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Frank Miller (comics) Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American comic book writer, novelist, inker, screenwriter, film director, and producer best known for his comic book stories and graphic novels such as "Ronin", "Daredevil: Born Again", "The Dark Knight Returns", "Sin City" and "300".
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Bruce Robinson Bruce Robinson (born 2 May 1946) is an English director, screenwriter, novelist and actor. He wrote and directed the cult classic "Withnail and I" (1987), a film with comic and tragic elements set in London in the 1960s, which drew on his experiences as a struggling actor, living in poverty in Camden Town.
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Bordertown (miniseries) Bordertown is a 1995 Australian TV miniseries, set in 1952 in a refugee camp located in a dusty, remote Australian town called Baringa (apparently inspired by a real migrant camp near the town of Bonegilla, Victoria). The story depicts a year in the lives of the camp residents, displaced persons from World War II who are learning English and awaiting jobs and new lives in Australia. The series starred Hugo Weaving as an English teacher, and also featured Cate Blanchett in a smaller role as an albino Italian migrant.
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The Miller and the Sweep The Miller and the Sweep is a 1898 British short black-and-white silent comedy film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a miller carrying a bag of flour fighting with a chimney sweep carrying a bag of soot in front of a windmill, before a crowd comes and chases them away. The film, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "was one of the first films made by G.A. Smith, shortly after he first acquired a camera," and is also, "one of the earliest films to show a clear awareness of its visual impact when projected."
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Rowland V. Lee Rowland Vance Lee (September 6, 1891 in Findlay, Ohio – December 21, 1975 in Palm Desert, California) was an American film director, writer and producer. In 1929, he directed "The Wolf of Wall Street" featuring George Bancroft.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (a.k.a. A Gentleman Goes to Town and Opera Hat) is a 1936 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in her first featured role. Based on the 1935 short story "Opera Hat" by Clarence Budington Kelland, which appeared in serial form in "The American Magazine", the screenplay was written by Robert Riskin in his fifth collaboration with Frank Capra.
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I Take This Woman (1940 film) I Take This Woman is a 1940 American drama film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr. Based on the short story "A New York Cinderella" by Charles MacArthur, the film is about a young woman who attempted suicide in reaction to a failed love affair. The doctor who marries her attempts to get her to love him by abandoning his clinic services to the poor to become a physician to the rich so he can pay for her expensive lifestyle.
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Robinson Savary Robinson Savary (born May 17, 1969) is a French Film director, screenwriter, and photographer. He is best known for his acclaimed debut full length film Bye Bye Blackbird and his photography series, "Los Raros". He is currently living in France.
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Frank Miller (screenwriter) Frank Miller (1891–1950) was a prolific screenwriter, film director, and actor from London, England, UK.
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Roger Miller Museum The Roger Miller Museum is a museum dedicated to the life and career of entertainer Roger Miller. It is located on historic U.S. Route 66 in downtown Erick, Oklahoma, Miller's home town.
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Poor Daddy Poor Daddy is a short story written by Robert A. Heinlein.
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Frank P. Miller Frank Miller (1912-Feb. 8, 2000) was a major figure in criminal-justice reform in Canada who helped create the modern parole system. He served as executive director of the National Parole Service, president of the Canadian Criminal Justice Association, and was a founding member of the Parole Board of Canada. He was also the first classification officer in the Canadian penitentiary system.
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Carts of Darkness Carts of Darkness is a 2008 National Film Board of Canada documentary film by Murray Siple about a group of homeless men in the city of North Vancouver, who use shopping carts to collect bottles and cans to return for money and also race down the city's steep slope for thrills.
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Frank and Jesse Frank and Jesse (also known as Frank & Jesse) is a 1994 American biographical western film written and directed by Robert Boris and starring Rob Lowe as Jesse James and Bill Paxton as Frank James. Based on the story of Jesse James, the film focuses more on the myth of "The James Brothers" than the real history. It originally aired on HBO.
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Rocco and His Brothers Rocco e i suoi fratelli (English: Rocco and His Brothers ) is a 1960 Italian film directed by Luchino Visconti, inspired by an episode from the novel "Il ponte della Ghisolfa" by Giovanni Testori. Set in Milan, it tells the story of an immigrant family from the South and its disintegration in the society of the industrial North. The title is a combination of Thomas Mann's "Joseph and his Brothers" and the name of Rocco Scotellaro, an Italian poet who described the feelings of the peasants of southern Italy.
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Eric Miller (photographer) Eric Miller (born 1951) is a professional photographer based in South Africa. Miller was born in Cape Town but spent his childhood in Johannesburg. After studying psychology and working in the corporate world for several years, Miller was driven by the injustices of apartheid to use his hobby, photography, to document opposition to apartheid by becoming a full-time photographer.
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The Sweet Hereafter (film) The Sweet Hereafter is a 1997 Canadian drama film written and directed by Atom Egoyan, starring Ian Holm, Sarah Polley and Bruce Greenwood and adapted from the novel of the same name by Russell Banks. The film tells the story of a school bus accident in a small town that results in the deaths of numerous children. A class-action lawsuit ensues, proving divisive in the community and becoming tied in with personal and family issues.
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The Gypsy Moths The Gypsy Moths is a 1969 American drama film, based on the novel of the same name by James Drought and directed by John Frankenheimer. The film tells the story of three barnstorming skydivers and their effect on a Midwestern American town, focusing on the differences in values between the town folk and the hard-living skydivers.
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Anthony Robinson (novelist) Anthony Robinson (born 1931) is an American novelist and short story writer. He is professor emeritus of English and the former director of the creative writing program at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
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Exchange Value "Exchange Value" (1981) is a short story by American writer Charles R. Johnson. Set in Chicago, where Johnson himself lived for a time, this story addresses the corrupting power of money and wealth, and the problem of "hoarding", which is accumulating food, money, and other things for future use, as two brothers steal from a deceased woman, whose outward signs of poverty and begging belied her true nature: a rich, yet cheap, woman who hid her wealth away.
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Boxing Day (2012 film) Boxing Day is a 2012 British film directed by Bernard Rose. The film is roughly based on the Leo Tolstoy short story, "Master and Man", and depicts the interactions between an arrogant real estate developer and his unreliable hired chauffeur as they battle the elements during a Boxing Day blizzard in Denver, Colorado.
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Harry Miller (writer) Harry Miller (1923 – 5 October 1998) was a journalist, writer, photographer and naturalist who lived most of his life in Madras, India. He was a popularizer of wildlife, nature and science, with numerous articles in local newspapers including "The Hindu" and "The Indian Express".