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A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.
In the age of sail, a gunboat was usually a small undecked vessel carrying a single smoothbore cannon in the bow, or just two or three such cannons. A gunboat could carry one or two masts or be oar-powered only, but the single-masted version of about 15 m (49 ft) length was most typical. Some types of gunboat carried two cannons, or else mounted a number of swivel guns on the railings.
The advantages of this type of gunboat were that since it only carried a single cannon, the boat could be manoeuvred in shallow or restricted areas, where sailing was difficult for larger ships, such as rivers or lakes. The gun that such boats carried could also be quite heavy; a 32-pounder for instance. As such boats were cheap and quick to build, swarm tactics were favoured; while a single hit from a frigate's broadside would destroy a gunboat, a frigate facing a large squadron of gunboats could be seriously damaged before it could manage to sink them all. An example of this would be the Battle of Alvøen, where 5 Dano-Norwegian gunboats defeated the lone HMS Tartar during the Gunboat War. Gunboats used in the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain during the American Revolutionary War were mostly built on the spot, attesting to the speed of their construction.
Actors: John Meillon (actor), Harry Secombe (actor), Anthony Buckley (editor), Donald Houston (actor), Derek Nimmo (actor), Barry Peters (editor), Tommy Mack (actor), James Gilbert (writer), James Gilbert (director), Stuart Wagstaff (actor), Jimmy Grafton (writer), Benita Collings (actress), Jimmy Grafton (producer), Jeff Ashby (actor), Gilda Baracchi (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Stanley Evans is a Welsh teacher who heads to Austalia after an unsuccessful romance. Yearning for the good old days when he was a choral director in Wales, Secombe organizes his Aussie students into a children's choir. Along the way, Secombe finds lasting happiness with down-to-earth local woman.
Keywords: australia, australian-outback, children, choir, independent-film, love, naivety, pupil, school, small-townActors: Eddie Boland (actor), Robert Bolder (actor), Sam Hardy (actor), Russell Hopton (actor), John Kelly (actor), Edward LeSaint (actor), Ivan Linow (actor), Beryl Mercer (actress), Barbara Stanwyck (actress), Frank Capra (producer), Harry Cohn (producer), Dorothy Howell (writer), Jo Swerling (writer), Frank Capra (director), Maurice Wright (editor),
Plot: Sorry - the movie opens when Fallon's Father has died, preparing to preach his Sunday sermon. Florence steps up to the pulpit in tears and decries the congregation as hypocrites. This is one of the best moments of Stanwyck's early films as she literally drives them out of the church with her anger and passion. It's that passion that huckster Horsby picks up on. Stanwyck fans should see this at least once.
Keywords: based-on-play, birthday-celebration, blindness, confession, dummy, evangelism, evangelist, fire, fraud, hamletActors: Cullen Landis (actor), Philo McCullough (actor), Thomas Meighan (actor), Spec O'Donnell (actor), James Cruze (director), Lucien Hubbard (miscellaneous crew), Jesse L. Lasky (miscellaneous crew), Adolph Zukor (miscellaneous crew), Gertrude Claire (actress), James Cruze (producer), Hope Loring (writer), Betty Jane Graham (actress), Gunboat Smith (actor), Marietta Millner (actress), John W. Conway (writer),
Genres: Drama,I've been crossed,
Like a river between you and I.
Now I am Wondering why,
I can't remember your name.
I can't remember.
I've been waitin',
I've been holding out.
If you think you have the slightest chance of swallowing me,
You should have your doubts.
And it's hard with your head in the ground.
What is lost,
What is lost may not ever be found.
I can't remember your face.
I can't remember.
I've been waitin',
I've been holding out.
If you think you have the slightest chance of swallowing me,
You should have your doubts.
When everything that you've been wantin',
Is so much more than you could give,
The pressure from the strain is frontin',
The battle of the wills you live.
I've been waitin',
I've been holdin' out.
If you think you have the slightest chance of swallowing me,
You should have your doubts.
I've been waitin',
I've been holding out.
I'm doubting you could take me down.
I've been waitin',
I've been holding out.
I'm doubting you could take me down.
I'be been waitin' (I've been waiting),
I've been holding out (I've been holding out, and I'm doubting you can take me down),
If you think you have the slightest chance of swallowing me (I've been waitin', I've been holding out).