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Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga (Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is a sovereign state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) of ocean in the South Pacific. Fifty-two of the islands are inhabited.
The Kingdom stretches over a distance of about 800 kilometres (500 mi) in a north-south line located at about a third of the distance from New Zealand to Hawaii.
Tonga also became known as the Friendly Islands because of the friendly reception accorded to Captain James Cook on his first visit there in 1773. He happened to arrive at the time of the ʻinasi festival, the yearly donation of the first fruits to the Tuʻi Tonga, the islands' paramount chief, and received an invitation to the festivities. According to the writer William Mariner, in reality the chiefs had wanted to kill Cook during the gathering, but could not agree on a plan.
Tonga is also the only island nation in the region to have avoided formal colonisation. In 2010, Tonga took a decisive step towards becoming a fully functioning constitutional monarchy after legislative reforms paved the way for its first ever fully representative elections which resulted in the election of Noble Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō as its first democratically elected Prime Minister.
Actors: Andrew Lauer (director), Tia Carrere (actress), Gino Montesinos (actor), Steve Bakken (producer), Amy Pietz (actress), Nakoa Lee (producer), Brian Hamill (actor), Daisy Faith (actress), Julianna David (producer), Julianna David (actress), Marcellous Freeman (actor), Estelita Quintero (actress), Chad Matthews (actor), Jono Eiland (actor), Manuel DeLaCruz (producer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Carlos Alazraqui (actor), Frank Welker (actor), Tim Curry (actor), Jeff Bennett (actor), Steve Staley (actor), Fred Tatasciore (actor), Phil LaMarr (actor), Matt Lauer (actor), Jerry Lewis (actor), Clint Howard (actor), John Kassir (actor), Cam Clarke (actor), Jamie Kennedy (actor), Ed O'Ross (actor), Frank Welker (actor),
Plot: The film chronicles George's adventures as he befriends Kayla, a baby elephant, at a magic circus show and helps her travel across the country to be reunited with her family. Accompanied by his friend, the Man with the Yellow Hat, George travels by foot, train, and truck to reach Kayla's brother and sister in California, only to be accused of elephant-napping and brought all the way back to New York City. Luckily, Kayla's owner sees what a good friend George is and realizes how much Kayla misses her family. Kayla's brother and sister are brought to the circus in New York.
Keywords: animal-in-title, animal-name-in-title, character-name-in-title, direct-to-video-sequel-to-theatrical-movie, monkey, numbered-sequel, second-part, sequelActors: Michel Perron (actor), Arthur Conan Doyle (writer), Paul Dupont (miscellaneous crew), Matt Frewer (actor), France Lachapelle (miscellaneous crew), Kenneth Welsh (actor), Michael Prupas (producer), Noel Burton (actor), Irene Litinsky (producer), Betty Palik (miscellaneous crew), Cas Anvar (actor), Marcel Jeannin (actor), Marcel Jeannin (actor), Joe Wiesenfeld (writer), Daniel Brochu (actor),
Plot: Greed, betrayal and vengeance set the stage for this Sir Arthur Conan Doyle classic. Mary Morstan, a young governess, has been receiving a rare and lustrous pearl annually from an anonymous benefactor. This mysterious person now wants a meeting. Anxious and bewildered, Miss Morstan enlists Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to escort her to this meeting. Together they go to the home of an eccentric novelist, Thaddeus Sholto, who recounts to them a tale of secrecy, hidden treasure and sudden death. Thaddeus reports that his father, Major Sholto, was in the army in India with Miss Morstan's father where the two had come to possess a fabulous treasure. Subsequently, her father mysteriously disappeared without his promised share. A guilt-ridden Major Sholto hid the treasure and sent Miss Morstan the annual gift of pearls. Years later, a letter arrives which leaves Major Sholto in a state of shock and despair. On his deathbed, Major Sholto prepares to tell his twin sons about the treasure's location, but dies before the location is revealed. Thaddeus' twin brother, Bartholomew, spent weeks digging and searching for the treasure - and has now just found it.
Keywords: based-on-novel, number-in-title, sherlock-holmesActors: Kant Pan (editor), Aslaug Konradsdottir (miscellaneous crew), Michael A. Hoey (editor), Burt Young (actor), Christopher Lambert (producer), John Scott (composer), Sergio Donati (writer), Heck Allen (writer), Jacques François (actor), Sverre Anker Ousdal (actor), Nicholas Hope (actor), James Caan (actor), Christopher Lambert (actor), Mimi Lempicka (costume designer), Petter J. Borgli (producer),
Plot: Set during the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1800's. In his efforts to gain control of a small mining town, Sean McLennon is buying up every mining claim that becomes available, usually after the deaths of the previous owners at the hands of McLennon's 'assistants'. One of the miners targeted by McLennon, a half-Indian hunter named Hudson Saanteek, manages to escape his hired thugs and comes back into town looking to re-establish his claim and get revenge. McLennon and his men have the advantange of numbers and weapons, but Saanteek has his survival skills and knowledge of the Alaskan wilderness.
Keywords: 1890s, 19th-century, action-hero, alaska, animal-abuse, anti-hero, arrest, auction, bar-brawl, bar-fightActors: Edward Fox (actor), Richard Johnson (actor), Carl Davis (composer), Arthur Conan Doyle (writer), Simon Callow (actor), Charlton Heston (actor), John Castle (actor), Beverly Winston (miscellaneous crew), Kiran Shah (actor), Eric Boyd-Perkins (editor), Peter Snell (producer), Stefan Kalipha (actor), Sidney Livingstone (actor), Fraser Clarke Heston (producer), Fraser Clarke Heston (director),
Plot: Beautiful, young Irne St. Claire enlists Holmes' and Watson's help for her father, a former veteran of the Great Indian Mutiny, who has become a hopeless opium addict. His drug dependence is a direct result of guilt and fear arising from a blood pact of secrecy made during the siege of Agra in 1857 in which he was party to the theft of a maharajah's treasure, murder, and betrayal. When an avaricious co-conspirator dies under mysterious circumstances, St. Clair is certain that the curse will strike him next.
