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Texas (i/ˈtɛksəs/) (Alibamu: Teksi ) is the second most populous and the second most extensive of the 50 United States, and the most extensive state of the 48 contiguous United States. The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in East Texas. Located in the South Central United States, Texas shares an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south, and borders the US states of New Mexico to the west, Oklahoma to the north, Arkansas to the northeast, and Louisiana to the east. Texas has an area of 268,820 square miles (696,200 km2), and a growing population of 25.7 million residents.
During the Spanish colonial rule, the area was officially known as the Nuevo Reino de Filipinas: La Provincia de Texas. Antonio Margil de Jesús was known to be the first person to use the name in a letter to the Viceroy of Mexico in July 20, 1716. The name was not popularly used in daily speech but often appeared in legal documents until the end of the 1800s.
Actors: Robert Nolan (actor), Bryan Larkin (actor), Judd Tilyard (producer), Mike Hedge (producer), Ayz Waraich (producer), Hugh Lambe (actor), Wojciech Golczewski (composer), Damon E. White (actor), Neil Mackay (writer), Neil Mackay (editor), Lee Sandford (actress), Neil Mackay (director), Tim Maddocks (producer), Mark Munro (actor), James Crawford (producer),
Genres: Action, Horror, Thriller,Actors: Dave Spikey (writer), Dave Spikey (director), Dave Spikey (actor), Gemma Deerfield (actress), Loran Dunn (producer), Peter Slater (actor), Amy Watson (miscellaneous crew), Simon James Cookson (composer), John Weaver (actor), William Pretsell (actor), Helen Rathbone (miscellaneous crew), Stephen Woods (actor), Ronan Kelly (miscellaneous crew), Ethan Duffy (miscellaneous crew), Jack Wood (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Sandro Aguilar (producer), Sandro Aguilar (editor), João Bénard da Costa (actor), Manuel Mozos (writer), Manuel Mozos (actor), Carloto Cotta (actor), João Figueiras (producer), João Nicolau (actor), Silvia Grabowski (costume designer), Pedro Caldas (actor), José Airosa (actor), Miguel Gomes (writer), Miguel Gomes (director), Miguel Gomes (editor), Gracinda Nave (actress),
Plot: Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that's no reason to be so annoying... Francisco, repeat after me: "Up to your 30's you have the face God has given you. After that, you get the face you deserve".
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy,Actors: Daniel Isoppo (actor), Mike Marshall (actor), Patrick Timsit (writer), Marianne Denicourt (actress), Frankie Pain (actress), Nicolas Errèra (composer), Patrick Timsit (actor), Patrick Timsit (director), Thierry Lhermitte (actor), Lorànt Deutsch (actor), Richard Berry (actor), Geoffrey Bateman (actor), Philippe Letode (miscellaneous crew), Salah Teskouk (actor), Mathias Mlekuz (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Alan Smithee (actor), Richard Lynch (actor), Jay Richardson (actor), Robert Z'Dar (actor), Stephen Polk (actor), Don Scribner (actor), Michaël Cohen (actor), Paul Wynne (writer), Paul Wynne (producer), Paul Wynne (director), William H. Molina (editor), Claude Duhamel (actor), Alex Wright (actor), Victoria Charters (actress), Dink O'Neal (actor),
Genres: Action,Actors: Roger Ward (actor), Tim Burstall (producer), John Clayton (actor), Wendy Hughes (actress), Judy Davis (actress), Peter Cummins (actor), Joseph Bottoms (actor), Terry Norris (actor), Sean Scully (actor), Paul Young (actor), Gus Mercurio (actor), Simon Chilvers (actor), Edward McQueen-Mason (editor), Terry Gill (actor), Alan Finney (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Crime,Actors: Van Johnson (actor), Carl M. Leviness (actor), Jean Hersholt (actor), Sherry Hall (actor), Robert Hyatt (actor), Gene Kelly (actor), Leon Ames (actor), Jean Hersholt (actor), Gary Cooper (actor), Benny Burt (actor), Louis Calhern (actor), A. Cameron Grant (actor), Ned Glass (actor), Bill Baldwin (actor), Fredric March (actor),
Plot: The story, told in eight episodes, covers different facets of the American Spirit, from racial and religious tolerance to the dangers of self-centeredness and myopic reasoning. The parables represent a broad cross-section of the American experience: the elderly woman whose pride is injured when she's forgotten in the latest census; the novice minister more pleased with the sound of his own voice than with the needs of his congregation; the mother who confronts the illogic of racial intolerance when she meets the best friend of the son she lost to war; and the enigma that is Texas. Episode titles are: 1) Interruptions, Interruptions; 2) Census Taker; 3) Negro Story; 4) Rosika, the Rose; 5) Letter from Korea; 6) Lone Star; (7) Minister in Washington; 8) Four Eyes; a further episode, titled Load, directed by Anthony Mann, with 'Jean Hersholt' (q.v.) and 'Ann Harding' (q.v.), was filmed but deleted.
Keywords: americana, episodic-structure, patriotismActors: Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams (actor), Nick Thompson (actor), Allen Jenkins (actor), Chester Conklin (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Charles Halton (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Si Jenks (actor), Frank Lackteen (actor), Ethan Laidlaw (actor), Pat O'Malley (actor), Robert Dudley (actor), Rodd Redwing (actor), Jay Silverheels (actor), Chief Yowlachie (actor),
Plot: Judy McCoy, a fortune teller with a circus, learns she has inherited some property and heads west to collect. When she arrives in the desert ghost town, she learns that a stipulation in the will is that she has to return the property to the rightful owners, an Indian tribe, before she gets the remaining inheritance. A gambling ring, led by Honest John Richards, will gain possession of the town if it is not returned to the Indians. The latter believe the town is haunted, because of the schemes of Honest John, and do not want it.
Genres: Comedy, Western,Actors: Purnell Pratt (actor), C.L. Sherwood (actor), Joe Ploski (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Lew Ayres (actor), Murray Alper (actor), Harry Myers (actor), Wesley Barry (actor), Harry Burns (actor), Jack Chapin (actor), Buster Crabbe (actor), Benny Baker (actor), Edward Earle (actor), Billy Dooley (actor), Grant Withers (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Music, Romance,Actors: Clifford Smith (director), Cesare Gravina (actor), William Steele (actor), William Welsh (actor), Wyndham Gittens (writer), Wyndham Gittens (writer), Jack Hoxie (actor), Duke R. Lee (actor), Thomas G. Lingham (actor), Demetrius Alexis (actor), Evelyn Sherman (actress), Tom Grimes (actor), Cathleen Calhoun (actress),
Genres: Western,