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Review - Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None // PC /// Eurogamer In a throwback to the golden age of adventure gaming, scenes are pre-rendered 2D with transition hotspots at their edges. That story is the basis for this unexceptional and disappointingly backward-looking point-and-click adventure. Naturally there's no way off the island - the boat has been sabotaged - so the increasingly scared guests are forced to sit it out, stewing in their own paranoid juices. www.eurogamer.net /article.php?article_id=62155   (953 words)

Film History of the 1940s His last scripted film and starring role in a feature-length film was in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941), and he made his final film cameo appearance in the musical comedy Sensations of 1945 (1944), also the final starring film role for dancer Eleanor Powell. Stars abounded in Boom Town (1940), an adventure story of wildcat drillers with Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, and Hedy Lamarr. Film comedy lost one of its classic masters with the death of W.C. Fields in 1946. www.filmsite.org /40sintro3.html   (2114 words)

Best Horror Films The more adventure oriented 1999 film with the same name seems juvenile and artless in comparison. Film is filled with gore, dark humor, and some slapstick, but it also the script has some Freudian overtones. Film creates a marvelous sense of urban paranoia and expertly combines elements of the horror genre with film noir. www.reelmoviecritic.com /20038q/id1973.htm   (2114 words)

More Great Directors and Their Best Films Suggested Filmography: The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), The Private Life of Don Juan (1934), Rembrandt (1936), That Hamilton Woman (1941), Perfect Strangers (1945). Early Silent Film Director Also Known for Action-Adventure Films Suggested Filmography: Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down By Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Night on Earth (1991), Dead Man (1995), Year of the Horse (1997), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003). www.filmsite.org /moredirectors3.html   (2114 words)

Amazon.com: And Then There Were None (1945) : Video The film creates an air of old-fashioned mischief that is compulsively enjoyable, and even if a contemporary director decided to have another go at the material it seems unlikely that any cast to equal this could be assembled. The VCI disc has a biography section on the filmmakers and the 1946 comedy short TWIN HUSBANDS, starring Leon Errol. VHS > Genres > Action & Adventure > Classics www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6304679661?v=glance   (1786 words)

Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. DILLINGER — I love Lawrence Tierney’s turn as John Dillinger, and while I love John Milius’ film to death — this is just the more NOIR-y turn on the Dillinger tale. While I agree BOGUS JOURNEY is a better movie, I have watched EXCELLENT ADVENTURE about 50x more. Hey Harry, you still recommending films you haven't actually seen? www.aintitcool.com /display.cgi?id=20607   (1786 words)

Fascism II: Modern Propaganda The vast majority of feature films made in the years 1933-45 were not obviously fascist – no boots, marching and tanks; instead, many fitted under the rubric of ‘Unterhaltungsfilm’, or entertainment film, with a high number of romantic comedies, adventure stories and costume dramas. Kolberg (Harlan, 1945): set in 1807 at the time of the French Napoleonic invasion of Prussia, this historical costume drama was consciously designed to have resonances with the wartorn present of the final months of Nazi Germany. The film depicts the flooding of the fields by the citizenry to prevent an incursion by French troops. www2.warwick.ac.uk /fac/arts/history/undergrad/modules/hi153/lecturenotes/ideologies8   (1865 words)

Alternative Film Guide (AltFG) In other words, the new King Kong is very much the sort of adventure-cum-horror film someone like Steven Spielberg would make: a technically proficient, unscary, highly sentimental, and utterly soulless thrill ride. In the 1940s, she sang on radio in the United States, and appeared onstage at the Roxy and the Copacabana in New York, and in films, in Brazil (1944), Phantom Lady (1944), and the Walt Disney mix of live action and animation, The Three Caballeros (1945). A film must open in a commercial theater, for paid admission, in Los Angeles County between January 1, 2005, and midnight December 31, 2005, and run for seven consecutive days. www.altfg.com   (2358 words)

news.html HOLLYWOOD (Zap2it.com) - The kind of movies that get the action-figure treatment are generally adventure and family-friendly ones like "Star Wars." One rarely, if ever, sees dolls made based on small ultra-violent independent films. Because of the pregnancy, the studio and director will either have to recast the lead and change the dynamic of the film but stay on their start date, or take the less likely scenario of waiting until the stork delivers and Thurman's ready to return. Movie scribes have named Citizen Kane the best screenplay of all time, while they singled out Tarantino's Pulp Fiction as the most overrated and (believe it or not) 1993 Bill Murray comedy Groundhog Day (news - web sites) as the most underrated, according to an informal survey by the Library of America. www.angelfire.com /movies/tarantinoconnection/news.html   (2358 words)

