• A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1965 DeLuxe Color adventure film, based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Richard Hughes, and directed by Alexander Mackendrick...
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  • A High Wind in Jamaica may refer to: A High Wind in Jamaica (novel), a 1929 novel A High Wind in Jamaica (film), a 1965 film based on the novel This disambiguation...
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  • A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1929 novel by the Welsh writer Richard Hughes, which was made into a film of the same name in 1965. Hughes's first novel,...
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    Ben Carruthers (category American male film actors)
    American film actor, most notable for his role in John Cassavetes' debut feature film Shadows (1959). His other films included A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)...
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  • Deborah Baxter (category English film actresses)
    1954) is an English actress who appeared in the films A High Wind in Jamaica and The Wind and the Lion. Born in England, Baxter was selected from 1,000...
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    Jamaica (/dʒəˈmeɪkə/ jə-MAY-kə; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka [dʒʌˈmie̯ka]) is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square...
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  • Isabela Merced as Kim, a Blue-winged teal duck whose family is heading to Jamaica In February 2022, Illumination announced a new film titled Migration, with...
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  • Mike LeRoy (category Articles lacking in-text citations from May 2011)
    singer. Leroy sang the theme song to the 1965 film, A High Wind in Jamaica. He also sang "With a Little Love" in 1970, which was subsequently used on the Attila...
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  • inspired by the book and the film A High Wind in Jamaica, while the relationship between Raisuli and Eden is based on the 1921 film The Sheik. Raisuli's rescue...
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  • Charles Hyatt (category Jamaican male film actors)
    College. After making his movie debut in the 1965 film A High Wind in Jamaica, Hyatt had notable performances in the films The Bushbaby (1969), Crossplot (1969)...
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  • adaptations A High Wind in Jamaica, Eye of the Needle and Firestarter, and the sword-and-sorcery film Conan the Destroyer. He was married to Florence Wood in the...
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    Jamaica was initially inhabited in approximately 600 AD or 650 AD by the Redware people, often associated with redware pottery. By roughly 800 AD, a second...
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    Port Antonio, is a parish located on Jamaica's northeast coast. It is situated to the north of St Thomas and to the east of St Mary in Surrey County. It...
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  • at the 12th Academy Awards (which honored the best in film for 1939)—Dark Victory, Gone with the Wind, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Love Affair, Mr. Smith Goes to...
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  • Alexander Mackendrick (category People educated at Hillhead High School)
    owing in part to his perfectionist approach to filmmaking. Mackendrick retired from directing in the late 1960's after completing A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)...
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  • Roberta Tovey (category English film actresses)
    2150 A.D. (1966), which starred Peter Cushing as Dr. Who. She also appeared in the films Never Let Go (1960), Touch of Death (1961), A High Wind in Jamaica...
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    Asafa Powell (category All Wikipedia articles written in Jamaican English)
    Asafa Powell CD (born 23 November 1982) is a retired Jamaican sprinter who specialised in the 100 metres. He set the 100 metres world record twice, between...
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    Pickaninny (redirect from Pick a ninny)
    English-based. In Jamaican Patois, the word is found as pickney, which is used to describe a child regardless of racial origin. The same word is used in Antiguan...
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    immigrating in 1840; as is common in Naples, he placed the clarinet (which he played himself) in a prominent place in his performances. See: Music of Jamaica Undoubtedly...
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  • T. L. Barrett (category Church of God in Christ pastors)
    Chicago until a resurgence in interest in his music occurred in the 2010s. Barrett was born on January 13, 1944, in Jamaica, New York, but his family moved...
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    Frank Silvera (category Male actors from Kingston, Jamaica)
    actors, in 1965. At the time of his death he had a recurring role in the NBC Western series The High Chaparral. Silvera was born in Kingston, Jamaica, the...
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    Julia Jones (category American film actresses)
    "is part Choctaw, Chickasaw, and African-American". She was raised in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, and frequented the first JP Licks ice...
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    Nigel Davenport (category English male film actors)
    James Norrington character, partly because of Nigel's involvement in A High Wind in Jamaica.[citation needed] Coveney, Michael (29 October 2013). "Nigel Davenport...
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    original on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2015. "Jamaica shortlists 78 MW of wind, solar capacity in govt tender". seenews.com. 4 October 2013. Archived...
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    Usain Bolt (category All Wikipedia articles written in Jamaican English)
    Memorial High School, every year. At Bolt's insistence, advertisements featuring him are filmed in Jamaica, by a Jamaican production crew, in an attempt...
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    James Coburn (category American male film actors)
    tracker in Major Dundee (1965), directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Charlton Heston. At Fox, he was second-billed in the pirate film A High Wind in Jamaica...
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  • Our Man Flint (category Films set in Marseille)
    Emily and A High Wind in Jamaica but Our Man Flint was his first lead in a feature. His casting was announced in December 1964 and filming began in February...
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    Hurricane Gilbert (category Hurricanes in Jamaica)
    emerging from the coast of Jamaica. As the hurricane brushed the Cayman Islands, a reporting station on Grand Cayman recorded a wind gust of 156 mph (251 km/h)...
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    of Galveston Independent School District. Ball High School serves the cities of Galveston and Jamaica Beach and the unincorporated communities of Port...
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  • Michael Hyatt (category American actors of Jamaican descent)
    is a British-born American actress. Before her work in film and television, she performed on stages throughout the United States, particularly in Ragtime...
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