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Sherlock Holmes ( /ˈʃɜrlɒk ˈhoʊmz/) is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to adopt almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve difficult cases.
Holmes, who first appeared in publication in 1887, was featured in four novels and 56 short stories. The first novel, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the first series of short stories in Strand Magazine, beginning with A Scandal in Bohemia in 1891; further series of short stories and two novels published in serial form appeared between then and 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1914.
All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself ("The Blanched Soldier" and "The Lion's Mane") and two others are written in the third person ("The Mazarin Stone" and "His Last Bow"). In two stories ("The Musgrave Ritual" and "The Gloria Scott"), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. The first and fourth novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Valley of Fear, each include a long interval of omniscient narration recounting events unknown to either Holmes or Watson.
Sir Philip St. John Basil Rathbone, KBE, MC, Kt (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was a South African-born British actor. He rose to prominence in England as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in over 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films. He frequently portrayed suave villains or morally ambiguous characters, such as Murdstone in David Copperfield (1935) and Sir Guy of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). His most famous role, however, was heroic—that of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in a radio series. His later career included Broadway and television work; he received a Tony Award in 1948 as Best Actor in a Play.
He was born Philip St. John Basil Rathbone in Johannesburg, South African Republic, to English parents Edgar Philip Rathbone, a mining engineer and scion of the Liverpool Rathbone family, and Anna Barbara née George, a violinist. He had two older half brothers Harold and Horace as well as two younger siblings, Beatrice and John. The Rathbones fled to England when Basil was three years old after his father was accused by the Boers of being a British spy near the onset of the Second Boer War at the end of the 1890s.
William Nigel Ernle Bruce (4 February 1895 – 8 October 1953), best known as Nigel Bruce, was a British character actor on stage and screen. He was best known for his portrayal of Dr. Watson in a series of films and in the radio series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes). Bruce is also remembered for his roles in the Alfred Hitchcock films Rebecca and Suspicion.
Bruce was the second son of Sir William Waller Bruce, 10th Baronet (1856–1912) and his wife Angelica (died 1917), daughter of General George Selby, Royal Artillery. Bruce was born in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico while his parents were on holiday there. He was educated at the Grange, Stevenage and at Abingdon School, Oxfordshire. He served in France from 1914 as a lieutenant in the 10th Service Battalion - Somerset Light Infantry and the Honourable Artillery Company, but was severely wounded at Cambrai the following year, with eleven bullets in his left leg, and spent most of the remainder of the war in a wheelchair.
Kate Noelle "Katie" Holmes (born December 18, 1978) is an American actress who first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on The WB television teen drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2003. Her movie roles have included the blockbuster Batman Begins along with art house films such as The Ice Storm and thrillers including Abandon. She has also played on Broadway in a production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons. She achieved worldwide celebrity for her marriage to Tom Cruise, with whom she has a daughter, Suri.
Holmes was born in Toledo, Ohio. She is the fourth daughter and youngest child of five children born to Kathleen (née Stothers), a homemaker and philanthropist, and Martin Joseph Holmes, Sr., an attorney specializing in divorces, She has three older sisters and one older brother: Tamera, Holly Ann, Martin Joseph, Jr., and Nancy Kay.
Holmes is of Russian, German, English and Irish ancestry and was baptized a Roman Catholic. She attended Christ the King Church and parochial schools in Toledo. She graduated from the all-female Notre Dame Academy (also her mother's alma mater), where Katie was a 4.0 student. At St. John's Jesuit, a nearby all-male high school, Holmes appeared in school musicals, playing a waitress in Hello, Dolly! and Lola in Damn Yankees. She scored 1310 out of 1600 on her SAT and was accepted to Columbia University (and attended for a summer session); her father wanted her to be a doctor.
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Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old republican, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England. At Borstal, Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those he perceived as "the enemy," a confrontation that reveals a deep inner conflict in the young Brendan and forces a self-examination that is both traumatic and revealing. Events take an unexpected turn and Brendan is thrown into a complete spin. In the emotional vortex, he finally faces up to the truth.
Keywords: 1940s, accidental-death, alarm-clock, amateur-theater, anti-semitism, armband, arrest, art-studio, artist, attempted-rape
In 1942, acclaimed Irish poet Brendan Behan was sent to a reform school. What he learned was that love knows no prison.
[Repeated Line]::Brendan Behan: As a prisoner of war, it is my duty to escape.
[about Love]::Brendan Behan: I had it both ways... just like Oscar Wilde.
Liz Joyce: You will write?::Brendan Behan: What's the point?::Liz Joyce: No, not to me. Write... for everyone.
