When a burned out Brit wanders into a diner and gas station in the middle of the desert, the owner’s daughter falls for him. However, the situations of all concerned change when the restaurant is held up at gunpoint by a desperate gangster. Dir: Archie L. Mayo. Cast: Leslie Howard, ...
giving cash to Dorothy in her hour of need; and perhaps most memorably of all, intrepidly facing down the Japs with a defiant mutter of “God Save The King”. Sylvia represents the do-or-die attitude of the “old guard”, unafraid to give birth in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by...
based on the H. Rider Haggard novel and for which he wrote the intertitles for this silent film. Blythe starred as Ayesha, and was again dressed in fantastic costumes, several in see-through fabrics. Her director forThe Queen of Sheba,J. Gordon Edwards had wanted to star Blythe as Mary ...
The fiction itself is also arranged like Earth Is Room Enough, with the longest stories on each end and the shorter stories between (though the third is middle-length). The pattern is repeated so precisely that the first story in this book, “Profession,” is the longest in the book and...
The one object that is the most notable is a long table with a tablecloth, with a decaying wedding feast and a centrepiece standing in the middle that's heavily covered in cobwebs and spiders scurrying. Pip also hears the mice hurrying behind the panels, and cockroaches are on the hearth....
Gordon doesn’t want to succeed. At all. It would mean that the money-god won and he’s pig-headed to the point of stupidity. He’s prideful and won’t accept help. He’s prejudiced against the middle-class, represented by their aspidistras. He loathes the middle-class and doesn’t...
back in the '80s. He was only supposed to be visiting, but ended up deciding to stay, soon after opening a pizza place inside a local supermarket. Which answers the question, how did one of the country's greatest pizza joints, Pizzeria Bianco, end up in the middle of the Sonoran Deser...
We entered through The Phimanchaisri Gate, the main entrance from the Outer to the Middle Court. The Outer Court or Khet Phra Racha Than Chan Na (เขตพระราชฐานชั้นหน้า) of the Grand Palace is situated to the northwest of the palace ...
My fourteenth birthday meant that we could all breathe a sigh of relief, for no more could there be the fear in our hearts of the knock on the door in the middle of the day, and the schoolman standing in the doorway. I shall never know how exactly we managed to get through the the...
Throughout the middle 1880s, the Northern Pacific pushed to reach Puget Sound directly, rather than a roundabout route following the Columbia River. Surveys of the Cascade Mountains, carried out intermittently since the 1870s, now began anew. Virgil Gay Bogue, a veteran civil engineer, was sent...