smuggler 's island is a 1951 american technicolor film noir adventure film directed by edward ludwig starring jeff chandler and evelyn keyes chandler called the film one of his favourites because " i played myself " .

around this time chandler typically played characters of varying nationalities from different historical periods ; this was a rare opportunity for him to play a contemporary american .

" this is the most conscious effort made so far to sell the chandler personality per se , " he said .

" just plain jeff chandler - a nondescript american down on his luck .

filming started in june 1950 .

smuggler ' s island

the ‘baddies’ : mr barling , an eccentric local smuggler and someone from smuggler’s top itself .
edward ludwig , and joseph gershenson . smuggler ' s island . usa , 1951 .
edward ludwig & joseph gershenson . ( 1951 ) smuggler ' s island . usa .
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first edition dustjackets from “five go to smuggler’s top” , “five go off in a caravan” and “five on kirrin island again” illustrated by eileen soper .
julian warns everyone about the falling ash tree in “five go to smuggler’s top” illustrated by eileen soper .
the locations : kirrin cottage , kirrin island , the quarry and the coast guard’s cottages .
significant other characters : uncle quentin , mr and mrs lenoir who own smuggler’s top , pierre ‘sooty’ lenoir , julian and dick’s school friend , and annabelle his little sister .
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longwood , in the damp center of the island , was the emperor’s home for the last six years of his life .
living on a poor island in 1932 , a young boy determines , despite his family ' s bitter opposition , to identify and somehow bring to justice the liquor smugglers who have been terrorizing the island .
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just outside north carolina ' s outer banks is roanoke island , the scene of one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in u . s . history : the disappearance of an entire colony of english settlers .
napoleon in death–a sketch by denzil ibbetson made on may 22 , 1821 . the emperor’s demise ended johnson’s hopes of using a submarine paid for by the british government to free his country’s greatest enemy .
this proved to be the shaman ' s weakness , and he promptly disappeared , releasing his control over moltenus . with the danger over , mystery island was saved !
the locations : smuggler’s top is a huge , old , rambling house on top of castaway hill . also on the hill is a small town , with a thick wall running right around it . the hill is almost an island , with just one road running to it through the marshes from the mainland .
my favourite parts : smuggler’s top is and always has been my favourite five book , in fact it’s probably my favourite enid blyton book , my favourite children’s book… maybe even my favourite book full stop . it has secret passages , which i always love , but my absolute favourite part of the book is the ash falling on the house , and how julian saves everyone .
tom johnson , the famous smuggler , adventurer , and inventor of submarines , sketched in 1834 for the publication of scenes and stories by a clergyman in debt .
one night sooty sneaks into uncle quentin’s room to try and let timmy out , but catches mr barling – a known smuggler – kidnapping uncle quentin . he too is kidnapped and left in one of the catacomb tunnels with a drugged uncle quentin . mr barling is trying to buy uncle quentin’s plans to drain the marshes , because this would end his smuggling . it’s then up to timmy to lead the rescue mission .
what ' s the difference between england , britain and the u . k . ?
the story was well written . a boy lives on an island and the most of the residents become intimidated by a smuggler who comes to the island and begins to control everyone . one boy decides to try to make a difference . he goes against the instructions of his parents several times to try and spy on the smuggler , and try to
catch
him . for those interested in bad language , pg 16 , bottom paragraph ,
by god
pg 73 , bottom paragraph ,
lord , yes
pg 83 , about 1 / 3 of the way down the page ,
you damn fool k
the buyer , it turned out , was a georgian agent . alerted to mr . khinsagov’s ambitions by spies in south ossetia , georgian officials arrested him and confiscated his merchandise . after a secret trial , the smuggler was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison .
peasant myles falworth is trained for knighthood and is groomed by various nobles to defeat the evil earl of alban who ' s plotting to usurp king henry iv ' s throne .
, a small island in the south atlantic 1 , 200 miles from the nearest land , was intended to make further escape impossible .
the second account , in the unpublished memoirs of the london artist walter greaves , is a recollection by greaves’s father–a thames boatman who recalled how “one dark night in november” , the smuggler was intercepted as he attempted to run his submarine out to sea . “anyhow , ” greaves ended ,
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ahh , i see that ye have brought back the islet containing the academy . . . yes , a very crucial part of me plans for krawk island ' s restoration . a well - trained regiment capable of keepin ' me interferences to a minimum as i go about me day - to - day responsibilities is absolutely vital to the island ' s future . speaking of interferences , if you ' ll be so kind as to leave me to my work , i ' ll get back to restorin ' the island now . . . come back tomorrow , though - - ye shall be far less annoyin ' to me once there ' s work for ye to do .
“the plot’s twists and surprises maintain suspense to the very end . ” ( the horn book )
the ‘baddies’ : tiger dan , nobby’s uncle , and his friend lewis ‘lou the acrobat’ allburg .
yet there is evidence that johnson built a submarine , and that he talked openly , after napoleon’s death , about his plan to use it . the most complete version of events , in what purport to be the smuggler’s own words , can be found in an obscure memoir entitled scenes and stories of a clergyman in debt , which was published in 1835 , during johnson’s lifetime . the author claimed to have met the smuggler in debtor’s prison , where ( irritated by scott’s misstatements , he suggests ) johnson agreed to put his tale in his own words . the book contains memoirs of several dramatic episodes that chime well with contemporary accounts–a remarkable escape from fleet prison , for example . at the very least , the correspondences lend weight to the idea that the material in scenes and stories really was written by johnson–though of course it does not prove that the plot was anything but a flight of fancy .
the smuggler told the authorities that he intended to sell the material to a turkish middleman named teimur sadik ; its ultimate destination , he said mr . sadik had told him , was “a muslim man . ”
“we got that 100 grams and put it into a box and were very afraid , ” said mr . merabishvili , the interior minister . where the smuggler got the uranium and whether he actually had more remains unclear .
significant other characters : nobby the circus boy , pongo the chimpanzee , and barker and growler nobby’s dogs .
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in 1943 , in the wake of the allied amphibious landing on the japanese held bougainville island , four marines are sent to scout the location of japanese minefields .
jeff chandler as steve kent film title smuggler ' s island directed by edward ludwig film company universal 23 may 1951 - * * warning * * this photograph is the copyright of the film company and / or the photographer assigned by or authorised by / allowed on the set by the film company at that time of this production & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above film . a mandatory credit to the film company ( and photographer if known ) is required .
august 2 : ' ere , have a look ! as you can see , i took the plot that were containin ' the smuggler ' s cove an ' got rid of that abomination , electing to create a new cove elsewhere . after all , if there ' s gonna be any smugglin ' happenin ' on krawk island , ye can rest assured that it ' ll be on me own terms . pretty clever , eh ? well , i ' m just getting ' started . . . find me more land to work with , an ' i ' ll show you what i ' m really capable of !
the collection consists primarily of kern ' s show music , some holograph sketches ; most are manuscript full and vocal scores of kern ' s orchestrators and arrangers , especially frank saddler and robert russell bennett . film and . . .
robert fulton’s submarine of 1806 was developed from plans paid for by the british , and was probably the inspiration for johnson’s designs . the papers were lodged with the american consulate in london and eventually published in 1920 . image : wikicommons
august 6 : at last , me restoration of krawk island is nearly complete ! i ' ve got a few last minute details , such as postin ' me croni - - i mean , allowin ' me loyal friends to get situated before the mad dash back onto the island begins . once everythin ' is . . . * cough * under control * cough * then the ceremony to proclaim me governor of krawk island may be proceedin ' . it won ' t be long , though , so check back soon !
august 8 : at last , me restoration of krawk island is nearly complete ! i ' ve got a few last minute details , such as postin ' me croni - - i mean , allowin ' me loyal friends to get situated before the mad dash back onto the island begins . once everythin ' is . . . * cough * under control * cough * then the ceremony to proclaim me governor of krawk island may be proceedin ' . it won ' t be long , though , so check back soon !
sir hudson lowe , napoleon’s jailer on st . helena , was responsible for the security precautions johnson sought to evade .
the story was well written . a boy lives on an island and the most of the residents become intimidated by a smuggler who comes to the island and begins to control everyone . one boy decides to try to make a difference . he goes against the instructions of his parents several times to try and spy on the smuggler , and try to
catch
him . for those interested in bad language , pg 16 , bottom paragraph ,
by god
pg 73 , bottom paragraph ,
lord , yes
pg 83 , about 1 / 3 of the way down the page ,
you damn fool kid .
pg 83 , third paragraph from the bottom ,
by the good lord , i ' ll . . .
i did not take offense at this instance , but i wanted to mention it in case others would .
the island mystic soon returned , and confirmed jhuidah ' s story . he revealed that each of the kidnapped islanders held part of a code phrase that would be able to weaken the shaman . at the same time , the tiki tack man returned , but with a very different mask . . .
