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Ice cubes are small, roughly cube-shaped pieces of ice, conventionally used to cool beverages. Ice cubes are sometimes preferred over crushed ice because they melt more slowly; they are standard in mixed drinks that call for ice, in which case the drink is said to be "on the rocks."
Ice cubes that are crushed or sheared into irregularly-shaped flakes may add an interesting aesthetic effect to some cocktails. Crushed ice is also used when faster cooling is desired, since the rate of cooling is governed by the number and average radius of the ice particles.
Melting ice cubes sometimes precipitate white flakes, commonly known as "floaties". This is calcium carbonate which is present in many water supplies and is completely harmless.[citation needed]
American physician and humanitarian John Gorrie built a refrigerator in 1844 with the purpose of cooling air. His refrigerator produced ice which he hung from the ceiling in a basin. Gorrie can be considered the creator of ice cubes, but his aim was not to cool drinks: he used the ice to lower the ambient room temperature. During his time, a dominant idea was that bad air quality caused disease. Therefore, in order to help treat sickness, he pushed for the draining of swamps and the cooling of sickrooms.
Actors: Christine Nguyen (actress), Dan Golden (actor), Eric Masterson (actor), Voodoo (actor), Beverly Lynne (actress), Alan B. Bursteen (producer), Mary Carey (actress), Dean McKendrick (director), Jazy Berlin (actress), Billy Chappell (actor), Chad White (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Jim Wynorski (director), Tony Randel (editor), Terence Knox (actor), William Dever (producer), William Dever (writer), Christina DeRosa (actress), Rich Komenich (actor), Julie McCullough (actress), Paul Sinor (producer), Dave Haney (actor), Paul Sinor (writer), Kelli Maroney (actress), James Wolford Hardin (actor), Brian Gross (actor), Al Kaplan (composer),
Plot: The movie opens with a young couple parked in a bleak, rural locale pondering their future, A giant gila monster attacks the car, sending the young couple running for their lives. Chase Winstead , a young mechanic and hot rod racer and his girl Lisa (Madeline Voges), meets up with Chase's former nemesis, Waco Bob (Jesse Janzen) and his sidekick Carla (Christina De Rosa). Prompted by calls from Mayor Wheeler (Gerard Pauwels) ,The local Sheriff (Terence Knox)enlists the help of Chase, a young mechanic and hot rod racer, locates the crashed car in the ravine and finds evidence of the giant lizard. They attempt to destroy the lizard, but that only emboldens it. The creature continues to prey on the small town. It starts to head for the Winstead homestead, However, Chase packs his prized hot rod with nitroglycerin and rigs it to speed straight into the monster, terminating the lizard in a fiery explosion and heroically saving the town.
Genres: Sci-Fi,Actors: Kris Kristofferson (actor), Danielle Wilson (miscellaneous crew), William Sanderson (actor), Geneviève Bujold (actress), Bill Raymond (actor), Luis Guzmán (actor), J. Todd Harris (producer), Gary Farmer (actor), Heather Rae (actress), Lothaire Bluteau (actor), Richard Kathlean (miscellaneous crew), Jay Craven (writer), Jay Craven (producer), Jay Craven (director), Rusty De Wees (actor),
Plot: Quebec Bill Bohomme is a hardy schemer and dreamer, who, desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered herd through the rapidly approaching winter, resorts to whiskey-smuggling, a traditional family occupation. Quebec Bill takes his son, Wild Bill, on the journey. Also Henry Coville, an inscrutable whiskey smuggler, and Rat Kinneson, Quebec Bill's perpetually disconsolate ex-con hired man. Together, they cross the border into vast reaches of Canadian wilderness for an unforgettable four days "full of terror, full of wonder."
Keywords: 1930s, back-from-the-dead, barn-burning, based-on-novel, canadian-border, canoe, depression-of-1929, disappearance, ex-convict, great-depressionActors: William Conrad (actor), Antoni Corone (actor), Michael Beach (actor), Michael Bay (actor), Charles Gross (composer), Brad Dourif (actor), Frances McDormand (actress), Wilbur Fitzgerald (actor), Roxanne Hart (actress), Marc Daniels (director), Jay Amor (actor), Jeff Moldovan (actor), James Lee Barrett (writer), Brad Davis (actor), Wayne Tippit (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: John Candy (actor), Ronald Sanders (editor), Al Waxman (actor), Lawrence Dane (actor), Cec Linder (actor), Gary Reineke (actor), John Bayliss (actor), Philip Craig (actor), Stephen Young (actor), Martyn Burke (director), Martyn Burke (writer), Lynne MacKay (miscellaneous crew), John M. Eckert (producer), Alan Collins (editor), Stephen Stohn (producer),
Plot: A group of young professionals decides to play a practical joke on one of their ex-girlfriends who married a rich man who is about to close a major real estate deal. They plan to kidnap her and mess up the deal. Unfortunately, the joke becomes deadly serious.
Keywords: clown, deal, death, ex-girlfriend, halloween, independent-film, joke, kidnapping, killer-clown, partyActors: Hope Lange (actress), James W. Gavin (actor), Dominic Frontiere (composer), Robert Ito (actor), David Janssen (actor), Felipe Turich (actor), Dominic Frontiere (producer), Leslie Stevens (writer), Ben Piazza (actor), William Mims (actor), Ivan Dixon (actor), Alain Patrick (actor), Bill Catching (actor), Frank Bonner (actor), Russ Mayberry (director),
Plot: An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes which escape storage and bite key personnel on the submarine, causing an accident that cripples the vehicle so that it drops to the bottom of the Southern Ocean. Worse still, the snakes are still at large on the submarine and complicate the efforts of the crew to escape the sunken vessel.
Keywords: accident, animal-attack, investigation, ocean, serpent, snake, submarine, trapped, u-boat, underwaterActors: Cesare Bianchini (editor), Bruno Arié (actor), Piero Lulli (actor), Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia (actor), Ivano Staccioli (actor), Fernando Di Leo (writer), Pietro Martellanza (actor), Pietro Martellanza (actor), Rossella Bergamonti (actress), Dean Reed (actor), Dean Reed (actor), Marcello Gigante (composer), Paolo Bianchini (director), Gabriele Crisanti (producer), Agnès Spaak (actress),
Genres: Western,Actors: James Robertson Justice (actor), Clifton Parker (composer), Anthony Steel (actor), Arthur Lowe (actor), Patricia Hayes (actress), Maurice Denham (actor), John Singer (actor), Leslie Dwyer (actor), Alexander Field (actor), Sam Kydd (actor), Vincent Ball (actor), Roddy Hughes (actor), Peter Illing (actor), Constance Willis (miscellaneous crew), Frederick Wilson (director),
Genres: Comedy, Thriller,