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Air Hawks Air Hawks is a 1935 American aviation-themed science-fiction film based on Ben Pivar's "Air Fury", an unpublished story. Director Albert Rogell who had moved from shorts to B-films, was interested in aviation and had already helmed "The Flying Marine" (1929) and "Air Hostess" (1933). In "Air Hawks", the studio was able to add an A-list star, Ralph Bellamy, as well as exploiting the fame of record-setting pilot Wiley Post in his only feature film appearance.
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Wiley Post Wiley Hardeman Post (November 22, 1898 – August 15, 1935) was a famed American aviator during the interwar period, the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Also known for his work in high-altitude flying, Post helped develop one of the first pressure suits and discovered the jet stream. On August 15, 1935, Post and American humorist Will Rogers were killed when Post's aircraft crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska.
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Aces: A Story of the First Air War Aces: A Story of the First Air War (aka Les As du ciel - Chronique de la première guerre des airs for a French-language version) is a 92-minute 1993 Canadian historical drama film directed by Raoul Fox and produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). The film chronicles the career of a fictional Canadian aviator during the First World War. From his commissioning in 1914, he becomes an observer and then wins his wings as a fighter pilot, and by 1918, is involved in the deadly air combat over the front lines.
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Beneš-Mráz "inž. P. Beneš a inž. J. Mráz, továrna na letadla" was a Czechoslovakian aircraft manufacturer of the 1930s. It was established at Choceň by Pavel Beneš and Jaroslav Mráz on 1 Apr 1935 and manufactured a series of light aircraft of their own design until the Nazi-German occupation. In 1939/40, the company was renamed "Ing. J. Mráz, továrna na letadla" - "Ing. J. Mráz, Flugzeugfabrik". During the war, the factory was used to produce Fieseler Fi 156 "Storch"s and DFS Kranich training gliders for the German Luftwaffe. Following the war, the company was reconstituted as Ing. J. Mráz, továrna na letadla, národní správa.
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The Road to Gandolfo The Road to Gandolfo is a story by Michael Shepherd (a pen name used by Robert Ludlum) about General MacKenzie Hawkins ("The Hawk"), a military legend and Army veteran. He defaces an important Chinese memorial as a result of being drugged by a Chinese general and is later kicked out of the Army. Seeking revenge, he plots to kidnap the Pope Francis I and hold him for ransom of $400 million, one dollar for every Catholic in the world.
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Maurice Pivar Maurice Pivar (born 11 August 1894 in Manchester, United Kingdom - 14 June 1982 in Los Angeles, California, United States) was an English-American film editor, producer and writer. He edited 21 films, oversaw editing of 59 films, produced 4 films and wrote the dialogue descript to the film "The Cohens and the Kellys in Africa" between years 1921 and 1936. He died of a heart attack at the age of 88.
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Frankie Doodle Frankie Doodle, originally called "The Doodle Family", is an American comic strip that ran from 1934 to 1938. It was created by Ben Batsford.
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The Minority Report "The Minority Report" is a 1956 science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in "Fantastic Universe". In a future society, three mutants foresee all crime before it occurs. Plugged into a great machine, these "precogs" allow the Precrime Division to arrest suspects prior to any infliction of public harm. When the head of Precrime, John A. Anderton, is accused of murdering Leopold Kaplan, a man whom he has never met, Anderton is convinced a great conspiracy is afoot. His new assistant, Ed Witwer, must have corrupted the system in an attempt to oust him from the position. On the run and suspicious of even his wife, Anderton searches for the minority report to clear his name, as only two out of the three precogs predicted his guilt. Through a series of betrayals and changing alliances, Anderton discovers that the three predictions are rather a progression of alternate realities. In order to maintain the authority of Precrime, Anderton consciously decides to kill Kaplan, thereby affirming the validity of the second majority report. Anderton is thus exiled with his wife to life on a frontier colony and replaced by Witwer as head of Precrime. The story ends with Anderton's advice to his successor: "Better keep your eyes open. It might happen to you at any time."