the note jhuidah found directed neopians to a neohome on the island , which in turn provided the key to the mysterious letters appearing on mystery island ' s beaches . by travelling to techo mountain and using the code from the beach , a petrified techo master would appear . neopians challenged the statue in martial arts , and succeeded in freeing him . with all five words now gathered , the race was on to reach the volcano and stop the seals being broken . the magic spell was :
soooo . . . despite the last few plots not reachin ' harbour yet , i have been assured * scoffs * that me glorious restoration of the new and improved krawk island shall be unveiled tomorrow . honestly , i ' ve learned not to be trustin ' a word these so - called assistants tell me . however , given the possibility ( however unlikely ) that the island ' s restoration will make its debut tomorrow , it would be behoove ye to be there , just in case .
well , well ! glad to see that that rickety schooner of yours made it back - - with a piece of krawk island in tow , no less . ahh , yes . . . this lovely plot will be like putty in the hands of a master sculptor as i bring me grand design to life , restorin ' our beloved krawk island to its rightful glory !
the stannards ' son is kidnapped for ransom . plot centres around ford ' s ( the father ) efforts to find him .
a guide to the five’s next three adventures , and again , if you haven’t read the books this might contain some spoilers .
august 7 : the ineptitude of those carryin ' out me plans has reached a level that not even i , in all me greatness , can overcome . alas , another day has come an ' gone and the final stage of krawk island ' s renovation remains held up by the retrieval of the very last few plots of land . it now appears as though the all - new krawk island ' s unveilin ' shall happen no sooner than tomorrow . you ' d better be there to make sure you don ' t miss it , though - after all , this is the debut of the greatest architectural achievement in neopian history . . .
well , well . . . would ye look at this beauteous plot o ' land ! while i don ' t be havin ' any specific plans for the land itself , these resources on the land will be perfect for the crown jewel of krawk island ' s restoration . what will that be ? avast , swabbie . . . all in good time . ye can rest assured , however , that the splendour of this particular facet of the island ' s rebuilding is sure to make jaws drop all across neopia . . . now run along an ' get some rest , so ye have plenty of energy for doin ' me biddin ' tomorrow .
yet , oddly enough , the jigsaw puzzle that is johnson’s life includes pieces that , properly assembled , hint at a much more complex picture . the most important of these scraps remain unpublished and molder in an obscure corner of britain’s national archives–where i unearthed them after a dusty search some years ago . together , they give credence to an odd statement that first appeared in the historical gallery –one that dates the construction of johnson’s submarine not to an 1820 approach by wealthy bonapartists , but to as early as 1812 , three years before napoleon’s imprisonment .
july 29 : it ' s amazin ' to think what i ' ve accomplished in such a short time . why , mere days ago , in the wake of nearly all of krawk island disappearin ' , i sent a ragtag fleet of pirates out in search of an island . now , due in large part to the leadership of yours truly , a week or so later all the pieces of that island have been located , and the next step in a restoration process that will make the rebuildin ' of maraqua look like child ' s play can be movin ' forward throughout this endeavour , one thing i ' ve truly enjoyed is the subjuga - - i mean , involvement , of
friends
such as yourself . during the next stage , in which the islets will be returned so that i may reconstitute krawk island , i take it that you ' ll be joinin ' the retrieval effort . after all , only a fool would pass up the magnificent spoils awaiting those who stick it out ' til the end . . . and you ' re no fool , right ?
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ahh yes , the dubloon - o - matic ! i definitely have to be findin ' a place for that straightaway ! while i ' m still weighin ' the pros and cons of convertin ' me holdin ' s to np , devaluin ' dubloons via mass production , an ' then issuin ' a decree that bans their use on krawk island , i ' d say at this moment me inclination would be not to bother . after all , once the island ' s restored i ' ll be fabulously wealthy an ' powerful anyway . . . we ' ll see . in the meantime , avast with yer pesterin ' and come back when you ' re of use to me tomorrow .
the five and aunt fanny visit uncle quentin , but can’t work out where his work room is . uncle quentin tells his family that he thinks that he’s not alone on the island , and asks george to leave timmy to guard him . george agrees , as long as when uncle quentin signals at 10am and 10pm he takes timmy up to the top of the tower too . every day at 10 george goes to the coast guard’s cottage to look through his telescope so that she might catch a glimpse of timmy . one day he isn’t there , and she begins to worry , so that night she sneaks out of kirrin cottage and rows to the island to investigate . she discovers another entrance to the dungeons , and goes down to locate her father . she finds him a prisoner of two men who want to steal his experiment , and have shut timmy in a small cave . george , her father and timmy then have to escape the island before it blows up .
although the emperor was allowed to retain an entourage , and offered a good deal of freedom within the confines of longwood’s estate , everything else on the island was strictly controlled by st . helena’s stern and officious governor , sir hudson lowe , whose career prospects were intimately bound up with the security of his famous captive . longwood was strongly guarded ; visitors were interrogated and searched , and the estate was barred to visitors during the hours of darkness . an entire royal navy squadron , consisting of 11 ships , patrolled constantly offshore .
collection of master production set stills from smuggler’s island , iron man , because of you , sign of the pagan , foxfire , the toy tiger , away all boats , pillars of the sky , tattered dress , man in the shadow , the lady takes a flyer and a stranger in my arms . ( universal , 1951 - 59 ) collection of gelatin silver glossy 8 x 10 and 4 x 5 in . master production set stills from smuggler’s island ( 30 + ) , featuring evelyn keyes , because of you ( 50 + ) , featuring loretta young and frances dee , iron man ( 60 + ) , featuring evelyn keyes with rock hudson , sign of the pagan ( 60 + ) , featuring jack palance , dir . by douglas sirk , foxfire ( 50 + ) , featuring jane russell , the toy tiger ( 100 + ) , featuring laraine day , away all boats ( 60 + ) , featuring george nader and julie adams , pillars of the sky ( 40 + ) , featuring dorothy malone , dir . by george marshall , the tattered dress ( 50 + ) , featuring jeanne crain , man in the shadow ( 30 + ) , featuring orson welles and colleen miller , the lady takes a flyer ( 100 + ) , featuring lana turner , and a stranger in my arms ( 50 + ) , featuring june allyson and sandra dee : featuring jeffrey chandler .
the plot : the five are back at kirrin for the hols , but they can’t go to kirrin island as usual because uncle quentin is there doing some experiments . george of course , is furious that her father is using her island , and has built a plastic tower in the centre of it . out walking on the cliffs the five meet martin and his father , mr curton . mr curton appears to be too interested in the island , according to dick , but he thinks george is a boy , so she doesn’t agree ( she can’t always be right about these things ! ) playing around at the old quarry the five – thanks to timmy – find the start of a secret tunnel .
however , a confidential memorandum from the russian intelligence service , the f . s . b . , to the georgian government said a detailed analysis had been unable to pinpoint the material’s origins , though it did not rule out russian provenance . it also estimated that the uranium had been processed more than a decade ago .
would ye look at the size of that plot of land ! how that schooner of yours will ever manage to haul it back with the kind of weather you ' ve been sailing through lately , well . . . if ye can successfully pull that off , then the new krawk island ' s first order of business should be buildin ' a statue in yer honour . best o ' luck !
when they arrive sooty smuggles timmy up to his room through a secret passage , and at nights they sneak timmy to george’s room . one night block – mr lenoir’s deaf servant – lies in wait and ends up getting bitten . when uncle quentin arrives he is given sooty’s room , and the children have no time to smuggle timmy out . george is punished by mr lenoir for sneaking into his study to rescue timmy and is locked in her room . she climbs out of her window and sees someone suspicious conspiring with mr barling . meanwhile , sooty and the boys see someone signalling from the top of the tower , who then disappears into block’s room .
credits for this issue based upon alberto becattini ' s
disney index - dell comic books
vols . 1 and 2 ( italy , 1992 and 1994 ) .
at around this time , a faerie named eithne took up residence at the volcano entrance , claiming that the volcano had become dangerous , and queen fyora herself had dispatched eithne to stop people going inside . not long after eithne ' s arrival , the island mystic also disappeared , with mora informing frantic searchers that there was a struggle . the only clues were two sets of footprints , and a mysterious red feather .
the smuggler in the first case , an armenian named garik dadayan , was arrested on june 26 , 2003 , at sadakhlo , a muddy village where georgia meets armenia and azerbaijan . with armenia and azerbaijan at war over territory , the village had become neutral ground for the trading of tea and cognac , illicit caviar , cheap light bulbs and smuggled gasoline .
the stakes are really risin ' now - the islets you ' re bringin ' back are bigger than ever , the waters have been unusually choppy , and the crew ' s gettin ' more ornery by the minute about these long days they ' ve been puttin ' in . now ' s no time to lose your composure . . .
