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Major general (or major-general, short MG) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparently confusing phenomenon whereby a lieutenant general outranks a major general. (Though a major outranks a lieutenant, a lieutenant outranks a sergeant-major.)
In the Commonwealth and United States, it is a division commander's rank subordinate to the rank of lieutenant general and senior to the rank of brigadier/brigadier general.
In some countries, including much of Eastern Europe, major general is the lowest of the general officer ranks, with no brigadier-grade rank above colonel.
In France, major general (major général) is an appointment, normally of corps general. The major general assists a chief of staff. There is one major general for the chief of staff of the armed forces as a whole, and one for each of the four armed forces chiefs (army, navy, air force and gendarmerie).
Actors: Melodee Spevack (actress), Bill Butler (editor), Ruth Silveira (actress), Stephen Butler (editor), Jonathan Levit (actor), Velvet Rhodes (actress), Gregory Gifford Giles (actor), Mark Deklin (actor), John Mazza (miscellaneous crew), Joe Tyler Gold (producer), Alexander Enberg (actor), Joe Tyler Gold (actor), Joe Tyler Gold (writer), Ilana Turner (actress), Tammy Caplan (actress),
Plot: Danny Teller, a high school science teacher, shows up at auditions for Macbeth trying to get his girlfriend back. But the director mistakes Danny's story of love for a passionate acting monologue, and casts him as Witch #1. More comfortable with spacecraft than stagecraft, Danny struggles with rehearsals, and incurs the wrath of the cast when he breaks the cardinal rule of acting by saying "Macbeth" in the theatre. That's when things get weird. Lights fall, fruit floats, and freaky ghosts start singing show tunes. Danny teams up with a new-age actress, a tough Italian self-help guru, and a sci-fi obsessed stage manager to save the actors and his ex-girlfriend from the curse of Macbeth.
Keywords: actor, acupuncture, audition, cauldron, director, ghost, pirate, play, reference-to-gilbert-and-sullivan, reference-to-oscar-wildeActors: Tony Anselmo (actor), Russi Taylor (actress), Jeff Bennett (actor), Jim Cummings (actor), Jeff Bennett (actor), Tress MacNeille (actress), Jess Harnell (actor), Maurice LaMarche (actor), Maurice LaMarche (actor), Rob Paulsen (actor), Frank Welker (actor), Bill Farmer (actor), Bill Farmer (actor), Wayne Allwine (actor), April Winchell (actress),
Plot: Best buddies Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are small-time janitors with big dreams of becoming Musketeers. Peg-Leg Pete, captain of the Musketeers, points out why they'll never make it: Donald is a coward, Goofy is a dim-wit, and Mickey is short. But things change when Princess Minnie demands Musketeer bodyguards when assassins, hired by Pete so he can be king, nearly drop a safe on her. Knowing real Musketeers are too-well trained, Pete hires Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, the clumsy janitors as Musketeers and Minnie's bodyguards.
Keywords: ambush, anachronism, anthropomorphic-animal, anthropomorphism, based-on-book, based-on-novel, bird, bodyguard, carriage, cartoon-birdActors: Kamal Al-Shennawi (actor), Youssra (actress), Adel Imam (actor), Ahmed Rateb (actor), Soleiman Eid (actor), Wahid Hamid (writer), Youseff Daoud (actor), Ashraf Abdel Baqi (actor), Enaam Salousa (actress), Hajjaj Abdul Azim (actor), Ahmed Akl (actor), Alaa Waley El Din (actor), Sherif Arafa (director), Alaa Morsy (actor), Hamdy Youssef (actor),
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama,Actors: Roger Ward (actor), Christopher Atkins (actor), Bill Kerr (actor), William S. Gilbert (writer), Ken Annakin (director), Kristy McNichol (actress), Bill Gooley (miscellaneous crew), Frank Howson (actor), Garry McDonald (actor), Garry McDonald (actor), Martin Copping (actor), Peter Hosking (actor), Michael Lake (actor), Fran Burke (miscellaneous crew), Arthur Sullivan (composer),
Plot: A parody/homage to Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, The Pirate Movie is a comedy/musical utilizing both new songs and parodies from the original, as well as references to popular films of the time, including Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark. In your typical boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy fights girl with swords plot, the story revolves around Mabel, the youngest of Maj. Gen. Stanley's many daughters, and Frederic, an ex-Pirate of Penzance. They fall in love and proceed to retrieve the Stanley's fortune from the Pirates (stolen 20 years ago). The Pirate King informs Frederic that due to him being born on Feb. 29th (during a leap year), Frederic is still technically the King's apprentice. Frederic must then decide between duty and honor, the only good qualities the King taught him, and true love.
