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The Dark Tower
Dark Tower may refer to: Film and television * ''The Dark Tower'' (1943 film), a circus film starring Herbert Lom * ''Dark Tower'' (1987 film), a horror film starring Jenny Agutter * ''The Dark Tower'' (2017 film), based on the Stephen King's novel series of the same name * "The Dark Tower", an episode of ''Revolution'' Literature * ''The Dark Tower'' (series), a novel series by Stephen King **'' The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower'' (2004), the seventh novel in the series ** ''The Dark Tower'' (comics), a comic book series based on the novel series * ''The Dark Tower'' (Lewis novel), an unfinished novel attributed to C. S. Lewis * Barad-dûr, or the Dark Tower, the fortress of Sauron in J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings'' Gaming * ''Dark Tower'' (game), a 1981 electronic board game ** ''Return to Dark Tower'' (2021), the sequel to ''Dark Tower'' * ''Dark Tower'' (module), a 1980 adventure module for ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' Theatre * ''The Dark Tower'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Tower (1943 Film)
''The Dark Tower'' is a 1943 British thriller film starring Ben Lyon, Anne Crawford, David Farrar and Herbert Lom. The film marked Herbert Lom's first major film role. Plot Stephen Torg seeks work at a struggling traveling circus. While there, a lion escapes; Torg is able to control it with his skill at hypnotism. Phil Danton, the head of the circus, is so impressed, he hires the newcomer. Then someone comes up with an idea. Torg hypnotizes Mary so that she can perform a dangerous aerial stunt without props. Her partner and boyfriend, Tom Danton is suspicious, but is overruled by the others. With Torg's help, the circus becomes very successful, and Torg is able to force Phil into making him a partner. Meanwhile, Torg falls in love with Mary, though she makes it clear to him that her heart belongs to Tom. As time goes on, Torg begins to exert control over Mary. Before one performance, he tells her under hypnosis that she will be so tired that she will be unable to hold onto Tom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Tower (game)
''Dark Tower'' is a 1981 electronic board game, by Milton Bradley Company, for one to four players. The object of the game is to amass an army, collect the three keys to the Tower, and defeat the evil within. The game came out during the height of the role-playing game craze in the early 1980s. Advertising for the game included a television commercial featuring Orson Welles. A sequel, ''Return to Dark Tower'', was developed by Restoration Games and released in 2022. Components The game consists of a Battery (electricity), battery-powered center unit (the Dark Tower), a circular cardboard game board divided into four interlocking quarters (with a hole in the middle for the Tower), four Paperboard, cardboard tokens, several plastic flags, playing pieces, and locations which are placed in holes in the board. In addition, there are several peg boards (with red ''Battleship (game), Battleship''-type pegs) used to keep track of a player's number of troops, gold and food. The Towe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Tower (building)
The Dark Tower was a townhouse on 108 West 136th Street in Harlem. History Madame C.J. Walker commissioned Villa Lewaro in 1916 and began the final stage of construction on another residential / business property associated with the name Dark Tower a year prior (concurrently, private space rentals within the building were being advertised under the dba 'Walker Studio'), with the Dark Tower moniker having originated from poet Countee Cullen's eponymous column i Opportunity Magazine The Dark Tower space originally consisted of two combined townhouses at 108 and 110 West 136th Street in Harlem, New York starting in 1916 forming the mansion and nascent Dark Tower community. The building was still hosting retail operations on the ground floor, this being distinctly separate from the cultural enlightenment starting to percolate the site based on heightened awareness. During the 1920s Harlem Renaissance, this Neo-Georgian styled mansion expanded to become the popular salon tête-à -tà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Tower (album)
