luchador films are mexican professional wrestling/action/science-fiction / horror films starring some of the most popular masked luchadores in lucha libre .

the luchadores are portrayed as superheroes engaging in battles against a range of characters from spies , to vampires and martians .

these films were low-budget and produced quickly .

nearly all lucha films included fist-fighting and wrestling action sequences which were choreographed and performed by the stars without the aid of stunt doubles .

the genre 's popularity peaked during the mid-1960s to early-1970s .

at least 150 luchador films were produced starting with the 1952 film huracán ramírez .

luchador films

lucha libre hero from hero games is based off the lucha films mentioned above .
pokken tournament introduces pikachu libre , who is basically the luchador - wearing cosplay pikachu in a cameo . and it indeed fights like a luchador .
wrestlemaniac had a homicidal mutant luchador , whose mo was to tear off your face .
in snowfall , el oso gets his nickname from his career as a masked luchador .
pokemon x and y introduces hawlucha , a luchador hawk . it ' s a fighting / flying type and attacks with flying presses , mirroring a luchador ' s acrobatic fighting style .
there ' s a luchador costume available as one of the many
costume themes .
you can also collect luchador trading cards in no more heroes , killer7 ' s spiritual successor .
we heart katamari includes a cousin named lucha , who appropriately enough has the appearance of a luchador .
lisa has rage ' el rage ' ironhead , and energetic luchador party member who attacks with his head .
el santo’s successful foray into feature films had a lot to do with timing , but even so , his first appearances as a masked sidekick to spanish - born luchador fernando osés in the films el cerebro del mal and hombres infernales hardly registered when they were released in 1958 . it wasn’t until a few years later , in 1961 , that el santo burst onto the mexican film scene with santo contra los zombis , a film directed by benito alazraki that set the stage for glut of pulpy wrestling films that would dominate mexican screens for nearly two decades .
in machete , during the invasion of sartana ' s apartment , one of the mooks wears a luchador mask .
lucha libre , indeed , became so popular , that mexico’s comparatively small filmmaking industry was quick to pick up luchadors as film heroes . the first feature film to star a luchador was the obscure 1952 film huracán ramírez , a mild success in its day . despite the obscurity and dubious artistic merit of the film , it launched a trend . a subgenre was born . soon all manner of luchadors began appearing in films , and real - life kings of the ring began to make the transition to film . some film scholars have numbered luchador films at about 150 , but it’s more likely that there are hundreds more low - budget mexican wrestling films that are lost to history .
i recall seeing luchador films on the spanish - language tv stations as a child . these were films unlike any i had seen before . they resembled low - budget american monster films in many ways ( they often had monsters or vampires in them ) , but had a strange kind of earnest energy to them that i couldn’t describe . there was an efficiency to the storytelling that american filmmakers rarely captured . these were films that existed solely to lionize an already - popular folk hero , playing himself , and extend his myth into a supernatural place where he would defeat all his opponents in the ring , best any supernatural monster that beset him , and still have time to wear nice suits , drive nice cars , and pick up beautiful mexican women . they were shamelessly self - aggrandizing , always very cheap ( none of the luchador films had big budgets ) , and often hopelessly convoluted . but they had something many exploitation movies of the america lacked : they had a myth .
world wonder ring stardom ' s mask fiesta turns everyone who is not already a masked luchador one for the night .
luchador films enjoyed a cult audience in america thanks to a film producer named k . gordon murray ( 1922 - 1979 ) , a well - known exporter of fantasy b - movies and an exploitation luminary . any semi - serious student of trash cinema ought to know the name of k . gordon murray . murray would travel to other countries , find some of the little - known fairy tale films , and redub them into english for american audiences . he’s often cited as one of the kings of the early 1950s “kiddie matinees , ” back in the day when children’s features were shown in local american cinemas before the more grown - up fare later in the evening . films like santa claus ( 1959 ) , the robot vs . the aztec mummy ( 1957 ) , and the golden goose ( 1969 ) are well known to a generation of trash - film lovers thanks to murray . some of his films , in turn , became featured on mystery science theater 3000 , and the generational trash torch was passed . murray was the one who carried the luchador films to the u . s . , sometimes ( bafflingly ) redubbing el santo’s name as “sampson . ” the kids who grew up looking through the back corners of uhf stations would find luchador movies sandwiched in between lesser - known japanese kaiju films . nothing can be more striking that discovering these movies at just the right age .
padre fray tormenta has inspired films and wrestled all over the world , but he never sought out fame ; all he wanted was to support the orphans of his parish .
while following a familiar formula of el santo vs . some supernatural enemy menacing humanity , santo contra las mujeres vampiro brought significantly higher production values and gave the luchador an elaborate mythology that places this amongst his greatest films . when the evil leader of a vampire coven kidnaps a professor’s daughter to bring his bride back to life , el santo is sent in to take on an army of luchador slaves and get her back home safe .
bane is partly luchador - inspired , though his mask and fighting movies may or may not closely resemble a luchador ' s depending on the artist , and he hails from a fictional caribbean banana republic rather than mexico . batman 66 took this and ran with it .
the mummy of a luchador vanquished by an ancestor of el santo comes back to life to exact his revenge . santo teamed up with fellow wrestler - actor mil mascaras and lifelong rival blue demon to bring this beloved classic of luchador to mummy combat to the big screen .
if you are one of millions of wwe fans under the impression that only the world wrestling entertainment has superstars that turn to the film industry , such as john cena , hulk hogan , the rock and more , think again . none of them has ever completed 52 successful motion movies as well as comic books and other media appearances . in one of the most financially successful films he made he costarred with mil mascaras and blue demon with mexicans considering this one of the best ever luchador films in history .
, and a - trak , mark and a - trak are forced to don luchador ' s masks and fight other people in masks .
mil máscaras (
a thousand masks
) , who was specifically created for the movies during a contract dispute between el santo and producer enrique vergara . he starred in 20 films .
what happened is that without my intending it , fray tormenta has become a symbol ,
he says .
the luchador priest .
dedicated to the quick commercialization of churros ( ‘quickies’ named after the doughy sweetmeat , a breakfast staple ) … . myriad middle - class melodramas , increasingly boring comedies from cantinflas—whose humour had lost its cutting edge many years previously—prurient sex films which lacked the tacky dynamism of earlier ‘brothel’ films , copies of us adolescent rebellion films , non - rebels with a cause and without an aesthetic , series focusing on masked wrestlers ( starring ‘el santo’… ) , attempts to gloss over the quality by employing colour or costly cinemascope–all contributed to an industry at the lowest point in its development ( king 2000 , 130 ) .
berated all his life by those around him , a monk follows his dream and dons a mask to moonlight as a luchador ( mexican wrestler ) .
one member of the superhero - rock band the justice force 5 is a vampire luchador . well , not really , but that ' s his gimmick .
cheesy , fun , trashy , cheap , sporty , and tapping into the unfettered myth of a local people , luchador films are unique in the annals of cinema . if you want a regular old superhero story , go ahead and watch the dark knight again . if you want a truly epic hero , watch el santo at work . he is more important than batman .
the mascot of koodo mobile is an incredible shrinking luchador named el tabador , named such because the company allows you to have a tab instead of a contract .
, one of the vandenreich members is sternritter
s
, mask de masculine , a luchador . he manages to invert the character archetype and play it straight
as well as santo being a kind of saintly , moral guide , in this film he also takes it upon himself to become an orphaned young boy’s guardian or father figure . while many of the stories are fantastic , some can involve a historical or mythic figure and a familiar place . for example , santo en “el tesoro de moctezuma” ( santo in “the treasure of moctezuma” , 1967 ) , santo contra los cazadores de cabezas ( santo versus the headhunters , 1969 ) , las momias de guanajuato ( the mummies of guanajuato , 1970 ) , and the various films which invoke el día de los muertes ( the day of the dead ) , such as santo en “los profanadores de tumbas” ( santo in “the grave robbers” , 1965 ) , and santo y blue demon en el mundo de los muertos ( santo and the blue demon in the world of the dead , 1969 ) . yet , none of these films deal with thematic elements of the wrestling genre . they are not interested in the struggles , brutality or raise and fall of santo , or any other luchador . even through in these films santo wrestles both in and outside the ring , there is only ever minor discussion of the fact that he is a luchad or . the audience brings to the films a prior understanding of santo , so there is no need for the films to establish his status . what we find is the direct transference of lucha libre matches into these hybrid films .
the true luchador wears , on his head , a mask . on his body , a sequined unitard . on his feet . . . disco boots !
in lobster johnson : the iron prometheus , it ' s mentioned that , in the 50 ' s , mexican director eduardo fernandez created somewhere between nine and twelve low - budget films about lobster johnson , portraying him as a luchador hero . in fact , these were the source of the name
lobster johnson .
previously , all the fictional portrayals just referred to him as
the lobster .
spiderman was partially inspired by a famous luchador known as the blue demon , and spider - man first reveals his powers to the public in a wrestling match against crusher hogan .
gets murdered by a man in a luchador mask , and machete gets attacked by a squad of gun - toting luchadores . later , machete finds the mask of the murderer in
el santo wasn ' t the only prominent luchador film star . other prominent series stars ( some of whom would team up with each other and el santo on occasion ) included :
in the supernatural episode
devil may care
( s09 , ep02 ) , kevin uncovers a photo of sergeant bates doing jello shots off a naked guy in a luchador mask .
