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  • parents—with a densely-plotted revenge thriller. "Armadale," ... After The Moonstone, Collins's novels contained fewer thriller ...
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  • in a traditional, top-notch suspenseful thriller framework with a nail-biting ... Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller. New York: Harmony Books ...
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  • | genre = Action Science fiction Techno-thriller ... known for his science fiction and techno-thriller novels, films, and television ...
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  • met during the filming of the 1974 thriller La Mary, directed by Daniel Tinayre, where the two played husband and wife. He went to Italy with ...
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  • a key to the plot line of Martin Cruz Smith's thriller "Red Square." ==Selected works== Image:Malevich Landscape With Yellow House ...
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  • in doing the same for basketball. The game was a thriller as Ermer Robinson sank a 30-foot shot with the clock running out. The Globetrotters ...
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  • Michael Jackson's second Epic label release Thriller, which went on to become the best-selling album of all time. Jackson was the most successful ...
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  • Ground, where 35,000 people watched a 10-goal thriller against a World XI side that included greats such as Lev Yashin, Josef Masopust, Ferenc Puskás ...
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  • admired, asked him to write the screenplay to his thriller, Shadow of a Doubt. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) tells the story of several unrelated ...
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  • his Album of the Year Grammy for Thriller to him. * Wilson scored a posthumous hit when “Reet Petite” reached number one in the United Kingdom ...
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  • directed the 2016 TV adaptation of his 1993 thriller The Night Manager, noted: "Even his old novels have totally current resonance." ...
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  • Modern genres such as horror and thriller films depicting major catastrophes, graphic violence, and extreme conflicts could be said to induce ...
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  • Wodehouse also seems to have enjoyed the traditional English thriller; in the 1960s he gave important praise for the debut novels of Gavin Lyall ...
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  • | genre= literary fiction, thriller | signature = | website = }} Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH (October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991), was a ...
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  • the Japanese animated dark cyberpunk thriller. ===Selected works=== * Night Shadows (1921) (etching) [http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results ...
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  • film is cast in the form of a film noir thriller, but, as in every previous ... last film Confidentially Yours, a comedy thriller in black and white, could ...
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  • quot;, "Billie Jean", and "Thriller" from his 1982 album ... Grow |title= Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' Is First Album to ...
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  • She is the subject of a popular thriller, Maskeli leydi: tekmili birden Tansu Çiller (The Masked Lady) by Faruk Bildirici. Faruk Bildirici, Maskeli ...
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  • in Zola's "murder on the trains" thriller La Bête humaine (1890), before the overwhelmingly positive reaction to Germinal persuaded him ...
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  • In the 2000 thriller, The Skulls, starring Joshua Jackson and Paul ... *In the 2000 thriller, The Skulls, starring Joshua Jackson and Paul ...
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  • Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller (category added in 2000), poetry, science and technology (category added in 1989), and young ...
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  • science fiction, fantasy, black comedy, and thriller. == History == The horror genre is nearly as old as film itself, with the first depictions ...
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  • succeeds both as medical soap opera and social thriller." David Bleiler (ed.), TLA Film and Video Guide 2000–2001: The Discerning Film ...
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  • html The Last Castrato] is a psychological thriller about two young boys, fraternal twins, who must suffer castration for their art. ...
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  • It ended 111–105 in a quadruple-overtime thriller. Despite nursing an injured leg, he scored 25 points in regulation time and added six of his ...
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  • in 1986, remembered for the last minute thriller in the semi-final game against the Soviet Union. From the European Championship in 1987, Petrović ...
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  • such as Holy Blood Holy Grail and the fiction thriller The Da Vinci Code. The village is still considered to be packed with clues to an alternate ...
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  • his most famous book, The Thirty-Nine Steps, a spy thriller set just before the outbreak of World War I, featuring his hero Richard Hannay, who was based ...
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  • comedy." Originally intended as a thriller, Kubrick found the conditions ... Kubrick's decision to film a Cold War thriller as a black comedy ...
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  • game of the Celtics-Hawks' best-of-seven thriller." [http://www.nba.com/celtics/history/Red_Auerbach.html]www.nba.com.Retrieved March ...
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  • was cemented in Hitchcock's 1960 action-thriller, Psycho. He played the character of Norman Bates, a murderous man with a split personality ...
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  • the President of the United States in the thriller Suddenly. "Young at ... work in John Frankenheimer's classic thriller The Manchurian Candidate ...
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  • Caleb Williams was possibly the first mystery thriller; Godwin wryly remarked that some readers were consuming in a night what it took him over a year ...
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  • In 2015, he starred in the Atom Egoyan directed thriller Remember ... Plummer starred in the Rian Johnson directed mystery thriller ensemble ...
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  • mainstream fiction. Much of the thriller genre would be included, such as the novels of Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, or the James Bond films ...
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  • critical success of Michael Jackson's Thriller in 1984. In their defense, the Recording Academy states that nominees and winners are determined ...
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  • movie, My Wife is a Gangster. The 2003 suspense thriller, Janghwa, Hongnyeon (Tale of Two Sisters), enjoyed success as well, leading DreamWorks to ...
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  • Also in 2002, in the psychological thriller One Hour Photo, Williams ... The Night Listener, the latter being a thriller about a radio show host ...
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  • to jigoku (1963; High and Low), a detective thriller; and Akahige (1965; Red Beard). Mifune and Kurosawa parted ways after the filming of Red ...
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  • though it was originally advertised as a spy thriller, along with being one of the most panned films of the season. Host Ricky Gervais even jokingly ...
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  • the production. The movie, an edgy thriller in which Hepburn played the part of a blind woman being stalked, was another one for which she received ...
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  • on an adaption of Eric Ambler's spy thriller, Journey Into Fear, which ... Pictures. Intended to be a modest thriller, the budget skyrocketed ...
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  • a script for Gaslight (1944), a mystery-thriller based on Patrick Hamilton ... In 1962, she appeared in the Cold War thriller The Manchurian Candidate ...
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  • Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was a British-American film director closely associated with the suspense thriller ...
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  • Rodion Raskolnikov. In addition to a crime thriller and spiritual allegory, the novel is also the tale of a dysfunctional family. Raskolnikov's ...
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  • quot;: whereas the earlier tale is 'a thriller' the latter is more comic, its plot involving trickery and cunning rather than straightforward ...
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  • |Western fiction|Speculative fiction|label 1=Thriller|label 2=Western While the reader of so-called serious literature will follow public discussions ...
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  • Rt Rev Dr Tom Wright, the novel is a "great thriller" but "lousy history."[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4123495.stm Da Vinci ...
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  • In 1974, he starred in John Boorman's sci-fi thriller Zardoz. Despite being panned by critics at the time, the film has developed a cult following ...
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  • * The massacre is featured in Robert Harris's WWII thriller Enigma. * Stalin signed the Katyn death orders on March 5, 1940, and he died ...
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  • published a successful modern crime thriller, Simu ya Kifo (Death Call), in 1965, after which the volume of works published in Swahili grew dramatically ...
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  • (1996), Brother (1997) and Tamil romantic thriller film-Dhaam Dhoom (2008). Onegin (1999) is based on the Pushkin poem and showcases many tourist ...
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  • Houston made her screen acting debut in the romantic thriller film The Bodyguard (1992). She recorded seven songs for the film's soundtrack ...
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