, most moviegoers cherished its visual spectacles — such as a cow flying in the wind currents. In the
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (¡978); Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (¡978); Creepshow (¡982); The Little Shop of Horrors (¡986); Godzilla vs. Biollante (¡989); The Guardian (¡990); Dreams (¡990) (“The Peach Orchard” segment); Jumanji (¡995) (man-eating plants); The Balloon Farm (¡999 TVM) Plastic Surgery Movie surgeons have wasted little time on routine facelifts and nose jobs (though Steve Martin pleaded for a nose alteration in ¡987’s Roxanne). Instead, they have concentrated far more on