Littleton, NH Model Community -- Book Reviews Pride of the Marines (1945) and Bright Victory (1951) both dealt with blinded ex-servicemen; real-life veteran Harold Russell, whose service legacy was to lose his hands (replaced by metal hooks), played himself in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Fred Zinnemann's The Men (1951), Marlon Brando's first film, dealt with paraplegics. The films in this tradition included Orphans of the Storm (1921), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923, but many versions made since), The Sea Beast (1926), and numerous adaptations of A Christmas Carol. Images of disability have perhaps found their most frequent expression in movies, with the vast majority created from the perspective of able-bodied filmmakers and intended primarily for able-bodied audiences. www.golittleton.com /modelcommunity/book_reviews.php   (2358 words)

Momotaro's Gods-Blessed Sea Warriors: Japan's Unknown Wartime Feature Momotaro Umi no Shimpei (roughly Momotaro's Gods-Blessed Sea Warriors), 74 minutes long, was released by Shochiku, one of Japan's largest film companies, on April 12, 1945. Due to wartime Japan's own cannibalizing of film prints to reuse the film stock, and the destruction by the American Occupation authorities of all propaganda materials that could be found, most of the wartime cartoons were thought to no longer exist. It is too primitive to be of much interest to the fans of modern action-adventure Japanese anime, but it is fascinating to anyone with a serious interest in World War II propaganda art and animation, and in the evolution of anime. www.awn.com /mag/issue1.7/articles/patten1.7.html   (1339 words)

VH1.com : Movies : Person : Curtis Hanson : Biography Born March 24, 1945, in Reno, Nevada, Hanson got his start as a screenwriter and made his directorial debut with the aforementioned The Arousers, a crime thriller that starred Tab Hunter as PE teacher moonlighting as a serial killer. Hanson's next film, 1990's Bad Influence, was also laden with Hitchcock influences, particularly those of Strangers on a Train. Murderous psychopaths were a key feature of Hanson's adventure thriller, The River Wild, two years later. www.vh1.com /movies/person/82440/bio.jhtml   (729 words)

Russian_soviet_movie: Nikita Mikhalkov The international recognition to Mikhalkov was brought by film "Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano" (1977), received first prize of a film festival in the San-Sebastian. Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov, the son of known Soviet writer Sergey Mikhalkov, grandson of Peter Konchalovsky, brother of Andrey Konchalovsky, was born on October, 21, 1945 in Moscow. Nikita Mikhalkov's first well known work became film "At Home Among Strangers,a Stranger Among his own" (1974), In which he played a leaging role, was the director and co-author of the script. www.cozy-corner.com /cinema_russo_sovietico/english/russian_cine_Nikita_Mikhalkov.htm   (729 words)

The Disney Corner - Imagineer John Hench dies at 95 After "Fantasia," Hench worked as a background painter on "Dumbo" (1941), a layout artist on "The Three Caballeros" (1945) and "Fun & Fancy Free" (1947), an art supervisor on "Make Mine Music" (1946) and on coloring and styling for "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Hench continued to work with and inspire a new generation of Disney designers in the creation of Disney-MGM Studios in Florida (1989), Disneyland Paris (1992), Disney's Animal Kingdom in Florida (1998), Disney's California Adventure (2001), Tokyo DisneySea (2001) and Walt Disney Studios in France (2002). In the early 1940s, Hench was paired with artist Salvador Dali to create storyboard sketches for a proposed, but not completed, film called "Destino." Walt Disney Feature Animation recently used the original artwork as inspiration for a short film of the same name, which was just nominated for an Academy Award(R). www.disneycorner.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=51   (1070 words)

Amazon.co.uk: DVD: The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen [1989] For a wistful, magical and poetic version of Baron Munchausen's story there is nothing to surpass the 1945 German film of the same name, and the sooner somebody puts that onto video, the better. A remake of the classic story where Baron Munchausen must prove his reputation as one of history's most remarkable adventurers, or be seen as one of the greatest liars of all time. Amounting to nothing more than a series of set-pieces populated by famous actors in cameo roles, the film lacks coherence and delivers its laudably anti-authoritarian message clumsily. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CZTV   (1070 words)

