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Burbank is both a common placename in English-speaking countries and a common surname (last name). The name Burbank is of English origin and means "lives on the castle's hill".
Robin Hood was a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally, Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes. The origin of the legend is claimed by some to have stemmed from actual outlaws, or from ballads or tales of outlaws.
Robin Hood became a popular folk figure in the medieval period continuing through to modern literature, films and television. In the earliest sources, Robin Hood is a yeoman, but he was often later portrayed as an aristocrat wrongfully dispossessed of his lands and made into an outlaw by an unscrupulous sheriff.
In popular culture, Robin Hood and his band of "merry men" are usually portrayed as living in Sherwood Forest, in Nottinghamshire, where much of the action in the early ballads takes place. So does the very first recorded Robin Hood rhyme, four lines from the early 15th century, beginning: "Robyn hode in scherewode stod." However, the overall picture from the surviving early ballads and other early references suggest that Robin Hood may have been based in the Barnsdale area of what is now South Yorkshire (which borders Nottinghamshire).
Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A mischievous boy who can fly and who never ages, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang the Lost Boys, interacting with mermaids, Indians, fairies, pirates, and occasionally ordinary children from the world outside of Neverland. In addition to two distinct works by Barrie, the character has been featured in a variety of media and merchandise, both adapting and expanding on Barrie's works.
Peter Pan first appeared in a section of The Little White Bird, a 1902 novel written by Barrie for adults.
The character's best-known adventure debuted on 27 December 1904, in the stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. The play was adapted and expanded somewhat as a novel, published in 1911 as Peter and Wendy (later as Peter Pan and Wendy, and still later as Peter Pan).
Following the highly successful debut of the 1904 play, Barrie's publishers, Hodder and Stoughton, extracted chapters 13–18 of The Little White Bird and republished them in 1906 under the title Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, with the addition of illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
Actors: Dorian Harewood (actor), Salli Richardson-Whitfield (actress), Edward Asner (actor), Edward Asner (actor), Jeff Bennett (actor), Jeff Bennett (actor), Salli Richardson-Whitfield (actress), Tim Curry (actor), Keith David (actor), Keith David (actor), Bill Fagerbakke (actor), Bill Fagerbakke (actor), Jonathan Frakes (actor), Carl Johnson (composer), Thom Adcox-Hernandez (actor),
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Plot: Based on the 1930's pulp fiction and radio drama series, the film pits the hero against his arch enemy, Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "The power to cloud men's minds", the Shadow comes blazing to the city's rescue with explosive results.
Keywords: 1930s, anti-hero, attempted-murder, based-on-comic, based-on-comic-book, based-on-pulp-magazine, based-on-radio-show, blonde, bomb, box-office-flopActors: David Hemmings (actor), David Warner (actor), Prudence Emery (miscellaneous crew), David Hemmings (producer), Virginia McKenna (actress), John Hurt (actor), Milena Canonero (costume designer), Christopher Plummer (actor), Peter Bowles (actor), Donald Sutherland (actor), James Mitchell (producer), Patricia Hodge (actress), Eric Boyd-Perkins (editor), Monique Champagne (miscellaneous crew), Stuart Cooper (director),
Plot: Contract hit man Jay Mallory works for an unknown organization. He returns home to his downtown Montréal apartment one winter day to find that his wife, Celandine, is gone. Mallory initially thinks that Celandine has left on her own volition since theirs was a sometimes stormy, albeit passionate, relationship. However, words from Mallory's main point of contact at the organization, Burbank, indicate that Celandine's disappearance may be associated with Mallory's last hit. Shortly after their discussion, Burbank himself disappears. The organization assigns Mallory another job in Suffolk, England. Mallory has a feeling that there is something unusual about this job - he is given little initial information including not knowing who the target is - and that it too is associated with Celandine's disappearance. Despite feeling that he may be being set up, Mallory decides to take the job anyway to see how it plays out and if it leads him back to Celandine.
Keywords: based-on-novel, bathtub, betrayal, canadian-noir, contract-killing, cornflakes, death-of-protagonist, disappearance, female-nudity, flashbackActors: Jack Murray (editor), Eddie Borden (actor), Larry Steers (actor), Ruth Donnelly (actress), Myrna Loy (actress), Guy Bolton (writer), R.H. Bassett (composer), Hugo Friedhofer (composer), William K. Howard (director), Billy Bevan (actor), Earle Foxe (actor), John Halliday (actor), Jean Hersholt (actor), Crauford Kent (actor), Claude King (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,