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Film poster
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A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film. Studios often print several posters that vary in size and content for various domestic and they normally contain an image with text. Todays posters often feature photographs of the main actors, prior to the 1990s, illustrations instead of photos were far more common. The text on film posters usually contains the title in large lettering. It may also include a tagline, the name of the director, names of characters, film posters are displayed inside and on the outside of movie theaters, and elsewhere on the street or in shops. The same images appear in the film exhibitors pressbook and may also be used on websites, DVD packaging, flyers, advertisements in newspapers and magazines, film posters have been used since the earliest public exhibitions of film. They began as outside placards listing the programme of films to be shown inside the hall or movie theater, by the early 1900s, they began to feature illustrations of a film scene or an array of overlaid images from several scenes. Other posters have used artistic interpretations of a scene or even the theme of the film, as an economy measure, the NSS regularly recycled posters that were returned, sending them back out to be used again at another theater. During this time, a film could stay in circulation for several years and those posters which were not returned were often thrown away by the theater owner, but some found their way into the hands of collectors. Today there is a thriving market in film posters, some have become very valuable. The record price for a poster was set on November 15,2005 when $690,000 was paid for a poster of Fritz Langs 1927 film Metropolis from the Reel Poster Gallery in London. The 1931 Frankenstein six-sheet poster, of only one copy is known to exist, is considered to be the most valuable film poster in the world. Over the years, old Bollywood posters, especially with hand-painted art, have become collectors items, occasionally, rare film posters have been found being used as insulation in attics and walls. In 2011,33 film posters, including a Dracula Style F one-sheet, from 1930-1931 were discovered in an attic in Berwick, Pennsylvania, as a result of market demand, some of the more popular older film posters have been reproduced either under license or illegally. Although the artwork on reproductions is the same as originals, reproductions can often be distinguished by size, printing quality, several websites on the Internet offer authentication tests to distinguish originals from reproductions. Original film posters distributed to theaters and other venues by the movie studios are never sold directly to the public. However, most modern posters are produced in quantities and often become available for purchase by collectors indirectly through various secondary markets such as eBay. Accordingly, most modern posters are not as valuable, however some recent posters, such as the recalled Pulp Fiction Lucky Strike U. S. one sheet poster, are quite rare
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Hemdale Film Corporation
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Hemmings left the company in 1971, and Daly purchased his stock. They were known for having produced numerous acclaimed and well-known genre films, often in conjunction with such as TriStar. Hemdale is a combination of Hemmings and Dalys surnames, Hemdale began as an investment company to cut the high personal taxes on British actors. Eventually, the company went public as Hemdale Ltd. and began diversifying, Hemdale also distributed cable TV to hotels, which, in 1974, was its major source of revenue. After producing and distributing British films throughout the 1970s, Hemdale relocated to Hollywood in 1980, a distribution agreement was made with Orion Pictures. John Daly was Hemdales chairman and president, in 1981 Derek Gibson joined the company as executive vice president and head of production. Daly and Gibson were then credited together as producers on all Hemdale films. Hemdale produced and or financed over 80 films during this period, the company suffered a credit line withdrawal from its French bank Credit Lyonnais due to a number of Government bank inquiries. The banks difficulties forced it to withdraw Hemdales line of credit, in 1991, Eric Parkinson joined Hemdale as president of Hemdale Home Video and Hemdale Communications. That same year, Hemdale created a collection of video cassette titles released by Hemdale Home Video around the United States of America. Its first title was the Home Video reissue of the original Terminator in 1991, in 1995, the video rights to some of Hemdales higher-profile titles were licensed to LIVE Entertainment. In 1995, Hemdale shut its doors, shortly after it was announced that Daly, the library was then incorporated into Consortium de Réalisation, a French holding company set up by Credit Lyonnais to handle the rights to titles acquired by Credit Lyonnais Bank. After the studio closed, the Hemdale library was incorporated into the Orion Pictures output now owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, after MGM acquired the Consortium de Réalisation library from PolyGram. One significant exception is The Last Emperor, a Hemdale production whose rights are now held by its producer, Hemdale licensed each of the US media rights to different companies, for example, Columbia Pictures handled US Theatrical only. Most of the foreign productions Hemdale distributed have subsequently returned to their original owners, the companys last new credit was the Virgin Games video game adaptation The Terminator, which showed up on the games start up screen as Hemdales The Terminator. Hemdale Film Corporation at the Internet Movie Database Hemdale Film Corporation at the Internet Movie Database Hemdale Film Corporation at the Internet Movie Database
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James Bond
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The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. The latest novel is Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz, published in September 2015, additionally Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond, and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character, Moneypenny. The character has also adapted for television, radio, comic strip, video games. As of 2017, there have been twenty-four films in the Eon Productions series, the most recent Bond film, Spectre, stars Daniel Craig in his fourth portrayal of Bond, he is the sixth actor to play Bond in the Eon series. There have also two independent productions of Bond films, Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again. In 2015, the franchise was estimated to be worth $19.9 billion, the Bond films are renowned for a number of features, including the musical accompaniment, with the theme songs having received Academy Award nominations on several occasions, and two wins. Other important elements which run through most of the films include Bonds cars, his guns, the films are also noted for Bonds relationships with various women, who are sometimes referred to as Bond girls. Ian Fleming created the character of James Bond as the central figure for his works. Bond is an officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. Bond is known by his number,007, and was a Royal Naval Reserve Commander. Among those types were his brother, Peter, who had involved in behind-the-lines operations in Norway. Aside from Flemings brother, a number of others also provided some aspects of Bonds make up, including Conrad OBrien-ffrench, Patrick Dalzel-Job and Bill Biffy Dunderdale. The name James Bond came from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies. He further explained that, When I wrote the first one in 1953, I wanted Bond to be a dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened. When I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, is the dullest name I ever heard. On another occasion, Fleming said, I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, James Bond was much better than something more interesting, like Peregrine Carruthers. Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure—an anonymous, likewise, in Moonraker, Special Branch Officer Gala Brand thinks that Bond is certainly good-looking. Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way and that black hair falling down over the right eyebrow
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Espionage
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Espionage is the obtaining of information considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage can be committed by an individual or a spy ring, in the service of a government or a company, the practice is inherently clandestine, as it is by definition unwelcome and in many cases illegal and punishable by law. Espionage is a subset of intelligence gathering, which includes espionage as well as information gathering from public sources, Espionage is often part of an institutional effort by a government or commercial concern. However, the term is associated with state spying on potential or actual enemies primarily for military purposes. Spying involving corporations is known as industrial espionage, one of the most effective ways to gather data and information about the enemy is by infiltrating the enemys ranks. This is the job of the spy, Spies can bring back all sorts of information concerning the size and strength of enemy forces. They can also find dissidents within the forces and influence them to defect. In times of crisis, spies can also be used to steal technology, counterintelligence operatives can feed false information to enemy spies, protecting important domestic secrets, and preventing attempts at subversion. Nearly every country has strict laws concerning espionage, and the penalty for being caught is often severe. However, the benefits that can be gained through espionage are generally great enough that most governments, events involving espionage are well documented throughout history. The Old Testament of the Christian Bible, which is based primarily on the Hebrew Bible, speaks about Joshua and Caleb, the ancient writings of Chinese and Indian military strategists such as Sun-Tzu and Chanakya contain information on deception and subversion. Chanakyas student Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Maurya Empire in India, made use of assassinations, spies and secret agents, the ancient Egyptians had a thoroughly developed system for the acquisition of intelligence, and the Hebrews used spies as well, as in the story of Rahab. Spies were also prevalent in the Greek and Roman empires, during the 13th and 14th centuries, the Mongols relied heavily on espionage in their conquests in Asia and Europe. Feudal Japan often used ninjas to gather intelligence, aztecs used Pochtecas, people in charge of commerce, as spies and diplomats, and had diplomatic immunity. Many modern espionage methods were established by Francis Walsingham in Elizabethan England, in 1585, Mary, Queen of Scots was placed in the custody of Sir Amias Paulet, who was instructed to open and read all of Marys clandestine correspondence. In a successful attempt to expose her, Walsingham arranged a single exception, Mary was misled into thinking these secret letters were secure, while in reality they were deciphered and read by Walsinghams agents. He succeeded in intercepting letters that indicated a conspiracy to displace Elizabeth I with Mary, in foreign intelligence, Walsinghams extensive network of intelligencers, who passed on general news as well as secrets, spanned Europe and the Mediterranean. While foreign intelligence was a part of the principal secretarys activities, Walsingham brought to it flair and ambition