we ' re gettin ' down to the last of the islets , are we not ? you know , as demandin ' as krawk island ' s restoration has been , i almost feel as though i ' m goin ' to miss puttin ' me prodigious talents to use . who knows , perhaps if i grow tired of wringin ' every last bit of profit out of this island , maybe i ' ll seek out another neopian land in need of a touch up . tyrannia , perhaps ? aye , maybe not . . . for now , leave me to me ponderin ' an ' come back tomorrow when i can be findin ' somethin ' productive for ye to do .
the white house is burned down on the orders of sir george cockburn . in 1820 , the british admiral would go on to write up a report on tom johnson’s submarine .
the mental picture remains a vivid one , nonetheless : napoleon , squeezed uncomfortably into footman’s clothing , strapped to a bosun’s chair and dangling halfway down some vertiginous cliff . behind him stands tom johnson , all but six foot in his socks , lowering rapidly away toward the rocks–while offshore lurk etna and eagle , sails furled , fearsomely armed , ready to dive .
this is it - the greatest challenge of your nautical career ! you ' re gonna need to keep your head on a swivel to have any chance of managin ' a mindbogglin ' nine crewmember categories . it won ' t be easy , but imagine what it ' ll be like to proudly proclaim that you brought back such a huge piece of krawk island ' s restoration . note : the grid colour order is randomised , just pay attention to the fixed crew members .
the plot : before the five have time to enjoy their holiday at kirrin the giant ash tree in the garden falls on the house . uncle quentin’s scientist friend and son were supposed to come and stay , but it’s arranged for the children to stay with them while aunt fanny and uncle quentin sort out the cottage . george is told she can’t take timmy but sneaks him along anyway .
july 30 : it ' s been said that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step . similarly , me masterful reconstruction of krawk island begins with a single plot of land . if i am to be fulfillin ' the promise of this colossal undertakin ' , it ' ll require a diligent effort to retrieve the islets on the part of underl - - i mean , volunteers , such as yourself . now go on an ' get me somethin ' to work with !
the story began with the disappearance of the tiki tack man on mystery island , with his tombola stall being mysteriously deserted . soon after , the techo master disappeared from his training school , with signs of a struggle . those with sharp eyes noticed footprints heading to the north - towards the volcano .
august 4 : alright , so . . . i ' ve given it some thought an ' , since you ' ve been so accomodatin ' of me requests , i ' ve decided to share what ' s in store for the materials from that new plot of land . see , me ragged ol ' shanty is hardly befittin ' a lofty personage such as meself anymore , so i ' ve decided put those resources from the islet you brought back toward the buildin ' of me governor ' s mansion . once completed it ' ll be a sight to see , that ' s for sure !
july 31 : just as i were sayin ' , don ' t it look simply fabulous thusfar ? granted , i came across a few . . . * ahem * technical obstacles while tryin ' to realise me vision for the new krawk island , but it ' s these sort of challenges that truly bring out the best in a talented artist such as meself . now get goin ' ! after all , ' twould be a shame if inspiration struck and there were nothin ' for me to work with . . .
this was a puzzle plot , with users scouring the site for clues to help them save the island . certain elements of the plot were time sensitive , for example jhuidah freed herself from the rock pool if users did not provide a tagobo potion quickly enough - however this didn ' t affect overall plot performance .
georgia’s chief nuclear investigator , archil pavlenishvili , said that while russia cooperated in the early stages of the 2003 investigation , in 2006 it had hardly helped at all , beyond taking a sample of the seized material for analysis . he said the georgians had informed the russian embassy here in tbilisi of mr . khinsagov’s detention , and had offered to let diplomats speak to him . but the russians , he said , never responded .
the narrative passes silently over the not inconsiderable difficulty of how such small vessels were to make the voyage south to st . helena , and moves on to their appearance off the island–the etna so close to the shore that it would need to be “well fortified with cork fenders” to prevent being dashed to pieces on the rocks . the plan then called for johnson to land , carrying “a mechanical chair , capable of containing one person on the seat , and a standing foot - board at the back , ” and equipped with the enormous quantity of 2 , 500 feet of “patent whale line . ” leaving this equipment on the rocks , the smuggler would scale the cliffs , sink an iron bolt and a block at the summit , and make his way inland to longwood .
i mistook a name , so this was not the title i wanted . still , the headline is true . i ' ll be more careful , from now on . it ' s also not a bad movie .
might johnson have been no more than a fantasist , then–or at best a man who touted extravagant claims in the hope of making money from them ? the old smuggler spent the 1820s talking up a whole succession of projects involving submarines . at one point he was reported to be working for the king of denmark ; at another for the pasha of egypt ; at yet another to be building a submarine to salvage a ship off the dutch island of texel , or to retrieve valuables from wrecks in the caribbean . perhaps this is not surprising . we know that , after emerging from debtors’ prison , johnson lived for years south of the thames on a pension of £140 a year–a little less than $ 20 , 000 today . that was scarcely enough to allow life to be lived to its fullest .
news items include su tung foo and stapleton kent in the cast and report that actress carol varga was
discovered
in honolulu and cast without a screen test . varga made her actual feature film debut in universal ' s
but johnson also has a stranger claim to fame , one that has gone unmentioned in all but the most obscure of histories . in 1820–or so he claimed–he was offered the sum of £40 , 000 to rescue the emperor napoleon from bleak exile on the island of st . helena . this escape was to be effected in an incredible way–down a sheer cliff , using a bosun’s chair , to a pair of primitive submarines waiting off shore . johnson had to design the submarines himself , since his plot was hatched decades before the invention of the first practical underwater craft .
unfortunately , this only served to completely unlock the seal , and free the beast known as moltenus . he promptly ate eithne , seemingly killing the faerie . controlled by the evil shaman , moltenus tried to attack anyone entering the volcano . taking some last minute clues from the island mystic , a magic chant was devised to weaken the shaman :
by visiting the parrot on mystery island ( who provided clues during the hunt for the crown plot ) , further clues as to the contents of the note were revealed . jhuidah was soon found in the rock pool , trapped in one of the bowls . mixing the ingredients from the note to form a tagobo potion allowed jhuidah to be freed .
tom johnson was one of those extraordinary characters that history throws up in times of crisis . born in 1772 to irish parents , he made the most of the opportunities that presented themselves and was earning his own living as a smuggler by the age of 12 . at least twice , he made remarkable escapes from prison . when the napoleonic wars broke out , his well - deserved reputation for extreme daring saw him hired–despite his by then extensive criminal record–to pilot a pair of covert british naval expeditions .
the ‘baddies’ : mr curton , who introduces himself as martin’s father , is not very nice to martin and prevents him from doing what he loves – painting . mr curton also has a few men who help him with his scheme .
august 5 : as one can see , i ' ve made some overdue renovations to cap ' n threelegs ' swashbuckling academy , which the cap ' n will find most beneficial . i like that cap ' n - - seems like a real obedient sort of fellow , the kind i don ' t anticipate givin ' me any problems . . . so , the island - - she ' s really startin ' to come in nicely , eh ? * puts index finger to lips * shush - - ye can save all the niceties ' til after seein ' the finished product , ' kay ?
this latest uranium seizure , said the american ambassador here , john f . tefft , “highlights how smuggling and loose border control , associated with georgia’s separatist conflicts , ” pose a threat “not just to georgia but to all the international community . ”
a thrilling mystery - detective story by a two - time newbery honor book award winner . twelve - year - old shadrach is enraged . bootleggers have virtually taken over his island home , using it as a base for their illegal operations . shadrach vows to gather all the information he can to bust the criminals . he succeeds , but then chooses the wrong man to tell .
