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Robert Blees
Robert Blees (June 9, 1918 Lathrop, Missouri – January 31, 2015) was an American writer and producer of films and television. He died on January 31, 2015. Select filmography * ''The Glass Web'' (1953) * ''Cattle Queen of Montana'' (1954) * ''Magnificent Obsession'' (1954) * '' Autumn Leaves'' (1956) * '' The Black Scorpion'' (1956) * '' High School Confidential'' (1958) * '' Screaming Mimi'' (1958) * ''From the Earth to the Moon'' (1958) * ''Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?'' (1972) * ''Frogs A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" ''Triadobatrachus'' is ...'' (1972) * '' Dr. Phibes Rises Again'' (1972) * '' Project U.F.O.'' (1978–79) (TV series) * '' Savage Harvest'' (1981) References External links * 1918 births 2015 deaths American male screenwriters People from Clinton County, Missouri D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lathrop, Missouri
Lathrop is a city in Clinton County, Missouri, Clinton County, Missouri, and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area within the United States. The population was 2,086 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. History Lathrop was platted in 1867 as a stop on the Cameron Cutoff Branch of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad. It was named for John L. Lathrop, treasurer for the railroad. A post office called Lathrop has been in operation since 1868. In the early 1900s it was considered the "Mule Capital of the World" after the firm of Guyton and Harrington sold 180,000 mules and 170,000 horses to the British Army during World War I. The cousins J.D. Guyton and W.R. Harrington owned 4,700 acres near Lathrop. They also supplied mules to the British during the Boer War. Among the facilities in Lathrop were three barns stabling 1,000 mules each and a 496 foot long hay barn. The British had a formal contract for a remount station in Lathrop. The business had facilities at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frogs (film)
''Frogs'' is a 1972 American horror film directed by George McCowan. The film falls into the "eco-horror" category, telling the story of an upper-class U.S. Southern family who are victimized by several different animal species, including snakes, birds, lizards, and butterflies. The movie suggests nature may be justified in exacting revenge on this family because of its patriarch's abuse of the local ecology. The film was theatrically released on March 10, 1972. Plot Wildlife photographer Pickett Smith is taking photographs of the local flora and fauna as he canoes through a swamp surrounding the island mansion estate of the wealthy and influential Crockett family. Through the swamp are numerous indicators of pollution, which Pickett believes are connected to pesticide use on the island plantation. After Clint Crockett accidentally tips over his canoe, he and his sister, Karen escort Smith to a mansion where he meets the entire family. The family's grouchy, wheelchair-using pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dartmouth College Alumni
This list of alumni of Dartmouth College includes alumni and current students of Dartmouth College and its graduate schools. In addition to its undergraduate program, Dartmouth offers graduate degrees in nineteen departments and includes three graduate schools: the Tuck School of Business, the Thayer School of Engineering, and Dartmouth Medical School. Since its founding in 1769, Dartmouth has graduated classes of students and today has approximately 66,500 living alumni. This list uses the following notation: * D or unmarked years – recipient of Dartmouth College Bachelor of Arts * DMS – recipient of Dartmouth Medical School degree (Bachelor of Medicine 1797–1812, Doctor of Medicine 1812–present) * Th – recipient of any of several Thayer School of Engineering degrees (see Thayer School of Engineering#Academics) * T – recipient of Tuck School of Business Master of Business Administration, or graduate of other programs as indicated *M.A., M.A.L.S., M.S., Ph.D, etc. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Clinton County, Missouri
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American Male Screenwriters
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2015 Deaths
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1918 Births
This year is noted for the end of the World War I, First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – 1918 flu pandemic: The "Spanish flu" (influenza) is first observed in Haskell County, Kansas. * January 4 – The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia, Sweden, German Empire, Germany and France. * January 9 – Battle of Bear Valley: U.S. troops engage Yaqui people, Yaqui Native American warriors in a minor skirmish in Arizona, and one of the last battles of the American Indian Wars between the United States and Native Americans. * January 15 ** The keel of is laid in Britain, the first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be laid down. ** The Red Army (The Workers and Peasants Red Army) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savage Harvest (1981 Film)