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VHS
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The Video Home System is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes. Developed by Victor Company of Japan in the early 1970s, it was released in Japan in late 1976, from the 1950s, magnetic tape video recording became a major contributor to the television industry, via the first commercialized video tape recorders. At that time, the devices were used only in professional environments such as television studios. In the 1970s, videotape entered home use, creating the video industry and changing the economics of the television. The television industry viewed videocassette recorders as having the power to disrupt their business, in the 1980s and 1990s, at the peak of VHSs popularity, there were videotape format wars in the home video industry. Two of the formats, VHS and Betamax, received the most media exposure, VHS eventually won the war, dominating 60 percent of the North American market by 1980 and emerging as the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period. Optical disc formats later began to better quality than analog consumer video tape such as standard. The earliest of these formats, LaserDisc, was not widely adopted, however, after the introduction of the DVD format in 1997, VHSs market share began to decline. By 2008, DVD had replaced VHS as the preferred method of distribution. After several attempts by other companies, the first commercially successful VTR, at a price of US$50,000 in 1956, and US$300 for a 90-minute reel of tape, it was intended only for the professional market. Kenjiro Takayanagi, a broadcasting pioneer then working for JVC as its vice president, saw the need for his company to produce VTRs for the Japan market. In 1959, JVC developed a video tape recorder. In 1964, JVC released the DV220, which would be the companys standard VTR until the mid-1970s, in 1969 JVC collaborated with Sony Corporation and Matsushita Electric in building a video recording standard for the Japanese consumer. The effort produced the U-matic format in 1971, which was the first format to become a unified standard, U-matic was successful in business and some broadcast applications, but due to cost and limited recording time very few of the machines were sold for home use. Soon after, Sony and Matsushita broke away from the collaboration effort, Sony started working on Betamax, while Matsushita started working on VX. JVC released the CR-6060 in 1975, based on the U-matic format, Sony and Matsushita also produced U-matic systems of their own. In 1971, JVC engineers Yuma Shiraishi and Shizuo Takano put together a team to develop a consumer-based VTR, by the end of 1971 they created an internal diagram titled VHS Development Matrix, which established twelve objectives for JVCs new VTR. These included, The system must be compatible with any television set
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Government of the United Kingdom
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Her Majestys Government, commonly referred to as the UK government or British government, is the central government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The government is led by the Prime Minister, who all the remaining ministers. The prime minister and the other most senior ministers belong to the supreme decision-making committee, the government ministers all sit in Parliament, and are accountable to it. After an election, the monarch selects as prime minister the leader of the party most likely to command a majority of MPs in the House of Commons. Under the uncodified British constitution, executive authority lies with the monarch, although this authority is exercised only by, or on the advice of, the prime minister, the Cabinet members advise the monarch as members of the Privy Council. They also exercise power directly as leaders of the Government Departments, the current prime minister is Theresa May, who took office on 13 July 2016. She is the leader of the Conservative Party, which won a majority of seats in the House of Commons in the election on 7 May 2015. Prior to this, Cameron and the Conservatives led a government from 2010 to 2015 with the Liberal Democrats. A key principle of the British Constitution is that the government is responsible to Parliament, Britain is a constitutional monarchy in which the reigning monarch does not make any open political decisions. All political decisions are taken by the government and Parliament and this constitutional state of affairs is the result of a long history of constraining and reducing the political power of the monarch, beginning with the Magna Carta in 1215. Parliament is split into two houses, the House of Lords and the House of Commons, the House of Commons is the lower house and is the more powerful. The House of Lords is the house and although it can vote to amend proposed laws. Parliamentary time is essential for bills to be passed into law, Ministers of the Crown are responsible to the House in which they sit, they make statements in that House and take questions from members of that House. For most senior ministers this is usually the elected House of Commons rather than the House of Lords, since the start of Edward VIIs reign, in 1901, the prime minister has always been an elected member of Parliament and therefore directly accountable to the House of Commons. Under the British system the government is required by convention and for reasons to maintain the confidence of the House of Commons. It requires the support of the House of Commons for the maintenance of supply, by convention if a government loses the confidence of the House of Commons it must either resign or a General Election is held. The support of the Lords, while useful to the government in getting its legislation passed without delay, is not vital, a government is not required to resign even if it loses the confidence of the Lords and is defeated in key votes in that House. The House of Commons is thus the Responsible house, the prime minister is held to account during Prime Ministers Question Time which provides an opportunity for MPs from all parties to question the PM on any subject
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Mercenary
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A mercenary is a person who takes part in an armed conflict who is not a national or party to the conflict and is motivated to take part in the hostilities by desire for private gain. Mercenaries fight for money or other recompense instead of fighting for ideological interests, in the last century, and as reflected in the Geneva Convention, mercenaries have increasingly come to be seen as less entitled to protections by rules of war than non-mercenaries. However, whether or not a person is a mercenary may be a matter of degree, Protocol Additional GC1977 is a 1977 amendment protocol to the Geneva Conventions. Article 47 of the protocol provides the most widely accepted definition of a mercenary, though not endorsed by some countries. The Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, a mercenary shall not have the right to be a combatant or a prisoner of war. All the criteria must be met, according to the Geneva Convention, according to the GC III, a captured soldier must be treated as a lawful combatant and, therefore, as a protected person with prisoner-of-war status until facing a competent tribunal. That tribunal, using criteria in APGC77 or some equivalent domestic law, may decide that the soldier is a mercenary. The only possible exception to GC IV Art 5 is when he is a national of the authority imprisoning him, if, after a regular trial, a captured soldier is found to be a mercenary, then he can expect treatment as a common criminal and may face execution. As mercenary soldiers may not qualify as PoWs, they cannot expect repatriation at wars end, the four mercenaries sentenced to death were shot by a firing squad on 10 July 1976. The legal status of civilian contractors depends upon the nature of their work, on 4 December 1989, the United Nations passed resolution 44/34, the International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries. It entered into force on 20 October 2001 and is known as the UN Mercenary Convention. Article 1 contains the definition of a mercenary, Article 1.1 is similar to Article 47 of Protocol I, however Article 1. – under Article 1.2 a person does not have to take a part in the hostilities in a planned coup détat to be a mercenary. Critics have argued that the convention and APGC77 Art,47 are designed to cover the activities of mercenaries in post-colonial Africa and do not address adequately the use of private military companies by sovereign states. While the United States governed Iraq, no U. S. citizen working as a guard could be classified as a mercenary because he was a national of a Party to the conflict. S. However, those who acknowledge the United States and other forces as continuing parties to the conflict might insist that U. S. armed guards cannot be called mercenaries. The laws of countries forbid their citizens to fight in foreign wars unless they are under the control of their own national armed forces. If a person is proven to have worked as a mercenary for any other country while retaining Austrian citizenship, in 2003, France criminalized mercenary activities, as defined by the protocol to the Geneva convention for French citizens, permanent residents and legal entities
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.357 Magnum