“as concerns their claims that contraband , or moreover , the laughable claim that nuclear materials are going through south ossetia , that’s just funny , ” he said in an interview . “i hope not a single serious person in the world takes this seriously . ”
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the tiki tour guide meanwhile was still lost , and a clue eventually surfaced in the form of jhudora , who bought a talking statue on the island that kept screaming help so much that she gave it away . finding the strange statue in a shop and using the tagobo potion on it freed the tour guide , and he provided his word . only one missing islander remained , the techo master .
avi is known for realistic likable characters that can get through authentic real - world situations in a way that can touch on deeper themes than what ' s initially written . so what the hell happened ? shad is a character so riddled with paradoxical character traits between
wanting to do what ' s right
i . e . not listening to anyone who tries to reason with him that his actions could get him or his family killed for the sake of his own selfish pursuits that the reader is supposed to believe is
noble
,
shadrach is enraged . bootleggers have taken over his island home , using it as a base from which to run their illegal operations . the community cooperates because its silence has been bought , and times are hard . but shadrach can ' t be bought . instead , he vows to gather all the information he can to bust the criminals . he succeeds , but then chooses the wrong man to tell .
august 1 : at last , the time to show ye the latest round of revisions has come . pretty excited , eh ? it ' s totally understandable . . . okay , ready ? ta - da ! don ' t you just love it ? seems the new layout has created a squabble between the food club competitors an ' the golden dubloon , but aye , there ' s no reason why such skirmishes should get in the way of art , right ? let ' em suffer - - we ' re talkin ' about genius here !
where exactly tom johnson fits into this murky picture is difficult to say . although scarcely averse to publicity , johnson has always dwelt in the margins between fact and fiction–the latter often of his own invention . reliable records of his life are largely absent ( even his name is generally misspelled johnston or johnstone ) ; the one biography of him is a farrago . the greatest literary figure of the day , the novelist sir walter scott , was misled about johnson’s career–writing , wrongly , that he had piloted admiral nelson ’s flagship at the battle of copenhagen .
ex - navy man steve kent , struggling to make a living in macao , is approached by beautiful vivian craig . she wants to hire him and his boat to retrieve some medicine from a plane which crashed into the ocean on a flight from manila . kent dives at the crash - site but discovers he ' s been tricked into retrieving a cache of gold bars . he intends to report this cache to authorities but his growing attraction to vivian soon causes him to change his mind . vivian ' s husband , allan , now appears on the scene . kent reluctantly agrees to sail the gold to hong kong where it will be sold and the proceeds divided equally between himself , vivian , and allan . on the voyage to hong kong , however , kent ' s boat is pursued both by the police and by a pirate named bok - ying .
until now , all but the vague outlines of the case have remained secret . but an examination of the episode , and a similar one in 2003 , suggests that the region’s political instability and culture of rampant corruption continue to provide a fertile breeding ground for illicit commerce in atomic materials .
i started out by looking at the column with the skeith and lupe . the only two missing in that column are the bruce and mynci , but the mynci cannot appear in the second row , because there ' s already one there . so , a bruce must go above the skeith , and a mynci must appear above the bruce . then i looked at the fourth column - - it ' s missing a lupe and a skeith but the skeith cannot go in the third row , so it must go in the top right corner . keep using this logic to complete the whole thing .
when it was analyzed at the energy department’s laboratory in the pacific northwest , it was found to have a u - 235 purity of 89 . 451 percent , “suitable for certain types of research reactors , as a source material for medical isotope production , and for military purposes including nuclear weapons . ”
two years later , georgian authorities learned that highly enriched uranium was again being offered for sale , this time in south ossetia , a rugged and beautiful land no bigger than long island , with few border controls on either the russian or georgian side . people and contraband move freely through its fields and along its mountain roads . the united states says it has discovered counterfeit $ 100 bills traceable to south ossetia circulating in at least four american cities .
the plot : the five are at julian , dick and anne’s home trying to decide what to do for the hols when they see a circus go by . nobby , a circus boy tells them where they are headed and the five decide to rent caravans and have a holiday near the circus camp .
“people said , ‘hey , the situation’s improved , ’ ” said william c . potter , a leading authority on nuclear smuggling at the monterey institute of international studies in california . the seizures in georgia , he said , suggest something else : that the trade may simply “have gone under the radar . ”
yet , while napoleon lived ( and he endured six increasingly morose years on st . helena before finally succumbing to cancer– or , some say , to arsenic poisoning ) , there were always schemes to rescue him . emilio ocampo , who gives the best account of this collection of half - baked plots , writes that “napoleon’s political ambition was not subdued by his captivity . and his determined followers never abandoned hopes of setting him free . ” nor did the bonapartists lack money ; napoleon’s brother , joseph , who was at one time the king of spain , had escaped to the united states with a fortune estimated at 20 million francs . and the emperor’s popularity in the united states was such that–ocampo says–the british squadron taking him into exile headed several hundred miles in the wrong direction to evade an american privateer , the true blooded yankee , which sailed under the flag of the revolutionary government of buenos aires and was determined to effect his rescue .
what makes this detail especially interesting is the context . in 1812 , britain was at war with the united states –and the u . s . was known to have employed robert fulton to work on a new generation of super - weapons . that probably explains how johnson was able to arm himself with a whole series of passes from different government departments confirming that he was formally employed “on his majesty’s secret service on submarine , and other useful experiments , by order . ” how these trials were funded is a different matter . in the confusion of wartime , the papers show , britain’s army and navy each assumed that the other would be picking up the bill . it was a situation johnson was quick to exploit , retaining the services of a london engineer who sketched a submarine that was 27 feet long and “in shape much like a porpoise . ” an inner chamber , six feet square and lined with cork , protected the two - man crew .
my 11 - year - old son told me he loved this book because it was nonstop action . i think the story is interesting , and i understand the appeal for kids . i would recommend it for reluctant male readers especially . maybe 10 - 12 ish age ? it ' s a little scary in a few places , but easy reading .
so concerned were the british to scotch even the faintest possibility of escape that small garrisons were even established on ascension island and at tristan da cunha , 1 , 200 miles further out in the atlantic , to forestall the unlikely possibility that these uninhabited volcanic pinpricks might be used as staging posts for a rescue . no single prisoner , probably , has ever been so closely guarded . “at such a distance and in such a place , ” the prime minister , lord liverpool , reported with satisfaction to his cabinet , “all intrigue would be impossible . ”
safely landed on st . helena , though , the emperor found himself in what was probably the most secure prison that could have been devised for him in 1815 . the island is extremely isolated , almost entirely ringed with cliffs and devoid of secure anchorages ; it has only a handful of possible landing places . these were guarded by a large garrison , totaling 2 , 800 men , armed with 500 cannon . napoleon himself , meanwhile , was held at longwood , a refurbished mansion with extensive grounds in the most remote and dismal portion of the interior .
an american government laboratory’s analysis of the 2006 material — which , among other things , disclosed traces of two rare forms of uranium , u - 234 and u - 236 — provides “a strong case” that it indeed came from russia , said thomas b . cochran , director of the nuclear program at the natural resources defense council , a private group that monitors atomic arsenals .
we know it did , because the archives contain correspondence from johnson confirming that the boat was ready and demanding payment of £100 , 000 for it . they also show that , early in 1820 , a commission of senior officers , led by sir george cockburn , was sent to report on the submarine–not , apparently , to assess its new technology , but to estimate how much it cost . cockburn was a serious player in the naval hierarchy of the day , and remains notorious as the man who burned the white house to the ground when washington fell to british troops in 1814 . his original report has vanished , but its contents can be guessed from the royal navy’s decision to shave johnson’s six - figure demand down to £4 , 735 and a few pennies .
what this means is that , early in 1820 , johnson possessed a very real submarine at precisely the time that , french sources suggest , bonapartist officers were offering thousands of pounds for just such a vessel . and this discovery can be tied , in turn , to two other remarkable reports . the first , which appeared in the naval chronicle , describes a trial of johnson’s boat on the river thames :
asking sarah the zafara for help finding the tiki tack man ' s old mask resulted in her entering a strange trance , and directing neopians to the haunted woods . in the depths of the fetch ! maze , the tiki mask was recovered . the tiki tack man was restored , and provided his secret word . jhuidah meanwhile couldn ' t remember hers , suggesting that the word itself may have been removed from neopia .
it is fulton’s appearance in the tale that gives this account a semblance of verisimilitude . a competent inventor , best remembered for developing the first practical steamboat , fulton had spent years in france peddling designs for a submarine . he had persuaded napoleon to let him build one small experimental craft , the nautilus , in 1800 , and it was tested with apparent success on the seine . a few years later , fulton designed a second , more advanced , vessel which–as his illustration shows–superficially resembled johnson’s submarines . it is also a matter of record that , when the french failed to show any interest in this second boat , fulton defected to britain with the plans . in july 1804 , he signed a contract with the prime minister , william pitt , to develop his “system” of submarine warfare under terms and conditions that would have yielded him £100 , 000 in the event of success .
there is no doubt that johnson’s design was primitive–the submarine was driven by sails on the surface , and relied on oars for motive power when submerged . nor is there anything to suggest that tom and his engineer solved the vast technical problems that prevented the development of effective subs before the 1890s–most obviously the difficulty of preventing a boat submerging in neutral buoyancy from simply plunging to the bottom and staying there . it was enough that the weapon actually existed .
my favourite parts : the caravans are pretty cool , i like all the little features like the running water and little cupboards . i also enjoy the bit of circus life we see , and nobby’s admiration for the five is touching . pongo is very funny , with his pick - pocketing and faux shame at being caught . his interactions with timmy are amusing too , particularly when shaking paws and he goes round the back to shake his tail too .
you were correct : with the four of them gone , the power of the ancients was weak enough to open the first seal : jhuidah can do nothing now , she is harmless : my minions are working on reaching the second as we speak : when all three are down , the secret of the volcano shall be yours , my lord : when going on safari , safety is of the utmost importance : make sure you pack at least three large pian leaves , nine pinannas and seven kraku berries in case of poisons . at 8 o ' clock every day you must prepare the camp . . it is only two hours till nightfall and the island can get very dangerous .