in the omega ruby and alpha sapphire remakes , one of the outfits that cosplay pikachu can wear is a luchador outfit . like hawlucha , it knows flying press with this outfit .
however , king i , king ii and armor king i follow the more conventional wrestling style . armor king ii has some luchador - based moves , but not all . then in
there ' s an entire luchador genre in mexico where the hero is a real luchador playing himself . the most popular series ( 52 films ! ) starred el santo , el enmascarado de plata ( saint , the silver - masked man ) . in these , el santo has to rescue his love interest du jour from some fantastic threat , such as zombies , vampires , or mad scientists . while the movies are pretty crude , many mexicans from the time , to current college students to even a few children still consider these movies an important part of mexico ' s film history and actually pretty entertaining .
7 . elsewhere i have discussed the ritual elements of cinema , specifically in the western . see gabrielle murray , this wounded cinema , this wounded life : violence and utopia in the films of sam peckinpah ( connecticut : praeger , 2004 ) .
in the amazing spider man , peter gets the initial idea for the spider - man mask upon seeing a poster of a luchador mask with a similar red - and - blue coloring .
gabrielle murray is a lecturer in the cinema studies program at la trobe university in australia . she has published in several journals , edited anthologies and is the author of this wounded cinema , this wounded life : violence and utopia in the films of sam peckinpah .
neutron , a black - masked hero who resembled strong bad , starred in dozens of films , but only three had an english dub . one , neutron the atomic superman vs . the death robots ( aka losautómatas de la muerte ) was a riff trax vod .
blue demon , who was a rudo , would become a tecnico and would feud with santo for over a year , culminating in a series of matches in 1952 and 1953 . blue demon would have a five year - run as nwa world welterweight champion , defeating santo for the title in 1953 , and holding it until 1958 . the demon - santo rivalry never truly died ; they weren ' t friends in real life , though the two starred in nine luchador films together ( demon starred in 25 films altogether from 1964 - 1977 ) . throughout the 1960s , he had a heated rivalry with el rayo de jalisco . the rivalry would span into the late 1980s , defeating him in a mask vs . mask match in 1988 .
an episode of the middleman featured a gang of luchadores obsessed with killing the middleman ' s martial arts trainer and mentor , sensei ping ( who also , incidentally , wore the mask of a luchador ) .
speaking of the macho man , he also voices the superhuman luchador
wrass - lor
in an episode of dial m for monkey . the plot :
fight me or i destroy the earth !
from there it took several decades before guzmán’s career took off , and he wrestled under a number of monikers – including el hombre rojo and el demonio negro – before settling on the saintly title that would define his career . but beyond his beloved persona inside the ring , el santo solidified his status as mexico’s quintessential masked luchador through a whole network of pop culture spinoffs , including a comic book series and , most notably , the 52 wrestling - themed films that cemented his legend on the silver screen .
the legendary blue demon , alejandro munoz moreno who made his debut a few years after el santo in march 1948 , also retired years after el santo , in 1989 . also making a massive impact in the history of mexico , the blue demon with his legendary blue mask had his first encounter with el santo in 1952 . blue demon who held the championship until 1958 defeated the famous el santo , who was the nwa world welterweight champion in 1952 and 1953 . the two famous wrestlers remained rivals although they also featured in mexican films together . in 1961 blue demon appeared in one of his first ever mexican films , an overall of 25 films , nine of which he costarred with his rival el santo . the producer of most of el santoâ€™s movies was ready to cultivate yet another wrestler cum movie star with blue demon who also continued his wrestling career until his retirement .
the movie was part of a tide of luchador films that swept mexico from the 1950s through the 1970s . the country ' s most iconic wrestlers , el santo and blue demon , gained their greatest fame as movie stars fighting zombies , aliens , and vampires . el señor tormenta was a minor wrestling film . it did feature a couple of big names , black shadow and cavernario galindo ( he dressed as a caveman ) , but only in supporting parts . what makes the movie special is that it came true .
oh the varieties of lucha libre are endless . there are luchadors who dress as cats . there are dwarf luchador divisions . there are female luchador divisions . each lucha match is usually a rudo ( the bad guy ) vs . a técnico ( the good guy ) . the luchadors would invent entire personae for themselves , giving themselves mysterious histories and elaborate in - ring personalities . this is another tradition that has passed into american pro - wrestling .
in kenichi : the mightiest disciple , a villainous luchador shows up to be trashed by kenichi ' s masters a few times . later the manga introduces the much more dangerous smiling fist diego carlos and his student rachel stanley .
one popular legend about fray tormenta is that he received specific permission from the vatican to be a luchador . this he denies . but in other interviews , he has mentioned that he received the blessing of pope john paul ii .
new leaf introduces a villager actually named
lucha
. he ' s a bird with a face that ' s stylized to look like a lucha mask . another villager with a luchador theme is stinky , a jock cat .
the films were made quickly and cheaply , and while a modern audience is more likely to be reminded of adam west - era batman , they were successful enough to open the floodgates for mexico’s luchadoras ( wrestling women ) as well as various imitators . here are the 10 pictures you need to check out .
jaime reyes , the third blue beetle , wears an armor with a faceplate that just happens to look like a luchador mask to go with his mexican heritage . done intentionally and explained as the mask being modeled after its creators ' faces .
there is no attempt in these films to create an aesthetic integration between the wrestling and other generic elements . although in real life santo lost some of his wrestling matches , in the films he might lose a bout but he ultimately always wins . the films literally intercut large sections of recorded and sometimes staged footage of often complete lucha libre matches . generally there are at least two sections of lucha libre that can run from seven to fifteen minutes in any of the el santo films , which run between eighty to ninety - five minutes . so the wrestling matches can take approximately between fifteen to thirty minutes of the reel time . sometimes a match will open a film , sometimes conclude it , or a story will be interrupted to allow santoto fight . although the film santo contra la invasion de los marcianos integrates the fantasy story and the wrestling , ultimately concluding with santo fighting a martian in the ring ; there is rarely any attempt to introduce the wrestling matches or integrate them into the story other than a casual comment from santo that he needs to retire or leave as he has a fight . the real - live footage is in particularly sharp contrast to the general b grade fantasy and crime aesthetic . it inverts the way the lucha libre arena functions , in which we go from the everyday into a frenzied , circus atmosphere . in the films , the wrestling footage works against the fantasy aesthetic to generate something “real”—a kind of social realist or documentary feel that acts as a point of direct contact with the ritual performance of lucha libre . furthermore , while the action is sometimes heightened by the introduction of the re - enactment of close - ups of certain stunts that the single roving camera used at the lucha libre has missed , the audience is often in the background . the distancing of the audience is then compensated for by cut - aways to both real and studio audiences . so the films attempt to literally reanimate the experience of lucha libre .
i should point out that el santo’s movies , as well as the vast bulk of lucha movies , were hardly professional . they were badly lit , the sound was rarely properly audible , the stories would meander , and the dialogue ( dubbed or not ) would contain some of the weirdest mutilations of english ( or spanish ) this side of an ed wood movie . by all conventional professional accounts , these were bad films . like all b - movies , the lucha films were often produced quickly and on the cheap . studios would release several in the span of a year . like slasher films today , studios saw lucha films as a quick buck , as people would see them even if they weren’t expensively made . i wouldn’t have it any other way . a slick , big - budget version of an el santo movie would only serve to erode its charm . there is a certain joy in the earnestness of a badly made film . el santo was so , well , saintly , that his heroic purity would only be amplified by the film’s cheapness . there was something about el santo – some “it” quality – that left him untainted , no matter how much canonical double - backing and confusion he had applied to him . he was like superman , but with the benefit of being a real athlete .
johnny
the mayor
bledsoe , the mayor of hill valley on the bizarre the oblongs , wore a luchador mask ( and a business suit ) , although he acted more like an american wrestler—
macho man
randy savage , specifically .
on a sunday evening in compton , california , a crowd slowly enters an old dance hall . tonight it will house a very different type of dancing - - the dance of the luchador . the crowd begins to . . . see full summary »
el santo , you will find , is one of the most recognizable faces in all pop culture history . not only was he a folk hero and wrestling icon , but he starred in his own comic books , and he was a pertinent film star . in 1958 , santo was invited to appear in a feature film called el cerebro del mal ( the bad brain ) , in which he wore his signature mask , but only acted as sidekick to another luchador named el incognito . el santo’s career wouldn’t take off in earnest until the early 1960s , and he would make some of the finest of lucha films .
in the hellboy in mexico one - shot , released on cinco de mayo , hellboy teams up with three luchador brothers in 1950s mexico to fight vampires . it ' s exactly as awesome as ( and in the end , far more touching than ) it sounds .
jesus burgess from one piece is a masked luchador pirate , introduced standing on a building and challenging an entire city to fight . later on , he shows his strength by hurling a hotel at an opponent . he ' s actually one of those rare luchadores who are evil .
fray tormenta is our father ,
says brazo de plata , a luchador who served as fray tormenta ' s tag - team partner .
he is our lucha libre priest . for me it ' s an honor , considering his age , to have wrestled alongside him .