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The.357 S&W Magnum, or simply.357 Magnum, is a revolver cartridge with a. 357-inch bullet diameter. It was created by Elmer Keith, Phillip B, Wesson of firearms manufacturers Smith & Wesson and Winchester. It is based upon Smith & Wessons earlier.38 Special cartridge, the.357 Magnum cartridge was introduced in 1934, and its use has since become widespread. This cartridge started the Magnum era of handgun ammunition, the.357 Magnum cartridge is notable for its stopping power. The.357 Magnum was collaboratively developed over a period in the early to mid-1930s by a group of individuals in a response to Colts.38 Super Automatic. Tests at the revealed that those vests defeated any handgun cartridge traveling at less than about 1,000 feet per second. Colts.38 Super Automatic just edged over that velocity and was able to penetrate car doors and vests that bootleggers and gangsters were employing as cover. Though.38 and.357 would seem to be different diameter chamberings, they are in fact identical, the.38 Special nomenclature relates to the previous use of heeled bullets, which were the same diameter as the case. Thus, the only difference in the two cartridges is a slight difference in length, solely for safety purposes. Much credit for the. 357s early development is given to hunter and experimenter Elmer Keith, the. 38-44 HV load used the. 38-Special cartridge loaded to a much higher velocity than standard. 38-Special ammunition. The. 38-44 revolvers were made by using a.44 Special size gun with the barrel bored to accept. 357-caliber bullets, since the frame, cylinder, and barrel were much stronger than the standard.38 Special components, it was capable of withstanding much higher pressures. The. 38-44 HV round, while no longer available, was in most cases the equal of the later.357 Magnum, which works at more than double the pressure of standard.38 Special. Elmer Keith also contributed the Keith-style bullet, which increased the mass of bullet located outside the cartridge, the Keith bullet also employed a large, flat meplat, thus enabling rapid energy transfer for greater wounding properties. At the same time, this design does not deform like a hollow point. These characteristics of the Keith bullet make it suitable for hunting applications as well as for target shooting. In order to reassert itself as the leading law-enforcement armament provider, Smith & Wesson developed the.357 Magnum, Wesson leading the effort within Smith & Wesson, along with considerable technical assistance from Phillip B. Sharpe, a member of the Technical Division staff of the National Rifle Association, the new round was developed from Smith & Wessons existing.38 Special round. It used a different powder load, and ultimately the case was extended by 1⁄8 inch, the case extension was more a matter of safety than of necessity
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Smith & Wesson Model 19
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The S&W Model 19 is a revolver produced by Smith & Wesson on its K-frame. The model 19 is chambered for.357 Magnum, the K-frame is somewhat smaller and lighter than the original N-frame.357, usually known as the S&W Model 27. The.357 Magnum is the oldest magnum handgun cartridge, Smith & Wesson played a major part in the development and success of the cartridge and revolver that went with it. Firearms writer and experimenter Philip Sharpe is credited for its development during the 1930s when police agencies were asking for a more powerful round. S&Ws Dan Wesson agreed to produce a new revolver that would handle high-intensity.38 Special loads, but only if Winchester would develop a new cartridge. Winchester introduced the.357 Magnum, which was identical to the.38 Special except for a.125 inch longer case. Retired Assistant Chief Patrol Inspector of the U. S, border Patrol, famous gunfighter, and noted firearms and shooting skills writer Bill Jordan consulted with Smith & Wesson on the design and characteristics of the Model 19. Jordans idea for a peace officers dream sidearm was a heavy-barreled four-inch K-Frame.357 Magnum with a shrouded barrel like the big N-frame.357 and adjustable sights. The.357 Magnum, four-inch barreled model was standard issue to uniformed officers of the former U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service as well as Patrol Agents of the U. S, border Patrol until both agencies adopted.40 caliber semi-automatic pistols. The.357 Magnum,2. 5” barreled model was standard issue to Special Agents of the former U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service as well as Patrol Agents of the U. S. Border Patrol working plain clothes assignments until both agencies adopted.40 caliber semi-automatic pistols.5,4, or 6-inch barrel lengths, the weights are 30.5 ounces,36 ounces, and 39 ounces, respectively. The 2. 5- and 3-inch barrel versions had round butts, the Model 19 was produced from 1957 to November 1999. The Model 66 was produced from 1970 until 2005, the Model 66 differed by its use of stainless steel and its smooth target-type trigger. The Model 19 and the Model 66 had the same trigger options, engineering changes were designated with a dash- number after the model number. The engineering changes are as follows,19, Stamping of model number, 19-1, Change extractor rod, right to left-hand thread. 19-2, Cylinder stop changed, deleted triggerguard screw,50 manufactured with 2.5 barrel, serial range K544672–K544721. 19-3, Relocation of rear sight leaf screw, 19-4, Change gas ring from yoke to cylinder. 19-5, Eliminate cylinder counterbore and pinned barrel, small change in length to 1.62
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Revolver
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A revolver is a repeating handgun that has a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers and at least one barrel for firing. Revolvers might be regarded as a subset of pistols, or as a subset of handguns. Though the term revolver usually only refers to handguns, other firearms may also have a revolving chamber and these include some models of grenade launchers, shotguns, and rifles. Most revolvers contain five or six rounds in the cylinder, though the original name was revolving gun, the short-hand revolver is universally used. The revolver allows the user to fire multiple rounds without reloading, each time the user cocks the hammer, the cylinder revolves to align the next chamber and round with the hammer and barrel, which gives this type of firearm its name. In a single-action revolver, the user pulls the back with his free hand or thumb. In a double-action revolver, pulling the trigger moves the back, then releases it. Loading and unloading a double-action revolver requires the operator to swing out the cylinder and insert the proper ammunition, the first guns with multichambered cylinders that revolved to feed one barrel were made in the late 16th century in Europe. They were expensive and rare curiosities, not until the 19th century would revolvers become common weapons of industrial production. One of the first was a flintlock revolver patented by Elisha Collier in 1814, the first percussion revolver was made by Lenormand of Paris in 1820 and the first percussion cap revolver was invented by the Italian Francesco Antonio Broccu in 1833. He received a prize of 300 francs for his invention, although he did not patent it, however, in 1835 a similar handgun was patented by Samuel Colt, who would go on to make the first mass-produced revolver. The first cartridge revolvers were produced around 1854 by Eugene Lefaucheux, revolvers soon became standard for nearly all uses. In the early 20th century, semi-automatic pistols were developed, which can hold more rounds, Automatic pistols also have a flat profile, more suitable for concealed carry. Automatic pistols have almost completely replaced revolvers in military and law enforcement use, revolvers still remain popular as back-up and off-duty handguns among American law enforcement officers and security guards. Also, revolvers are still common in the American private sector as defensive, in the development of firearms, an important limiting factor was the time it took to reload the weapon after it was fired. While the user was reloading, the weapon was useless, several approaches to the problem of increasing the rate of fire were developed, the earliest being multi-barrelled weapons which allowed two or more shots without reloading. Later weapons featured multiple barrels revolving along a single axis, the earliest examples of what today is called a revolver were made in Germany in the late 16th century. These weapons featured a barrel with a revolving cylinder holding the powder
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M2 Browning
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The M2 Machine Gun or Browning.50 Caliber Machine Gun is a heavy machine gun designed toward the end of World War I by John Browning. Its design is similar to Brownings earlier M1919 Browning machine gun, the M2 uses the much larger and much more powerful.50 BMG cartridge, which was developed alongside and takes its name from the gun itself. It has been referred to as Ma Deuce, in reference to its M2 nomenclature, the design has had many specific designations, the official designation for the current infantry type is Browning Machine Gun, Cal.50, M2, HB, Flexible. It is effective against infantry, unarmored or lightly armored vehicles and boats, light fortifications, the M2 has been produced longer than any other machine gun. The Browning.50 caliber machine gun has been used extensively as a vehicle weapon and it was heavily used during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Falklands War, the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan in the 2000s and 2010s. It is the heavy machine gun of NATO countries, and has been used by many other countries as well. The M2 has been in use longer than any firearm in U. S. inventory except the.45 ACP M1911 pistol. The current M2HB is manufactured in the U. S. by General Dynamics, Ordnance for use by the U. S. government, and for allies via Foreign Military Sales, as well as foreign manufacturers such as FN Herstal. Machine guns were used in World War I, and weapons of larger than rifle caliber were appearing. Both the British and French had large caliber machine guns, the larger rounds were needed to defeat the armor that was being introduced to the battlefield. Armor was also appearing in the skies, during World War I, the Germans introduced a heavily armored airplane, the Junkers J. I. The armor made aircraft machine guns using conventional rifle ammunition ineffective, consequently, the American Expeditionary Forces commander General John J. Pershing asked for a larger caliber machine gun. Pershing asked the Army Ordnance Department to develop a gun with a caliber of at least 0.50 inches. U. S. Col. John Henry Parker, commanding a machine gun school in France, the Army Ordnance Department ordered eight experimental Colt machine guns rechambered for the French 11 mm cartridge. The French had developed a machine gun for an even larger caliber. The French 11 mm round was found to be unsuitable because its velocity was too low, Pershing wanted a bullet of at least 670 gr and a muzzle velocity of 2,700 ft/s. Development with the French round was dropped, around July 1917, John M. Browning started redesigning his.30 caliber machine gun for a larger caliber. Winchester worked on the cartridge, which was a version of the. 30-06
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Richard Todd
