Movie Marathon (Part 2)

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1962

Movies with unusual deaths

  1. This Is Spinal Tap - spontaneous combustion
  2. Raiders of the Lost Ark - melted by Ark of the Covenant
  3. Se7en - Prostitute died of internal bleeding when a sex customer was forced to have sex with her with a bladed strap-on, as the Lust Sin.
  4. The Abominable Dr. Phibes - death by crushing frog’s head
  5. What a Way to Go! - Artist Larry Flint (played by Paul Newman) is painted to death by robots he built to make his paintings.
1963

Movies with unusual deaths

  1. This Is Spinal Tap - spontaneous combustion
  2. Raiders of the Lost Ark - melted by Ark of the Covenant
  3. Se7en - Prostitute died of internal bleeding when a sex customer was forced to have sex with her with a bladed strap-on, as the Lust Sin.
  4. The Abominable Dr. Phibes - death by crushing frog’s head
  5. What a Way to Go! - Artist Larry Flint (played by Paul Neuman) is painted to death by a robot he built to make his paintings.

[edit: I realized Mr. Creosote is actually alive after exploding in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life.]

1964

There’s at least one other actual, unusual death in the film, as well, which I’m adding:

Movies with unusual deaths

  1. This Is Spinal Tap - spontaneous combustion
  2. Raiders of the Lost Ark - melted by Ark of the Covenant
  3. Se7en - Prostitute died of internal bleeding when a sex customer was forced to have sex with her with a bladed strap-on, as the Lust Sin.
  4. The Abominable Dr. Phibes - death by crushing frog’s head
  5. What a Way to Go! - Artist Larry Flint (played by Paul Neuman) is painted to death by a robot he built to make his paintings.
  6. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life - a man who has been sentenced to death, but was allowed to choose his own method of execution, is chased off of the top of the Cliffs of Dover by a mob of topless women
1965

Movies with unusual deaths

  1. This Is Spinal Tap - spontaneous combustion
  2. Raiders of the Lost Ark - melted by Ark of the Covenant
  3. Se7en - Prostitute died of internal bleeding when a sex customer was forced to have sex with her with a bladed strap-on, as the Lust Sin.
  4. The Abominable Dr. Phibes - death by crushing frog’s head
  5. What a Way to Go! - Artist Larry Flint (played by Paul Neuman) is painted to death by a robot he built to make his paintings.
  6. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life - a man who has been sentenced to death, but was allowed to choose his own method of execution, is chased off of the top of the Cliffs of Dover by a mob of topless women
  7. Alien - creature pops out of chest
1966

Movies with unusual deaths

  1. This Is Spinal Tap - spontaneous combustion
  2. Raiders of the Lost Ark - melted by Ark of the Covenant
  3. Se7en - Prostitute died of internal bleeding when a sex customer was forced to have sex with her with a bladed strap-on, as the Lust Sin.
  4. The Abominable Dr. Phibes - death by crushing frog’s head
  5. What a Way to Go! - Artist Larry Flint (played by Paul Neuman) is painted to death by a robot he built to make his paintings.
  6. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life - a man who has been sentenced to death, but was allowed to choose his own method of execution, is chased off of the top of the Cliffs of Dover by a mob of topless women
  7. Alien - creature pops out of chest
  8. Star Wars: A New Hope - Obi wan Kenobi ‘dematerializes’ as Darth’s light sabre slices through his empty clothes
1967

Movies with unusual deaths

  1. This Is Spinal Tap - spontaneous combustion
  2. Raiders of the Lost Ark - melted by Ark of the Covenant
  3. Se7en - Prostitute died of internal bleeding when a sex customer was forced to have sex with her with a bladed strap-on, as the Lust Sin.
  4. The Abominable Dr. Phibes - death by crushing frog’s head
  5. What a Way to Go! - Artist Larry Flint (played by Paul Neuman) is painted to death by a robot he built to make his paintings.
  6. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life - a man who has been sentenced to death, but was allowed to choose his own method of execution, is chased off of the top of the Cliffs of Dover by a mob of topless women
  7. Alien - creature pops out of chest
  8. Star Wars: A New Hope - Obi wan Kenobi ‘dematerializes’ as Darth’s light sabre slices through his empty clothes
  9. Dr. Strangelove - Major Kong rides an H-bomb to nuclear oblivion, hoping to take a bunch of Godless Rooskies with him.
1968