the set-up is a 1995 crime thriller film directed by strathford hamilton and starring billy zane .

it was based on a novel by james hadley chase

the set - up ( 1995 film )

football on film : i . d . ( 1995 ) - the set pieces
the set up aired on the television channel showtime on july 23 , 1995 in the usa .
miramax circumvents ' kids ' controversy : movies : independent company is set up to distribute the graphic teen film , avoiding potential problem for the disney - owned firm .
miramax circumvents ' kids ' controversy : movies : independent company is set up to distribute the graphic teen film , avoiding potential problem for the disney - owned firm . - latimes
in 1995 mgm set up a website for the film
hackers
which was promptly hacked . the wording
this is going to be an entertaining fun promotional site for a movie
was changed to
this is going to be a lame , cheesy promotional site for a movie
. mgm left the hacked site up during the theatrical run .
let’s get this straight from the outset : i . d . ( 1995 ) is a superb film . not from a purely critical perspective – unless a nomination for the golden alexander at the 1995 thessaloniki film festival counts – but there is a perfect bleakness to it to underpin all the tightly - spun testosterone .
in 1995 mgm set up a website for the film
hackers
which was promptly hacked . the wording
this is going to be an entertaining fun promotional site for a movie
was changed to
this is going to be a lame , cheesy promotional site for a movie
. mgm left the hacked site up during the theatrical run . : movies
o’connell , even if his original vision for the film wasn’t realised , has been reassured by the film’s cult following .
steven soderbergh ' s atmospheric , film - noirish and experimental b / w film was a mystery - thriller tale of sad romance .
finally , the two boys threatened to set the curtains on fire . ignoring her , elias pushed lukas’s hand into the curtains , and set the room ( and their mother ) on fire . it was not clear whether elias also perished in the blaze .
richard iii is a 1995 film adaptation of the play by william shakespeare , directed by richard loncraine and starring ian mc kellen . it was based on an acclaimed royal national theatre stage production by richard eyre that also starred mckellen .
with the headline : film review ; in a hell of drugs and despair .
with the headline : film review ; johnny depp with a don juan complex .
during the beginning of his search ( conducted like the film blow - up ( 1966 ) ) , mikael became suspicious that he was being tracked and someone had hacked into his computer .
joanna robinson is a hollywood writer covering tv and film for vanityfair . com .
the waves lapped around his corpse near the surf line , as the sniper packed up his killing gear and walked off .
in the conclusion , lisbeth provided mikael with
reading material
during the last few weeks of his incarceration . the material consisted of hacked documents proving that mikael had been set - up . mikael ' s next issue of millennium exposed wennerstrom for using his companies to commit serious financial crimes ( setting up cartels for drug trafficking and gun - running ) .
red - dressed lilly gathered up the strewn cash , descended in a caged elevator , and calmly drove away .
the film is about the idea of andy kaufman , about how artists channel their influences and keep the dead alive .
i bet every time brad pitt teases angelina jolie about this bomb she fires up a copy of cool world .
: how many times i gotta say it ? there ' s no percentage in smartenin ' up a chump .
tyrell , who only serves as the executioner of the princes in the original play , becomes richard ' s dragon in the film .
i used to consider
hackers
a guilty pleasure , but now i just unabashedly straight up love that movie . phreak ( the puerto rican guy ) is my fave , providing the heart and soul of the film , in my opinion .
[ in fact , vanger ' s secretary dirch frode had employed a hacker / researcher to do a background check on mikael and continually monitor his computer during the trial . the researcher concluded regarding the recent case :
blomkvist ' s totally clean . . . i think he was set up .
]
a childhood acquaintance from simon ' s past , gordon moseley , was actually the victim of simon ' s bullying and torment - and simon was revealed as the real villain of the film . in high school , simon had spread the lie that gordon was gay and had been seen being molested by an older boy in a car . afterwards , the accusation ruined gordon ' s life . gordon set up an elaborate scheme to get payback revenge over 20 years later , including possibly impregnating simon ' s drugged - up wife robyn during an alleged rape
aside glance / breaking the fourth wall : all of richard ' s soliloquies ( as well as a few asides ) are delivered directly to the camera . also , after shooting richard , richmond also begins to glance into the camera and smile , implying he may not be the perfect replacement he has been set up as .
not true . know someone who was involved . they just thought it was funny . edit : they also wound up liking the movie .
the dramatic tale was set in bombed - out , post - war berlin , germany , a divided city . berlin was the location of the potsdam conference of allied powers in 1945 . the main protagonist was :
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a parody of a parody , the film is so soulless that it makes its predecessor seem like a classic in retrospect .
this is a new series on the set pieces in which adam hurrey casts his eye over the numerous attempts to depict football in films . you can read the first instalment , on when saturday comes , here .
and then the whole idea that the most important item in the world is an encryption key is pretty amazing . yeah , it ' s a bit fluffed up in the film ( naturally ) , but the substance in it is pretty solid and it ' s also really good and fun to watch .
ben affleck ' s directorial debut film was an adaptation of dennis lehane ' s novel gone , baby , gone . in the film ' s opening voice - over narration during the credits , private investigator patrick kenzie ( casey affleck ) spoke about how his job was to find missing people because of his connections in the tough neighborhood where he grew up ( in the working class area of dorchester near boston ) :
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the film ' s theme tied together puberty with blood , sexual desire and metamorphic body changes ( including possession and infection ) .
to sidestep potential conflict with miramax films ' family - oriented parent corporation , the walt disney co . , miramax co - chairmen harvey and bob weinstein have set up an independent releasing company to market and distribute the controversial
kids
- - larry clark ' s graphic portrayal of a day in the life of some amoral , sex - obsessed new york city teens .
steven soderbergh’s bracingly playful return to cinema is accorded a stunning transfer and little else , though the film itself is more than enough .
there’s virtually no actual football in the film whatsoever , but i . d . faces a similar - sized struggle for verisimilitude as any on - pitch drama does . many of the tense , scowling set - pieces and plot devices are based on supposedly real events in the experience of pc james bannon , who went undercover with millwall’s notorious bushwhackers in the late 1980s .
well they did make a sequel of sorts . look up hacker the kevin mitnick story , as a bonus master p is in the movie as an elite hacker . . .
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the set - up scenes have all the hallmarks of a made - for - tv docudrama about the disease of the week . we settle in confidently , able to predict what will happen : carol ' s problems will be diagnosed , the environment will be blamed , and there will be an 800 number at the end where we can call for more information about how to save the planet . but that isn ' t how
safe
develops at all .
“anybody who is familiar with the history of the pacific islanders in film , there’s cause for worry , ” said dionne fonoti , an anthropologist and filmmaker from samoa who was part of the trust . even the film’s young star , auli’i cravalho , a hawaiian teenager making her film debut , admitted that she wasn’t so starstruck by disney’s interest to approach moana without concerns . “i was wary , ” she admits . “i think that everyone can say they might be a little afraid of it , because when we have a film that is inspired by a culture we want to feel good about it . ”
and it’s not just murphy who already feels an emotional connection to moana . “i see all these little girls dressed up as moana for halloween , ” musker says . “young women who are dressing as moana even before the movie has come out , who just feel some connection to her as they see her represented in the film . ”
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…
“my view has slightly mellowed over the years , as people keep telling me what a good film it was , and i see the excitement that generations of students especially have expressed about it . middle - aged men have tattooed quotes from the film on their bodies , and teenage student women have parties to watch it . ”
in general though , they ' d need a strong plot concept to differentiate themselves from every other film that features a character that can hack .
the ' ghost ' suspected that mcara was murdered , after a frail and elderly resident ( eli wallach in a cameo ) told him the currents couldn ' t have carried mcara ' s body so far west to wash up on the beach where it did , and that a local woman named annabeth wurmbrand saw flashlights on the beach the night the body washed up ( but had fallen down stairs and gone into a coma a week earlier ) .
the film was hit by controversy again in september , when a maui costume featuring a tattooed body stocking was pulled from the disney store in the wake of complaints about “brownfacing” and cultural appropriation . “i think we did the right thing as far as the costume was concerned and maui was concerned , ” the 15 - year - old cravalho says . musker calls the pushback “understandable” given the historically bad treatment of pacific islanders on film .
and not to say that the movie isn ' t flawed , but due to the outstanding nature of the film ' s good qualities , the flaws and cheesiness just give it vulnerability and make me love it more .
all kids lie about wearing condoms ,
he said .
i did . . . but the consequences were less catastrophic then . ' kids ' is a hard - edged wake - up call .
i used to consider
hackers
a guilty pleasure , but now i just phreak ( the puerto rican guy ) is my fave , providing the heart and soul of the film , in my opinion .