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A young college student is sent to prison as much for killing a pedestrian with his car as for not paying his parking tickets. When the opportunity presents itself he escapes and is subsequently on the run with his girlfriend. But how long can this situation last?
Keywords: accident, alienation, automobile-accident, based-on-novel, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, college-student, courtroom, escape, escape-from-custody, establishment
"I don't want to run anymore..."
Daniel Lawrence: Your behavior from here on in will be as much on trial as the details of the accident.
Mrs. O'Mara: Carelessness, accident, what difference does it make? She's still dead!
William Popper: I have to go into court and play a part in a stupid charade to convince some judge that I'm not really me in order to receive some justice!
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The only white survivor of a Crow Indian raid on a wagon train is a young boy. He is rescued by the Sioux, and the Sioux chief raises him as an Indian in very way. Years later, the white men and the Sioux threaten to go to war and the Indian-raised white man is torn between his racial loyalties and his adopted tribe.
Keywords: 1860s, 1870s, adopted-son, american-indian, attack, based-on-novel, bigot, bigotry, bow-and-arrow, cavalry
He Loved As He Fought...Like The Savage He Was!
CHARLTON HESTON...fresh from his triumph in "The Greatest Shown on Earth"
Savage in Battle...Savage in Love! In his arms a woman forgot everything...remembered only that he was a man!
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Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entire inheritance.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, apostrophe-in-title, based-on-adaptation, based-on-novel, based-on-play, brewster's-millions, character-name-in-title, inheritance, inheritance-challenge, mayor
STEP ON IT... Smash records... break hearts! Make way for love at superspeed!
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At the urging of her curmudgeon old grandfather Jerome Cedric ('C. Aubrey Smith' (qv)), spoiled rich kid Annie Holt ('Carole Lombard (I)' (qv)) is forced to marry into royalty in order to save her banker father, Bill Holt ('Walter Connolly' (qv)), from financial ruin. The man she really desires is Tony Gage ('Lyle Talbot' (qv)). It takes a well-written insurance policy and a sacrificial act on the part of a close relative to re-unite Annie and Tony.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, airplane-crash, alcoholic, banker, based-on-novel, booze, brother-brother-relationship, cigarette-holder, death-of-father
BEAUTIFUL! PAMPERED! EXTRAVAGANT! (original poster - all caps)
She Had Millions to Spend and Spent it Recklessly - And Then Gave It All Up For Love! (original ad)
Getting easier to sleep at night
I've come to terms with who I am inside my mind
Planning for the future men she gets with after me
Kind of girl my friends might think anything that makes me happy
Moving back to those times fucking up when we were only kids
Thinking back those were times that mattered
Getting older now most of us still think just like we did
Does all of this bullshit really matter
Woah
Time is all we have so fucking rethink that we have in store
Woah
You're body's fucking rotting as we're waiting to live life
Waiting to live life
Speaking of, I'm on the ledge again
Peering down to find myself my fallen friend
Hoping I'm awake for long
Bad decision I know but it's the only one I've got
Moving back to those times fucking up when we were only kids
Thinking back those were times that mattered
Getting older now most of us still think just like we did
Does all of this bullshit really matter
Woah
Time is all we have so fucking rethink that we have in store
Woah
You're body's fucking rotting as we're waiting to live life
Waiting to live life
When it's coming up and I can't replace it
Can you hear me save a cancer on a microphone
Pay attention to the words til you all know where I'm from
50 cigarettes and my lungs feel right at home
A couple dozen drinks til your eyes get nice and toast
I don't know if it's the right time to sing about it
Take these words and fall away
When you wake up in the morning with your head on fire
Blood swells on the floor left in the mattress
You say you've got home you've got a fortress
In the arms of [?] holding you tight you know that you're alright
I don't know if it's the right time to sing about it
So now I find myself again,
I'm crawling back into a bottle.
You just blame it on yourself,
despite what everybody told you.
They just don't have a fucking clue
of how I'm feeling right now...
Just know I'll be with you forever
even though I'm laying in the ground.
That's the conversation in my head right now.
About fucked things that can't be changed
and all those things have to live without....
The jig is up, the show is over,
it's not much fun when you get older.
But you can't stop now!
I could've been the king of other flowers.
Your rattlesnakes would be charmed
and smiling hard,
but we waited for too long.
I could've been your golden boy in neckties,
and your mother would be so pleased.
I could've drove you home
but we waited for too long.
We had a dream last night,
church bells were ringing.
(Texarkana's falling down!)
It was a long walk home
but I kept that feeling.
Now we're deafened by the sound~
I don't wanna hear another word of it,
I don't wanna think about it anymore.
Take those pills, don't call me in the morning.
You could've been my lap dog sitting pretty,
answering every single call.
It could've bombed,