''Savage Harvest'' is a 1981 American action-adventure natural horror film directed by Robert L. Collins and starring Tom Skerritt, Michelle Phillips, Shawn Stevens, Anne-Marie Martin, Derek Partridge and Tana Helfer. Plot A family in Africa is besieged by a pride of ravenous lions, driven to desperation by the drought. They have to survive multiple attacks but some colleagues are eaten by the lions. Cast *Tom Skerritt as Casey *Michelle Phillips as Maggie *Shawn Stevens as Jon *Anne-Marie Martin as Wendy *Derek Partridge as Derek *Tana Helfer as Kristie * Arthur Malet as MacGruder *Vincent J. Isaac as Jurogi (credited as Vincent Isaac) * Eva Kirrita as Tantsi * Bill Okwirry as Yumadi *Abdulla Sunado as Katinga * Levit Tereria as Asian * Philip Chege as Customs Officer * Greg Odhambo as Wireless Operator * René Le Vant as Alayo Filming The production of the film was recorded in Brazil and Kenya. Cast notes Tana Helfer, who played the role of daughter Kristie, is the daughter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project U
A project is any undertaking, carried out individually or collaboratively and possibly involving research or design, that is carefully planned to achieve a particular goal. An alternative view sees a project managerially as a sequence of events: a "set of interrelated tasks to be executed over a fixed period and within certain cost and other limitations". A project may be a temporary (rather than a permanent) social system ( work system), possibly staffed by teams (within or across organizations) to accomplish particular tasks under time constraints. A project may form a part of wider programme management or function as an ''ad hoc'' system. Note that open-source software "projects" or artists' musical "projects" (for example) may lack defined team-membership, precise planning and/or time-limited durations. Overview The word ''project'' comes from the Latin word ''projectum'' from the Latin verb ''proicere'', "before an action," which in turn comes from ''pro-'', which d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
''Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?'' (U.S. title: ''Who Slew Auntie Roo?'') is a 1972 horror-thriller film directed by Curtis Harrington and starring Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, and Sir Ralph Richardson. Based partly on the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel", the film focuses on a demented American widow living in her husband's English manor who becomes obsessed with a young orphan girl who resembles her dead daughter. A co-production between the United States and the United Kingdom, the film was shot at Shepperton Studios in London. Like '' What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'', '' Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte'', ''What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice'', and ''What's the Matter with Helen?'', it is one of the many films in the psycho-biddy subgenre. ''Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?'' and the latter film, also starring Winters, were released on DVD as a MGM Midnite Movies Double Feature, and Winters requested that ''Helens director Harrington direct the picture. Plot Every year, Rosie Forrest, know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Glass Web
''The Glass Web'' is a 1953 American 3-D film noir crime film directed by Jack Arnold and starring Edward G. Robinson, John Forsythe, Marcia Henderson and Kathleen Hughes. It is based on Max Simon Ehrlich's 1952 novel ''Spin the Glass Web''. Plot Henry Hayes is a well-respected crime researcher known for, and sometimes kidded, about his relentless perfectionism. Little is known of his social life. When he discovers he is being led on by gold-digger Paula Rainer, he kills her in accidental anger. He decides the best way to divert suspicion from himself is to immediately re-create the crime on his television show. But producer Don Newell, who had been outside the dead woman's corridor at the time of the murder, notices that Hayes' perfectionism has him including items that only the murderer could have known; including which record was playing on her record player (Bing Crosby singing "Temptation"). Newell is able to trap Hayes into a confession, and Hayes is arrested. Cast * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From The Earth To The Moon (film)
''From the Earth to the Moon'' is a 1958 American Technicolor science fiction film, produced by Benedict Bogeaus, directed by Byron Haskin, that stars Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, and Debra Paget. Production of the film originated at RKO Pictures, but when RKO went into bankruptcy, the film was acquired and released by Warner Brothers. ''From the Earth to the Moon'' is a film adaptation of Jules Verne's 1865 science fiction novel of the same name. Plot Shortly after the end of the American Civil War, munitions producer Victor Barbicane announces that he has invented a new explosive, "Power X", which he claims is much more powerful than any previously devised. Metallurgist Stuyvesant Nicholl scoffs at Barbicane's claims and offers a wager of $100,000 ($ million today) that it cannot destroy ''his'' invention, the hardest metal in existence. Barbicane stages a demonstration using a puny cannon and demolishes Nicholl's material (and a portion of the countryside). President Ul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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