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Kent /ˈkɛnt/ is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of Medway. Kent has a nominal border with France halfway through the Channel Tunnel. Maidstone is its county town and historically Rochester and Canterbury have been accorded city status, though only the latter still holds it.
Kent's location between London and the continental Europe has led to its being in the front line of several conflicts, including the Battle of Britain during World War II. East Kent was known as Hell Fire Corner during the conflict. England has relied on the county's ports to provide warships through much of the past 800 years; the Cinque Ports in the 12th–14th centuries and Chatham Dockyard in the 16th–20th centuries were of particular importance to the country's security. France can be seen clearly in fine weather from Folkestone, and the iconic White Cliffs of Dover.
Kent Taylor (May 11, 1907 – April 11, 1987) was an American actor.
Born Louis William Weiss in Nashua, Iowa, Taylor appeared in more than 110 films, the bulk of them B-movies in the 1930s and 1940s, although he also had roles in more prestigious studio releases, including I'm No Angel (1933), Cradle Song (1933), Death Takes a Holiday (1934), Payment on Demand (1951), and Track the Man Down (1955). He had the lead role in Half Past Midnight in 1948, among a few others.
In the 1950s, with his movie career on the decline and television production on the upswing, he played the title role in 58 episodes of the detective series Boston Blackie and the lead in 39 episodes of ABC's The Rough Riders (1958–1959). Other small screen credits include My Little Margie, Tales of Wells Fargo, Zorro, Bat Masterson, Peter Gunn, The Rifleman and Hawaiian Eye. The last years of his career were spent in slasher and horror films with titles like Satan's Sadists, Blood of Ghastly Horror, I Spit on Your Corpse, and Hell's Bloody Devils.
Kay Aldridge (July 9, 1917 – January 12, 1995) was an American model and actress. She is best known for playing feisty and frequently-imperiled heroines in black and white serials during the 1940s.
She was born Katharine Gratten Aldridge in Tallahassee, Florida. As a model she was seen on the covers of magazines such as Life, Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook and Look in the 1930s. Contemporary artist Anne Taintor used advertisements featuring Aldridge as the base for a number of her pieces. Her film career began in 1937 with an uncredited role in Vogues of 1938. In the following couple of years she had a number of minor and largely decorative roles while credited as Katherine Aldridge. It was reported that she was among the actresses screen tested for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.
The roles for which she became best known began in 1942 with the serial Perils of Nyoka, made by the company Republic Pictures, which specialised in serials of the type that had dramatic cliffhanger scenes at the end of each episode. Now credited as Kay Aldridge she played the character Nyoka Gordon who confronts a host of villains while seeking her father who was lost on an expedition in Africa. Further classic serial heroine roles followed with titles such as Daredevils of the West in 1943 and Haunted Harbor in 1944. She retired from acting in 1945.
Actors: Sean O'Bryan (actor), Sigourney Weaver (actress), Zoe Saldana (actress), Forest Whitaker (actor), Dolores Heredia (actress), Richard T. Jones (actor), James Le Gros (actor), Saïd Taghmaoui (actor), William Hurt (actor), Bruce McGill (actor), José Carlos Rodríguez (actor), Dennis Quaid (actor), Eduardo Noriega (actor), Ron Blecker (miscellaneous crew), Neal H. Moritz (producer),
Plot: The President of the United States is in Salamanca, Spain, about to address the city in a public square. We see a plain-clothes cop, his girlfriend with another man, a mother and child, an American tourist with a video camera, and a Secret Service agent newly returned from medical leave. Shots ring out and the President falls; a few minutes later, we hear a distant explosion, then a bomb goes off in the square. Those minutes are retold, several times, emphasizing different characters' actions. Gradually, we discover who's behind the plot. Is the Secret Service one step ahead, or have the President's adversaries thought of everything?
Keywords: 8-perspectives, 8-points-of-view, agent, ambulance, american, american-flag, arab, assassination, assassination-attempt, assassination-of-presidentActors: April Flowers (actress), TJ Cummings (actor), Teanara Kai (actress), Lena Ramon (actress), Jennifer M. Byrne (producer), John Quinn (producer), Michael James 'Scotty' Scott (miscellaneous crew), David A. Hoffman (miscellaneous crew), Renee Rea (actress), Flower (actress), Catalina Martone (actress), Marklen Kennedy (actor), Judi Jensen (costume designer), Tom Lazarus (director), Antoinette Abbott (actress),
Genres: Drama,