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Oct 16, 2024 · 18. ‘The Hitch-hiker’ (dir. Ida Lupino, 1953) In many ways, ‘The Hitch-Hiker’ does what it says on the tin. It’s the story of two men (Edmond O’Brien and Frank Lovejoy) whose fishing trip is derailed when they pick up a man (William Talman) by the side of the road who doesn’t just need a ride — he is an armed killer on the run from the law.
18 hours ago · – Patricia Highsmith, "My New Year's Toast", journal entry, 1947 According to her biographer, Andrew Wilson, Highsmith's personal life was a "troubled one". She was an alcoholic who, allegedly, never had an intimate relationship that lasted for more than a few years, and she was seen by some of her contemporaries and acquaintances as misanthropic and hostile. Her chronic alcoholism ...
18 hours ago · Peter John Sallis OBE (1 February 1921 – 2 June 2017) was an English actor. He was known for his work on British television. He was the voice of Wallace in the Academy Award-winning Wallace & Gromit films and played Norman "Cleggy" Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine from 1973 to 2010, the only actor who appeared in every episode.
Oct 16, 2024 · Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) The image of a monster cradling a helpless woman in his arms goes back a long way. But by the 1950s, when Universal was supplanting the Victorian-tinged fables of “Dracula” and “Frankenstein” with its 3D shocker about an aquatic monster known as the Gill-man, times had evolved to the point where this slithery half-amphibian, half-human stalker had ...
18 hours ago · A Portrait Person Achievements Image Valerian Albanov ‡ (1881–1919) Russian Navy lieutenant Albanov was one of the only two survivors of the ill-fated 1912–14 Brusilov expedition, the other being Alexander Konrad. They left the ice-bound ship St. Anna and by ski, sledge, and kayak crossed the Kara Sea, reached Franz Josef Land and were finally rescued by Georgy Sedov's Saint Phocas. The ...
18 hours ago · Brandt stated that while these stars had "unquestioned" dramatic abilities, their high salaries did not reflect in their ticket sales, thus hurting the movie exhibitors involved. (Later, an article in the Independent Film Journal , stated that some of the other stars considered Box Office Poison included Norma Shearer , Dolores del Rio , Fred Astaire , John Barrymore and Luise Rainer ).
18 hours ago · The place-name "Lewes" is first attested in an Anglo-Saxon charter circa 961 AD, where it appears as Læwe.It appears as Lewes in the Domesday Book of 1086. [7] The addition of the <-s> suffix seems to have been part of a broader trend of Anglo-Norman scribes pluralising Anglo-Saxon place-names (a famous example being their rendering of Lunden as Londres, hence the modern French name for London).
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