Ace Drummond (serial)

February 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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Ace Drummond is a 1936 film serial based on the Ace Drummond comic strip drawn by Clayton Knight and written by Eddie Rickenbacker. It featured aviator Ace Drummond and his adventures in Mongolia. A mysterious villain who calls himself The Dragon is attempting to prevent International Airways from beginning service there, in order to protect the secret of the mountain of jade for himself. It features a dungeon in the nearby monastery, the kidnapping of an archeologist who stumbles onto the secret, his daughter’s attempts to rescue him with Ace’s help, a death ray The Dragon uses on the airline pilots, a radio system by which The Dragon communicates with his henchmen via the rotation of Buddhist prayer wheels (each transmission concluding “The Dragon commands!”), and a squadron of his own fighter planes. Ace also regularly performs his theme song, “Give Me a Ship and a Song”. Never explained is why International Airways selects flying boats for their planned Mongolia service instead of landplanes.

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Above and Beyond (film)

January 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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Above and Beyond is a 1952 love story about Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., the pilot of the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. It stars Robert Taylor as Tibbets and Eleanor Parker as his wife. James Whitmore plays security officer Major Bill Uanna.

Plot

Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. (Robert Taylor) in 1945, is assigned to a dangerous mission in testing a new bomber, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The perilous assignment has caused his wife Lucy (Eleanor Parker) to worry for his life and whether their marriage can survive the constant separations.

After a year of scrutiny, Maj. Gen. Vernon C. Brent (Larry Keating) who not only championed Tibbets as a test pilot, selects him to lead a new unit in the Pacific war, flying the B-29, armed with a new secret weapon. Scientists of the “Manhattan Project” explain what is “the best kept secret of the war,” the atomic bomb. Along with Maj. Bill Uanna (James Whitmore), the only other person who knows what the mission will entail, Tibbets is expected to keep strict discipline over the personnel assigned to a B-29 conversion unit at Wendover Air Force Base, Utah.

When families of crew members are brought to Wendover, tensions erupt in the Tibbets family due to Lucy’s attitude towards her husband’s secrecy concerning the mission, as the decision to use the atomic bomb has been made. Flying out to the Pacific island base of Tinian, the B-29 designated for the Hiroshima bombing is named the “Enola Gay“. Although the mission is a success, as he wrests the aircraft around to escape the aftershock, the realization of the devastation is brought home as Tibbets sees the flash of the bomb and the subsequent atomic blast. Back on Tinian, the crew is mobbed and although a second mission is mounted, the war has been decided by the actions of the B-29 bombers. Tibbets finally returns home, flying first to Washington where he has a joyous reunion with his wife.

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405 (film)

January 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment

405 (film)

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405 is the name of a 3-minute film released in June 2000 and produced by Bruce Branit and Jeremy Hunt. It was the first short film to become widely distributed on the Internet and became a media sensation for a short time. It is generally thought of as one of, if not the first viral film property.

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Aarzoo

January 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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Aarzoo is a Bollywood film released in 1999. The movie directed by Lawrence D’Souza stars Akshay Kumar, Madhuri Dixit, Saif Ali Khan, Amrish Puri, Paresh Rawal and Reema Lagoo. The film was primarily filmed in Mumbai but some scenes were filmed in London and Edinburgh.

Plot

Dayashankar (Amrish Puri) is a wealthy NRI living in London. His daughter Pooja (Madhuri Dixit) is the apple of his eye and his life revolves around her and his wife Parvati (Reema Lagoo). Dayashankar also takes care of his deceased friend’s son Aman (Saif Ali Khan). Aman and Pooja have grown up with each other and he has fallen in love with her over time. Studying in Edinburgh, he is overjoyed when he is called to come stay with the family in London. He eagerly prepares for his meeting with Pooja and plans to ask her father for her hand in marriage.

However, Pooja has fallen in love with Vijay Khanna (Akshay Kumar), a pilot. Her father, though, is bitterly opposed with their intention of marriage, as he has already promised Aman that he will marry Pooja. After some convincing from Aman and Parvati, Dayashankar succumbs to his daughter’s wishes. Aman is heartbroken but puts on a brave face at the engagement. However tragedy strikes when Vijay is killed while piloting a plane.

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801 T.T.S. Airbats

January 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment

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801 T.T.S. Airbats (青空少女隊 Aozora Shōjotai?, lit. “The Blue Sky Girls Squad”) is a manga by Shimizu Toshimitsu which was later adapted into a seven episode anime series, produced by Studio Fantasia and Victor Entertainment. The series was released in Japan on Laser Disc as a series of OAV episodes between 1994 and 1996, and was licensed for English language distribution by ADV Films. The title has been out of print since 2005. The series had aired on TVB in Hong Kong on April 9, 1996.

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