Sir David Lean Lean's next three films came from Coward's pen: THIS HAPPY BREED (1944), the story of a London family from 1919 to 1939; the rousingly entertaining BLITHE SPIRIT (1945); and the quietly effective BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945), about a bored housewife (Celia Johnson) who almost has an affair with a doctor (Trevor Howard). Accordingly, the WWII adventure THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957) revolves around the self-delusion of Col. Nicholson (Alec Guinness), leader of the British contingent in a Burmese prisoner-of-war camp. Partly due to the poor reception of this film, it would be 14 years before Lean would complete his next picture, a splendid adaptation of E.M. Forster's A PASSAGE TO INDIA. theoscarsite.com /whoswho/lean_d.htm   (636 words)

The Subtle Shockers Of Val Lewton, Part Two While Val Lewton longed to do more "prestigious" pictures, to most film fans and critics alike he will always be remembered for a handful of horror movies made from 1942 to 1945…three brief years that left Lewton with cinematic immortality and fans of the fantastique with endless hours of entertainment. The studio was pleased with the picture’s preview, and plans were underway to put Lewton at the helm of The Fire Ship, a Technicolor pirate adventure, to be followed by a film version of Lord Byron’s The Corsair. Val Lewton’s name no longer appeared on films, but his influence was certainly still felt in them. www.horror-wood.com /val_lewton.htm   (2519 words)

Dry Dock Models This ship became famous as an adventure ship in 1956-57 because of the Cinerama film "Windjammer" and later as one of the stars in the TV series "The Onedin Line". During World War II in 1940 seized by the Germans and used as a depot ship for crew of submarines, in 1945 she was hit by allied planes during an attack on Flensburg in Germany and sunk in the habour. During her time in service as a replacement light ship she moved around stations mostly in the Baltic and was often renamed, in 1920 she became the "Reserve Holtenau" and in 1945 she arrived at her own station as the light ship "Kiel". gallery.drydockmodels.com /albums.php?set_albumListPage=14   (2519 words)

Raymond Chandler --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! The most popular film versions of Chandler's work were Murder, My Sweet (1945; also distributed as Farewell, My Lovely), starring Dick Powell, and The Big Sleep (1946), starring Humphrey Bogart, both film noir classics. Alex Raymond created three of the most popular adventure seriesýFlash Gordon, Jungle Jim and Secret Agent X9. The Canadian humorist Thomas Chandler Haliburton is best known as the creator of Sam Slick, a resourceful Yankee clock peddler and cracker-barrel philosopher whose encounters with a variety of people illuminated the author's conservative view of human nature. www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9022388   (916 words)

Nancy Kelly Other good films included the charmingly nostalgic musical SHOW BUSINESS (1944) and the unjustly neglected mystery THE WOMAN WHO CAME BACK (1945), but she saw the writing on the wall when she took a back seat to skater Vera Hruba Ralston in MURDER IN THE MUSIC HALL (1946). Kelly did pretty well for herself for a time, performing delightfully in Robert Siodmak's "B" adventure gem, FLY BY NIGHT (1942). Child actress of the stage and several features of the 1920s and 30s who, after playing in Broadway's Susan and God (1937), began her film career in earnest. theoscarsite.com /whoswho3/kelly_n.htm   (353 words)

Classic Images: John Agar John Agar’s nearly 50 movie credits include such non-sci fi films as I Married a Communist (1949), The Magic Carpet with Lucille Ball (1951), Along the Great Divide with Kirk Douglas (1951), The Golden Mistress (1954), and Johnny Reno with Dana Andrews and Jane Russell (1966). In 1945 John Agar was a tall, handsome, 24-year-old physical education instructor at March Field during the waning years of World War II. Scion of an old Chicago family famous in the meat packing business, the handsome, tall, 6-foot, 3-inch, John Agar was quickly noticed by film producers. www.classicimages.com /1998/april98/johnagar.html   (1236 words)

Classic Images: John Agar John Agar’s nearly 50 movie credits include such non-sci fi films as I Married a Communist (1949), The Magic Carpet with Lucille Ball (1951), Along the Great Divide with Kirk Douglas (1951), The Golden Mistress (1954), and Johnny Reno with Dana Andrews and Jane Russell (1966). In 1945 John Agar was a tall, handsome, 24-year-old physical education instructor at March Field during the waning years of World War II. His alcohol problems long behind him, John Agar has become a favorite at film festivals and collectors’ shows across the country. www.classicimages.com /1998/april98/johnagar.html   (1236 words)

