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Jack Jones (24 November 1884 – 7 May 1970) was a Welsh novelist and playwright who began writing in the 1930s.
Jack Jones was born in 1884 at Tai-Harri-Blawdd in Merthyr Tydfil, the son of a coal miner. He joined his father to work in the mine aged 12. At the age of 17 he joined the army and was posted to South Africa with his regiment the Militia Battalion of the Welch. However he was very unhappy there and ended up deserting. Once recaptured, he was transferred to India. When he eventually returned to Wales he went back to working in the coal mines. He married Laura Grimes Evans in 1908. In 1914 Jack Jones was summoned back to his regiment and sent to the front lines in France and later on Belgium. After suffering shrapnel wounds he was invalided home and appointed as recruiting officer for Merthyr Tydfil.
After World War I, Jack Jones became a member of the Communist Party and he attended a convention in Manchester with the purpose of establishing a British Communist Party on behalf of his local lodge. At this meeting he was chosen to be Corresponding Secretary for the South Wales Region. Jack Jones later founded a branch of the Communist Party at Merthyr Tydfil. In 1923 he was appointed as the full-time secretary-representative of the miners at Blaengarw, a position he held until his resignation in 1927.
Actors: Katie Foster (actress), Chris O'Brocki (actor), Chris O'Brocki (miscellaneous crew), Robbie Ribspreader (writer), Robbie Ribspreader (producer), Robbie Ribspreader (director), Robbie Ribspreader (composer), M.T. Smith (miscellaneous crew), M.T. Smith (miscellaneous crew), Carleen Troy (actress), Michael Hodge (actor), Laurence R. Griffin (actor), Sheri Cohen (actress), Ryan Fowler (composer), Ryan Fowler (director),
Plot: Just when novelist Jack Jones is about to give up his career as a novelist due to his increasing writer's block, a mysterious jar of blood appears on his doorstep. The events that unfold not only get his creative juices flowing, but leave a trail of blood in Jack's wake.
Keywords: murder, obsession, time-in-title, writingActors: Robert Belushi (actor), Mike Cramer (producer), Mike Cramer (editor), Mike Cramer (director), Mike Cramer (writer), Mike Cramer (actor), Jon Barinholtz (actor), Mark Giangreco (actor), Kevin O'Brien (actor), Mark Fidrych (actor), Tannis Stoops (actress), Jack Cramer (actor), Mark Peterson (actor), Peggy Daley (actress), Harlene Ellin (actress),
Plot: It's 1976 in Detroit. Twelve-year-old poet Marty Jones wants to be a baseball star. Motivated by the quirky success of Mark 'The Bird' Fidrych, Marty writes a poem to the Detroit Tigers' star rookie pitcher. Fidrych writes back, propelling Marty on a winning streak. Thirty years later, Marty is an advertising executive in a mid-life slump. Can a father-son road trip in search of The Bird help Marty reconnect with his family and his youthful optimism?
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, History, Sport,Actors: Mick Jagger (actor), Tony Richardson (writer), Tony Richardson (director), Bill Hunter (actor), Martyn Sanderson (actor), Reg Gorman (actor), Tim Van Rellim (actor), Peter Sumner (actor), Robert Bruning (actor), Ken Goodlet (actor), Jack Allen (actor), Diane Craig (actress), Gerry Duggan (actor), Serge Lazareff (actor), Frank Thring (actor),
Plot: Unable to support his family in the Australian outback, a man turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw life, and eventually becomes involved in murders. Based on the life of famed 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.
Keywords: 1870s, aborigine, armed-robbery, armor, arson, australia, australian-history, baby, bank-robbery, barActors: Bert Hanlon (actor), Harry Keller (editor), Ben Hecht (director), Ben Hecht (writer), Ben Hecht (producer), Adele Palmer (costume designer), Ferike Boros (actress), Ben Hecht (actor), Albert Band (actor), Jack Lambert (actor), Billy Gray (actor), Lionel Stander (actor), Judith Anderson (actress), George Antheil (composer), Harry Hays Morgan (actor),
Plot: Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one. Sanine is charming, if a little peculiar. Haidi, a ballerina, marries him. The company takes its new production on tour. But Sanine's control seems to be slipping...