the masked luchador is a particularly popular character in modern surf music . there are several bands that wear mexican wrestling masks and adopt mexican - sounding names as part of their stage shows , or even write songs about lucha films and luchadores ( the song los campiones del justicio by the ghastly ones ) . it is believed that the american surf band los straitjackets is responsible for this , as they adopted the masks early in their career and subsequently made the genre popular through mexico because of this , spanning bands like sr . bikini or the blue demons , all adopting the masks and hiding identity . there ' s even a french surf band adopting the masks , called the bikini men .
strangely enough , the mexican wrestling masks have been also adopted by several goregrind and grindcore bands , most notably gut from germany . even more strange , the porno - grind bands seem to have an affinity for the masked luchador : gut of course , but check guys like ultimo mondo cannibale or spasm .
in 1952 , a publisher named jose cruz started a comic book featuring santo’s adventures fighting crimes and monsters , while also continuing to wrestle . the comic books portrayed santo as a superhero although until then he had performed as a rudo in the ring . but with the creation of the comic book and his increasing popularity , it was decided that he should undergo a gradual change and eventually become a técnico ( cotter 2005 , 22 ) . considered one of the most famous superhero comic books in mexico , it ran continuously for 35 years . 3 santo’s status as a luchador and therefore a “popular hero , ” along with the comic books , further developed his hero status with mexican audiences . although initially declining film offers , the success of the comic books encouraged him to appear in films . he first appeared in cerebro del mal ( brain of evil ) in 1958 ; however , it was in 1961 that producer alberto lopez hired him to star as “el santo” in the classic santo contra los zombies ( santo versus the zombies ) . between 1958 and 1982 , santo starred in fifty - two mexican films as “el santo” .
what could have been example : hideo kojima ' s first draft for the war - based game he was told to design was a game called lost warld , starring a masked luchadora ( a female luchador ) . tragically , the game got canned , and now all we have is this boring snake guy instead .
the finest of all lucha films is widely held to be the 1962 classic santo contra mujeres vampiro , as it was one of the first santo film to give him a sort of background as a crimefighter , and regular battler of evil monsters . lucha films place their heroes somewhere between the real and the fanciful . they seem to be making part - documentaries about their subjects , despite the presence of vampire women and cheesy special effects . no other fantasy film has that quality . i’ve heard some argue that comic book superheroes of today are as important to us as greek heroes like odysseus were to the ancient greeks . this is not entirely accurate . the luchadors are perhaps a bit more of an appropriate analogy . odysseus was a half - real hero who was aided by gods . el santo , one could argue , fits that mold perfectly .
historically , many of the luchadors have often worn a saintly mantle due to their involvement in charity work , social justice , and politics . super barrio , champion of the rights of mexico’s poor , went into politics and joined the leftist prd ( partido de la revolucíon democrática , all party of the democratic revolution ) . a crowd favorite , mr niebla is known outside the ring for his charitable work with disabled children . in mexico , the sport has also inspired a subculture of political activists who advocate their causes dressed in lucha libre garb . there is super ecologist , fighter for environmental causes ; and super gay and super animal , masked crusaders for gay and animal rights . as a técnico santo brings to the el santo films this same heroic , saintly aura . he is a fighter for good , a masked figure the audience instantly recognizes . he is familiar because he is one of them but somehow he is also different : an invincible , powerful , authority figure . the audience’s champion , he conquers evil and enables justice to be carried out . yet the el santo films do more than just transfer the personae of santo to the screen , by intercutting real and staged footage of wrestling matchesthe films attempt to literally reproduce for the audience the ritual functions of lucha libre .
el santo’s films were full of action and supernatural intrigue , but they walked a fine comedic line that gave them a campy , surrealist touch . the excessive twists and turns of this particular film , in which a bumbling security guard disguises himself as el santo to take on a criminal gang that has kidnapped a scientist and his daughter , take a nosedive into the absurd when el santo and said security guard must fight off the security guard’s evil clone .
lala ' s dad in school rumble is a luchador . tenma is a bit of a lucha libre fan , and both she and karen don her mask on occasion , confounding lala who can ' t believe the disparity in her power ( as karen is the only girl who has defeated lala , while tenma cannot fight at all ) .
masked heroes were popular in the 1930s , the decade that saw the introduction of the lone ranger , the green hornet and batman . in mexico , crowds flocked to see masked combatants wrestle each other into submission , with each luchador giving such a theatrical performance that audiences knew who was the tecnico ( good guy ) and who was the rudo ( villain ) .
las luchadoras were a female tag team ( lorena velázquez and gringa actress elizabeth campbell ) who starred in six films , some of which made it into the english - language market ( e . g . , wrestling women vs . the aztec mummy ) . the stars were actresses , not professional wrestlers . lady luchadoras did exist at the time , but few had movie - star good looks and most wouldn ' t be recognized by the mexican comision de box y lucha libre until the 1980s .
lucha films are really effing weird . the wrestlers , playing themselves , would often be recast as well - dressed ladies’ men ( but never lotharios ) who would jet set around town , attending classy parties , and blessing the community with their presence . they never removed their masks . they were perfect , peerless heroes , capable of being wealthy , but still helping the little people . they would never fight for the wrong reason . they would wrestle with honor . then , to get the story going , they would be given an antagonist whom they would eventually have to fight . the antagonist in luchador films , though , was very rarely just another wrestler . it was usually a famous monster of some kind . in his film career , el santo fought dracula , a mummy , a banshee , a werewolf , frankenstein’s monster , and sexy vampire women . in one notable film , el santo teamed up with the very popular blue demon to fight a monster mash of several beasties . the 1969 film santo y blue demon contra los monstruos featured a sci - fi lab that simultaneously brainwashed a mummy , frankenstein’s monster ( sporting a bandito mustache ) , a wolf man , and some sort of lizard dwarf creature with an exposed brain . the film looks as if someone cracked open my ten - year - old brain , and let every unfettered pop culture fantasy free .
in santo , el enmascarado de plata álvaron a . fernández reyes notes that within the immense cultural productions of modern mexico , the ritual and myths that revolve around the heroic figure of santo , are peculiarly diverse , embodying the creation of new traditions and the recuperation of old ones . santo is a “real” flesh and blood figure , the silver - masked wrestler ; he is the fictional wrestling star of crime , horror and fantasy films , a “saint” who battles bad guys , vampires and mummies , and for his predominately mexican audience , santo is a also a magical “superhero” ( fernández reyes 2004 ) . 1 to understand santo’s immense popular appeal , we need to explore his different manifestations of wrestler , saint and superhero . in turn , this will enable us to investigate the generic hybridity of the films , whereby a noirish crime or a campy vampire tale will be interrupted to allow santo to engage in wrestling matches , with little attempt within the narrative , or in the film’s aesthetic sensibility to integrate the matches .
padre sergio fell by the wayside as more and more of his parishioners began to call him padre tormenta , or simply el fray . if his identity as a luchador was ever secret ( accounts conflict ) , the secret was not kept long . with his wrestling earnings , he was able to buy an actual building to house some of the boys , known affectionately as his cachorros , or cubs .
one of the sample characters in the martial arts supplement for gurps is
del duque
, a heroic crimefighter in a luchador - style mask hailing from a world that seems to operate on low - budget - tv - series logic . he is also by far the most powerful of the sample characters ( at 350 character points , he ' s in the lower - end superhero range ) .
el santo made 52 lucha films in his vast and varied career , spanning from 1958 to 1982 . el santo retired in 1982 , in that he removed his mask on national television . this was the only time he was seen to remove his mask in public . he had a heart attack in 1984 , and died at the age of 66 . his legacy lives on in the cultural consciousness of the mexican world , and in the form of other wrestlers with names like el hijo del santo ( the son of the saint ) .
the sacred heart faith in after the end a crusader kings ii mod counts el santo among its patron deities . followers of el santo can become luchadores themselves , and face each other in wrestling matches - unlike in el santo ' s day , they fight for real . the sacred heart also has a holy order of luchador knights , la orden de la mascara ( the order of the mask ) .
homework for the week : they aren’t widely available on home video or on downloading services , but see if you can track down any lucha films . if you live near the mexican border , find a flyer for a real - life lucha libre match , and try to attend . take part in mexico’s grand tradition . consider the place fantasy heroes play in your life . how “real” are they in your mind ? how much cognitive space do they take up ? how does your view of your movie hero match with the world’s perception of them ?
yet if you are a fan , this period is considered the era of the ‘golden age’ of mexican b grade movies . much can be said about these films in relation to the way they display facets of the anxieties , repressions and fears of a particular social and cultural milieu . the main characters are nearly always played by actors who look european , and santo’s string of girlfriends are often blondes . mestizos and indigenous people generally play peones , other worldly creatures , or enact tales from their own pre - hispanic history . there are occurrences of anti - semitism and racial stereotypes such as the dopey , easily frightened professor in santo en “ la venganza de la momia ” ( santo and “the vengeance of the mummy” , 1970 ) ; or eric , the treasure - hungry , evil coward , who comes to an unfortunate end in santo y blue demon contra dracula y el hombre lobo ( santo and blue demon versus dracula and the wolf man , 1972 ) . yet the above film is interesting in that the wolf man , in human form , is played by a blonde - haired , blue - eyed pretty boy . there is also a reoccurring theme of both the celebration and fear of science , modernity and new technology . however , what becomes fascinating about these santo films is the way in which santo functions as a kind of cipher for both the ritual functions of lucha libre and ancient and modern myths . in fact , these films embody what nelson hippolyte ortega calls a “striking example of a very strong latin american cultural trait : the concomitant use of the old and the new , sometimes at the same time” ( ortega 1998 , 80 ) .
