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Crawley ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a town and local government district with Borough status in West Sussex, England. It is 28 miles (45 km) south of Charing Cross, 18 miles (29 km) north of Brighton and Hove, and 32 miles (51 km) northeast of the county town of Chichester, covers an area of 17.36 square miles (44.96 km2) and had a population of 99,744 at the time of the 2001 Census.
The area has been inhabited since the Stone Age, and was a centre of ironworking in Roman times. Crawley developed slowly as a market town from the 13th century, serving the surrounding villages in the Weald; its location on the main road from London to Brighton brought a passing trade, encouraging the development of coaching inns. It was connected to the railway network in the 1840s.
Gatwick Airport, now one of Britain's busiest international airports, opened on the edge of the town in the 1940s, encouraging commercial and industrial growth. After the Second World War, the British Government planned to move large numbers of people and jobs out of London and into new towns around South East England. The New Towns Act 1946 designated Crawley as the site of one of these. A master plan was developed for the establishment of new residential, commercial, industrial and civic areas, and rapid development greatly increased the size and population of the town in a few decades.
Actors: Marco Beltrami (composer), Lori A. Balton (miscellaneous crew), Elmore Leonard (writer), Luke Wilson (actor), Kirk Baily (miscellaneous crew), Alan Tudyk (actor), Peter Fonda (actor), Ryan Kavanaugh (producer), James Blackburn (actor), Russell Crowe (actor), Christian Bale (actor), Stephen Apostolina (miscellaneous crew), Luce Rains (actor), Peter Block (miscellaneous crew), Susan Bliss (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Rancher Dan Evans heads into Bisbee to clear up issues concerning the sale of his land when he witnesses the closing events of a stagecoach robbery led by famed outlaw Ben Wade. Shortly thereafter, Wade is captured by the law in Bisbee and Evans finds himself one of the escorts who will take Wade to the 3:10 to Yuma train in Contention for the reward of $200. Evans's effort to take Wade to the station is in part an effort to save his land but also part of an inner battle to determine whether he can be more than just a naive rancher in the eyes of his impetuous and gunslinging son William Evans. The transport to Contention is hazardous and filled with ambushes by Indians, pursuits by Wade's vengeful gang and Wade's own conniving and surreptitious demeanor that makes the ride all the more intense.
Keywords: 1880s, 19th-century, ambush, apache, apache-tribe, arizona, armored-wagon, arrest, arson, artistActors: Lisa Hammer (director), Lisa Hammer (editor), Lisa Hammer (producer), Doc Hammer (writer), Doc Hammer (actor), Doc Hammer (composer), Ben Edlund (director), Ben Edlund (writer), April Stiph (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: Paul Borofsky (editor), Merrill McCormick (actor), Chuck Roberson (actor), Charles Starrett (actor), Charles Starrett (actor), Colbert Clark (producer), Fred F. Sears (director), William Bailey (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Joel Friedkin (actor), Jock Mahoney (actor), Gloria Henry (actress), Raymond Bond (actor),
Plot: Luke Atkins and Captain Dan Saunders are ranchers in Piute Valley and are at odds with each other over a dam that Atkins is constructing to help the valley people. Their feud does nothing to help the romance of Saunders' son, Sheriff Ron Saunders and Atkins' daughter, Susan . The opposition to the dam that Saunders has led, makes him the prime suspect when the banker who is going to lend Atkins the money for the project is murdered, and Sheriff Saunders is forced to arrest his father. But Steve Brandon, mostly in his guise as the Durango Kid, does a bit of snooping and begins to suspect that the local storekeeper has an interest in more than just selling groceries.
Keywords: 1880s, alias, archive-footage, arrest, banker, buffoon, comic-sidekick, dam, dam-construction, deceitActors: Mary Brian (actress), Peter Gawthorne (actor), Alf Goddard (actor), Hal Gordon (actor), Cary Grant (actor), Werner Bochmann (composer), Norma Varden (actress), Henry Kendall (actor), Alfred Zeisler (producer), Andreas Malandrinos (actor), Moore Marriott (actor), Garry Marsh (actor), Johnnie Schofield (actor), Frank Stanmore (actor), John Turnbull (actor),
Plot: Ernest Bliss is a rich young man with too little to do. Not realizing the depression he's in is due to boredom, Ernest consults a doctor. Sir James Aldroyd gives Ernest a prescription that he doesn't think Ernest can fill: Ernest must earn his own living for one year using none of his current wealth. Ernest bets him 50,000 English pounds that he can.