Keywords: affection, apology, attraction, bare-chested-male, beach, belch, bicycle, blond-man, boat, boyActors: Miriam Karlin (actress), Victor Spinetti (writer), Victor Spinetti (actor), Barry Cryer (actor), Bill Melendez (director), Miriam Karlin (actress), George A. Cooper (actor), Julia McKenzie (actress), Roger Donley (editor), Arthur Sullivan (composer), Long John Baldry (actor), Long John Baldry (actor), Peter Reeves (actor), Peter Reeves (actor), Beth Porter (actress),
Plot: Able Seaman Dick Deadeye is charged by Queen Victoria to find the stolen Ultimate Secret. His ugliness means that his life has always been lonely but a buxom barmaid takes a shine to him. Together, they battle pirates and an evil magician before discovering that the Ultimate Secret is nothing but LOVE! Using songs based on the original works of Gilbert and Sullivan (but updated with modern lyrics), this film was created to commemorate the centenary anniversary of the first collaboration of the composers of the Savoy Operas.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, independent-film, seamanActors: Miriam Karlin (actress), Victor Spinetti (writer), Victor Spinetti (actor), Barry Cryer (actor), Bill Melendez (director), Miriam Karlin (actress), George A. Cooper (actor), Julia McKenzie (actress), Roger Donley (editor), Arthur Sullivan (composer), Long John Baldry (actor), Long John Baldry (actor), Peter Reeves (actor), Peter Reeves (actor), Beth Porter (actress),
Plot: Able Seaman Dick Deadeye is charged by Queen Victoria to find the stolen Ultimate Secret. His ugliness means that his life has always been lonely but a buxom barmaid takes a shine to him. Together, they battle pirates and an evil magician before discovering that the Ultimate Secret is nothing but LOVE! Using songs based on the original works of Gilbert and Sullivan (but updated with modern lyrics), this film was created to commemorate the centenary anniversary of the first collaboration of the composers of the Savoy Operas.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, independent-film, seamanActors: Armas Vallasvuo (editor), Helge Herala (actor), Pentti Irjala (actor), Kullervo Kalske (actor), Elsa Turakainen (actress), Ritva Valkama (actress), T.J. Särkkä (producer), Aarne Tarkas (writer), Toivo Kärki (composer), Aarne Tarkas (director), Aarne Laine (actor), Tommi Rinne (actor), Irja Rannikko (actress), Sylva Rossi (actress), Marja Korhonen (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Musical,Actors: Billy Gray (actor), Charles Evans (actor), Patrick Aherne (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Lawrence Dobkin (actor), Roy Engel (actor), John Close (actor), James Conaty (actor), Frank Conroy (actor), John Burton (actor), Marshall Bradford (actor), James Craven (actor), Jack Daly (actor), Wheaton Chambers (actor), Sam Harris (actor),
Plot: An alien (Klaatu) with his mighty robot (Gort) land their spacecraft on Cold War-era Earth just after the end of World War II. They bring an important message to the planet that Klaatu wishes to tell to representatives of all nations. However, communication turns out to be difficult, so, after learning something about the natives, Klaatu decides on an alternative approach.