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Richard Andrew Palethorpe Todd OBE was an Irish-born British soldier and stage and film actor. Richard Todd was born as Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd in Dublin, Ireland and his father, Andrew William Palethorpe Todd, was an Irish physician and an international Irish rugby player who gained three caps for his country. Richard spent a few of his years in India, where his father. Later his family moved to Devon and Todd attended Shrewsbury School, upon leaving school, Todd trained for a potential military career at Sandhurst before beginning his acting training at the Italia Conti Academy. This change in career led to estrangement from his mother, when he learned at age 19 that she had committed suicide, he did not grieve long for her, he admitted in later life. He first appeared professionally as an actor at the Open Air Theatre and he played in regional theatres and then co-founded the Dundee Repertory Theatre in 1939. He also appeared as an extra in films like Good Morning, Boys, A Yank at Oxford, at the beginning of World War II Todd enlisted into the British Army, receiving a commission in 1941. Initially, he served in the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry before joining the Parachute Regiment, on 6 June 1944, as a captain, he participated in Operation Tonga during the D-Day landings. Todd was among the first British officers to land in Normandy as part of Operation Overlord and his Battalion parachuted in after the initial glider-borne forces had landed with the objective of capturing the Pegasus Bridge near Caen. During the operation he met Major John Howard on the bridge, after the war, Todd returned to acting in repertory theatre in England. He was cast in the lead in For Them That Trespass, the film was a minor hit and Todds career was launched. This led to his being cast in role in the Warner Bros. film adaptation of the play. Todd was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the role in 1949 and he was also voted favourite British male film star in Britains National Film Awards. The film was the tenth most popular movie at the British box office in 1949, Todd was now in much demand. He was leant out to a new company, Constellation Films, to appear in a thriller, alfred Hitchcock then used him in Stage Fright, opposite Marlene Dietrich and Jane Wyman - Hitchcocks first British film in 1939. Associated British put him in a drama, Portrait of Clare, neither did Flesh and Blood, for London Films, in which Todd had a duel role. Director King Vidor offered Todd a lead in a Hollywood movie, far more popular was The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men, which Todd played the title role for the Disney Corporation. Associated British put him in another thriller,24 Hours of a Womans Life, the Rank Organisation borrowed him for a thriller, Venetian Bird, directed by Ralph Thomas
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Geoffrey Keen
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Geoffrey Keen was an English actor who appeared in supporting roles in many famous films. Keen was born in Wallingford, Berkshire, England, the son of stage actor Malcolm Keen and he was educated at Bristol Grammar School. He then joined the Little Repertory Theatre in Bristol for whom he made his debut in 1932. After a year in repertory he stayed for a year in Cannes before being accepted for a place at the London School of Economics. In a last minute change of mind, he entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and he had just joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1939 when the war started. Keen enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps, though managed to appear in an Army instructional film for Carol Reed. Keen made his film debut in 1946 in Riders of the New Forest but soon appeared in better known films for Reed such as, Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol. He quickly became one of the busiest character actors, typically doing five films a year and he also continued to perform on stage, for instance as Iachimo in Peter Halls 1957 production of Cymbeline, and a sadistic Turkish General in Terence Rattigans controversial Ross. He often portrayed balding, cold-hearted, and sarcastic executives or lawyers, on television, he was one of the leads in BBC TVs long-running drama about the oil industry, The Troubleshooters, between 1965 and 1972. In all, Keen had appeared in 100 films before he retired in 1991, the Adventures of Robin Hood - episode - The Wager - Blind Beggar Keen was married three times had one daughter, Mary and two grandchildren, Hetty and Flora. He died in 2005 in Northwood, Middlesex and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, geoffrey Keen at the Internet Movie Database
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Sue Lloyd
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Sue Lloyd was an English model turned actress with numerous film and television credits. She may be best known for her role as Barbara Hunter, née Brady. The daughter of a GP, Susan Margery Jeaffreson Lloyd was born in Aldeburgh and she attended Edgbaston High School in Birmingham and studied dance as a child, attending Sadlers Wells Ballet School. As her height increased, her possibilities for a career as a dancer diminished, and she became a showgirl and model, and, briefly and she was one of the last two debutantes to be presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace in 1958, the final such ceremony. She made her debut in two espionage themed films released in 1965. Lloyd was a foil to Michael Caines Harry Palmer in the spy thriller The Ipcress File and had a role in The Return of Mr. Moto. In the same year Lloyd played the role of secret agent Cordelia Winfield. Originally Lloyds character only appeared in the episode with Steve Forrests sidekick played by Paul Ferris. Pressure from the American television network who were to screen the show replaced Ferris with Lloyd, in 1971, Lloyd starred in a stage version of the TV series The Avengers playing John Steeds sidekick, Mrs Hannah Wild. She also appeared with other stars in the 1976 Lindsay Shonteff imitation James Bond film No.1 of the Secret Service. She made many guest appearances on popular shows of the 1960s and 1970s including The Saint, Department S, Jason King, Randall and Hopkirk, The Persuaders. Other film credits include Corruption, Revenge of the Pink Panther, The Stud, on her Twitter page Joan Collins said that she and Lloyd had to get drunk prior to their nude scenes. She reunited with Michael Caine in Bullet to Beijing, one of the later Harry Palmer films, in 1979, Lloyd joined the long-running British soap opera Crossroads. She played Barbara Hunter, née Brady, until she was sacked from the series in 1985, on Crossroads, Lloyd played the wife of actor Ronald Allen, who was sacked the same day she was. They were good friends, having met shortly after his life partner. Lloyds friends were surprised when, in 1991, she married an ailing Allen six weeks before his own death, on 19 June, Sue Lloyd died on 20 October 2011, aged 72, from cancer. Nothing But the Best - Debutante at Hunt Ball The Ipcress File - Jean Courtney Hysteria - French Girl Attack on the Iron Coast - Sue Wilson Corruption - Lynn Nolan Wheres Jack. F. O. - Judge Bullet to Beijing - Jean Beginners Luck - The Saint series 2 ep.19 Luella - Marla Clayton / Luella Gideons Way - Mary Henderson / Passenger with Det, black Out - Brigitte The Persuaders
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Jon Pertwee
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John Devon Roland Jon Pertwee was an English actor, entertainer and cabaret performer. Pertwee is most known for starring as the Third Doctor in the science-fiction series Doctor Who between 1970 and 1974, Pertwee also spent 18 years playing Chief petty officer Pertwee in The Navy Lark on BBC Radio. He later played the character in the series Worzel Gummidge from 1979 to 1981. As an actor, Pertwee appeared in comedy roles and was once described as having rubbery features. Earlier in his career, Pertwee had worked as a comedian, performed at the Glasgow Empire Theatre and shared a bill with Max Wall. Towards the end of his life, he performed to audiences in a show called Who Is Jon Pertwee. Born in Chelsea, London, and having Huguenot ancestry, Jon was the son of noted screenwriter and actor Roland Pertwee, pertwee’s mother, Avice Scholtz, separated from his father Roland when Pertwee was young. His father remarried, and his mother found a new partner, avice’s sister Daphne married Captain Philip Cecil Clowes and became the mother of Pertwees cousin, the writer St. John Legh Clowes. The actor Henry Ainley, a friend of his father, was his godfather. Coincidentally, Ainleys son Anthony appeared as The Master – a renegade Time Lord who was The Doctors greatest enemy – alongside Pertwee in the 1983 Doctor Who anniversary story The Five Doctors. His first marriage was in 1955, to Jean Marsh, whom he divorced in 1960, later that year he married Ingeborg Rhoesa. Together they had two children, both of whom were to actors, a daughter, Dariel, in 1961. He was also accused of writing graffiti about the tutors on the lavatory walls, during the Second World War, Pertwee spent six years in the Royal Navy. He was a member of HMS Hood and was transferred off the ship for officer training shortly before she was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck, losing all. In an interview conducted in 1994, he said, I did all sorts, teaching commandos how to use escapology equipment, compasses in brass buttons, secret maps in white cotton handkerchiefs, pipes you could smoke that also fired a.22 bullet. During his time in the Navy, Pertwee woke up one morning after a night out while in port to find a tattoo of a cobra on his right arm. On 15 November 1948, at the Wood Green Empire, he was billed as The Most Versatile Voice in Radio – Jon Pertwee from the Radio Shows Merry-go-Round and Up the Pole. From 1959 to 1977, he had a role as the conniving Chief Petty Officer Pertwee in The Navy Lark on BBC Radio
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Licensed to Kill (1965 film)
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Licensed to Kill is an Eastmancolor 1965 superspy imitation James Bond film starring Tom Adams as British secret agent Charles Vine. It was directed and co-written by Lindsay Shonteff, producer Joseph E. Levine picked it up for American and worldwide distribution and reedited it under the title The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World. The theme song for the American version, composed by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen and performed by Sammy Davis, facing numerous assassination attempts, a Swedish scientist who has invented an anti-gravity device and his daughter seek to provide the invention to the United Kingdom. Government provides Agent Charles Vine, a mathematician, as a bodyguard. Joseph E. However, the American release reedited the film by having the opening performed by a Mum pulling a Sten gun out of her pram of twins changing to a pre-credit scene. Levine engaged songwriters Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen to write a song performed by Sammy Davis Jr. The American release also eliminates much of the dialogue about the anti gravity device, the American publicity for the film echoed the Number 2, but tries harder advertising of the Avis Rent a Car System prevalent at the time. Levine launched a November 1965 nationwide 100 word essay contest to be titled the most unforgettable second best secret agent I have known. K, yevtushenko a film shot in Spain instead of the usual UK location, that languished in a film laboratory until 1976. Shonteff later made three spy films with the hero named Charles Bind
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Exploitation film
