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No Man's Land (other)
No man's land is an unoccupied area between two opposing positions. No man's land (Latrun) is an example. No Man's Land, No-man's land or Nomansland may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * No Man's Land, Cornwall, England * No Man's Land Fort, off the coast of the Isle of Wight, England * Nomansland, Devon, England * Nomansland, Hertfordshire, England * Nomansland, Wiltshire, England United States * No Man's Land, Illinois * No Man's Land (Louisiana) or Neutral Ground * No Man's Land (Oklahoma) or Oklahoma Panhandle * Nomans Land (Massachusetts) ** No Man's Land Navy Airfield ** Nomans Land Range **Nomans Land Island National Wildlife Refuge Film * ''No Man's Land'' (1918 film), an American silent drama film by Will S. Davis * ''No Man's Land'' (1931 film) or ''Hell on Earth'', a German film * ''No Man's Land'' (1939 film), an Italian drama film * ''No Man's Land'' (1962 film), a film starring Roger Moore * ''No Man's Land'' (1964 film), a war film * ''No M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Man's Land
No man's land is waste or unowned land or an uninhabited or desolate area that may be under dispute between parties who leave it unoccupied out of fear or uncertainty. The term was originally used to define a contested territory or a dumping ground for refuse between fiefdoms. In modern times, it is commonly associated with World War I to describe the area of land between two enemy trench systems, not controlled by either side. Coleman p. 268 The term is also used metaphorically, to refer to an ambiguous, anomalous, or indefinite area, in regards to an application, situation, or jurisdiction. It has sometimes been used to name a specific place. Origin According to Alasdair Pinkerton, an expert in human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, the term is first mentioned in Domesday Book (1086), to describe parcels of land that were just beyond the London city walls. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' contains a reference to the term dating back to 1320, spell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Man's Land (1962 Film)
''No Man's Land'' (it. ''Un branco di vigliacchi/Fr. Bande de lâches; lit.'' A Bunch of Cowards'')'' is a black-and-white 1962 Italian-French war film directed by Fabrizio Taglioni, and starring Roger Moore Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 192723 May 2017) was an English actor. He was the third actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, playing the character in seven feature films between 19 ... and Pascale Petit. The film was written by Taglioni and produced by Enrico Bomba. Plot Release The film was released in Italy in 1962 and in 1963 in France. Production In his autobiography, Moore explains about his role in ''Romulus and the Sabines'' (1961 film): "Eventually I did get paid but only, I suspect, because Bomba wanted to offer me a second picture, ''No Man's Land''." Reception The film received the award for the Best foreign film at the Moscow Film Festival in 1963. An Italian contemporary review ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Man's Land (Greene Novel)
''No Man's Land'' is a novella by Graham Greene which was commissioned in 1950 by the film director Carol Reed, although it was not made into a film. The plot is set in Soviet-occupied East Germany shortly after World War II. ''No Man's Land'' was published, with a 1949 novella ''The Stranger's Hand'' and a foreword to both by David Lodge, in 2005.The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...God beneath the banalitiesTwo "rediscovered" film treatments by Graham Greene tread the familiar corridors of damaged faith and sin, says Ian Thomson´ References {{Graham Greene, state=collapsed Novels by Graham Greene 2005 British novels British novellas Novels published posthumously ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Man's Land (Baldacci Novel)
''No Man's Land'' is a thriller novel written by American author David Baldacci. This is the fourth installment in the John Puller book series. The novel addresses a mystery hinted at in the previous novels: the disappearance of Puller's mother. In doing so, Puller is forced to revisit his childhood memories. Baldacci has said "in this book I was able to go back and allow ullerto see his childhood through his own eyes. I hoped to humanize him and deepen his character." Plot The protagonist, John Puller, Jr., a former Army Ranger who served at Iraq and Afghanistan and now works for the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigations Division, is spurred to investigate the unsolved case of his mother's sudden disappearance of thirty years ago when his elderly father, John Puller, Sr. is accused of her murder. Release ''No Man's Land'' was initially published on November 15, 2016 by Grand Central Publishing in hardcover, audiobook, and ebook, as well as trade paperback (international editio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Man's Land (play)
''No Man's Land'' is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first produced and published in 1975. Its original production was at the Old Vic theatre in London by the National Theatre on 23 April 1975, and it later transferred to Wyndham's Theatre, July 1975 – January 1976, the Lyttelton Theatre April–May 1976, and New York's Longacre Theatre from October–December 1976. It returned to the Lyttelton from January–February 1977. It is a two act play. Setting "A large room in a house in North West London" on a summer night and the following morning.Harold Pinter, ''No Man's Land'' (New York: Grove, 1975) . pag., 8–9 (Subsequent parenthetical page references throughout are to this ed.) Characters *Hirst, ''a man in his sixties'' *Spooner, ''a man in his sixties'' *Foster, ''a man in his thirties'' *Briggs, ''a man in his forties'' Hirst is an alcoholic upper-class litterateur who lives in a grand house presumed to be in Hampstead, with Foster and Briggs, respectiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Man's Land (2021 Film)