Keywords: 1880s, avarice, based-on-novel, based-on-play, british-raj, caste, curse, death-of-father, detective, detective-seriesActors: Arthur Conan Doyle (writer), John Thaw (actor), Edward Hardwicke (actor), Arthur Conan Doyle (writer), Edward Hardwicke (actor), Ronald Lacey (actor), Badi Uzzaman (actor), Kiran Shah (actor), Derek Deadman (actor), Peter Hammond (director), Jeremy Brett (actor), Jenny Seagrove (actress), Gordon Gostelow (actor), Renu Setna (actor), Lila Kaye (actress),
Plot: A young lady, Miss Mary Morstan, contact Sherlock Holmes for his help regarding her father, captain Morstan, who disappeared 10 years ago. Since his disappearance she annually receives a valuable pearl by post from an unknown person. The mystery leads Holmes and doctor Watson into an intricate plot regarding a lost treasure belonging to four convicts on the Andaman Islands.
Keywords: based-on-novel, boat, boat-chase, british-empire, detective, doctor, dog, flashback, india, london-englandActors: Thorley Walters (actor), Arthur Conan Doyle (writer), John Benfield (actor), Julie Harris (costume designer), Ian Richardson (actor), Pamela Davies (miscellaneous crew), Cherie Lunghi (actress), David Healy (actor), Susan d'Arcy (miscellaneous crew), Clive Merrison (actor), Gordon Rollings (actor), Terence Rigby (actor), Michael O'Hagan (actor), Desmond Davis (director), Robert Russell (actor),
Genres: Mystery,Actors: Dimitri Tiomkin (composer), Robert Wise (producer), Gary Cooper (actor), Daniel Mandell (editor), Mark Robson (producer), Mark Robson (director), Barry Jones (actor), Theron Warth (producer), James Michener (writer), John Hudson (actor), Charles Kaufman (writer), Roberta Haynes (actress), Maylia (actress), Moira Walker (actress), Hans Kruse (actor),
Plot: Based on the short story "Mr. Morgan" from "Return To Paradise" (James Michener's sequel to "Tales of the South Pacific"). Morgan (Gary Cooper), a drifter and soldier-of-fortune washes up on a Pacific island that is a small dictatorial state under the puritanic rule of Pastor Corbett (Barry Jones), a missionary. They conflict but Morgan stays on and carves out a cozy life. He has a child out of wedlock with island native Maeva (Roberta Haynes), but departs the island after her death, leaving the young daughter behind. He returns years later in search of his daughter. It is circa the early years of WW II, and he finds that his daughter has fallen in love with an American pilot who has crash-landed on the island. It appears that the pilot will do for the girl what Morgan did for her mother, and then depart.
Keywords: 1920s, 1940s, atoll, based-on-novel, black-eye, coconut, coral, cricket-game, death-in-childbirth, drifterActors: Cy Kendall (actor), Wilton Graff (actor), Lumsden Hare (actor), Boyd Irwin (actor), Budd Buster (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Sherry Hall (actor), Oliver Blake (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Cyril Delevanti (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), George Eldredge (actor), Arno Frey (actor), Joel Fluellen (actor), Colin Kenny (actor),
Plot: Universal Pictures 63rd sound-era serial (between "Mystery of the River Boat" and "The Masater Key") finds that Nazi agents are trying to arouse the tribes of the middle jungle in Africa to revolt against the British. Americans Bob Elliott ('Edward Norris' (qv)) and Chuck Kelly ('Eddie Quillan' (qv)) arrive to help the British agents. Lothel ('Ruth Roman' (qv)), the mysterious Queen of the Jungle, appears and disappears always in the nick of time to save them, and also Pam Courtney ('Lois Collier' (qv)), niece of the explorer Alan Courtney ('Boyd Irwin' (q)). Dr. Elise Bork ('Tala Birell' (qv)) and her henchman Lang ('Douglass Dumbrille' (qv)) are the Nazi chiefs, posing as scientists. Lang has great influence on some of the tribesman, especially with Chief Maata (Napoleon Simpson') who wants to keep Kyba ('Clarence Muse' (qv)) from becoming judge over all the tribes. A Secret Sword is the key to the ruler of the jungles, and the holder of this secret is sought by both the British and the Nazis. Courtney is the only white man who knows the secret but is killed before he can reveal it to his niece Pamela. The forces of good finally prevail in Chapter 13, "The Secret of the Sword!", through the help of Lotel, who disappears in the same sheet of flame that has marked her coming and going.
Keywords: 1940s, africa, airplane-crash, airplane-pilot, ambush, american, attacked-by-lion, brush-fire, ceremonial-cave, character-name-in-titleActors: Charles Soldani (actor), Mary Treen (actress), Isabel Withers (actress), Eddie Bruce (actor), Victor Travers (actor), Pedro de Cordoba (actor), Carole Mathews (actress), Cy Kendall (actor), Al Kikume (actor), Dave O'Brien (actor), Clyde Fillmore (actor), Robert St. Angelo (actor), Florence Bates (actress), Jay Silverheels (actor), Lillie Hayward (writer),
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance,