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Intrigue, The
US silent film (1916). Pallas Pictures. Directed by Frank Lloyd. Written by Julia Crawford Ivers. Cast includes Cecil Van Auker, Howard Davies, Herbert Standing, Lenore Ulrich and Florence Vidor. 64 minutes. Black and white. / We are informed that "Guy Longstreet, a young American Scientist, has almost perfected his wireless X-ray apparatus, which is expected to kill, with mathematical precision, at a distance of 25 miles" (see ...
Sanders, Robert S, Jr
(? - ) US author of the Young Adult Galactic Salesman sequence, comprising Mission of the Galactic Salesman (1996), Mission Beyond the Ice Cave: Atlantis-Mexico-Zotola (1999) and Heritage Findings from Atlantis (2000), in which an Alien visits earth on a mission to connect our planet with galactic Communications ...
Wild Robot, The
US animated film (2024). DreamWorks Animation. Based on The Wild Robot (2016) by Peter Brown. Directed and written by Chris Sanders. Voice cast includes Kit Connor, Stephanie Hsu, Lupita Nyong'o, Catherine O'Hara and Pedro Pascal. 102 minutes. Colour. / Following a typhoon, several damaged boxes containing Robots are washed up on the shores of a forested island; curious otters accidentally press the On switch ...
Newte, Horace W C
(1870-1949) UK author and controversialist on political matters whose The Master Beast: Being a True Account of the Ruthless Tyranny Inflicted on the British People by Socialism, A.D. 1888-2020 (1907; vt The Red Fury: Britain Under Bolshevism 1919) lives fully up to its subtitle, telling of a young socialist at the turn of the twentieth century who first experiences a German Invasion of a Britain whose socialist government has left it ...
Night of the Living Dead
1. Film (1968). Image 10 Productions/Walter Reade-Continental. Directed by George A Romero. Written by Romero and John A Russo. Cast includes Karl Hardman, Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea and Keith Wayne. 96 minutes, cut to 90 minutes. Black and white. / This unrelenting and downbeat Horror film, Romero's astonishing debut, tells of a horde of walking, cannibalistic corpses who lay siege to an isolated house. ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...