''The Dark Tower'' is the sixteenth concept album by Nox Arcana, released as the soundtrack for ''The Dark Tower'' book series by Joseph Vargo. Narratives at the beginning and end of the album provide the storyline of an ancient castle inhabited by a vampire and haunted by ghosts and living gargoyles. The story is set during the time of the First Crusade. The music is predominantly instrumental with piano and pipe organ melodies accented by choirs, chanting, tolling bells and sound effects. Like other Halloween-themed albums by Nox Arcana, this one also contains a secret interactive puzzle that relates to the characters from the books. ''The Dark Tower CD'' ranked at No. 1 on the Amazon Halloween music category for 28 weeks. Track listing All music composed and performed by Joseph Vargo # "Darkness Rising" – 1:47 # "Born of the Night" – 3:29 # "Crimson Thirst" – 2:47 # "Vasaria" – 2:55 # "Vesper Tolls" – 3:25 # "Path of Shadows " – 3:49 # "Banshee" – 1:32 # "G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Tower (radio Play)
''The Dark Tower'' is a 1946 BBC Home Service radio play written, in verse, and produced by Louis MacNeice, with music composed for it by Benjamin Britten. Dramatist and author Robin Brooks, writing in ''The Guardian'' in 2017, called it "a landmark in radio drama". MacNeice wrote the play in the autumn of 1945. At the time, he was still badly shaken by the wartime death of a schoolfriend, Graham Shepard, and had what might be termed survivor guilt. Britten had previously written the music for MacNeice's ''The Agamemnon of Aeschylus'' (1936), and ''Out of the Picture'' (1937). MacNeice asked Britten to write music for ''The Dark Tower'' "with the greatest economy". The play was first broadcast on 21 January 1946, a Monday, at 9:15pm. It was introduced as "a parable play on the ancient theme of the Quest, suggested by Robert Browning's poem Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came". The cast included Cyril Cusack as Roland and Olga Lindo as The Mother. The "ad hoc" orchestra was con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Tower (play)
''The Dark Tower'' is a mystery drama by George S. Kaufman and Alexander Woollcott, first produced in 1933. The play was later adapted for the Warner Bros. film ''The Man with Two Faces (1934 film), The Man with Two Faces'' (1934) starring Mary Astor, Louis Calhern, and Edward G. Robinson. In January 1938, future President of the United States Richard Nixon was cast in the Whittier Community Players production of this play. He was cast opposite a high school teacher named Pat Nixon, Thelma "Pat" Ryan, whom he would later marry. A half-hour radio adaptation, starring Orson Welles, was broadcast on the Suspense! radio program on May 4, 1944. A recording can be found on the Internet Archive. References 4. Radio Echoes https://www.radioechoes.com/?page=play_download&mode=play&dl_mp3folder=S&dl_file=suspense_1944-05-04_the_dark_tower.mp3&dl_series=Suspense&dl_title=The%20Dark%20Tower&dl_date=1944.05.04&dl_size=6.79%20MB [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Tower (module)
''Dark Tower'' is an adventure module published by Judges Guild in 1980 for the ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game. Plot summary ''Dark Tower'' is an adventure in which followers of Set and Mitra and the surrounding lands challenge each other for control of a dungeon. The module details a village and four dungeon levels. Publication history ''Dark Tower'' was written by Jennell Jaquays and published by Judges Guild in 1979 as a 72-page book. A listing of cumulative sales from 1981 shows that ''Dark Tower'' sold over 15,000 units. Shannon Appelcline explained that in early 1999, with Bob Bledsaw leading, Judges Guild returned on the web to sell original Judges Guild products, and "Afterward Judges Guild took the same path as many other first-generation RPG publishers in the d20 age: they became a licensor", and "Their first partner was RPGRealms / QuickLinkInteractive. QLI reprinted just two books during the two years that they held the license — ''Dark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Return To Dark Tower
''Return to Dark Tower'' is a board game for one to four players, designed and published by Restoration Games. The game is a sequel to the 1981 board game ''Dark Tower'', by Milton Bradley Company. ''Return to Dark Tower'' has players cooperate or compete as they rule over kingdoms surrounding the titular Tower, with their chosen "heroes" gathering resources, defeating monsters and enhancing their strength. As the game progresses, the Tower dispenses corruption across the land, which players must cleanse, while also looking to identify the foe inhabiting the Tower, so that they may defeat it, to win the game. ''Return to Dark Tower'' features a circular mat that is sectioned into quarters, to represent the kingdoms, with a Bluetooth-powered Tower at the center, which is connected to an app that runs the game. ''Return to Dark Tower'' was designed by a team of board game industry veterans - most notably the creator of ''Gloomhaven'', Isaac Childres and the creator of '' Pandemic: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barad-dûr