this depression - era drama made headlines for being not only one of the best reviewed films of 2005 , but one of the least well attended . after four weeks of release the film had taken around us $ 50 million , which even during the box - office slump of the time was a disappointment , especially considering the good buzz . amc theatres hoped to keep the film and started a unique offer of a money - back guarantee . ticket buyers who did not like the film were promised that their money would be refunded , no questions asked .
, the generic luchador . the twist is that he ' s canadian . while he ' s billed as being from tijuana , and speaks very little english when in character , what makes it funnier is that even if you don ' t know anything about the man under the mask , you can tell at first glance that he ' s really a white guy ; he ' s kind of pale , and he also sports a red goatee .
el santo needs very little introduction around these parts . more than a beloved athlete or an iconic actor , the diminutive masked luchador truly deserves to be called a legend of mexican popular culture . over his 48 - year career , rodolfo guzmán huerta truly lived the part of the wrestler - super hero he played on screen and in the arenas night after night , and his shining silver alter - ego has been woven into the fabric of mexican folklore .
despite the mask and attitude , japanese wrestler rainbow mika from street fighter alpha is a subversion . her and her fighting style are actually based off puroesu , a type of women ' s pro wrestling that originated in japan . she ' s often mistaken as a straight example of a masked luchador thanks to puroesu being relatively unknown outside of japan , and the fact that el fuerte happens to be a huge fan of hers doesn ' t help matters .
a chance meeting with mexican wrestler rolando vera got him interested in lucha libre wrestling . under the training of vera , he began wrestling without a mask in march 1948 . later in the year , he would return to mexico and adopt the persona of the blue demon . demon would form a tag team with fellow luchador the black shadow and became los hermanos shadow ( the shadow brothers ) . the partnership lasted until 1952 , when black shadow lost his mask to el santo .
homestar runner : strong bad ' s look is based on this , although the mask is apparently his actual face . he actually wrestles in a few toons , although he makes it clear in one of them that
being an awesome wrestler has nothing to do with awesome wrestling moves .
furthermore , in the same toon he goes through a variety of gimmicks none of which are the straight masked luchador gimmick — the final one even involves facepaint over his
mask
!
the stock characterization for a luchador is a kindly gentle giant who loves kids . this is from the story of fray tormenta ( friar storm ) , a catholic priest who started wrestling to earn money for his orphanage . villainous luchadores are pretty rare . outside mexico , though , where luchadores attract considerably less reverence , they ' re much more common - big burly dudes with concealed faces are scary , after all , and it ' s a good way to give your malevolent masked man some exotic flair .
a big influence in the evolution of the shocker mooks in the original kamen rider : initially the henchmen were guys in berets with creepy facepaint . in episode 14 , shocker brings in their top agent from mexico , a cactus - themed luchador - esque monster named sabetregon . he had his own personal minions , who dressed in black tights and wore lucha masks with a cactus on them . apparently , someone liked the look , because afterwards , the main shocker forces began wearing similar costumes , only with a skeleton motif replacing the cactus one .
it ' s also not uncommon for non - luchadores to pretend to be one as a trick . if a heel does it , like when kurt angle became
el gran luchador
during his feud with eddie guerrero , it ' s a sign of them being a devious wang , whereas if it ' s a face that pulls it off , like when kaz hayashi became
el gringo
for a night , it ' s usually so they can get their hands on a cowardly heel who has been ducking them in straight - up fights .
most of the luchadors you see in lucha films were , you see , real - life wrestling champs outside of the film . known only by their specialty wrestling names , and never , ever seen without their masks , luchadors became local folk heroes of a sort . they would fight for their honor , and for the honor of their fans . despite the cartoony appeal they possess these days , luchadors were superhuman bastions of their communities . we know the names and histories of some of the more popular luchadors today , but mentioning the name of rodolfo guzmán huerta will only elicit blank looks from most people . but watch their faces fly into expressions of ecstasy as you mention the hallowed named of el santo , the single biggest superstar in all lucha history .
discover more esma animation movies by subscribing : urltoken découvrez encore plus de films d’animation de l ' esma en vous abonnant : urltoken au mexique , deux grand - pères font leur marché . les petites chamailleries et les vieilles rancunes les mèneront - elles sur le ring ? mexico , two grandfathers are shopping at the market . will a few squabblings and some old rancors lead them to enter the ring ? réalisateurs / directors : sara bacro , camille chandelier , clément pierre , vincent plagniol , alexis renault music : mathieu parisot voices : josé vicente , guillermo fernandez , ambar gonzalez bouab sound : josé vicente – studio des aviateurs film d ' animation réalisé dans le cadre de la formation cinéma d ' animation 3d de l ' école esma ( promo 2015 ) . © esma - ecole supérieure des métiers artistiques
between the schlock scary premise and the occasional lapses into satisfying surrealism ( gotta love the killer robot which appears to be built out of old steam table parts ) , mil mascaras : resurrection rivals any super hero movie made in the mainstream . it provides enough fun to satisfy a schoolyard full of genre geeks , while never once looking down on or mocking its famed figurehead . anyone who knows the luchadore films understands that these are examples of pure hero worship , idolatry without a lick of irony or self - imposed satire . throw in a few flying drop kicks and you ' ve got yourself a franchise . besides , the audience believes in these men and they are not afraid to show their adoration . that ' s why mil mascaras : resurrection often feels like a religious experience . our lead is the messiah of the squared circle , a man beloved for his ability in the ring , and ethos outside of it . and his followers love every barrel - chested moment .
in fact , the lack of legitimate violence ( there are a couple of minor gore effects ) and the constant recounting of mil ' s moralistic code makes a movie like resurrection appear greater than its goofball parts . after all , you wouldn ' t expect a narrative that features a ranting pile of bandages to offer up sound personal principles . and yet that ' s the key to the entire category ' s endearing timelessness . these films are really aimed at kids , lobbing life lessons over their head while keeping them on the straight and narrow . someone like mil mascaras offers up the valuable tutorials on such important issues as fair play , education , clean living , and the benefits of an unlimited sparkly wardrobe . sure , this could seem like reaching , especially when many of the old school storylines seemed to regress into good guy / bad being dullness . thanks to the careful consideration of ulhmann and his collaborators , mil mascaras : resurrection reestablishes the real legacy of the luchadore .
bunny kisaragi from welcome to the el - paracio specifically evokes this image , being el - paracio ' s resident babyface and extremely popular with the neighborhood kids . the mask is actually an important part of her backstory , as she was driven to suicide for yet - unspecified reasons , only to be interrupted by ouka , who put a luchador mask on her head and convinced her to
start over from a clean slate
, resulting in bunny refusing to acknowledge her former identity . as a result she practically never takes off her mask , even in the bath ( the one time she did , tadasuke saw her stepping out of the shower , making him the only person other than ouka who ' s seen her real face ) .
masked luchadors did not actually start in mexico , believe it or not , though no one is sure exactly where that was for certain ; the first man on record to wrestle professionally with a mask was the french
masked wrestler
and the first to bring it into the country of mexico was known as
the masked marvel
, and his secret identity gimmick had been going on long enough in the usa already for him to be a legacy character . still ,
maravilla enmascarada
caught on in mexico like nowhere else before , so emll booker salvador lutteroth tried to duplicate this success with el santo . in the end , maravilla ' s success wasn ' t duplicated but dwarfed , as el santo became mexico ' s most famous luchador .
he made his international debut in los angeles at the olympic auditorium in 1968 against american greats such as black gordman , john tolos , ernie ladd , and goliath . at the wwf , which is now called wwe he performed several times through the years until he won his title mexican wwa world heavyweight championship at the age of 49 . that was during the 1991 fight and this title he holds until today . in 1966 , mil mascaras starred in his first luchador film of which he completed 19 altogether while remaining a wrestler . the very same producer who turned el santo and blue demon into movie superstars took serious notice of this famous wrestler . el santo left the producer due to a contractual dispute , blue diamond was injured , and this was the opportunity for luis enrique vergara to transform yet another newcomer . a true mexican icon who made an impression on the world , mil mascaras took part in a tokyo event in december 2013 , with team mate don caras and won the tokyo world tag team championship .
cast : mil mascaras , jeffrey uhlmann , willard e . pugh , gary ambrosia , richard lynch , marco lanzagorta
they stand as titans , not just in their area of expertise , but in the hearts of their fellow faithful countrymen . foreigners scoff at such devotion , chalking it up to a lack of cultural sophistication and an allegiance to outdated tradition . but when you look around the world , you see them everywhere . japan has its kaiju , while india enjoys those bigger than life bollywood gods . yet no one can top mexico and its worship of all things wrestling . under the lucha libre label , a number of unstoppable heroes have managed to become media superstars - and none are bigger than the man mountain himself , mil mascaras . returning to movies after years in semi - retirement , the suplex sensation reminds us that , no matter how comical they appear to the outside world , masked marvels like el santo , blue demon , and himself stand as wonderful symbols of universal morays - and amazing movie entertainment like his latest offering , resurrection .