Keywords: afi, alien, alien-contact, alien-language, ambassador, android, anti-nuclear, anti-war, arlington-cemetery, back-from-the-deadActors: Charles Wagenheim (actor), David Buttolph (composer), John McKee (actor), Lloyd Nolan (actor), Alfred Zeisler (actor), Sheila Bromley (actress), Gene Lockhart (actor), Reed Hadley (actor), Leo G. Carroll (actor), Vincent Gardenia (actor), Frank Richards (actor), J. Edgar Hoover (actor), E.G. Marshall (actor), Henry Hathaway (director), Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel (actress),
Plot: Preface: a stentorian narrator tells us that the USA was flooded with Nazi spies in 1939-41. One such tries to recruit college grad Bill Dietrich, who becomes a double agent for the FBI. While Bill trains in Hamburg, a street-accident victim proves to have been spying on atom-bomb secrets; conveniently, Dietrich is assigned to the New York spy ring stealing these secrets. Can he track down the mysterious "Christopher" before his ruthless associates unmask and kill him?
Keywords: 16mm-film, 92nd-street-manhattan-new-york-city, admiral, air-raid, airplane, ambulance, american-flag, american-nazi, arrest, atomic-bombActors: Ernie Adams (actor), Mischa Auer (actor), George Bancroft (actor), E.H. Calvert (actor), Allan Cavan (actor), John Cromwell (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Morgan Farley (actor), Raymond Hatton (actor), Esther Ralston (actress), Dorothy Revier (actress), Grover Jones (writer), Herman J. Mankiewicz (writer), John Cromwell (director), Otho Lovering (editor),
Genres: Action, Drama,The Pirates of Penzance - Hold Monsters Major-General (Subtitles) No profit is being made. No Copyright infringement intented.
Gilbert and Sullivan's raucous operatic tale is captured in all its fun and glory in this production, recorded live at Central Park's Delacorte Theater. Kevin Kline sparkles as the swashbuckling and libidinous Pirate King while Linda Ronstadt makes her theatrical debut as the lovely and virginal Mabel. When Mabel and Frederic, a young pirate bound to serve the Pirate King, fall in love, complications arise and high spirited antics ensue. The incomparable cast offers the best in this boisterous romp. Despite some of the technical shortcomings of the DVD I found it more rewarding than the 1983 movie. I would thoroughly recommend adding a copy of this DVD to your library.
I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General (often referred to as the Major-General's Song or Modern Major-General's Song) is a patter song from Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance. It is perhaps the most famous song in Gilbert and Sullivan's operas. It is sung by Major-General Stanley at his first entrance, towards the end of Act I. The song satirises the idea of the "modern" educated British Army officer of the latter 19th century. It is one of the most difficult patter songs to perform, due to the fast pace and tongue-twisting nature of the lyrics. The song is replete with historical and cultural references, in which the Major-General describes his impressive and well-rounded education, but he says that his military knowledge has "only been brought down to ...
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The tongue-twisting I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General, performed live during Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, directed by Mike Leigh at English National Opera. Andrew Shore plays Major General-Stanley, with Joshua Bloom as Pirate King and Claudia Boyle as Mabel in this brand new ENO production by film director Mike Leigh. See The Pirates of Penzance live at the London Coliseum until 4 July 2015 - book your seat today: http://goo.gl/ZUZVZP About The Pirates of Penzance: About The Pirates of Penzance: With sentimental pirates, blundering policeman, absurd adventures and improbable paradoxes, The Pirates of Penzance is Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular comic opera. A swashbuckling farce of brilliant humour and razor-sharp wit, it's chock-full of memorable ...
From The Pirate Movie. 1982 spoof of The Pirates of Penzance.
Air Force Maj. Gen. James Martin Jr. fainted during a Pentagon briefing. He was taken to a nearby hospital as a precaution.
Here a new AMV Sing Along video of The Pirates of Penzance. With the song of The Major General. Sung it by Geroge Rose.
Singer Simon Butteriss sings the song "Major General" from the Gilbert And Sullivan comedy opera "The Pirates of Penzance." Recorded from BBC's Andrew Marr Show, 31 July 2011.
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GENERAL:
I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
ALL:
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotepotenuse.
GENERAL:
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
ALL:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
He is the very model of a modern Major-General.
GENERAL:
I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes!
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
ALL:
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
GENERAL:
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
ALL:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
He is the very model of a modern Major-General.
GENERAL:
In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin,
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,
And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat",
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery--
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy,
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.
ALL:
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.
GENERAL:
For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
ALL:
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,