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Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history to the Early Middle Ages. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, with Cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing, from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC. This is the beginning of history, as opposed to prehistory, according to the definition used by most historians.
The term classical antiquity is often used to refer to history in the Old World from the beginning of recorded Greek history in 776 BC (First Olympiad). This roughly coincides with the traditional date of the founding of Rome in 753 BC, the beginning of the history of ancient Rome, and the beginning of the Archaic period in Ancient Greece. Although the ending date of ancient history is disputed, some Western scholars use the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, the closure of the Platonic Academy in 529 AD, the death of the emperor Justinian I, the coming of Islam or the rise of Charlemagne as the end of ancient and Classical European history.
Actors: Joaquim Nicolau (actor), Igor Sampaio (actor), Bruno Carnide (producer), Luís Campos (writer), Luís Candeias (actor), Luís Candeias (producer), Ricardo Braga Silva (editor), Ricardo Braga Silva (producer), Ricardo Braga Silva (director), Ricardo Braga Silva (writer), Luís Filipe Teixeira (producer), Luís Filipe Teixeira (editor), Fábio Guerreiro (producer), Fábio Guerreiro (editor), Fábio Guerreiro (director),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Neil Jordan (writer), Neil Jordan (director), Stephen Woolley (producer), Stephen Woolley (producer), Jim Carter (actor), George Fenton (composer), Nik Powell (producer), Angela Lansbury (actress), Roy Evans (actor), Graham Crowden (actor), Stephen Rea (actor), Terence Stamp (actor), David Warner (actor), Brian Glover (actor), Jimmy Gardner (actor),
Plot: A bag full of symbolic folklore about werewolves, or, rather, their sexual connotation. Granny tells her granddaughter Rosaleen strange, disturbing tales about innocent maidens falling in love with handsome, heavily eyebrowed strangers with a smoldering look in their eyes; about sudden disappearances of spouses when the moon is round & the wolves are howling in the woods; about babies found inside stork eggs, in a stork nest high up a tree; etc., etc. Of course the story of Little Red Ridinghood is also present, with a very handsome he-wolf! (And of course this he-wolf consumes Grandmother, but 'consumes' Little Red Ridinghood). All the stories are somehow reducible to loss of innocence, and fear of/hunger for (a newly acquired sense of) sexuality; their Freudian character is mirrored in their dreamlike shapes. This movie is not really a horror movie; it's more a multiple tale about growing up into adolescence.
Keywords: 1700s, alternative-reality, ambiguity, animal, animal-in-title, battle-of-the-sexes, beast, bed, blind-man's-bluff-game, bloodActors: Bud Osborne (actor), Robert Robinson (actor), Emile Avery (actor), Lane Bradford (actor), Charles Morton (actor), Jack Montgomery (actor), Michael Dugan (actor), William Fawcett (actor), Stewart Granger (actor), James Gregory (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Gene Coogan (actor), Ethan Laidlaw (actor), Jack Tornek (actor),
Plot: In 1886, the gunman and gambler Tom Early returns to his homeland to settle down, but he is rejected by his community. He rides to his farm, where he finds that his wife Alice has recently died and his son Tom Early Jr., who disagrees with taking up arms, is working alone. The next morning, Tom rides into the town to buy supplies and sees Sam, the grocer, humiliating his employee Jo. At the same time the cattle lord Grimsell arrives in town with two gunfighters, Gunn and Blondie, and tells the Preacher that he will be crossing 20,000 head of cattle through their lands and their town. Although the preacher tries to explain that the people own the land, Grimsell is not interested in their rights. When Blondie sees Tom Early, he draws his gun but is shot by Tom, in self defense, and kills the gunman. He then invites Jo to work on the farm. While the Preacher wants to send an emissary to Laramie to bring the law to his town, Grimsell summons more than thirty gunfighters to work for him. When the emissary is murdered by Gunn, the naive Preacher organizes a posse to unsuccessfully fight against Grimsell. The farmers are ambushed and attacked and the survivors return to the town. But Tom Early decides to provoke a stampede and fight against Grimsell.
Keywords: ambush, based-on-novel, cattleman, christian, church, congregation, cowboy, cowboys-and-outlaws, duel, dynamiteActors: Frank McDonald (director), Raymond Burr (actor), John Carradine (actor), Dane Clark (actor), Tommy Cook (actor), Bill Coontz (actor), Andy Devine (actor), Raymond Hatton (actor), Paul McGuire (actor), Nestor Paiva (actor), Charles Soldani (actor), Rick Vallin (actor), Billy Wilkerson (actor), Robert L. Lippert (producer), Tom Hubbard (writer),
Genres: Western,