the millionaire milkman is a 1910 american silent short drama produced by the thanhouser company .

the film focus on jack cass , a young millionaire , who has affections for a society girl named clara moore .

jack receives a letter of warning about clara 's real interest , his money .

jack decides to decides to test his suspicions and the character of clara , by having newspapers announce the ruin of his mind and his fortune .

clara calls jack to confirm the story and breaks off the engagement .

may dustin , the orphan girl who clara 's family treats as a servant , expresses sympathy for jack .

jack becomes infatuated with may and becomes the milkman to see her every day .

the two are married and may learns that jack had never lost his fortune .

the cast and production credits are unknown .

the film was released on december 16 , 1910 , and met with mixed reviews .

the film is presumed lost .

the millionaire milkman

milkman john hay reckons his ex - wife is the cream of the crop – after she made him a millionaire when she scooped the lotto jackpot .
a millionaire milkman , however : robert wiseman dairies , in which mr wiseman and his brother alan still have a 54 % stake , has grown with bewildering speed .
but millionaire milkman dean anderson , who bought the 500 - acre estate in the 1970s , is said to be laying claim to every square yard that has no formal title deed .
new millionaire tony rogers uses his money to help a neighbor whose life is in danger .
a milkman starts leaving champagne on his girl ' s doorstep after he receives a million dollars .
we’d love your help . let us know what’s wrong with this preview of exit the milkman by charlotte macleod .
everything he touched turned to gold ,
said joe mari , a project engineer who has worked for the city ' s engineering office for nearly 50 years .
imagine the idea of a milkman becoming a millionaire . he was a shrewd operator , a real wheeler - dealer .
bengaluru : barely 12 years ago , ambur iyyappa was a local delivery manager with a courier company . today , he ' s a multi - millionaire at flipkart .
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exit the milkman is charlotte ' s 10th peter shandy book and if memory serves me correctly , her last in this series . it wasn ' t as much a peter and helen book as it was more of their friend cat ' s book as she is the one who finds the erstwhile milkman . unlike previous peter and helen books , i wasn ' t as captivated by the quirky characters but it still ended up being a great read . the book felt as if charlotte was testing the waters for another series starring catriona and the state of maine scenery . if
clara moore is a society girl who has won the affections of jack cass , a young millionaire . he thinks she loves him , but it is really his money that she adores . prompted by a letter of . . . see more »
to help out the family dairy firm as a teenager , he would get up in the pre - dawn chill to do the milkround . now that he is managing director , he is still defiantly down to earth ;
i ' m just a milkman ,
he shrugs .
clara moore is a society girl who has won the affections of jack cass , a young millionaire . he thinks she loves him , but it is really his money that she adores . prompted by a letter of . . . see full summary »
he was only a lawsuit away from stripping us to our underwear and chasing around the office dressed as a milkman . and if you think that sort of parochial , outdated sexism is the figment of a fevered feminist imagination then you need to revisit the sort of tv we all used to watch in the eighties .
exit the milkman is charlotte ' s 10th peter shandy book and if memory serves me correctly , her last in this series . it wasn ' t as much a peter and helen book as it was more of their friend cat ' s book as she is the one who finds the erstwhile milkman . unlike previous peter and helen books , i wasn ' t as captivated by the quirky characters but it still ended up being a great read . the book felt as if charlotte was testing the waters for another series starring catriona and the state of maine scenery . if you ' ve enjoyed the other books in the series , then you ' ll enjoy this one . however , be warned , i didn ' t think it was one of her better efforts . 4 / 5 stars !
one episode opened with a dispatching error sending briscoe and curtis to what they think is a murder , but turns out to be the discovery of a dead horse instead . much to their frustration , their lieutenant tells them to look into it anyway ( there being no other pressing cases at the time ) and their investigation eventually leads to a con artist who may have murdered his millionaire patron .
you ' re familiar with the film , right ? robert redford offers demi moore the chance to earn a million dollars for a sexy night on his millionaire boner . she ' s broke and although it threatens to destroy their relationship she and partner woody harrelson agree to go through with it . then woody harrelson makes cash from hustling basketball hoops in the ghetto or something . hang on , that ' s white men can ' t jump . okay , whatever .
a pair of cops are asked by a couple to find their missing dog . they think it ' s just a waste of time only to find the dog among others being used for an illegal dog fighting club by some rich guys who the cops immediately arrest . the detectives are then called in as one of the dead dogs has a human finger in their stomach , leading to a murder committed to cover up how a multi - millionaire has been selling
rare
wine that ' s actually quite cheap .
changeling . the kidnapping of walter collins → the vast corruption in the lapd .
subverts the hell out of this early in the third season . the second season
comparatively few are troubled with wealth sufficient to make a woman want them . perhaps if such occurrences were common this picture would have less interest ; but as it is there is considerable novelty about it . the millionaire suspected the girl and upon test found his suspicions were correct . she only wanted his money . then he congratulated himself that he found out the true state of affairs before it was too late and proceeded to finish up the drama in a way more to his liking . the life and action which characterize the thanhouser productions are all present , while the photography is satisfactory and helps to make a good picture . - the moving picture world , december 31 , 1910
desiring to capture the essence of france , the sherman brothers composed the song
the aristocats
. disney film producer
turn coat : giving the defamed morgan asylum → outing the mole in the white council .
chrono trigger : save the princess → prevent the end of the world as we know it .
number of refugees accepted into the u . s . falls below the rest of the world combined for the first time since 1980
doreen found out she had won after checking the sunday mirror . she said : “i love the mirror , especially the racing , the sport and the crossword . ”
the linchpin of the case could be the results of a doctor ' s examination on the 89 - year - old former developer .
number of refugees accepted into the u . s . falls below the rest of the world combined for the first time . . .
the film was the most popular
general release
movie at the british box office in 1971 .
the fifth elephant : the murder of a rubber goods manufacturer and the theft of a replica scone of stone → a plot to overthrow the low king of the dwarfs .
the thieves guild questline . investigate why someone is trying to drive a patron of the guild out of business → uncover the truth behind the death of the previous guild master
although in this case the murder wasn ' t related to the major plot , as the villain responsible didn ' t join the major plot until long after the murder .
a map on the wall of mr wiseman ' s office charts the southward march , showing the business heading towards the big area it has yet to penetrate - the teeming millions of london and the southeast .
sneakers . the theft of a black box and the murder of its creator → a plot to cause the collapse of the world economy .
he was hired and set up by the same person , the reporter , in order for him to discover the truth about the cult .
the macbeth murder mystery : parodied when a genre savvy detective drama reader mistakes the book of ' ' the tragedy of macbeth ' ' for a detective drama , → the reveal of the identity of the real murderer , menacing the shakespearian canon of the last four hundred years .
: the pilot has the team investigating how an average joe gained superpowers . this leads to the discovery of
from what it seems , they had the time . the use of it wasn ' t the best .
, was removed from the story placing edgar as the central villain in order to better simplify the storyline .
the residents believed they owned their houses and gardens outright because they paid the previous owner of the estate the asking price in a legitimate sale .
later on in the late 1970s , an fbi agent manages to infiltrate the mob by posing as a jewelry thief , and the subsequent investigations revealed the existence of the mafia commission .
the thinking machine : in
the problem of the organ grinder
, the investigation of what appears to be a truly pointless crime—the murder of an organ grinder ' s monkey—leads the exposure of a major counterfeiting ring .
mesmerising maps reveal record - breaking temperatures across the world as the earth experiences ' one of the . . .
' the investigation has revealed that there was an verbal argument between the couple toward the end of the reception , which carried over to the after party at the couples ' home , ' said vigo county chief deputy sheriff clark cottom in an email to the indystar .
the robert wiseman of the company ' s name , the present boss ' s father , sold his farmland in 1947 to become the designated milk distributor for the new town of east kilbride , on the southern fringe of glasgow .
worked on as staff songwriters , growing frustrated by the management of the studio following walt disney ' s death . for the disney studios , the sherman brothers completed their work before the release of
while the characters were believable , the plotline just seemed to plod along . i felt it took too long to get to the heart of the story .
pitcher in the minors dreams big when he gets the million and has his wife buy the team and run it .
the film was the most popular
general release
movie at the british box office in 1971 . [ 8 ]
two men are in love with the same woman then one gets the check .
sometimes the anti - villain is revealed to be quite heinous ; in other cases the anti - villain teams up with the heroes to fight the big bad .
first ‘online murder’ will happen by the end of the year , . . .
witnesses told the indystar that the couple had argued at the end of their reception and the final guest left anesthesiologist samson ' s home at 1 . 17am .
it ' s possible for someone abducted and locked in the trunk of a car to invoke this trope . if the car is an older model or the interior trunk release is disabled , it may be possible to pry off the lining to get at the cords leading to one of the tail lights . disabling one increases the chance that the car will be noticed by the police for the minor violation .
the blue carbuncle
. man loses his christmas dinner → the recovery of the eponymous stolen gemstone ( seriously ) .
the brothers composed multiple songs , but only the title song and
scales and arpeggios
were included in the film .
at the beginning of the 1990s , the company sold less than 100 million litres of milk ; this year , it surpassed 1 billion litres for the first time .
the extent and level of the charges has astonished local solicitors but they concede that anderson , who owns the allarburn dairies in elgin , is acting within the law .
the
festina affair
that first blew the lid off the systematic doping by teams at the tour de france in 1998 began with one of the festina team ' s cars being routinely stopped by customs at the france - belgium border and the discovery of steroids , epo , syringes and other paraphernalia in the car ' s trunk .
check out highlights from some of the best recent trailers including mandy , the predator , zoe , and the king of thieves .
in jak and daxter the precursor legacy , the quest to change daxter back to normal resulted in the group stumbling on a plan to flood the world with dark eco .
on august 21 , 2015 , in honor of the 45th anniversary of the film , a new soundtrack was released as part of walt disney records : the legacy collection . the release includes the songs and score as used in the film , along with the lost chords of the aristocats ( featuring songs written for the film but not used ) , and previously released album versions of the songs as bonus tracks . [ 11 ]
s baloo dismissing the character thomas o ' malley as
essentially the same character , dictated by the same voice personality .
according to advance indiana , the reception had been changed from the newlywed ' s home to the ohio building at the last minute and the marquee tent set up in their garden still hauntingly sits outside their home .
the seller had to reduce the house by 5 , 000 as an allowance for the fact that the garden , which has been with the property since 1833 , had never been formally transferred ,
he said .
a fortunate few have previously negotiated conversion from lease to proper title with the former laird for just the cost of the legal expenses .
stalker with a crush informant within the company that provided the lawyer with important evidence for her case had taken the fact that she didn ' t liked him back very badly , leading to him stealing the dye from the company ' s nuclear medicine supplies to poison her , and snapping the neck of the junkie when he tried to steal the syringes that carried the dye , believing them to be drugs .
the lost colony : an imp being kidnapped → an effort to exterminate the demon race .
, starts with the theft of the blueprints for a latest novelty invention . this leads to
the poisoning of a genius programmer in a restaurant → a million - dollar debt with the mafia ' s don ( not on behalf of the programmer , but his killer ) and the infection of the entire precinct ' s computer network with a virus the programmer created .
and removed . however , they remain in the song as featured in the dvd release .
it ' s not the first time campbell sr . has been at the center of controversy , but for the previous five decades , the man called shrewd by some and ruthless by others was making most of the waves himself .
they took the view - revolutionary at the time - that doorstep deliveries were in decline , and that the future was in supplying retailers .
the adventure of the six napoleons
. a madman is stealing napoleon busts and smashing them → the recovery of a stolen pearl .
star wars episode ii attack of the clones : assassination attempt on a senator → a clone army , that no one seems to remember ordering , ready just as the supreme chancellor commissions a grand army of the republic to deal with the separatist crisis → ( finally discovered in revenge of the sith ) plot by the supreme chancellor to overthrow the republic and destroy the jedi .
mph zone . after notifying that they are on the way to the hospital and indicating that fran is the one in labor , officer carmody pulls in front of them and turns on the sirens to escort them to the county hospital .
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he says .
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double subverted in a teachers glory : the invasion causes the reveal of some corruption in the konoha hierarchy afterwards , but considering how much a curb - stomp battle the invasion was , the corruption is actually more important and devastating after all .
in chapter 22 the main story , the strange behavior of poison - type pokémon in the crimson city area is revealed to be part of a plan to attack the gringy city power plant .
the time paradox : the theft of an endangered lemur → a conspiracy to achieve ultimate power .
a cult , an investigation by the secret police , and a plot to evacuate the planet .
shut down the missile launches at cape canaveral while selling the missile ' s secrets to moscow .
daggerfall : exorcise a walking spirit and deliver a letter → shape the future of the empire .
the old shadowrun game for the super nes as well : who dun it to me → major conspiracy to take control of the entire internet .
in the last case of the third game , the murder of a children ' s book author is ultimately tied into a gigantic revenge scheme .
disney released the film for the first time on blu - ray on august 21 , 2012 .
zig - zagged all over the place , and at least the lawyer was able to pass away knowing that her poisoner had been caught and the company was going to get the book tossed at it for both the malpracticing she was investigating and allowing the dye to be so easy to steal .
in police quest 3 , the endgame involves the investigation of a house linked to a series of murders . when it turns out that the place is fortified , the player must go back to the courthouse and get authorization to use the departmental battering ram , which uncovers a cocaine manufacturing ring .
kim possible has this happen quite a few times . the biggest example is from kim possible movie so the drama where the attempted kidnapping of a toy magnate was merely the first step in drakken ' s most ambitious take over the world plot .
anderson’s review uncovered the fact that many 99 - year ground rent leases granted by the previous laird had not been properly converted to full title when the houses that stood upon the land were sold .
the first episode of the night of follows , in parallel , the detectives investigating a bloody murder scene and the street cops arresting a reckless driver who refuses to take a breathalyzer . we already know him as the guy who , earlier in the episode , woke up to a damning the murder after scenario and fled in a panic , but it ' s tense seeing the two investigations converge .
call of cthulhu supplement masks of nyarlathotep . the murder of author jackson elias by cultists leads to a worldwide conspiracy to open a gate and let the forces of the cthulhu mythos conquer the earth .
were cast as the farm dogs , which proved so popular with the filmmakers that another scene was included to have the dogs when edgar returns to the farm to retrieve his displaced hat and umbrella .
some of the more complex evil plans may stretch from the most trifling crimes to the mind - bogglingly evil in a mind - bogglingly complex manner .
the murder of marvin acme and r . k . maroon , probate fraud and the attempted destruction of toontown and genocide of its residents , the toons
the last witch hunter : murder of secret keeper → plan to resurrect omnicidal maniac and bring about the end of the world as we know it .
the very first ( eponymous ) novel starts with the theft of the tsar ' s chrysoprase ring and a chest of gold coins . this leads to
' we received information from the elderly male that the female ' s husband scott samson had retreated to the basement , ' said cottom to wishtv .
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an apartheid scientist replacing the children of sixteen powerful men around the world with teenage clones of himself .
resident evil 5 : the attempted arrest of an international arms dealer selling a highly dangerous biological weapon → a plot by the series ' big bad to conquer the world by spreading the biological weapon everywhere .
the aristocats at don markstein ' s toonopedia . archived from the original on april 4 , 2012 .
scales and arpeggios : richard m . sherman and the
mewsic
of the aristocats !
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plot to cast c . u . r . e . as bomb throwing anarchists while t . k . robs the cash from the casinos in the confusion
gargoyles begins with elisa investigating the relatively minor crimes of property damage and theft , and this investigation exposes her to the major plot from the very beginning .
the adventure of the copper beeches
. a woman gets a too - good - to - be - true job offer → turns out that she was there to take the place of the daughter of his employer who is imprisoned somewhere in the house .
half moon investigations has the young detective investigating a series of sabotaging attacks on various members of the community , but in the process he discovers that several of the events were carried out by a separate conspiracy . ymmv as to which conspiracy was the major or minor , but the fact that the one accidentally discovered was being carried out by ten - year - old girls with all the efficiency of an adult . . .
but it was when brothers alan and robert came on board in the 1970s that the firm took off .
has at least two points that could be considered either the crime with the warrant that turns out too small or the far more sinister plot . they both go from the elric brothers ' attempt at human transmutation to
big trouble in little china : the kidnapping of a girl with green eyes → david lo pan ' s plan to rule the universe from beyond the grave .
settling on a plot to eliminate the only wormhole link between barrayar and the rest of the populated galaxy that would actually , due to incomplete analysis of the underlying science , result in the destruction of at least one space station with several thousand residents and transients aboard .
twin peaks : the murder of a teenage girl → otherdimensional demonic conspiracy ( to confuse the audience ) .
and , as of 2017 , the latter scandal has resulted in an investigation into brazil ' s sitting president , the vice president who had replaced the president , and the conviction of her predecessor on corruption charges .
i want a new dev team to make the sequel i haven ' t played the game yet but the characters seems so lame they remind of awkward teens .
by august 1962 , they sent the completed script to burbank , where it was returned as
rejected
by an unknown executive at the disney studios . nevertheless , tytle brought the script to walt staying at the
following the suggestion , richard sherman imitated chevalier ' s voice as he performed a demo for the song . chevalier received the demo and was brought out of retirement to sing the song . deleted songs that were intended for the film included
pourquoi ?
sung by
' the remote camera was able to determine he was in the basement , unresponsive , ' said cottom .
the estate , which includes the harbour and three farms as well as the village , stretches along 12 miles of coastline north of elgin and was sold to anderson for 100 , 000 in 1976 by the duff family .
subverted in dexter . in season 1 , while pursuing the ice truck killer , the miami pd comes across a man named neil perry due to his having traffic tickets issued near the scenes of the killer ' s kidnappings . the subversion comes because the man is actually a computer hacker who specifically planted those minor pieces of evidence in order to lead the police to himself . therefore he could falsely confess for the killings and be famous .
in 1957 , the city claimed eminent domain on 52 acres campbell owned . after a bitter fight , the city paid a market value set by the court and established programs including the lehigh little league , the city recycling center and part of its nine - hole golf course .
in the day of the jackal , the french police are baffled by a series of seemingly - unconnected bank robberies and jewelry heists . it turns out they ' re being orchestrated by the oas terrorist group to fund the titular assassin ' s plot to kill charles de gaulle .
before the cookie settings change will take effect , safari must restart . to restart safari press and hold the home button ( for around five seconds ) until the iphone / ipad display goes blank and the home screen appears .
the first thing i knew was when mr anderson called round with a surveyor to measure the garden .
the great mouse detective : the kidnapping of a toymaker → a plot to rule england ' s mouse population .
in like flint . the president ' s golf swing taking 3 minutes → a diabolical plan to take control of the minds of women all over the world and put a nuclear sword of damocles in orbit around the earth .
men at arms : a break - in at the assassins ' guild → a plot to overthrow the patrician .
let ' s see if it gets a sequel . wouldn ' t be surprised if they shed the andromeda branding and baggage unless their post - release support really colors the perception of the game by the end of it .
the film was nominated for afi ' s 10 top 10 in the
animation
genre . [ 10 ]
' deputies did find the female victim inside the child ' s bedroom deceased , ' said cottom to wishtv .
the lockheed bribery scandals began as an inquiry into lockheed for the potential misappropriation of government bailout money . by the time it was over , a multinational bribery scandal had been revealed that caused major shakeups in the governments of japan , west germany and the netherlands , the arrest of japan ' s prime minister , a constitutional crisis in the netherlands and nearly destroyed lockheed as a company for good .
usual excellent writing and an interesting back story on one of the recurrent back ground characters . however only one clue i could see as the who the killer was and not really any as to his accomplice . i ' m sorry this is the last of the peter shandy series .
a conspiracy that ' s also using the metaverse to pull off assassinations or engineer disasters in order to install their leader as prime minister , and that the events of the game were started by the knight templar god yaldabaoth in order to give itself the moral justification to enslave mankind .
involved in the research , acquisition , preservation and publication of educational materials related to the early silent motion picture era , with a specific focus on the thanhouser film enterprise .
give me a game set back in the milky way , where the only reference to andromeda is a party being thrown because those losers are finally out of the galaxy .
the attempted millennium dome heist and the subsequent sting operation that led to the arrest of the would - be robbers began when police investigated a series of sophisticated armored car heists . while by no means small , they would have paled in comparison to a successful heist at the millennium dome , which would have netted the robbers £350 million in diamonds .
the mum - of - two , of thornaby , teesside , still lives in the same area as her ex .
this effectively means that anderson still owns the land and under present legislation can legally demand any fee he chooses when the lease expires in return for full rights to the property .
harry potter and the philosophers stone . the break - in at gringotts → voldemort attempting to rise back to power .
the arctic incident : gangsters smuggling aa batteries into haven → high treason and an attempt to take over the world .
once the villain of emil and the detectives is arrested for stealing a few bills off a kid , further search reveals him to carry the cash from a recent bank robbery .
pretty much every myth arc episode of the x - files , and several monster of the week ones as well .
a bomber in the third season of the west wing is busted when he gets pulled over for a broken taillight .
this happens with amusing regularity to commissar ciaphas cain , hero of the imperium ! ! ! . with the caveat that
minor crime
is usually a planet - engulfing war , and
major plot
is something with the potential to severely upset the balance of power across the galaxy .
the pathfinder ' s armor will be color coded according to the ending you picked . blue , red or green .
mass effect : voyager , with the deluxe version being
andromeda and the ending to 3 never happened
edition .
) are a young happy married couple and the proud owners of an award - winning dachshund named danke . the movie begins with them frantically getting into the car and heading to the hospital as
the pain has started and it ' s about time
. in a hurry to the hospital , officer carmody tries to pull them over for going 50
' there were a total of three very brief 911 calls , which in the first two the caller disconnected . '
watergate , perhaps the most famous example of this trope in a real - world context ( to the point where it ' s even the page image ) . a foiled
third - rate
burglary at the watergate complex → the subsequent investigation by washington post reporters bob woodward and carl bernstein uncovered suspiciously diverted funds and a massive conspiracy to manipulate the us election that went right up to the president himself . as well as adding a new suffix to the english language .
defied in pulp fiction . the wolf asks jules and vincent if there is anything wrong with the car , which they had just cleaned thoroughly , so that if he is pulled over by the police , he knows any problems to talk about - and the police won ' t have a reason to inspect the vehicle , and find any hint of the body or blood the jules and vincent had spent time cleaning .
as
light and pleasant and funny , the characterization is strong , and the voices of phil harris ( o ' malley the alley cat ) and eva gabor ( duchess , the mother cat ) are charming in their absolute rightness .
he had several other battles with the city , including one over the assessment of his home that prompted city council members to tour the six - fireplace mansion he no longer owns .
as a college teacher myself , i rather enjoy the peter shandy mysteries - - even if i teach in an art college rather than an agricultural college and don ' t get to live in quaint faculty housing in massachusetts in the same way as the protagonist . this novel actually has two mysteries , but revealing the nature of the mysteries would give away too much of the plot . this novel has a twist i wasn ' t expecting . the twist involved the first mystery , but not the second . this was no unfair parlor mystery wher
from the star trek : the next generation two - part episode
unification
: theft of a vulcan ship from a scrapyard → romulan plot to take over the planet vulcan .
samson , 54 , is a doctor at union hospital in taure haute and one witness told wishtv that guests left the wedding party because of the argument that the newlyweds were having .
he held up the building of the city ' s $ 4 . 8 million walnut street parking garage for more than a year because he argued public money was being misused to benefit the nearby bethlehem plaza mall . he appealed all the way to the state supreme court despite being defeated at every level .
invoked at the beginning of the usual suspects : the suspects attack a police car so as to draw attention to a corruption ring that will escort wealthy criminals around town , protecting them from actual arrest . this ring apparently was active all throughout the nypd , going as far up as the district attorney .
it is no surprise that earlier in the year he was named uk entrepreneur of the year by accountants ernst and young .
in the sequel : murder of cain marko → a secret government agency training criminals to be the ultimate spies and assassins .
all the president ' s men is about bob woodward and carl bernstein ' s washington post investigation into the watergate scandal .
the man with the golden gun . 007 receives gold - plated bullet → theft of device used for controlling solar energy .
clear and present danger starts off with the coast guard pulling over suspicious yacht , only to discover the men aboard it have murdered the family of a wealthy american businessman , which leads to the discovery of his connections to a colombian drug cartel .
an investigation into how the daughter of a new age south korea cultist managed to get into a prestigious academy despite weak grades eventually led to the discovery of the enormous influence the cult had on president park gun - hye and her subsequent impeachment .
the film is noted for being the last film project to actually be approved by walt disney himself , as he died in late 1966 , before the film was released . he had , however , been working in the story development for the rescuers ( 1977 ) as early as 1962 . the aristocats gained positive reviews on first release and was a box office success .
