- published: 19 Sep 2014
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A slum, as defined by the United Nations agency UN-HABITAT, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between 1990 and 2005. However, due to rising population, and the rise especially in urban populations, the number of slum dwellers is rising. One billion people worldwide live in slums and the figure will likely grow to 2 billion by 2030.
The term has traditionally referred to housing areas that were once relatively affluent but which deteriorated as the original dwellers moved on to newer and better parts of the city, but has come to include the vast informal settlements found in cities in the developing world.
Many shack dwellers vigorously oppose the description of their communities as 'slums' arguing that this results in them being pathologised and then, often, subject to threats of evictions. Many academics have vigorously criticized UN-Habitat and the World Bank arguing that their 'Cities Without Slums' Campaign has led directly to a massive increase in forced evictions.
Actors: Thure Lindhardt (actor), Ole Thestrup (actor), Simon Jul Jørgensen (actor), Nicolas Barbano (actor), Hans Henrik Voetmann (actor), Chris Nørgaard (composer), Sohail A. Hassan (actor), Sohail A. Hassan (producer), Camilla Bendix (actress), Melany Denise (actress), Ken Vedsegaard (actor), Thomas Stegler (producer), Thomas Stegler (actor), Gry Bay (actress), Kasper Gaardsøe (actor),
Plot: The film is about Slim, Slam and Slum from the Danish cartoon series, three young boys at twenty-something who lives in an apartment in Nordvest in Denmark. They are the kind of guys which is using a lot time sitting on the toilet, playing Playstation and smoking pot. But suddenly they all quit their bad salary jobs, and start on fresh with something new. They get a big weird idea on gaining money, power and respect. First of all they start a popular web site that their conman partner Dahlgård which after a little time betrays them and sell the site. Then the three boys start Boomin Crew, a music group of hip hop. They all suddenly get in love with the three honeys, Dit, Dat and Dut, and their new goals are to try snap up with them.
Keywords: apartment, based-on-comic-book, bathhouse, betrayal, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, break-up, breakdance, cartoonist, city-life, convertibleActors: Jack Cheatham (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Warren Jackson (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), John Bagni (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Jerry Frank (actor), Gavin Gordon (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), William Hall (actor), Ben Hendricks Jr. (actor), Al Herman (actor), George O'Brien (actor),
Plot: The fourth and last of the George A. Hirliman-produced films starring George O'Brien (preceded by "Daniel Boone", "Park Avenue Logger" and "Hollywood Cowboy") that were distributed by RKO Radio. Hirliman sold O'Brien's contract to RKO, which then produced 18 series westerns starring O'Brien that ended when O'Brien went into the Navy at the outbreak of WW II. Long-time (past and future) O'Brien director David Howard served as Hirliman's Associate Producer on this film. "Windjammer" finds O'Brien as a subpoena server ordered to serve a subpoena on Brandon Evans (The Commondore) for a senate inquiry or lose his job. Posing as a playboy, he boards the Commodore's yacht during a yacht race, and the yacht is wrecked by a gun-running windjammer commanded by Captain Morgan (William Hall.) All hands are picked up by the windjammer, including the Commodore's daughter (played by Constance Worth, at her blonde, plumpish best) and put to work as galley slaves and such, but it isn't long before O'Brien starts knocking heads, and making the gun-runners wish they had left him swimming.
Keywords: action-hero, adrift, b-movie, blonde, california, capture, chest, china-sea, chinatown-san-francisco, cigarette-smoking