one of the major breaks in the case of harriet ' s disappearance was a set of intriguing multiple photographs taken during a children ' s day parade in 1966 in the town of hedestat , shot in rapid sequence and viewed as a film . the most important of the photos was the one seen from harriet ' s point - of - view - she was fearful of the startling sight of her teen brother martin vanger ( in a tell - tale blue striped sweater ) stalking her from across the street during the parade - after which she fled and disappeared .
the plot unfolded more completely when corporal tully was found murdered and pulled out of the river with a bullet in his gut . jake appeared to be the only one interested in solving the murder . the persevering geismer was often bloodied and beaten up , but he slowly put together the pieces of the puzzle :
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mr . depp , by contrast , gives yet another mesmerizingly sincere performance , this one colored by more obvious sexuality than he has brought to earlier roles . cast once again in the role of a precious innocent , he takes don juan demarco utterly to heart . the film introduces him as a would - be suicide , then lets him show off his seduction technique on a woman in a hotel who is waiting for her date . the sequence is preposterous , set up as feeble , bawdy comedy . but mr . depp , though sounding as much like dracula as a latin lover , is so supremely earnest and alluring he leaves no doubt that don juan ' s methods really work .
a film review yesterday about
clockers ,
directed by spike lee , misstated the starting date of a retrospective series of his films at the american museum of the moving image . it is saturday , not today .
what the film version of
clockers
can ' t do is see through strike ' s eyes as devastatingly as the book did . the film can capture only the bare bones of such a big novel , and in any case mr . lee takes a more extroverted approach to character . mr . phifer , a handsome actor with a permanently worried scowl , is clearly a neophyte , but he shows enough of strike ' s bluster to have a strong presence here . the film knows too much about strike to judge him , and enough to make him someone you can ' t forget .
man i loved hackers . such a fun , if weird movie . surprised they haven ' t tried to remake this or do some kind of sequel . even though it ' d probably cost the films entire budget just to get angelina jolie on the set and i doubt she has the nostalgia for this movie like i do .
the ' ghostwriter ' wrote the sentence on a piece of paper , passed through a number of hands to ruth , and shortly after , as he stepped outside with the original manuscript , he was run - down ( off - screen ) in the street ( the same thoroughfare in the film ' s opening ) . he was murdered like mcara , in order to silence him - or were both deaths just an accident ? his manuscript papers blew down the street in the wind as the film faded to white before the credits .
in the conclusion , brenner reprimanded general campbell , who still claimed he had done nothing wrong :
nothing is gained by my involvement .
he was planning on further covering - up his participation in the entire incident . brenner was steadfast as he confronted the general :
disney animation has come a long way since the days of “ zip - a - dee - doo - dah ” and “ what makes the red man red . ” but even disney’s early 90s renaissance was marked by criticism . “ it’s racist , but hey , it’s disney ” a new york times headline read of 1992’s aladdin , while 1995’s pocahontas inspired at least one scholarly paper about persistent , damaging stereotypes of native americans .
the hooligan film is a curious corner of the football genre . alan clarke’s tv drama the firm ( 1989 ) was the first dip of the toes into a sub - culture that plagued the english game at the time – gary oldman’s bex bissell setting the benchmark accordingly – but the big screen would eventually see some increasingly cartoonish depictions of football hooliganism .
with the police investigation eventually closed , and john’s life in tatters , i . d . still manages to leave us with an ambiguous ending , which avoids tying things up too nicely : football hooligan films , by definition , should surely be that rough around the edges .
director stephen frears ' complex post - noir crime - drama story ( with the tagline :
seduction . betrayal . murder . who was conning who ?
) set in los angeles was about three con artists whose lives were inextricably intertwined , especially the two females who were engaged in a deadly power - struggle love - triangle for the male ' s attention :
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there was only one twin - elias . the other identical twin lukas was killed in an
accident
( probably one that also disfigured the face of the mother ) before the events of the film . experiencing deep denial and guilt , elias was only imagining that lukas was alive .
the first impression given was that the simon and gordon did not know each other very well , yet gordon began to show up unexpectedly , and lavish inappropriate gifts on the couple , such as an expensive bottle of wine (
how do you think he got our address ?
) .
that just leaves dinsdale’s exceptional turn as detective constable john brandon – for which he [ citation needed ] won the international critics award [ citation seriously needed ] for best actor at the geneva film festival [ oh , come on ] .
because the new company , excalibur films , is not a signatory of the motion picture assn . of america , it is free to release the film unrated in the event it receives an nc - 17 from the ratings board , to which it will be submitted within the next 10 days . and because the $ 6 . 5 - million to $ 7 - million investment - - $ 3 . 5 million in worldwide rights plus the cost of prints and advertising - - is being picked up by the weinstein brothers , disney ' s policy of not releasing nc - 17 films isn ' t put to the test .
dieselpunk : the film lives and breathes this trope , both in an elegant and gruff way . probably the most british - flavoured rendition of the trope ever put on screen . it ' s not limited to the costumes , vehicles and atmosphere : even the individual architecture that ' s supposed to be really historical - e . g . the tower of london - is portrayed by shots of purely period public buildings , often 1930s functionalist structures . ian mckellen himself referred to the production design of the film as
being rooted in a semi - mythical portrayal of the late interwar uk
.
though
kids
created a major buzz at january ' s sundance film festival and drew a few glowing early reviews , the movie ' s reception at cannes fell flat . some viewers walked out of the screening , and attendance at the press conference was sparse .
the general was court - martialed and found guilty for failing to report and concealing the west point gang - rape . he subsequently withdrew from public life . the film ' s ending title :
today , nearly 200 , 000 women serve on active duty in the military services .
“it’s no secret i was unhappy at how this film turned out . i kept quiet at the time it was released , not talking to the press and so on , but i was in grief that a powerful cinematic vision had come out looking like a standard bit of british tv social realism . i’d trusted phil davis to direct it as he is such a superb actor , and this film had to stand or fall on the central performance , but he just couldn’t see the cinematic potential of the script . ”
murphy broke into tears when discussing how important moana felt , both to her and for and her culture . disney took up her proposal from five years ago that there be a tahitian - language version of moana recorded ( an industry first ) , and involved her in every step of casting its voice actors . non - english lyrics are included in the film’s score , thanks to the input from samoan musician opetaia foa’i , who worked in concert with composer mark mancina and songwriter lin - manuel miranda .
we talk a lot about the evolving relationship between technology and culture . in order to help our readers keep up with the fast - paced changes of our increasingly digital world , we’ve decided to analyze the valuable lessons about technology contained within the most educational material that we as a society have ever produced : hollywood films . today’s lesson :
hackers is a movie too awful to dislike . after i watched it recently i had a great laugh reading the reviews ( pro and con ) at rotten tomatoes . i bet every time brad pitt teases angelina jolie about this bomb she fires up a copy of cool world .
though
kids
is almost certain to receive an nc - 17 , eamonn bowles - - a former vice president at goldwyn involved in the release of the lawrence film and the new chief operating officer of excalibur - - says he ' d give it an
r .
with both spy groups teamed up , the rest of the film unfurls as a series of action sequences that spotlight vaughn’s ability to layer multi - stage mayhem and , perversely , derive no actual thrills from it . vaughn loves to especially home in on whiskey ( pedro pascal ) as he wields a rope lined with a laser edge that can dice foes , but shots of the statesman in combat favor darting pans that insistently follow the point of his whip like a dog that can only look at your finger pointing and never to whatever it is you’re actually pointing at .
in the film ' s tense conclusion , the two agents engaged in a fight - to - the - death combat atop his destroyed control center - lair in cuba . bond raced to disarm the transmitter - antenna of a large satellite dish communicating with a second , deadly rogue goldeneye satellite nuclear - weapon .
and cravalho , who grew up on stories of maui , was able to incorporate her own ideas of the demigod while also expanding on her hawaii - based knowledge : “i believed that maui and all of his amazing stories was hawaiian . what i didn’t know was he was actually shared all across polynesia . our maui in moana is actually just this awesome demigod that has stories from different places all around polynesia . he has the ones that i grew up with—raising islands out of the sea and slowing down the sun—but also others that i didn’t know . he’s different than i would have imagined , but so much , much more . ”
harriet ( taking the name anita vanger when she fled ) was found grown up and living in australia , although every year on her birthday from a different worldwide location , she had sent henrik a framed , pressed and dried flower ( he had thought they were coming from her taunting killer ) .
in the brilliant first two - thirds of the film , the focus was on the strange and random behavior of the mother ( a
bait - and - switch
directorial technique ) , not on what the twins were doing . they went to extremes to test and torment her - changing the film ' s mood to torture - porn . elias let a giant pet madagascar hissing cockroach squirm from his sleeping mother ' s chest into her mouth . in a ghastly and brutal torture sequence , the two twins tied their mother to her bed and demanded that she prove her identity , or tell them where their real mother was .