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An exploitation film is a film that attempts to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content. Exploitation films are generally low-quality B movies, even so, they sometimes attract critical attention and cult followings. Some of these films, such as Night of the Living Dead, set trends, Exploitation films may feature suggestive or explicit sex, sensational violence, drug use, nudity, freaks, gore, the bizarre, destruction, rebellion, and mayhem. Such films were first seen in their form in the early 1920s. Their producers used sensational elements to attract audiences lost to television, since the 1990s, this genre has also received attention in academic circles, where it is sometimes called paracinema. Exploitation is very defined, and has more to do with the viewers perception of the film than with the films actual content. Titillating material and artistic content often coexist, as demonstrated by the fact that art films that failed to pass the Hays Code were often shown in the same grindhouses as exploitation films. Exploitation films share the fearlessness of acclaimed transgressive European directors such as Derek Jarman, Luis Buñuel, buñuels Un Chien Andalou contains elements of the modern splatter film. The audiences of art and exploitation film are considered to have tastes that reject the mainstream Hollywood offerings. Exploitation films have often exploited news events in the public consciousness that a major film studio may avoid because of the time required to produce a major film. Child Bride, for example, tackled the issue of older men marrying very young women in the Ozarks, other issues, such as drug use in films like Reefer Madness, attracted audiences that major film studios would usually avoid in order to keep their respectable, mainstream reputations. With enough incentive, however, major studios might become involved, as Warner Bros. did in their 1969 anti-LSD, the film Sex Madness portrayed the dangers of venereal disease from premarital sex. Mom and Dad, a 1945 film about pregnancy and childbirth, was promoted in lurid terms and she Shoulda Said No. combined the themes of drug use and promiscuous sex. Several war films were made about the Winter War in Finland, the Korean War, some Poverty Row low-budget B movies often exploit major studio projects. Their rapid production schedule allows them to advantage of publicity attached to major studio films. For example, Edward L. Ulmers film Beyond the Time Barrier, as a result, many major studios, producers, and stars keep their projects secret. Grindhouse is an American term for a theater that mainly showed exploitation films and it is thought to stem from the defunct burlesque theaters on 42nd Street, New York, where bump n grind dancing and striptease used to be on the bill. As the drive-in movie theater began to decline in the 1960s and 1970s, One solution was to book exploitation films
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Sean Connery
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery is a retired Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes. He was knighted by Elizabeth II in July 2000 after receiving Kennedy Center Honors in the US in 1999, Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables, Connery has been polled as The Greatest Living Scot and Scotlands Greatest Living National Treasure. In 1989, he was proclaimed Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine, Thomas Sean Connery, named Thomas after his grandfather, was born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland on 25 August 1930. His mother, Euphemia McBain Effie, was a cleaning woman and his paternal grandfathers parents emigrated to Scotland from Ireland in the mid-19th century. The remainder of his family was of Scottish descent, and his maternal great-grandparents were native Scottish Gaelic speakers from Fife and his father was a Roman Catholic, and his mother was a Protestant. He has a brother, Neil. He was generally referred to in his youth as Tommy, although he was small in primary school, he grew rapidly around the age of 12, reaching his full adult height of 6 ft 2 in at 18. He was known during his teen years as Big Tam, and has stated that he lost his virginity to a woman in an ATS uniform at the age of 14. Connerys first job was as a milkman in Edinburgh with St. Cuthberts Co-operative Society, one tattoo is a tribute to his parents and reads Mum and Dad, and the other is self-explanatory, Scotland Forever. Connery was later discharged from the navy on medical grounds because of a duodenal ulcer, Scotland, Archie Brennan, a coffin polisher. The modelling earned him 15 shillings an hour, student artist Richard Demarco who painted several notable early pictures of Connery described him as very straight, slightly shy, too, too beautiful for words, a virtual Adonis. Connery began bodybuilding at the age of 18, and from 1951 trained heavily with Ellington, Connery was a keen footballer, having played for Bonnyrigg Rose in his younger days. He was offered a trial with East Fife, while on tour with South Pacific, Connery played in a football match against a local team that Matt Busby, manager of Manchester United, happened to be scouting. According to reports, Busby was impressed with his physical prowess, Connery admits that he was tempted to accept, but he recalls, I realised that a top-class footballer could be over the hill by the age of 30, and I was already 23. I decided to become an actor and it turned out to be one of my more intelligent moves, looking to pick up some extra money, Connery helped out backstage at the Kings Theatre in late 1951. He became interested in the proceedings, and a career was launched, the production returned the following year out of popular demand, and Connery was promoted to the featured role of Lieutenant Buzz Adams, which Larry Hagman had portrayed in the West End. While in Edinburgh, Connery was targeted by the notorious Valdor gang, there Connery launched an attack single-handedly against the gang members, grabbing one by the throat and another by a biceps and cracked their heads together
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Joseph E. Levine
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Joseph Edward Levine was an American film producer. At the time of his death it was said he was involved in 497 movies as a producer, Levine was born in a slum in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 9,1905. The youngest of six children of a Russian-Jewish immigrant tailor, Joe did whatever work he could to support his mother. This led Joe to tell an interviewer that he had not one happy day growing up. At 14 years of age he was hired for work in a dress factory and left school. In the 1920s in partnership with two of his brothers, Joe opened a basement dress shop, whose stock the Levine brothers obtained on consignment. They married the year and moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where Joe bought, and commenced to run. Eventually, he became a successful, if small-time, distributor and exhibitor throughout New England, one of Levines most unusual successes was Body Beautiful, a sex-hygiene film which he saw drawing a line of prospective ticket-buyers who were braving a snowstorm to that end. He later remembered buying it to show in his theaters because it made me sick, the Second World War led Levine to run an almost jingoistic promotion of the film Ravaged Earth, which had been shot in China. Robertsons obituary quotes one of the slogans as reading, Jap Rats Stop at Nothing - See This. When, in 1956, he bought the Australian film Walk Into Paradise, its low box-office revenues led him to change the title to Walk Into Hell, which gave it box-office success. In 1956, Attila and Hercules, both in 1958, The Carpetbaggers, Harlow, The Graduate, A Bridge Too Far, Levines Embassy Pictures began dealing in art films, often European ones, in the 1960s. During that decade, he reached the peak of his career and his prestige, in 1961, Levine bought North American distribution rights for Two Women after seeing no more than three minutes of its rushes. One segment of it showed Moroccan soldiers raping the mother and the daughter, Levines promotional campaign focused on one still photograph, which showed Loren, as the mother, wearing a torn dress, kneeling in the dirt, and weeping with rage and grief. Levines efforts paid off when Loren became the first cast member of a film to win the Academy Award for best actress. It came to be said of him that he nursed Two Women towards its ultimate popularity, Levine became famous in the industry for his massive advertising campaigns, starting with Hercules in 1959. He is also responsible for having brought the Japanese movie Gojira to the American general public under the title Godzilla, King Of The Monsters. in 1956. Levine had hired Terry Turner, who had been a former RKO Pictures exploitation expert of the late 1920s and 1930s, Levines and Turners exploitation campaigns were designed to appeal both to the general public and to the film industry and exhibitors
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Sammy Davis Jr.
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Samuel George Sammy Davis Jr. was an American entertainer. Primarily a dancer and singer, he was also an actor of stage and screen, comedian, musician, at the age of 3, Davis began his career in vaudeville with his father and Will Mastin as the Will Mastin Trio, which toured nationally. After military service, Davis returned to the trio, Davis became an overnight sensation following a nightclub performance at Ciros after the 1951 Academy Awards. With the trio, he became a recording artist, in 1954, he lost his left eye in a car accident, and several years later, he converted to Judaism. Daviss film career began as a child in 1933, in 1960, he appeared in the Rat Pack film Oceans 11. After a starring role on Broadway in 1956s Mr Wonderful, he returned to the stage in 1964s Golden Boy, in 1966 he had his own TV variety show, titled The Sammy Davis Jr. Show. Daviss career slowed in the late 1960s, but he had a hit record with The Candy Man in 1972 and became a star in Las Vegas, earning him the nickname Mister Show Business. Davis was a victim of racism throughout his life, particularly during the pre-Civil Rights era, Davis had a complex relationship with the black community, and drew criticism after publicly supporting President Richard Nixon in 1972. One day on a course with Jack Benny, he was asked what his handicap was. This was to become a comment, recounted in his autobiography. After reuniting with Sinatra and Dean Martin in 1987, Davis toured with them and Liza Minnelli internationally and he died in debt to the Internal Revenue Service, and his estate was the subject of legal battles. Davis was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and he was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 1987, and in 2001, he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. During his lifetime, Davis stated that his mother was Puerto Rican, as an infant, he was reared by his paternal grandmother. When he was 3 years old, his parents separated and his father, not wanting to lose custody of his son, took him on tour. Davis learned to dance from his father and his uncle Will Mastin, Davis joined the act as a child and they became the Will Mastin Trio. Throughout his career, Davis included the Will Mastin Trio in his billing, Mastin and his father shielded him from racism. Snubs were explained as jealousy, for instance, when Davis served in the United States Army during World War II, however, he was confronted by strong racial prejudice. He later said, Overnight the world looked different and it wasnt one color any more
