A gentleman thief, gentleman burglar, lady thief, or phantom thief is a stock character in fiction. A gentleman or lady thief is characterised by impeccable...
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Croisset. Leblanc created the character Arsène Lupin, a charming, brilliant gentleman thief (in his case, actually a noble thief) in 1905. Lupin preys on...
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the complex action of the thief depositing the purse into Harry's pocket. The film was released on September 20, 1910 and met with mixed reviews. The...
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The Girl Thief is a 1910 American silent film produced by the Kalem Company and directed by Sidney Olcott. The film was shot in Jacksonville, Florida...
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The following is a list of films originally produced and/or distributed theatrically by Paramount Pictures and released between 1912 and 1919. Paramount...
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find the house. The thief marks the door with a symbol so the other thieves can come back that night and kill everyone in the house. However, the thief has...
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Sidney Olcott (redirect from The Forager (1910 Film))
stock. In 1910, Olcott went to Ireland where he made a film called A Lad from Old Ireland. He would go on to make more than a dozen films there and later...
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motion picture film footage by Edward Raymond Turner 1900 – Sherlock Holmes Baffled, Joan of Arc 1901 – Blue Beard, Star Theatre, Stop Thief!, Scrooge, or...
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Richard Williams (animator) (category British animated film directors)
film The Thief and the Cobbler (1993). His work on the short film A Christmas Carol (1971) earned him his first Academy Award. He was also a film title...
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Willis Brown (category American film production company founders)
Swimming Hole (1918) Marrying Off Dad (1918) The Accusing Toe (1918) Thief or Angel (1918) The Rebellion (1918) The Preacher's Son (1918) A Boy Built City (1918)...
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a film language, or "film grammar". James Williamson's use of continuous action in his 1901 film, Stop Thief! stimulated a film genre known as the "chase...
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Arsène Lupin (category Crime film characters)
lypɛ̃]) is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc. The character was first introduced in...
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The Dawson Film Find (DFF) was the accidental discovery in 1978 of 372 film titles preserved in 533 reels of silent-era nitrate films in the Klondike Gold...
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Greta Nissen (category American film actresses)
in The Wanderer (1925, director Raoul Walsh). Among her other films were Lost: A Wife, The King on Main Street, The Love Thief, Ambassador Bill, The Lucky...
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Christie, released by the Christie Film Company and the Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation, and starring Wedgwood Nowell as jewel thief Arsene Lupin with...
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projection system in the 1940s. New matte techniques, modified for use with color, were for the first time used in the British film The Thief of Bagdad (1940)...
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The following is an overview of the events of 2014 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, and a list of films released...
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the Road (a.k.a. Rojo No Reikan) (1921) dir. Minoru Murata 1918–1928: The Triumph of American Film... Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welles The Thief...
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Jean Genet (category 1910 births)
His major works include the novels The Thief's Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers and the plays The Balcony, The Maids and The Screens. Genet's mother...
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where she outwitted (and greatly impressed) him. In the film, Adler, a skilled professional thief, as well as a divorcée, needs Holmes' help to find a...
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2016 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of films released, and notable deaths...
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The year 2000 in film involved some significant events. The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible 2. Domestically in North America, Gladiator...
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his craft, with films such as Strangers on a Train (1951), Dial M for Murder (1954), Rear Window (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), The Man Who Knew Too...
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The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) collection of films selected for preservation, each selected...
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suggest horror such as The Hand of Horror (1914) was a melodrama about a thief who steals from his own sister. During the silent era, the term horror was used...
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to get the jewel back in the safe in time. The brother, not knowing this, confesses. The thief De Mornoff breaks in attempting again to get the jewel,...
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walk. Tillie provides an early example of film within a film, when the couple go to the cinema to watch A Thief's Fate, large sections of which are seen...
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The following tables list films released in 2013. Three popular films (Top Gun, Jurassic Park, and The Wizard of Oz) were re-released in 3D and IMAX. Richard...
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overview of 1924 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. The top ten 1924 released films by box office...
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The year 2008 involved many major film events. The Dark Knight was the year's highest-grossing film, while Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for...
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