renny harlin updates the flynn classic swashbucklers by a ) casting a female , geena davis , as the lead , and b ) injecting more
boom !
into the mix with a lot of pyrotechnics . it almost works . its a brash , brawling pirate film alright and sorta fun alright but it somehow fails to connect . matt modine plays the flynn part okay , flynn in the supporting position instead of as the lead , which is disconcerting , but maybe what ' s missing more in the film is the objective : the flynn pirates took the gold too , but were actually
fighting for england !
or
freedom !
or some such and not simply the booty . . .
really , though , the movie is more about how the rise of technology impacts our lives , and our changing ideas and concerns about privacy . bennett was easily seduced by devlin because he spied on her describing her ideal man in a chat room , and filled in the details by going through her records . as she says , our entire lives are recorded on computers , from our work to our taste in movies . in 1995 , this was a shocking problem that people had to learn to deal with . in 2013 , it ' s basically how facebook works .
among the blissfully unaware hooligan footsoldiers is the nervous wreck gumbo – the film’s enduring and endearing cult hero , who jars gherkins for a living and who everyone “fucking loves” at one point or another – and , for some reason , a fire - eating extra who’s wandered in from a dexy’s midnight runners video .
not that i . d . is a relentlessly grim affair . it’s joyously quotable , which is surely a huge part of its cult status , and the rapport john builds with the shadwell hooligans ( and , initially , with his undercover colleagues ) can be genuinely charming , which indirectly explains why he gets so wrapped up in it all .
going out unrated takes the stigma off the film ,
harvey weinstein said .
it also enables us to circumvent theater chains that won ' t play nc - 17 movies because of clauses in their lease and newspapers that won ' t run their ads . because of these policies , we had to sell the martin lawrence nc - 17 - rated concert film ' you so crazy ' to [ the samuel ] goldwyn [ co . ] last year . it went out unrated and generated 400 bookings . if it was nc - 17 , they would have gotten 50 .
along the way , he met up with his brother who exclaimed about crs :
they just f - - k you , and they f - - k you , and they f - - k you . then , just when you think it ' s all over , that ' s when the real f - - king starts .
read between the lies
was the intriguing tagline for roman polanski ' s taut and increasingly - claustrophobic film about paranoia and power struggles . it had similarities to real - life political figures , including british prime minister tony blair and his wife claire , us sec . of state condoleeza rice , and the halliburton corporation .
the film concluded with ginger transformed into a monstrous ginger - wolf engaging in a killing spree , including a threatening showdown with her sister , who up until this point had attempted to rescue ginger from her animalistic urges . brigitte felt she no longer had a bond with her sister - she had a choice to either cure her sister with a syringe of
werewolf antidote
or to kill her with a knife , and chose the latter (
i ' m not dying in this room with you
) . she was intimately close to ginger - wolf , hugging her when she exhaled her last breath .
instead , todd haynes , the writer and director , has something more insidious up his sleeve . the movie starts out dealing with one problem ( environmental poisoning ) and ends up attacking another ( a blissed - out cult that charges big dollars to suffering people , who pay to hear the leader blame them for their troubles ) . and then there ' s another level . to some degree ,
safe
suggests that carol may in fact be responsible for aspects of her illness . her life and world are portrayed as so empty , so pointless , that perhaps she has grown allergic as a form of protest . in that case , the spa won ' t help either , because it is simply a new form of the same spoiled lifestyle .
historical villain upgrade : the movie . being based off of richard iii ( a play that makes a point of vilifying one side of a brutal grey and grey civil war and whitewashing the other ) made it inevitable , but the film goes beyond . rather than turning richard into a medieval tyrant , he gets turned into a nazi .
go see the net instead of this dog . the net , starring the girl from the bus .
it has got to be one of the cheesiest pirate movies to ever be put on screen , but by the end of the film you can appreciate it for what it was . the film feels like it is very self - aware of itself , which i love , and the action does not disappoint , even though it is very very over - the - top . the acting is not that great and the bad one liners make me cringe , but it is pretty funny to watch at times . the story is not original in any way , but it is kind of forgivable . i enjoyed some of this movie , but some scenes just bored me to death .
cutthroat island
is a guilty pleasure one time around , but that is about it .
one measure of how far mr . lee has come lies in this film ' s credit sequence , another of the show - stoppers for which he has long been praised . it ' s a far cry from the scrappiness of
do the right thing ,
in which rosie perez danced and boxed to the angry sound of public enemy ' s
fight the power ,
to the
clockers
montage of young black men whose fights have already been lost . replicating grisly crime - scene photographs , and softening their horrific look with gentle colors and a lulling score , mr . lee begins with a scathing sense of the futility that
clockers
will describe . the film ' s occasional billboard - level denunciations of guns and drugs are superfluous after that .
the three main sections of the film were told from different viewpoints : first tully , then jake , and finally lena . jake was warned not to get involved by various competing interests , and clearly cautioned by american colonel muller ( beau bridges ) :
when i was at west point , we put a uniform on a mule .
it opened with the hiring of a new unnamed ghostwriter ( ewan mcgregor ) for retired , semi - disgraced british pm adam lang ( pierce brosnan ) forced into foreign exile . the body of the previous writer of lang ' s autobiography and memoirs , mike mcara , mysteriously washed up on the shore of martha ' s vineyard ( supposedly he had drowned and had been drinking ) , when his vehicle aboard the ferry was found abandoned ( it was rumored
it was the book that killed him
) .
producer osnat shurer admits that the decision to make moana next in line to govern her village may be the one cultural inconsistency the film got away with . ( well , that and the plumeria flowers , which technically came to hawaii after its first contact with europeans . but the animators couldn’t resist adding a splash of color . ) “we could consider it a modern update , ” shurer said of moana’s future as chief , which is established in the story as an anchor keeping the adventurous girl chained to her island . but she also points out that there are women chiefs in samoa , and a “fluidity in the pacific islands of how gender is treated . and often a boy might want to be want to be considered a girl , a young woman might grow up in positions that were originally reserved for girls—and people accept it and people make room for it . ”
as he was walking along the deserted , blackened beach , he was whistling and relieved that his killing days appeared over . he was contemplating ending a life of brutality and violence ( by throwing his shotgun into the water and moving abroad ) . but then he was shockingly and depressingly assassinated by a single shot in the forehead from sniper fire - from a man named
j
( identified from his signet ring near the trigger , in close - up ) .
fine attention to detail and constant feedback from the oceanic trust helped shape the film on every level . notes from the trust on the kind of curtains in moana’s home , the pits used to cook food , and inaccurate lyrics about coconut husks all resulted in minuscule tweaks that would mean nothing to audiences unfamiliar with the culture , but made all the difference to the trust . a scene in which moana throws a temper tantrum and hurls coconuts down on the sand in anger was cut because , as fonoti puts it , she “raised a flag , ” calling the waste of the sacred coconut “absolutely offensive . ”
instead of using duct tape , the two superglued her mouth shut to keep her quiet . to feed her , elias used manicure scissors to split open her glue - hardened lips , causing her mouth to bleed . she started to pretend that lukas was still alive ( and set a place for him at the table ) and claimed that he didn ' t die in the
accident .
when she soiled herself and was momentarily freed , she attempted to escape , yet fell teeth - first into cement and knocked herself out - awakening again bound in the living room and surrounded by candles .
the mise en scène is completed by some appropriately gritty location choices – a millmoor here , a valley parade there – to provide the dystopian footballing backdrops for the violence and police malpractice . an ominous score composed by will gregory of eventual goldfrapp fame ( seriously , everyone’s involved in this film ) finishes off the whole menacing feel rather well . its writer vincent o’connell , however , was aiming for something rather grander :
under the influence of that thought , jack is soon trying to revitalize his marriage . this means , really and truly , a scene in which mr . brando blows popcorn around the mickler bedroom and ms . dunaway merrily catches it with her mouth . ms . dunaway doesn ' t quite act in this film , but she does behave like a good sport .
the p6 , that famous risc that ' s tripple the speed of the pentium . it made the powerbook 280c great
the clock on the square at the beginning shows 9 : 05pm , and the same clock at the end shows 10 : 16pm . the movie takes place in real time .
it was both a complex serial - killer procedural and a neo - noir , with themes of generational sexual abuse , sadistic violence against women , revenge , family secrets , corporate corruption , and nazi racism . it was the first adaptation of the millennium trilogy , a series of books by stieg larsson . there were a number of questions to be answered in the film as it told its story .
clockers
is well served by its lean visual style , well executed by the cinematographer malik sayeed and only occasionally interrupted by a lighting effect or dolly shot that ' s deliberately ostentatious . sometimes music swells into the action in the same needless way . but this film ' s most attention - getting moments are about matters of real substance . this time , that ' s the main hallmark of mr . lee ' s style .