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Where the Bullets Fly
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Where the Bullets Fly is a 1966 British comedy spy film directed by John Gilling and starring Tom Adams as Charles Vine and John Arnatt repeating their roles from Licensed to Kill. It also stars Dawn Addams, Tim Barrett and Michael Ripper, sid James, Wilfrid Brambell and Joe Baker have comedy cameo appearances. They are thwarted by a group of women in a tour group who turn out to be cross-dressing commandos who eliminate the terrorists with sub-machine guns. They are led by Agent Charles Vine with his second-in-command being Lt. Guy Fawkes who has saved the Parliament of England, the film proper begins with the Royal Air Force testing a secret light-weight metal called Spurium that enables nuclear aircraft to fly. An unnamed sinister organisation led by a man named Angel hijacks the DC-3 aircraft by hypnotising the RAF Regiment guards and flying the plane to another location, afraid the incident may happen again, Vine is assigned as security to the project. However Angels organisation kidnap Vine and replace him with one of their own men named Seraph, obtaining information before he escapes allows Seraph to steal a sample of Spurium to be sold to the Soviet Union, however the Russians believe he is double-crossing them and kill him. Vine escapes and reports to the RAF airbase, where he meets his RAF counterpart, Angels men try an all-out assault on the airfield to capture the next nuclear aircraft set to fly. Vine and Angel end up in the aircraft that takes flight. Guy Fawkes Sue Donovan - Celia Peter Ducrow - Prof. Harding James Ellis - Flight Lt. Fotheringham Heidi Erich - Carruthers Suzan Farmer - Caron Michael Goldie - Laborer David Gregory - R. A. F. Originally, the announced the title of this film as The Third Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World. A third film in the Charles Vine series, called Somebodys Stolen Our Russian Spy was produced by James Ward, the script is polished and directed by José Luis Madrid, who shot the whole film in Spain rather than United Kingdom where the previous installments were held at. Tom Adams reprises his role as Vine, as well, where the Bullets Fly at the Internet Movie Database
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John Gilling
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John Gilling was an English film director and screenwriter, born in London. He was chiefly known for his films, especially for Hammer Films, for whom he directed Shadow of the Cat, The Plague of the Zombies, The Reptile and The Mummys Shroud. He is also renowned for many low- to mid-budget detective films, Gilling entered films in 1933 as an editor and was an assistant director starting with Father OFlynn in 1935 until his Royal Navy service in the Second World War. Gilling began screenwriting with Black Memory in 1947, and made his debut with Escape from Broadmoor. Gilling also produced and directed Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire/Vampire Over London/My Son the Vampire in 1952, starting in 1956 Gilling directed and wrote several films for Albert R. Broccoli and Irving Allens Warwick Films beginning with Odongo. An unsuccessful John Gilling Enterprises production company made Fury at Smugglers Bay in 1961, Gilling also directed the second Charles Vine superspy film Where the Bullets Fly in 1966. Gilling retired to Spain where he whiled away the time painting, death is an incident producing clay. Use it, mould it, learn from it
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Roger Moore
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Sir Roger George Moore KBE is an English actor. He is best known for playing the British secret agent James Bond in seven films between 1973 and 1985 and Simon Templar in The Saint between 1962 and 1969. Roger Moore was born on 14 October 1927 in Stockwell, London and he is the only child of Lillian Lily, a housewife, and George Alfred Moore, a policeman. His mother was born in Calcutta, India, of English origin and he attended Battersea Grammar School, but was evacuated to Holsworthy, Devon, during World War II. He was then educated at Dr Challoners Grammar School in Amersham and he then attended the College of the Venerable Bede at the University of Durham, but did not graduate. At 18, shortly after the end of World War II, on 21 September 1946, he was commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps as a second lieutenant. He was given the service number 372394 and he eventually became a captain, commanding a small depot in West Germany. He later looked after entertainers for the forces passing through Hamburg. At RADA, Moore was a classmate of his future Bond costar Lois Maxwell, Moore chose to leave RADA after six months in order to seek paid employment as an actor. His film idol was Stewart Granger, at the age of 17, Moore appeared as an extra in the film Caesar and Cleopatra, meeting his idol on the set. Later Moore and Granger were both in The Wild Geese, though they had no scenes together, other actors in that show included Clive Morton and Betty Ann Davies. Although Moore signed a contract with MGM in 1954, the films that followed were not successes and, in his own words. He appeared in Interrupted Melody—billed third under Glenn Ford and Eleanor Parker—a biographical movie about an opera singers recovery from polio and that same year, he played a supporting role in The Kings Thief starring Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, David Niven and George Sanders. In the 1956 film Diane, Moore was billed again, this time under Lana Turner and Pedro Armendariz in a 16th-century period piece set in France with Moore playing Prince Henri. Moore was released from his MGM contract after two years following the critical and commercial failure of Diane. After that, he spent a few years mainly doing one-shot parts in television series and he signed another long-term contract to a studio, this time to Warner Bros. His starring role in The Miracle, a version of the play Das Mirakel for Warner Bros. showcasing Carroll Baker as a nun, had turned down by Dirk Bogarde. Eventually, Moore made his name in television, shot mainly in England at Elstree Studios and Buckinghamshire, some of the show was also filmed in California due to a partnership with Columbia Studios Screen Gems
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The Spy Who Loved Me (film)
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The Spy Who Loved Me is the tenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional secret agent James Bond. Curd Jürgens and Barbara Bach co-star and it was directed by Lewis Gilbert and the screenplay was written by Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum. The film takes its title from Ian Flemings novel The Spy Who Loved Me, the storyline involves a reclusive megalomaniac named Karl Stromberg, who plans to destroy the world and create a new civilisation under the sea. Bond teams up with a Russian agent, Anya Amasova, to stop Stromberg, the Spy Who Loved Me was well-received by critics. The soundtrack composed by Marvin Hamlisch also met with success, the film was nominated for three Academy Awards amid many other nominations and novelised in 1977 by Christopher Wood as James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me. British and Soviet ballistic-missile submarines are mysteriously disappearing, James Bond—MI6 agent 007—is summoned to investigate. On the way to his briefing, he escapes an ambush by Soviet agents in Austria, the plans for a highly advanced submarine tracking system are being offered in Egypt. There, he encounters Major Anya Amasova—KGB agent Triple X—his rival to recover the microfilm plans and they travel across Egypt together, encountering Jaws – a tall assassin with steel teeth – along the way. Bond and Amasova reluctantly team up after a truce is agreed by their respective British and they identify the person responsible for the thefts as the shipping tycoon, scientist and anarchist Karl Stromberg. While travelling by train to Strombergs base in Sardinia, Bond saves Amasova from Jaws, posing as a marine biologist and his wife, they visit Strombergs base and discover that he had launched a mysterious new supertanker, the Liparus, nine months previously. Jaws escapes while Naomi is killed, Bond finds out that the Liparus has never visited any known port or harbour. Amasova discovers that Bond killed her lover in Austria, and she vows to kill Bond once their mission ends, Bond and Amasova examine Strombergs underwater Atlantis base from an American submarine, and confirm that he is operating the stolen tracking system. Stromberg sets his plan in motion, the launching of nuclear missiles from British and Soviet submarines to destroy Moscow. This would trigger a nuclear war, which Stromberg would survive in Atlantis. He leaves for Atlantis with Amasova, Bond escapes and frees the captured British, Russian and American submariners and they battle the Liparuss crew. Bond reprograms the submarines to fire missiles at other, saving Moscow. The victorious submariners escape the sinking Liparus on the American submarine, the submarine is ordered to destroy Atlantis but Bond insists on rescuing Amasova first. He confronts and kills Stromberg but again encounters Jaws, whom he drops into a shark tank, however, Jaws fatally bites the shark and escapes
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Carry On Spying