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, Mordor (pronounced ; from Sindarin ''Black Land'' and Quenya ''Land of Shadow'') is the realm and base of the evil Sauron. It lay to the east of Gondor and the great river Anduin, and to the south of Mirkwood. Mount Doom, a volcano in Mordor, was the goal of the Fellowship of the Ring in the quest to destroy the One Ring. Mordor was surrounded by three mountain ranges, to the north, the west, and the south. These both protected the land from invasion and kept those living in Mordor from escaping. Commentators have noted that Mordor was influenced by Tolkien's own experiences in the industrial Black Country of the English Midlands, and by his time fighting in the trenches of the Western Front in the First World War. Another forerunner that Tolkien was very familiar with is the account of the monster Grendel's unearthly landscapes in the Old English poem ''Beowulf''. Others have observed that Tolkien depicts Mordor as speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Tower (1987 Film)
''Dark Tower'' is a 1987 horror film directed by Freddie Francis and Ken Wiederhorn and starring Michael Moriarty, Jenny Agutter, Theodore Bikel, Carol Lynley, Kevin McCarthy and Anne Lockhart. It was set and filmed in the Spanish city of Barcelona from a story by Robert J. Avrech. Plot After a window washer plunges to his death from a Barcelona high rise, several people come to investigate, including security consultant Dennis Randall (Michael Moriarty). He cannot locate a problem, but decides to investigate further when more gruesome deaths take place inside and around the office building. His investigations appear to show a sinister force behind all the deaths, a supernatural entity, that hates humans. Cast * Michael Moriarty as Dennis Randall * Doug Jones as Dennis Randall - Corpse * Jenny Agutter as Carolyn Page * Carol Lynley as Tilly * Theodore Bikel as Max Gold * Kevin McCarthy as Sergie * Anne Lockhart as Elaine * Patch Mackenzie as Maria * Robert Sherman as Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Tower (Lewis Novel)
Dark Tower may refer to: Literature * The Dark Tower (series), ''The Dark Tower'' (series), a fantasy series created by Stephen King **''The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower'' (2004), the seventh novel in the series ** The Dark Tower (comics), ''The Dark Tower'' (comics) * The Dark Tower (Lewis novel), ''The Dark Tower'' (Lewis novel), an unfinished novel attributed to C. S. Lewis * Barad-dûr or the Dark Tower, the fortress of Sauron in J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings'' Film and television * The Dark Tower (1943 film), ''The Dark Tower'' (1943 film), a circus film starring Herbert Lom * Dark Tower (1987 film), ''Dark Tower'' (1987 film), a horror film starring Jenny Agutter * The Dark Tower (2017 film), ''The Dark Tower'' (2017 film), based on the Stephen King novels above * "The Dark Tower", an episode of ''Revolution (TV series), Revolution'' Plays * The Dark Tower (play), ''The Dark Tower'' (play), a 1933 comedy by George S. Kaufman and Alexander Woollcott * ''The Dar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Tower (comics)
''The Dark Tower'', first published in 2007, is a series of comic books (originally published by Marvel Comics and later republished by Gallery 13) based on Stephen King's '' The Dark Tower'' series of novels. Overall, it is plotted by Robin Furth and scripted by Peter David. Stephen King serves as Creative and Executive Director of the project. Overview ''The Dark Tower: Beginnings'' The first chapter run of the series, originally entitled simply ''The Dark Tower'', launched February 7, 2007, and consisted of 30 issues that made up five volumes illustrated primarily by Jae Lee and Richard Isanove. The first volume, ''The Gunslinger Born'', was based mostly on flashbacks from '' The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger'' and '' The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass''; the remaining volumes (''The Long Road Home'', ''Treachery'', ''Fall of Gilead'', and ''Battle of Jericho Hill'') contained mostly new/original content which expanded upon details and events more briefly referenced throughou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