''No Man's Land'' is a 2021 American Western film, directed by Conor Allyn from a screenplay by Jake Allyn and David Barraza. It stars Frank Grillo, Jake Allyn, George Lopez, Andie MacDowell, Alex MacNicoll, Jorge A. Jiménez, and Andres Delgado. Plot Bill Greer is a Texas rancher living with his two sons, Jackson and Lucas, and his wife, Monica, in a ranch close to the Rio Grande where illegal immigrants from Mexico cross the U.S. Mexican Border. Jackson was prepared to move to New York City so he could join the New York Yankees. Illegal immigrants would trespass into the ranch, cutting the fences and freeing the horses and cows. Due to their frequent trespasses, the Greer family is about to lose their ranch despite Jackson's assistance in staying even though he wanted to go to college in New York Meanwhile, an illegal Mexican father, Gustavo, a former smuggler, takes his son, Fernando, and his mother to the border and meets Luis, the leader of the smuggling ring transporti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Man's Land (2013 Film)
''No Man's Land'' is a 2013 Chinese neo-western thriller film directed, co-written and co-produced by Ning Hao and starring Xu Zheng, Yu Nan, Huang Bo and Tobgye (Tibetan actor also known as Duobuji). Plot The entire film happens in a very desolate region of China, in the northwestern deserts. A poacher (Huang Bo) is being arrested by a police officer after capturing a rare falcon, worth 1 million RMB on the black market. A second poacher (Tobgye) kills the police officer with his jeep and tells the first poacher to flee, while he stays behind himself to take responsibility. He hires one of the best lawyers ( Xu Zheng) in China for his defense, forcing the lawyer to travel a long distance to get to the town. At the trial, the lawyer gets the poacher acquitted by arguing that the crash happened because the police officer was drunk. The lawyer takes the poacher's car as collateral and begins a long drive back to China's eastern region. While driving, the lawyer is harassed by two pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rise Of Reeker
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Man's Land (2001 Film)
''No Man's Land'' ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Ničija zemlja, Ничија земља) is a 2001 war film that is set in the midst of the Bosnian War. The film is a parable and marked the debut of Bosnian writer and director Danis Tanović. It is a co-production among companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Italy, France, Belgium and the United Kingdom. The film was first premiered on 19 September 2001 in France. The film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002. Plot Two wounded soldiers, a Bosniak (Čiki, portrayed by Branko Đurić) and a Bosnian Serb (Nino, portrayed by Rene Bitorajac) are caught between their lines in the no man's land, in a struggle for survival. The two soldiers confront each other in a trench, where they wait for dark. They trade insults and even find some common ground. Confounding the situation is another wounded Bosniak soldier (Cera, portrayed by Filip Šovagović) who wakes from unconsciousness. A land mine had been buried beneath him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Man's Land (1987 Film)
''No Man's Land'' is a 1987 American crime film written by Dick Wolf directed by Peter Werner, and stars Charlie Sheen, D. B. Sweeney, and Randy Quaid. The plot follows a rookie cop who goes undercover and infiltrates a car theft ring. The film was released on October 23, 1987 and received mixed reviews from critics. Plot When an undercover detective is shot dead while investigating a string of Porsche 911 thefts, Lieutenant Vincent Bracey assigns 22-year-old San Diego officer Benjamin "Benjy" Taylor to infiltrate a Porsche garage suspected to be a front for the Motor vehicle theft, grand theft auto scheme. Benjy is chosen because of his extensive mechanical knowledge of German cars and his rookie status, which dissuades others from suspecting that he is a cop. Bracey wants Benjy to obtain evidence that millionaire playboy Ted Varrick is the mastermind behind the thefts and the murder of the detective. Using the alias "Billy Ayles", Benjy moves to Los Angeles and gets a job at T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Man's Land (1985 Film)
''No Man's Land'' is a 1985 film directed, written and co-produced by Alain Tanner, about smuggling on the French-Swiss border. Plot Jean (Jean-Philippe Écoffey), a young Swiss whose watchmaking skills no longer prove useful in the real world, dawdles his time away either in his parents' farm or in Lucie's restaurant-bar. He sleeps with Lucie (Marie-Luce Felber) but doesn't love her, as he becomes smitten with an insecure Algerian woman (Betty Berr) who travels between France and Switzerland daily for work. Meanwhile, Paul (Hugues Quester), a mechanic in his father's automobile shop with dreams of immigrating to Canada, periodically smuggles items across the border to make money, and gets Jean to help him out on occasions. Gradually, the police begin to frequent the nightclub run by Paul's lover Madeleine () to inquire about his whereabouts. Paul gets an offer to smuggle a large amount of gold, and knowing the police are hot on his trail, decides to take the risk "for the last ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Man's Land (1984 Film)
''No Man's Land'' is a 1984 American made-for-television Western film. The film featured Marc Alaimo, Donna Dixon, Terri Garber, Jack Garner, Estelle Getty, Sam J. Jones, Janis Paige, and Stella Stevens. It was directed by Rod Holcomb and written by Juanita Bartlett. Plot The sheriff of a western town has three daughters by different men. Each has inherited: skills...magic, gambling & tomboy/cowboy. Together they help their mother catch a band of outlaws. Cast * Marc Alaimo as Clay Allison * Wil Albert as Wilmot * Frank Bonner as Deputy Thad Prouty * Donna Dixon as Sarah Wilder * Terri Garber as Brianne Wilder * Jack Garner as Simon Claypool * Estelle Getty as Eurol Muller * Sam J. Jones as Eli Howe * Bryan Michael McGuire as Dandy Wallace * Ralph Michael as Doc Havilland * Melissa Michaelsen as Missy Wilder * Janis Paige as Maggie Hodiak * John Quade as Henry Lambert * Eldon Quick as Everett Vanders * Dack Rambo as Connell * John Rhys-Davies as Grimshaw * D. Hampton Rice as Pec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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