Movies with unusual deaths

  1. This Is Spinal Tap - spontaneous combustion
  2. Raiders of the Lost Ark - melted by Ark of the Covenant
  3. Se7en - Prostitute died of internal bleeding when a sex customer was forced to have sex with her with a bladed strap-on, as the Lust Sin.
  4. The Abominable Dr. Phibes - death by crushing frog’s head
  5. What a Way to Go! - Artist Larry Flint (played by Paul Neuman) is painted to death by a robot he built to make his paintings.
  6. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life - a man who has been sentenced to death, but was allowed to choose his own method of execution, is chased off of the top of the Cliffs of Dover by a mob of topless women
  7. Alien - creature pops out of chest
  8. Star Wars: A New Hope - Obi wan Kenobi ‘dematerializes’ as Darth’s light sabre slices through his empty clothes
  9. Dr. Strangelove - Major Kong rides an H-bomb to nuclear oblivion, hoping to take a bunch of Godless Rooskies with him.
  10. Scanners - a man’s head explodes

Pass.

1969

John Wayne

  1. True Grit
1970

John Wayne

  1. True Grit
  2. The Green Berets
1971

John Wayne

  1. True Grit
  2. The Green Berets
  3. The Quiet Man
1972

John Wayne

  1. True Grit
  2. The Green Berets
  3. The Quiet Man
  4. The Conqueror … seriously, John Wayne as Genghis Khan??

-“BB”-

1973

John Wayne

  1. True Grit
  2. The Green Berets
  3. The Quiet Man
  4. The Conqueror … seriously, John Wayne as Genghis Khan??
  5. Hatari!
1974

John Wayne

  1. True Grit
  2. The Green Berets
  3. The Quiet Man
  4. The Conqueror … seriously, John Wayne as Genghis Khan??
  5. Hatari!
  6. Rooster Cogburn
1975

John Wayne

  1. True Grit
  2. The Green Berets
  3. The Quiet Man
  4. The Conqueror … seriously, John Wayne as Genghis Khan??
  5. Hatari!
  6. Rooster Cogburn
  7. The High and the Mighty
1976

John Wayne

  1. True Grit
  2. The Green Berets
  3. The Quiet Man
  4. The Conqueror … seriously, John Wayne as Genghis Khan??
  5. Hatari!
  6. Rooster Cogburn
  7. The High and the Mighty
  8. The Sands of Iwo Jima

Worth a read as to #4: Did John Wayne die of cancer caused by a radioactive movie set? - The Straight Dope

1977

John Wayne

  1. True Grit
  2. The Green Berets
  3. The Quiet Man
  4. The Conqueror … seriously, John Wayne as Genghis Khan??
  5. Hatari!
  6. Rooster Cogburn
  7. The High and the Mighty
  8. The Sands of Iwo Jima
  9. Hondo
1978

John Wayne

  1. True Grit
  2. The Green Berets
  3. The Quiet Man
  4. The Conqueror … seriously, John Wayne as Genghis Khan??
  5. Hatari!
  6. Rooster Cogburn
  7. The High and the Mighty
  8. The Sands of Iwo Jima
  9. Hondo
    10.Stagecoaxh

Pass

1979

How did nobody say The Searchers? It’s John Wayne’s best movie.

1980

New category:

John Ford movies that didn’t feature John Wayne

  1. The Grapes of Wrath
1981

John Ford movies that didn’t feature John Wayne

  1. The Grapes of Wrath
  2. The Informer