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Carry On Spying is a 1964 film, the ninth in the series of Carry On films to be made. It marks Barbara Windsors first appearance in the series, series regulars Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey and Jim Dale are present. Bernard Cribbins makes the second of his three Carry On appearances, eric Barker appears for his third entry. Dilys Laye returns after her debut in Carry On Cruising, Carry On Spying is the last Carry On film shot in black and white. A top secret formula has been stolen by STENCH. The agents travel separately to Vienna, where each contact with Carstairs. Next, they rendezvous at the Cafe Mozart and later travel on to Algiers, upon the way, they encounter the STENCH agents, the Fat Man and Milchmann. Unfortunately, the agents ineptitude results in Carstairs being floored in an encounter with the Fat Man, daphne and Harold attempt to steal the formula back whilst disguised as dancing girls in Hakims Fun House, where the Fat Man is relaxing. The agents also encounter the mysterious Lila, whom they are if they can trust. The four agents end up captives of STENCH, daphne is interrogated by the evil Dr Crow, head of STENCH, but she fails to succumb until she accidentally bumps her head, causing her to reveal the formula. Simpkins sets the STENCH base to self-destruct before rushing into a lift with the agents, as well as Lila. As the lift ascends, Lila reveals to Simpkins that she is an agent, working for SNOG - the Society for Neutralising Of Germs -. The lift reaches the surface, which is revealed to be the office of the chief of the Secret Service, STENCH headquarters self-destructs, choking the chiefs office in a thick cloud of smoke. Broccoli, the producer of the James Bond film series, objected to the character name James Bind agent 006½, producer Peter Rogers therefore changed the name to Charlie and the agents code number to double 0 – ooh. Poster artist Tom Chantrell also had to modify the poster when similar complaints were voiced that the artwork was too similar to From Russia with Love, the film pokes fun at various spy movies, James Bond being the least of them. They include The Third Man, and Casablanca, one or two of Crows female assistants wear hairstyles similar to that of Modesty Blaise, whose adventures had started in the London Evening Standard the previous year. It currently holds a 100% fresh critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 5 reviews and it is generally considered one of the finest films in the series, alongside Carry On Camping, Carry On. Up the Khyber and Carry On Matron, keeping the British End Up – Four Decades of Saucy Cinema
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M (James Bond)
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M is a fictional character in Ian Flemings James Bond book and film series, the character is the Head of the Secret Intelligence Service—also known as MI6—and is Bonds superior. Fleming based the character on a number of people he knew who commanded sections of British intelligence, M has appeared in the novels by Fleming and seven continuation authors, as well as appearing in twenty-four films. Fleming based much of Ms character on Rear Admiral John Godfrey, after Flemings death, Godfrey complained He turned me into that unsavoury character, M. A further inspiration for M was Maxwell Knight, the head of MI5, who signed his memos as M, the tradition of the head of MI6 signing their name with a single letter came from Mansfield Smith-Cumming, who would sign his initial C with green ink. Melville recruited Sidney Reilly into government service and foiled a plot against Queen Victoria on her 1887 Golden Jubilee. A naval theme runs throughout Flemings description of M and his surroundings, and his character was described by journalist and Bond scholar Ben Macintyre as every inch the naval martinet. Macintyre also notes that in his study of Flemings work, Kingsley Amis outlined the way Fleming had described Ms voice, being, angry, brutal, cold, curt, dry, gruff, stern, testy. Over the course of twelve novels and two collections of stories, Fleming provided a number of details relating to Ms background. In On Her Majestys Secret Service it is revealed that Ms pay as head of the Secret Service is £6,500 a year, Blades has a restricted membership of only 200 gentlemen and all must be able to show £100,000 in cash or gilt-edged securities. Kingsley Amis noted in his study, The James Bond Dossier, as a personal favour to M, the staff at Blades keeps a supply of cheap red wine from Algeria on hand but does not include it on the wine list. M refers to it as Infuriator and tends only to drink it in moderate quantities unless he is in a bad mood. In the first post-Fleming book, Colonel Sun, M is kidnapped from Quarterdeck, his home, in Gardners final novel, COLD, M is kidnapped and rescued by Bond and finishes the book by retiring from MI6. Continuation Bond author Raymond Bensons 1998 novel The Facts of Death continued Messervys retirement, the book also introduces a new M, Barbara Mawdsley. M was played by Bernard Lee from the first Bond film, Dr. No, in Dr. No, M refers to his record of reducing the number of operative casualties since taking the job, implying someone else held the job recently before him. The film also saw M refer to himself as head of MI7, Lee had originally said MI6, earlier in the film, the department had been referred to as MI6 by a radio operator. Smith and Lavington, meanwhile, remarked that Lee was the incarnation of Flemings crusty admiral. Lee died of cancer in January 1981, four months into the filming of For Your Eyes Only, later films referred to Lees tenure as head of the service, with a painting of him as M in MI6s Scottish headquarters during the 1999 instalment The World Is Not Enough. Featured in The likeness of Lee was used in the 2005 James Bond video game adaptation of James Bond 007, after Lees death in 1981, the producers hired actor Robert Brown to play M in Octopussy
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John Arnatt
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John Edwin Arnatt was a British actor. John Arnatt was born in Petrograd on 9 May 1917 and his parents were Francis and Ethel Marion Arnatt. Arnatt trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, one of Arnatts most high-profile roles was as The Deputy Sheriff of Nottingham in the fourth and final season of 1955-60 TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Richard Greene. His character filled in for Alan Wheatley, who played the regular sheriff, Arnatts character was introduced and interacted with Wheatleys character in the episode The Devil You Dont Know. In the 1962 film Dr Crippen, starring Donald Pleasence, Arnatt played Chief Inspector Walter Dew, Arnatt also played an imitation M to Tom Adams imitation James Bond in two films, Licensed to Kill and Where the Bullets Fly. In 1967, Arnatt got something of a promotion when he played the High Sheriff of Nottingham opposite Barrie Inghams Robin in the film A Challenge for Robin Hood. Never well known, he amassed numerous television credits in programmes such as Keeping Up Appearances, Dangerfield, Lovejoy, The Professionals, House of Cards, and Z-Cars. He had a role in the early episodes of the ITV legal drama The Main Chance. Later, in the television film Marple, The Moving Finger, in 1995 he was elected Master of the Green Room Lodge no.2957. John Arnatt died at the age of 82 on 21 December 1999, fletcher Whistle Down the Wind - Superintendent Teesdale The Third Alibi - Supt. Ross Only Two Can Play - Bill Dr Crippen - Chief Inspector Dew Clash by Night - Inspector Croft Joey Boy - Brig
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Licensed to Love and Kill
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Licensed to Love and Kill is a 1979 imitation James Bond film starring Gareth Hunt as British secret agent Charles Bind. It was directed and written by Lindsay Shonteff and produced by his wife Elizabeth Gray, the film had the working title An Orchid for No. 1, it was released on VHS under the title The Man from S. E. X, Secret Agent Charles Bind is called in to investigate the disappearance of Lord Dangerfield, a British diplomat. Henson was replaced by Gareth Hunt who was known for his role as secret agent Mike Gambit in ‘’The New Avengers’’. Geoffrey Keen repeated his role as Bind’s M type superior Rockwell, the original Rockwell from the Tom Adams Charles Vine films was played by John Arnatt who returned to Shonteffs series playing Merlin, the Q type character who issues Bind his secret weapons. Fiona Curzon who plays the lead had a smaller different role in the previous No 1. of the Secret Service. Gary Hope had a role as an Army officer in the first Vine film Licensed to Kill, simon Bell wrote the music and Doreen Chanter composed and performed the theme song, Love is a Fine Thing. Licensed to Love and Kill at the Internet Movie Database
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Gareth Hunt
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Alan Leonard Hunt was a British actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing the footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs and Mike Gambit in The New Avengers. Alan Leonard Hunt was born in Battersea, London in 1943 and his father was killed in the Second World War when Hunt was two years old, and he was brought up by his mother Doris and stepfather. At the age of 15, he joined the Merchant Navy, after six years, he jumped ship in New Zealand and worked in a car plant for a year before he was caught and served three months in a military prison. Hunt was then deported back to Britain and while taking a BBC design course he held a variety of jobs, including stagehand, road digger, butchers assistant and door-to-door salesman. Having had an interest in acting since his years, he subsequently trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Following that, Hunt did rep across the United Kingdom and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, among the many stage productions he appeared in were Twelfth Night, Oh. What a Lovely War and West Side Story, Hunt started his television career in 1968, playing a private Kitson in one episode of series Frontier. In 1972, Hunt played a policeman in For the Love of Ada, in 1974, Gareth had roles in the Doctor Who story Planet of the Spiders and Bless This House. In 1975 he played Thomas Woolner in The Love School, in 1974, Gareth Hunt appeared in the Upstairs, Downstairs episode Missing Believed Killed as Trooper Norton, batman to James Bellamy. The character was a one, however, his performance led producers John Hawkesworth. Hunt continued playing Frederick Norton, who had by now become the footman, until the episode of the fifth series. In 1975, Hunt made appearances in The Hanged Man, Softly, Softly, in 1976, the year after leaving Upstairs Downstairs, Hunt starred alongside Joanna Lumley and Patrick Macnee in The New Avengers. The shows producers said he was cast because of his part in Upstairs, Downstairs, Hunt played secret agent Mike Gambit and starred in the show until its end after two series in 1977. In 1979 he appeared in the films Licensed to Love and Kill, in which he portrayed secret agent Charles Bind, after that in the late 1970s and 1980s, Hunt made appearances in Sunday Night Thriller, Minder and Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense. Hunt appeared alongside Julia McKenzie in That Beryl Marston and he also appeared in the films Funny Money and Bloodbath at the House of Death, and in 1988 he played many parts in the Pet Shop Boys film It Couldnt Happen Here. Hunt starred in a series of adverts for the coffee brand Nescafé in the 1980s, with a trademark move, to shake his closed hand then open it, to reveal coffee beans. In more recent years his name has been used in rhyming slang for an expletive. From 1992 to 1993 Hunt had a role in the sitcom Side by Side
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Royal Shakespeare Company
