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Springfield is the most populous city in Western New England, and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers; the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern Mill River. As of the 2010 Census, the city's population was 153,060.Metropolitan Springfield – one of two metropolitan areas in Massachusetts (the other being Greater Boston) – has an estimated population of 698,903 (2009.)
The first Springfield in the New World, it is the largest city in Western New England, and the urban, economic, and cultural capital of Massachusetts' Connecticut River Valley, (colloquially known as the Pioneer Valley). It is the third-largest city in Massachusetts and fourth-largest in New England (Boston, Worcester, and Providence are larger). Springfield has several nicknames – The City of Firsts, because of its many innovations (see below for a partial list); The City of Homes, due to its Victorian residential architecture; and Hoop City, because basketball, one of the worlds most popular sports, was invented in Springfield.
Actors: Peter Aalbæk Jensen (producer), Elmore Leonard (writer), Francesco Quinn (actor), Rasmus Botoft (actor), Henrik Prip (actor), Christian E. Christiansen (director), Christian E. Christiansen (writer), Laura Christensen (actress), Bodil Kjærhauge (editor), Richard Brake (actor), Julie R. Ølgaard (actress), Louise Vesth (producer), Carter Pilcher (producer), Mikkel Maltha (composer), Koen van Impe (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Francesco Quinn (actor), Elmore Leonard (writer), Sam Douglas (actor), Heather Storr (miscellaneous crew), Richard Brake (actor), Dan Jones (composer), Lex Shrapnel (actor), John Golightly (actor), Charlotte Asprey (actress), Duncan Marwick (actor), Dan Mullane (actor), Rick Russell (editor), Juan Carlos Merino (miscellaneous crew), Joe Shrapnel (miscellaneous crew), Joe Shrapnel (writer),
Plot: A white woman is kidnapped from her home by Apache Indians. Traded to the Mojave Indians, she lives as a squaw for 11 years until she is found by her husband. Unfit for society he keeps her in a shack in the desert. Her solitary existence is transformed with the arrival of a Mexican. He befriends her, reignites her self-worth and increases her confidence. He re-introduces her to her husband and leaves. As he is leaving town he is ambushed by her husbands men and there is a gun-battle. Who lives and who dies?
Keywords: cattle-rustler, confession, family-abandonment, female-nudity, shooting, title-spoken-by-character, topless-womanActors: Colleen Atwood (costume designer), Joan Allen (actress), Frankie Faison (actor), Michael Mann (writer), Tom Noonan (actor), Dino De Laurentiis (producer), Peter Maloney (actor), Dennis Farina (actor), Stephen Lang (actor), Bill Smitrovich (actor), Brian Cox (actor), Marshall Bell (actor), Chris Elliott (actor), Dino De Laurentiis (miscellaneous crew), Michael Mann (director),
Plot: Will Graham is a former FBI agent who recently retired to Florida with his wife Molly and their young son. Graham was a 'profiler'; one who profiles criminal's behavior and tries to put his mind into the minds of criminals to examine their thoughts while visiting crime scenes. Will is called out of his self-imposed retirement at the request of his former boss Jack Crawford to help the FBI catch an elusive serial killer, known to the press as the 'Tooth Fairy', who randomly kills whole families in their houses during nights of the full moon and leaves bite marks on his victims. To try to search for clues to get into the mind of the killer, Will has occasional meetings with Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, a charismatic but very dangerous imprisoned serial killer that Will captured years earlier which nearly drove him insane from the horrific encounter that nearly cost Will's life. With some help and hindrance, Will races against the clock before the next full moon when the 'Tooth Fairy' will strike again. Elsewhere, a local photographer named Francis Dollarhyde, the killer that Will is looking for, struggles to stay undetected while seeing a hope of redemption when be begins a relationship with a blind woman who is not aware of his double life.
Keywords: 1980s, 8-track, airplane, ambush, anthropophagus, anti-hero, balding-man, baltimore-maryland, bare-chested-male, based-on-novelActors: Milton Selzer (actor), Vincent Schiavelli (actor), Walter Barnes (actor), Christopher Lloyd (actor), Francis Huster (actor), Charles Horvath (actor), Rance Howard (actor), Richard Farnsworth (actor), James Caan (actor), James Caan (actor), Bernard Behrens (actor), Burton Gilliam (actor), Michael Berryman (actor), Geneviève Bujold (actress), Jacques Villeret (actor),
Plot: A photographer, who has been hired to photograph the wild west of America where he has lived his entire life, tells his client of a photograph he has that was taken one hundred years ago by his French great-grandmother that epitomizes what he is trying to capture. The story behind the photographer's heritage and that photograph... In the early 1870s, photographer Francis Leroy and who would eventually becomes his wife, Jeanne Leroy née Perriere, a baker's daughter and an aspiring photographer in her own right, move from Paris, where strife has taken hold due to Napoleon's loss in the Franco-Prussian War, to the American west, where the light is more conducive for their photography work. The move is despite not knowing about life at their destination and not knowing how to speak English. Veterinarian David Williams and his wife Mary Williams love each other, but their wants in life are incompatible with each other, David who loves his work treating real animals on farms and ranches, while Mary would rather live in Philadelphia where she was raised, especially as she feels isolated more often than not being alone on their remote farm. Several years later after both Francis and Mary are tragically killed in separate incidents, Jeanne and David meet for the first time as they both drop their respective children off at the same boarding school run by its unconventional teacher, Alice. Despite Jeanne and David's attraction to each other, a second chance at love for both may be impeded by the memories of their respective first spouse, for David especially as Mary's murderers were never caught.
Keywords: 1870s, 1970s, 19th-century, 20th-century, emigrant, france, franco-prussian-war, photography, united-states, western-united-statesActors: Patrick Williams (composer), Stephen Boyd (actor), Charles Drake (actor), Farley Granger (actor), George Grizzard (actor), Stephen McNally (actor), Ian McShane (actor), Alan Oppenheimer (actor), Jerry Jameson (director), Hayden Rorke (actor), Virginia Grey (actress), Shirley Jones (actress), Ross Hunter (producer), James Darren (actor), David Hedison (actor),
Genres: Drama,