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D. B. Cooper in popular culture D. B. Cooper is a media epithet (actual pseudonym: Dan Cooper) used to describe an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 on November 24, 1971, extorted a US$200,000 ransom (equivalent to $ today. ), and parachuted to an unknown fate. He was never seen again, and only $5,880 of the ransom money has been found. The skyjacking continues to influence popular culture, including references in books, film, and music.
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The Call of the Savage The Call of the Savage (1935) is a Universal serial based on the story "Jan of the Jungle" by Otis Adelbert Kline. It was directed by Lew Landers and released by Universal Pictures.
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Beyond the Wall (short story) "Beyond the Wall" is a ghost story by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. It was published by "Cosmopolitan" in December 1907.
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Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat" is a short story by Roald Dahl that first appeared in the 1959 issue of "Nugget". The story is Dahl's variation on a popular anecdote dating back at least to 1939: a married woman receives a glamorous mink coat from a man with whom she had an affair. She hopes to sneak the coat into her home without arousing her husband's suspicions, but soon discovers that her husband has plans of his own.
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Pursued (1934 film) Pursued is a 1934 drama film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. It is based on a story from the "Saturday Evening Post", "The Painted Lady", by Larry Evans. It was previously filmed by Fox as a silent "When a Man Sees Red" in 1917.
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Landing in Luck "Landing in Luck" was William Faulkner's first published short story. Appearing in the November 26, 1919 issue of "The Mississippian", a literary magazine at the University of Mississippi, "Landing in Luck" tells the story of Cadet Thompson, who is sent on a solo flight without adequate instruction. Thompson lands successfully, and his flight instructor, Bessing, takes credit for the fine job he did of teaching the cadet pilot. It is a fictional exaggeration based on Faulkner's experience as a cadet-pilot for the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1918.
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Richard Connell Richard Edward Connell Jr. (October 17, 1893 – November 22, 1949) was an American author and journalist. He is best remembered for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game" (1924). Connell was one of the most popular American short story writers of his time, and his stories were published in "The Saturday Evening Post" and "Collier's" magazines. He had equal success as a journalist and screenwriter, and was nominated for an Academy Award during 1942 for best original story for the movie "Meet John Doe".
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A New England Nun "A New England Nun" is a short story by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman published in 1891.
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Waterclap "Waterclap" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story was written at the request of a movie company and was intended to serve as the basis of a film treatment. However, the author disliked the proposed characters and storyline and deliberately set out to write a story that he hoped would be rejected. The story was indeed rejected by the studio and was later published in the May 1970 issue of "If" and reprinted in the 1976 collection "The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories".
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again! The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1941) is a Universal movie serial based on The Green Hornet radio series by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker. It is a sequel to the 1940 serial "The Green Hornet". This was Universal's 117th serial (the 49th with sound) of the 137 the studio produced. The plot involves racketeering and is unusual for a film serial in having mostly stand alone episodes instead of a continuous story (although this was also the case for the original "Green Hornet" serial).
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Frederick Marriott Frederick Marriott (July 16, 1805 – December 16, 1884 in San Francisco, California) was an English-born American publisher and early promoter of aviation, creator of the "Avitor Hermes Jr.", the first unmanned aircraft to fly by its own power in the United States. He was described as "an English gentlemen, of eccentric habits, much shrewdness and enterprise, and entire originality" by the publisher of the newspaper "Northern Indianian" on March 19, 1874.
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Night Flight (novel) Night Flight , published as "Vol de Nuit" in 1931, was the second novel by French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It went on to become an international bestseller and a film based on it appeared in 1933. Its popularity, which only grew with the ideological conflicts of the 1930s – 1940s, was due to its master theme of sacrificing personal considerations to a cause in which one believes.
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The Turkey "The Turkey" is an early short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It is one of the six stories included in O'Connor's 1947 master's thesis "The Geranium: A Collection of Short Stories" and was published in "Mademoiselle" in 1948 as "The Capture." It later appeared in the 1971 collection "The Complete Stories" and a modified version appeared in her Complete Works in 1988 as An Afternoon in the Woods.
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Dark Shanghai Dark Shanghai is a Sailor Steve Costigan short story by Robert E. Howard. It was originally published in the January 1932 issue of "Action Stories". Howard earned $75 for the sale of this story.