i loved all the stupid bits , the pool on the roof , the sprinklers , the video game showdown , the crash and burn in the automated tv studio , the weird superhip hacker underground , the tormenting of bunk , penn jilette , and shaggy just being shaggy .
writer / director joel edgerton ' s twisting vengeance - based thriller ( his directorial debut film ) had some elements of fatal attraction ( 1987 ) , the hand that rocks the cradle ( 1992 ) , and michael haneke ' s cache ( 2005 ) . a suburban la couple had just relocated from chicago due to a change in the husband ' s work ( and after robyn had lost a pregnancy ) :
it’s those little esoteric touches that steer the film away from too many potentially naff generalisations . one episode of terrace abuse towards one of their own hapless players – “gerry edwards” , who scores a free - kick shortly afterwards , and is immediately cheered to the rafters – perhaps veers the wrong side of fantasy : “you’re playing on drugs , and i don’t mean speed ! ” , our anti - hero quips .
in the pre - title credits sequence , nine years before the events of the film , british agent 007 james bond ( pierce brosnan ) was working alongside british secret agent 006 alec trevelyan ( sean bean ) . their assignment was to destroy a soviet nerve gas factory at the arkangel chemical weapons facility , but the mission went awry and trevelyan was executed . as he was shot by general ouromov ( gottfried john ) , trevelyan called out :
for england , james .
kids ,
written by 21 - year - old harmony korine and acted by non - professionals , tracks telly - - a 17 - year - old
virgin surgeon
- - through a day spiced up by shoplifting , drug deals and sexual conquest . though nudity is limited , the camera records a panopoly of bodily functions , senseless violence and nonstop decadence in a world in which aids is barely an afterthought .
so he doesn ' t . which is all to the good for
don juan demarco ,
a film with serious potential to be third - rate . instead , it benefits not only from mr . brando ' s peculiar presence , but also from johnny depp , who again proves himself a brilliantly intuitive young actor with strong ties to the brando legacy . the movie is cheesy , but its stars certainly are not .
[ the film ' s plot twist hinged on the fact that lukas didn ' t exist , similar to m . night shyamalan ' s ending of the sixth sense ( 1999 ) , and numerous other films , such as carnival of souls ( 1962 ) , fight club ( 1999 ) , haute tension ( 2003 ) , identity ( 2003 ) , a tale of two sisters ( 2003 , s . korea ) , the machinist ( 2004 ) , and the uninvited ( 2009 ) . ]
after the fall and the breakaway glass was cleared , he opened his eyes and realized that he was experiencing the start of his own birthday party thrown by his living brother conrad . a grand ballroom was filled with guests , applauding him and celebrating his special day - on the 20th of october . conrad was holding up a t - shirt :
i was drugged and left for dead in mexico - and all i got was this stupid t - shirt .
van orton spoke briefly with his ex - wife , and greeted others , and then split the expensive bill for the experience with conrad .
in the hospital , the general had coerced and urged his daughter to forget the incident :
it never happened . none of this ever happened .
when the general met with brenner , he still believed that the rapists couldn ' t be caught , and that he had no other choice but to deny the rape . brenner presented him with the list of 6 names - the men in captain bransford ' s squad , who had been arrested and faced 20 years in prison . then brenner described that sexually - traumatized elisabeth had deliberately re - enacted or recreated the original rape incident from seven years earlier , just before her murder , to show her father first - hand what had been covered up :
this forbidden knowledge causes no end of trouble for bennett . on her vacation to mexico , she ' s romanced by the handsomely accented jack devlin , who turns out to be a hitman who wants to shoot her because she has become aware of basic html . she escapes , getting knocked out in the ocean and waking up in a hospital with a hilariously stereotypical mustachioed mexican doctor who takes a moment to ash his cigarette before consulting about her head injury , only to find out that her identity has been stolen . she ' s now ruth marx , a wanted felon , and everything that angela bennett owned has been sold off . worst of all , there ' s no one who can verify her identity , because she never , ever left her house or met with anyone in public . apparently no one thought to contact pizza . net , which could ' ve cleared things up tout de suite .
in the film ' s conclusion , vengeful myra had been shot to death by lilly , and then myra ' s face - blasted and disfigured corpse was made to look like lilly ' s . roy was called upon , as next - of - kin , to identify his mother at the phoenix morgue - he concealed that he noticed lilly ' s right hand did not have its tell - tale cigar burn mark .
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trevelyan was the villainous terrorist of the russian crime ring named janus syndicate , based in cuba in the mid - 1990s , and the mastermind behind the theft of goldeneye .
at the family dock ( witnessed by martin ) , in an act of self - defense in 1965 , harriet clobbered drunken gottfried with a rowboat oar and drowned him , and then fled in a car ( hiding under a blanket ) with the help of look - alike cousin anita ( who later died of breast cancer in england at the age of 37 ) , her closest friend . anita had covered up the fact that she had aided harriet in escaping the island . ( mikael realized he was mistaken . both anita and harriet were his baby - sitters . ) gottfried ' s death was blamed on his drinking and a fall into the lake .
he is to cut it into pieces . . . including the head and the fat . and the priest shall arrange them on the burning wood on the altar .
you know how some movies give away the twist ending in the trailer ? well , this movie gives away the twist ending in the title .
i would love to see a sequel but i would really hope the plot is decent . the idea of blaming hackers for a massive oil tanker virus for money was pretty smart . they have a million different ways they could use the idea of a tech virus with the huge amount of technology we are surrounded by today . hackers will go down as one of my favorite cult movies ever and i watch it every single time it is on tv so i would be seriously pissed if they screwed it up . hell i bet they could even get most of the original cast to be in the sequel and maybe even get a small cameo of angelina jolie to make it amazing .
once again displaying formidable skill with actors , mr . lee teases out an impassioned , claustrophobic intimacy between mr . phifer and mr . keitel , as the latter shows off his great improvisatory naturalness even when reciting scripted lines .
clockers
has more difficulty in managing the fine points of a convoluted story , especially one in which the action is often quietly internal . this film ' s ending ought to be heartbreaking , but its denouement about the murder is delivered too quickly and not explained well enough to have its full effect .
the hacked version of the website was actually the website . it was a promotional spoof not a real hack .
outside , christine was getting in a taxi on her way to her next game ( or
gig
) assignment in australia ( with a small
walk - on
role ) . after she revealed her real name was claire (
you don ' t know anything about me
) , nicholas invited her to dinner . she counter - invited him to join her for coffee at the airport - the film ' s final line :
would you like to have a coffee with me at the airport ?
only if the soundtrack to said sequel was equally as righteous as the original .
afterwards , kent met with brenner and sunhill on a training site , where she hypothesized :
i think this was a woman giving it out all over the post , and the one man who cared about her , the one who ' s willing to risk it all for her , is the person she doesn ' t want . and that ' s because she couldn ' t want anybody .
kent confessed to what had happened :
she owned my heart . she tormented me . she became my obsession . so i followed her and found her out there on the range , on display .
when kent came up to her after she had been rejected by her father , she threatened him - and was strangled to death by the spurned soldier :
his relative tameness here may merely be a function of desperate film editing . anyway , only occasionally is he seen behaving oddly or joking around . (
uh - oh , this is gonna be a good one ,
he says at the start of a bedroom scene with ms . dunaway , which mercifully fades to black . ) too often , he just appears distracted and goes through the motions , with the occasional wink to his celebrity presence .
you and me been going to the same bakery ,
he jokes to another character , who is said to have been putting on weight .
and he was right : it turns out that gatekeeper is actually just a big back door that gives its programmers ( and devlin ' s paymasters ) access to pretty much everything , since every single company in the world and also the fbi and new york stock exchange have been spooked into using it for security . with all that unfettered access , you ' d think they ' d be able to focus on , say , world domination , but they mostly just use it ruin sandra bullock ' s life , which makes me think that gatekeeper might ' ve been programmed by that weird nazi fetish model that actually did ruin sandra bullock ' s life . either way , she ends up bringing down the entire company using the virus from the beginning , after devlin makes the rookie mistake of trying to use the escape key .
also includes selected records of the fbi , civil conservation corps , the committee on economic security , and the department of treasury .
the collaboration of mr . price and mr . lee , who share a screenplay credit for
clockers ,
is anything but a likely one : while mr . price isolates the tiniest subtleties in street - wise behavior , mr . lee likes showing his audience slogans scrawled on walls . despite such obvious differences in scale , the film version of
clockers
emerges as a forceful , involving , tension - filled hybrid . and mr . lee , whose direction so often combines the very good and the galling , works with bristling efficiency , proving he needn ' t strew so many stylistic calling cards to make his fierce directorial presence known . ( a comprehensive two - week spike lee retrospective series begins tomorrow at the american museum of the moving image . )