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The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The companys home is in Stratford-upon-Avon, where it has recently redeveloped its Royal Shakespeare, the theatres re-opened in November 2010, having closed in 2007. The new buildings attracted 18,000 visitors within the first week, performances in Stratford-upon-Avon continued throughout the Transformation project at the temporary Courtyard Theatre. The 2011-season began with performances of Macbeth and a re-imagined lost play The History of Cardenio, the fiftieth birthday season also featured The Merchant of Venice with Sir Patrick Stewart and revivals of some of the RSCs greatest plays, including a new staging of Marat/Sade. For the London 2012 Festival as part of the Cultural Olympiad, in 2013 the company began live screenings of its Shakespeare productions – called Live from Stratford-upon-Avon – which are screened around the world. In 2016, the company collaborated with Intel and The Imaginarium Studios to stage The Tempest, John Wards Birmingham-based company, the Warwickshire Company of Comedians, agreed to perform it. A surviving copy of the records that the company performed Othello. The first building erected to commemorate Shakespeare was David Garricks Jubilee Pavilion in 1769, the first permanent commemorative building to Shakespeares works in the town was a theatre built in 1827, in the gardens of New Place, but has long since been demolished. The RSCs history began with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, which was the brainchild of a local brewer and he donated a two-acre site by the River Avon and in 1875 launched an international campaign to build a theatre in the town of Shakespeares birth. The theatre, a Victorian-Gothic building seating just over 700 people, opened on 23 April 1879, with a performance of Much Ado About Nothing, a title which gave ammunition to several critics. From 1919, under the direction of William Bridges-Adams and after a slow start, the theatre received a Royal Charter of Incorporation in 1925, which gave it status. On the afternoon of 6 March 1926, when a new season was about to commence rehearsals, fire broke out, and the mass of half-timbering chosen to ornament the interior provided dry tinder. By the following morning the theatre was a blackened shell, the company transferred its Shakespeare festivals to a converted local cinema. Fund-raising began for the rebuilding of the theatre, with generous donations arriving from philanthropists in America, george Bernard Shaw commented that her design was the only one that showed any theatre sense. Her modernist plans for an art deco structure came under fire from many directions, later it came under the direction of Sir Barry Jackson in 1945, Anthony Quayle from 1948 to 1956 and Glen Byam Shaw 1957–1959, with an impressive roll-call of actors. Scotts building, with minor adjustments to the stage, remained in constant use until 2007 when it was closed for a major refit of the interior. Timeline,1932 – new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens, abutting the remains of the old,1961 – chartered name of the corporation and the Stratford theatre becomes ‘Royal Shakespeare. ’1974 – The Other Place opened, created from a prefabricated former store/rehearsal room in Stratford. 1986 – the Swan Theatre opened, created from the shell of the 1879 Memorial Theatre,1991 – Purpose-built new Other Place, designed by Michael Reardon, opens
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Tintorera
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Tintorera is a 1977 Mexico/United Kingdom international co-production horror film directed by René Cardona Jr and starring Susan George, Hugo Stiglitz, Fiona Lewis and Andrés García. It is based on the novel of the name by oceanographer Ramón Bravo that studied the species of shark known as tintorera. The film, along with many movies of the 1970s and 1980s is very similar to Jaws. It is also known by the alternative title Tintorera, Killer Shark, quentin Tarantino paid tribute to this movie at 8th Morelia International Film Festival shows a copy from his private collection. Steven, a US-born Mexican businessman, arrives in a Mexican fishing/resort village for a vacation on a yacht anchored off shore. One of the fishermen and the caretaker of the yacht, Colorado. Colorado is annoyed to learn that another shark has taken a bite out of one of his captured sharks. Steven says he feels bad for the sharks, then shrugs and he then decides to scope to local beaches for sexy women. He sets his sights on Patricia, an Englishwoman on vacation and they have a whirlwind romance but break up when Steven can not decide if he is in love with her. Steven is extremely jealous, however, when she begins a relationship with Miguel a womanizing swimming instructor at the resort hotel. While Steven stews on the yacht, Patricia and Miguel have sex, then she goes skinny dipping in the ocean for a morning swim and is eaten by a large, apparently emphysemic, 19-foot-long tiger shark. The next day, Steven confronts Miguel in the hotel bar, Miguel tells Steven that Patricia was in love with Steven but she must have returned to England. Neither Steve or Miguel ever learn about her true fate, Miguel introduces Steven to two sisters, Kelly and Cynthia Madison who are American college students who have arrived on the island resort for some fun. They have a date and, on the sisters suggestions. The sharks heavy, labored breathing can clearly be heard but they make it to the boat safely, Kelly and Cynthia hop back and forth between Miguels and Stevens beds. They all swim back to shore the next morning and the tiger shark again chooses not to bother them. Miguel encourages Steven to live a carefree, womanizing life like he does and they start a shark hunting business, swimming out to sea and shooting whatever swims past them, from local blue sharks to lemon sharks. Miguel tells Steven that if a tiger shark ever appears, they must immediately get out of the water because tiger sharks, one night, Miguel and Steven meet Gabriella another young English tourist at the hotel bar
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Devil Doll (film)
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Devil Doll is a British horror film about an evil ventriloquist, The Great Vorelli, and his dummy Hugo directed by Lindsay Shonteff. Devil Doll begins with a performance by hypnotist/magician The Great Vorelli, the audience observes tension between the ventriloquist and his dummy. American reporter Mark English becomes fascinated with Vorelli while attending the performance, English solicits his girlfriend Marianne Horn to go with him to another show. From the beginning, the film drops strong hints that the dummy, Hugo, is actually alive, at the following show, Vorelli asks a member of his audience onto the stage. When no one volunteers, English encourages Horn to go up, Vorelli succeeds in hypnotizing her and making her dance the Twist with an uncredited Ray Landor, expert Twist dancer. Horn is left partially hypnotized by Vorelli, who recognizes her name as that of a wealthy heiress, English, inexplicably wanting to do a story on Vorelli because of his unique powers, gets Horn to invite Vorelli to her aunts charity ball. Vorelli has already decided to go to the ball, having read about it in the newspaper, the night of the ball, Vorelli stays at Horns aunts mansion. He calls Horn to his bedroom where he seduces her after using his power to subdue her will, in the meantime, Hugo miraculously appears in Englishs room and asks English to help him. Hugo repeats 1948 and Berlin before disappearing, the next day, English begins an investigation into Vorellis past. Meanwhile, Horn falls into a semi-coma that the doctors cannot penetrate, in one lucid moment, she tells English that He keeps calling me and Make him stop. It is not clear whether English makes the connection, through a colleague, English discovers that Vorelli had once been a medical doctor who dabbled in mysterious Eastern magic and was disbarred for an unknown reason. The colleague traces Vorelli to Berlin from 1947 onward and uncovers the story of an assistant to Vorelli. English travels to Berlin to interview her, Vorellis former assistant claims that she and another assistant, Hugo, had worked for Vorelli in 1947 and 1948. In their act, Vorelli would hypnotize Hugo into a state where he could not feel pain, Vorelli would stab a knife into Hugo, the female assistant says that over time, she would catch Vorelli and Hugo in strange conferences. One night, Vorelli killed Hugo on stage and simultaneously transferred Hugos soul into a dummy off stage, Vorelli was cleared of all charges due to the risky nature of Hugos job. No one believed the female assistants story and its unclear how she knew the details of what happened. Vorellis present-day assistant appears periodically through the film and she helped Vorelli get his start on the stage and they are still lovers. She becomes jealous of Vorellis relationship with Horn, Vorelli either manipulates or taunts Hugo into murdering his lover/assistant when Vorelli is visiting with stage crew elsewhere
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Curse of Simba
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Curse of Simba also known as Voodoo Blood Death is a 1965 British supernatural horror film set in Africa but filmed in England in 18 days. The film was cut by several minutes and released as Curse of the Voodoo in the United States where it was billed with Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster. When white hunter Mike Stacey kills a lion in Simbazi country in Africa, when the curse that manifests itself with hallucinations follows him to England he consults an expert on the subject. The expert informs Stacey the only way to remove the curse is to return to Africa, as a follow up to Devil Doll producer Richard Gordon and director Lindsay Shonteff selected a completed screenplay by Brian Clemens originally titled The Lion Man for their star Bryant Haliday. Though set in Africa, the film was shot in black and white with outdoor sequences filmed in Londons Regents Park. The movie was budgeted at £35,000 and meant to be shot in four weeks. Simbaza Chief Curse of the Voodoo at the Internet Movie Database
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The Million Eyes of Sumuru
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The Million Eyes of Sumuru is a 1967 British spy film produced by Harry Alan Towers, directed by Lindsay Shonteff and filmed at the Shaw Brothers studios in Hong Kong. It stars Frankie Avalon and George Nader, with Shirley Eaton as the titular Sumuru and it was based on a series of novels by Sax Rohmer about a megalomaniac femme fatale. The film was released in the USA by American International Pictures on 17 May 1967, in the UK it was released through Warner-Pathé on 3 December, titled simply Sumuru. Shirley Eaton reprised her role as Sumuru in Jess Francos The Girl from Rio, Sumuru is a beautiful but evil woman who plans world domination by having her sexy all-female army eliminate male leaders and replace them with her female agents. She and her friend Margaret Doherty used the name for a performance where they donned faux fur punk cave girl costumes. Tobi Vail liked the name and appropriated it for the punk group after Maffeo settled on the band name Cradle Robbers. This film was featured in the KTMA season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, the Million Eyes of Sumuru at the Internet Movie Database Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Million Eyes of Sumuru at the Internet Movie Database Episode guide, K18- The Million Eyes of Sumuru