Keywords: balletActors: Don Alvarado (actor), Arthur Hoyt (actor), Eugene Borden (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Agostino Borgato (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Maurice Cass (actor), George Davis (actor), Jean De Briac (actor), George Ernest (actor), Clay Clement (actor), Russell Gleason (actor), Kenneth Howell (actor), Olin Howland (actor), Harold Huber (actor),
Plot: John Jones has planned a trip to Paris, Falls, in his home state. However, his whole family and the neighbors think he is actually going to Paris, France. He decides to be a real sport and take everybody in the Jones household (including the married daughter) to Paris, France. Cousin Willie has lived in Paris and appoints himself tour director, and soon has "Dad" Jones up to his ears in debt. Mrs. Jones decides she wants to learn to Rhumba, but it costs 'Dad" a small fortune when a gigolo decides to teach her. Son Jack gets himself mixed up with a spy ring when he forms an attachment with an attractive girl who is being used as a decoy by the spy ring.
Keywords: airplane, archive-footage, b-movie, bank, banker, brother-sister-relationship, cafe, chambermaid, chase, cigarette-smokingActors: Sidney Blackmer (actor), John T. Murray (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), George Ernest (actor), Russell Gleason (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), William Haade (actor), Donald Haines (actor), Kenneth Howell (actor), William Irving (actor), Si Jenks (actor), Fred Kelsey (actor), Harrison Greene (actor), Wilfred Lucas (actor), Jed Prouty (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Frank R. Strayer (director), Maurice Cass (actor), Wallis Clark (actor), Frank Conroy (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), George Ernest (actor), Russell Gleason (actor), Kenneth Howell (actor), Sydney Jarvis (actor), Fred Kelsey (actor), Allan Lane (actor), Charles Lane (actor), Spring Byington (actress), Sarah Edwards (actress), Florence Roberts (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: George Ernest (actor), Jed Prouty (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), James Donlan (actor), Frank Dae (actor), Franklin Parker (actor), John Dilson (actor), Russell Gleason (actor), Louis Jean Heydt (actor), Howard C. Hickman (actor), Kenneth Howell (actor), Fred Kelsey (actor), Cy Kendall (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Edwin Stanley (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: James Tinling (director), George E. Stone (actor), Spring Byington (actress), Florence Roberts (actress), Robert Ellis (writer), Helen Logan (writer), Herschel McCoy (costume designer), Oscar Apfel (actor), Spencer Charters (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), John Webb Dillon (actor), George Ernest (actor), Kenneth Howell (actor), Tony Martin (actor), Ivan Miller (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Louis R. Loeffler (editor), Dick Elliott (actor), George Ernest (actor), Francis Ford (actor), Jonathan Hale (actor), Kenneth Howell (actor), J. Anthony Hughes (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), Si Jenks (actor), David Newell (actor), Jed Prouty (actor), Landers Stevens (actor), Charles Tannen (actor), Clarence Wilson (actor), Spring Byington (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Goodbye, no use leading with our chins, this is where our
story ends,
Never lovers ever friends.
Goodbye, let our hearts call it a day, but before you
walk away,
I sincerely want to say.
I wish you bluebirds in the spring, to give your heart a
song to sing,
And then a kiss, but more than this, I wish you love.
And in July a lemonade to cool you in some leafy glade,
I wish you health, and more than wealth, I wish you love.
My breaking heart and I agree that you and I could never
So with my best, my very best, I set you free.
I wish you shelter from the storm, a cozy fire to keep
you warm,
But, most of all, when snowflakes fall, I wish you love.
(musical interlude)
I wish you shelter from the storm, a cozy fire to keep
you warm,
Most of all, when snowflakes fall, hot time, I wish you
love.