Keywords: based-on-novel, bet, butler, character-name-in-title, chauffeur, con-man, diagnosis, doctor, door-to-door-salesman, heirActors: Donald Haines (actor), Raymond Brown (actor), Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Allan Cavan (actor), Wallis Clark (actor), Frank Conroy (actor), Edward Brophy (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), John Webb Dillon (actor), Harry Dunkinson (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Harrison Greene (actor), Kit Guard (actor), Harry Holman (actor),
Plot: A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he tries to fix his adored kid brother's place on the school football team, he meets his match in school-teacher Anne Barry. Jimmy, the brother, is not a scholar and the teacher rules he can't play until he gets his school grades up...and that's final.
Keywords: 1930s, american-football, apostrophe-in-title, bribe, brother-brother-relationship, cigarette-smoking, coach, contraction-in-title, crook, deceitActors: Ralph Ince (director), Ralph Ince (actor), Joseph P. Kennedy (producer), J.G. Hawks (writer), Edward J. Montagne (writer), Tom Santschi (actor), Gertrude Astor (actress), Patsy Ruth Miller (actress), Ralph Ince (producer), Walt Robbins (actor), Alan Brooks (actor), H.J. Jacobson (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Henry Edwards (director), Gerald Ames (actor), Henry Edwards (actor), Douglas Munro (actor), John Turnbull (actor), Henry Vibart (actor), Mary Brough (actress), Chrissie White (actress), Mary Dibley (actress), E. Phillips Oppenheim (writer), Reginald Bach (actor), Esme Hubbard (actress), Ernest Milton (actor), John R. Allan (actor), James McWilliams (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: John Barrymore (actor), Mike Donlin (actor), Frank Morgan (actor), Evelyn Brent (actress), Mathilde Brundage (actress), Anthony Paul Kelly (writer), George Irving (director), Kathryn Adams (actress), William Black (actor), Christine Mayo (actress), E.W. Hornung (writer), H. Cooper Cliffe (actor), Eugene Wiley Presbrey (writer), Frederick Perry (actor), Dudley Hill (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Crime, Romance,Actors: Robert Brower (actor), Bigelow Cooper (actor), Augustus Phillips (actor), John Sturgeon (actor), Charles Sutton (actor), Sally Crute (actress), Gertrude McCoy (actress), Mark Swan (writer), Ashley Miller (director),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Harry Beaumont (actor), William Bechtel (actor), Robert Brower (actor), William West (actor), Mary Fuller (actress), Charles M. Seay (writer), Charles M. Seay (director), Bigelow Cooper (actor), Walter Edwin (actor), George Lessey (actor), Charles Ogle (actor), John Sturgeon (actor), James Levering (actor), Charles Reade (writer), Martin Fuller (actor),
Plot: The village Squire with designs on a village maiden has her suitor falsely imprisoned. " Charles Reade who wrote this book in 1856 so exposed the prevailing conditions in English prisons that he is generally credited with being responsible for the present reforms. Queen Victoria after reading this work, demanded to know if such brutalities were being performed in her name and ordered an investigation which brought about the universally high standard prevailing today."
Keywords: based-on-bookA box arrived this morning
Its reason was unspoken
It was signed and sent with deadly seal
The box said "Do Not Open"
It stood there in the hallway
And arrested my attention
I paced the floor and pondered why
The box said "Do Not Open"
And still I wondered,
"Will temptation get the best of me again?"
It was just the very thing I wasn't
Wishin' to be ownin'
A package sent to Waseley Hills
The box said "Do Not Open"
Seven lonely days went by
I wasn't really copin'
It soon consumed my every thought -
The box said "Do Not Open"
And still I wondered,
"Will temptation get the best of me again?"
Frozen there in terror, I
Could hardly have been hopin'
Through an omen of my comin' doom,
The box said "Do Not Open"
An image of repulsion
I saw the premonition
It filled my frightened mind and still,
The box said "Do Not Open"
And still I wondered,
"Will temptation get the best of me again?"
I couldn't stand the torture
And approached the thing in question
I ripped away the seal
The box, it lay there open
And there I was, a sorry man
All doubled up and chokin'
With bleedin' hands and withered nails,
The box, it lay there open
And it looks like