justin bieber is the perfect gentleman as he handles the bags . . . while crop top - clad hailey baldwin struts alongside
fit for a prince ! louis becomes the eighth royal baby to wear the historic honiton lace christening robe on . . .
less than half - an - hour later , officers who who responded to the couple ' s terre haute home discovered the body of ecker , fatally shot in the head and neck and in the basement the body of samson , who had taken his own life with a 45 - caliber semi automatic pistol .
he was always casting askew , sidelong glances at the women who worked in the office , and thought nothing of sitting on the edge of your desk and fingering your pen pot suggestively .
always sad to come to the end of a series but my goodness , this book dragged ! way too much in the way of conversations not having anything to do with the plot .
: while investigating the murder of a rapper and a prostitute , the hero learns that the murders are related to a massive police conspiracy involving
death squads .
in turns out that
on a bridge in mt . washington . and since january 2018 , the scandal has gone across the pacific to south korea , where the high suicide rate has made involvement especially dangerous .
the adventures of buckaroo banzai across the8th dimension : theft of the oscillation overthruster and kidnapping penny priddy → the red lectroids ' plot to return to planet 10 and conquer it , leading to a threat by the black lectroids to start world war iii .
jazz band . it was released as a now rare 45 rpm single , in a version sung only by harris , which lacks the cartoon voices of the common release . the soundtrack cd released in 1996 , contains an edited version of the song .
in a game of thrones , investigation into the murder of jon arryn leads eddard stark to evidence that none of the heirs to the throne are actually the children of the king and the assumption that arryn was murdered to cover up this fact . this knowledge eventually leads to a succession crisis called the war of the five kings , and stark ' s own murder . ironically , it is revealed later that arryn wasn ' t murdered to cover up the queen ' s affair at all , but rather because arryn ' s wife wanted to be free to marry the man she ' d been having an affair with for years .
the wiseman delivery schedule grew along with east kilbride , graduating in the process from a horse and cart to electric milk floats .
it was the next thing he said which shocked me the most and still does , ten years later : “consider yourself lucky . that ' s more than he offered the other girls . ”
tickler enjoyed the whole saga . great characters mysteries very intriguing and solving the mysteries were just as fun as ever . more please
harry potter and the goblet of fire . the disappearance of a ministry official → a genocidal maniac planning to return to power .
teen wolf : a dead woman is found in the woods → werewolves exist , so do some other creatures , and there ' s a war - type - thing going on between the werewolves , the other creatures , and the people who hunt them .
the only
bioware
you ' ll see make another mass effect game is whoever ea feels like slapping the moniker on .
sterling holloway as roquefort - a house mouse and also a friend of the cats , who assists in the expulsion of edgar .
to improvise the script , and shortly after , he was cast to voice thomas o ' malley . to differentiate the character from
( featuring songs written for the film but not used ) , and previously released album versions of the songs as bonus tracks .
when police arrived , they discovered the basement locked and so had to call out the terre haute police department special response team .
there is a specific issue with the facebook in - app browser intermittently making requests to websites without cookies that had previously been set . this appears to be a defect in the browser which should be addressed soon . the simplest approach to avoid this problem is to continue to use the facebook app but not use the in - app browser . this can be done through the following steps :
my one wish is that they return to the nitty - gritty socio - political detail that permeated the original trilogy . if you tried to describe the universe of the original trilogy in a single sentence , it ' s pretty hard , if not impossible to do because of the sheer volume of information and detail that was added . that stuff really helped sell the universe they were creating .
bansal . iyyappa recollects the conversations were in english and mostly about delivery issues . he got the job , and became flipkart’s first employee . he remembers he received the offer letter almost a year later as there was no human resources team in the company then .
# 10 in the peter shandy series . peter shandy , last seen in something in the water ( 1994 ) , is desultorily investigating the disappearance of his neighbor james feldster , head of the dairy management department , when the missing man ' s awful wife , mirelle , is discovered dead and covered with blood . mystery writer catriona mcbogle , visiting the shandys during a spell of writer ' s block , accidentally finds the missing man unconscious in a limousine at the bottom of a ravine off a deserted road . for com
suske en wiske : the album
het aruba dossier
(
the aruba file
) . the minor crime : two men ignore a red traffic light and crash into professor barabas ' car , sending all three of them to the hospital . the major plot : once in the hospital , barabas is accidentally given a briefcase that belongs to the other two men . in the briefcase he finds a file that describes plans of a big criminal organisation to distribute a highly toxic substance as a new fertilizer for crops .
that sunk the value of the country ' s biggest company and ultimately forced the president out of office—which , embarrassingly enough , happened right after she was forced to miss the olympics due to a suspension pending a verdict in an impeachment trial intended to remove her .
the investigation into gaines also led to detectives suspecting that he and other corrupt cops were involved in the murder of the rapper notorious b . i . g . in a drive - by shooting .
on basilisk station : routine policing to stop smuggling , and the murder of several local cops leads to the discovery of a plot for invasion . amusingly played with in that the people doing the plotting try to call the invasion off and would have been able to do it unmolested if their plot hadn ' t been so revealed .
a police detective was murdered in
rise from the ashes
so he didn ' t leak the truth about the assassination of prosecutor neil marshall 2 years ago , the constant extortion of the current chief prosecutor , and an evidence forgery to convict a serial killer for marshall ' s murder ( which he didn ' t commit ) . unfortunately for the mastermind behind this incident , phoenix exposed everything in court , so in the end it was all for nothing .
but one has to ask the moral question , particularly given the relatively small sums involved compared to his personal and commercial wealth .
after that , the plot will be sold for development , bringing in at least a further 50 , 000 to the anderson pot .
the strip had been left off title deeds in error when they bought the property , which allowed anderson to claim it as his .
dreamscape : murder of a woman while dreaming → creating a psychic assassin to kill the president of the united states in his dreams .
has your team investigating the mystery of the dark hour and why your school turns into a freaky tower every night . you end up
an international smuggling ring . one that had a politician / ambassador of a country on the edge of war as the ringleader , incidentally
bart the fink
: bart not getting a check signed by krusty the clown himself → krusty is arrested for tax fraud .
happens regularly in person of interest . attempt to murder one person equals exposure of whatever crime they were trying to use the murder to cover up . this is actually the machine ' s job , finding the simple links that would prevent terrorist attacks . the fact that it finds the same connections in more conventional crimes was purely accidental .
the man who named his pet german shepherds gold and silver went on to have legendary battles - - and court cases - - with other developers , the city and the bethlehem globe - times newspaper .
in
mr . monk and the paperboy
, the investigation on who killed the paperboy who delivered monk ' s paper led him to find out the plan of a girl to play black widow to a multi - million - dollar lottery winner who lived in the same building ( and who didn ' t even knew he had won , because the plan included keeping him ignorant of this fact ) .
three minutes after the final guest departed , ecker , who is a nurse at the same hospital as samson , made the first of three terrified 911 calls claiming her husband was going to kill her .
the first two frantic calls to the dispatcher ended abruptly , but moments later ecker phoned back , her trembling voice pleading for help , before a volley of gunshots rang out and the phone line cut .
overall i quite enjoyed this book . it was well paced and interesting , but the very end seemed to be just a little rushed in events . i really like the shandy ' s and president svenson ( wish he had a bigger part ) . getting a look into the life of the feldsters was rather nice . and catriona is always a wonderful addition to the group . it did seem a little odd that the feldstermeier clan was geographically so close to the college but that no one had ever heard of them considering their prominence in the
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# 10 in the peter shandy series . peter shandy , last seen in something in the water ( 1994 ) , is desultorily investigating the disappearance of his neighbor james feldster , head of the dairy management department , when the missing man ' s awful wife , mirelle , is discovered dead and covered with blood . mystery writer catriona mcbogle , visiting the shandys during a spell of writer ' s block , accidentally finds the missing man unconscious in a limousine at the bottom of a ravine off a deserted road . for complicated reasons , she keeps his whereabouts mostly secret . that the henpecked dairy professor is heir to a major dairy dynasty and that his late wife is rumored to have bestowed her affections freely around balaclava are issues that fearsome college president thorkjeld svenson wants kept out of the papers . shandy takes the recovered but reluctant feldster to the family manse to take charge of the family fortune and dispossess his nephew , florian , as head of the family .