Fast Carrier Pictures -- Exciting Motion Picture and Television Properties for the 21st Century and Beyond A native of Chicago, Rubin is recognized as a leading film historian and is the author of seven books, including Combat Films: American Realism 1945-1970, The Complete James Bond Movie Encyclopedia and Reel Exposure: How to Publicize and Promote Today's Motion Pictures. He also wrote "Cars," a wild live-action fantasy adventure film about one day in the not-too-distant future, when cars everywhere launch a revolt against mankind. Along the way he worked as a Literary Agent, armorer, assistant prop master and actor before starting VETS, a company that provided fully trained extras for military films. www.fastcarrier.com /management.html   (1236 words)

Index to Comic Art Collection: "Moon Beast" to "Moon Walk" Call no.: Film 15791, r.144 ----------------------------------------------------- Moon Trip : True Adventure in Space / by William Nephew & Michael Chester ; illustrated by Jerry Robinson. by Thomas Craven (Chicago : Consolidated Book Publishers, 1945). I. William P. Mullins, Kayo and Mamie in Juicy Stuff. www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/mrri/moon_b.htm   (5403 words)

Independence Missouri Vacation Adventure by MainTour Exhibits, artifacts, displays and film about Christianity, the life of Jesus Christ and history of the Mormon Church. Harry S. Truman- 33rd President of the United States 1945-53. Home for famous Missouri Civil War artist George Bingham (1864-70) and later for the Waggoner family in 1879. www.maintour.com /missouri/kcmind.htm   (889 words)

THE IRANIAN: Hollywood's Thousand and One Nights, Darius Kadivar "A thousand and One Nights" is the title of Alfred E. Green's 1945 film starring Cornel Wilde as Aladdin who seeks the love of Persian Princess Armina, (Adèle Jergens), but his romance is interrupted at every possible turn by a Woman Genie (Evelyn Keyes), who also has fallen in love with him. However the stories in these tales are so rich in imagery, fun, adventure and universal symbolism that it is no wonder that good old King Shahriar refused to behead his beautiful Sheherazade after her "One Thousand and One Nights" of storytelling and decided to marry her instead. Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Il Fiore delle Mille e Una Notte" (Thousand and One Nights) was released in English under the title of "Arabian Nights" or "Les Mille et Une Nuits" in French. www.iranian.com /DariusKadivar/2002/November/1001   (2529 words)

Filmtracks: Basil Poledouris Born on August 21, 1945, in Kansas City, Missouri, Basil Poledouris learned the basic skills in many aspects of filmmaking at the University of Southern California. His scores for action, adventure, and fantasy films such as The Hunt for Red October, Flesh & Blood, Quigley Down Under and Farewell to the King are reknown for their massive orchestral and choral beauty. The January, 1998, The Film Score Monthly Poledouris Video www.filmtracks.com /composers/poledouris.shtml   (529 words)

Absolute-0.com: PR - Viz Reintroduces Osamu Tezuka's Adolf and Black Jack In acknowledgment of this latest Tezuka renaissance, Viz is reintroducing Tezuka's critically acclaimed WWII epic Adolf and his brilliantly executed dark adventure series, Black Jack, featuring one of the most unlikely superheroes of them all — Black Jack, outlaw surgeon. Adolf is published by Viz imprint Cadence Books, Inc. and is available in 5 separate volumes, respectively subtitled A Tale of the Twentieth Century, An Exile in Japan, The Half-Aryan, Days of Infamy, and 1945 and All That Remains. That reputation will take a great leap forward this November 9 when Sony Pictures Entertainment releases in US theaters the eagerly anticipated anime film Metropolis, based on Tezuka's comic of the same name, with a screenplay by famed Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo. www.absolute-0.com /the_pr/2001/pr-viz-tezuka_8-2001.htm   (372 words)

buysoundtrax.com - The Alamo: The Essential Dimitri Tiomkin Film Music Collection In the period between 1945 and1960 Dimitri Tiomkin was the world's most popular film composer - the John Williams of his day. Whether the genre was Westerns, Drama, Comedy, War or Adventure, Tiomkin's vivid and vigorous music helped bring nearly 200 feature films to life. buysoundtrax.com - The Alamo: The Essential Dimitri Tiomkin Film Music Collection www.buysoundtrax.com /the_alamo-tiomkin.html   (171 words)

Dean Stockwell - Memory Alpha He began acting as a child, making his film debut at the age of nine in 1945's The Valley of Decision, co-starring Star Trek guest actor John Warburton. Most notably, he co-starred with Errol Flynn in the 1950 adventure Kim, in which Stockwell played the title role. Dean Stockwell (born March 5, 1936) is the American actor who portrayed Colonel Grat, a Tandaran who was in charge of a Suliban detainment facility, in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Detained." memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Dean_Stockwell   (737 words)

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