mr . justice raffles ( film )
mr. justice raffles: chapter x .
my raffles right or wrong
by e. w. hornung @ classic reader
no, mr. manders, i meant after what we all heard between mr. levy and mr. raffles; and you knew very well what i meant ,
added miss belsize severely .
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they wanted watching ,
rejoined miss belsize dryly .
they followed mr. raffles out of the ground !
mr. garland was on tip - toes watching the game again with mercurial ardour .
you won' t tell him i told you, mr. manders ?
raffles holmes (son of sherlock holmes and grandson of a. j. raffles) (1906 )
the saint in london (the misfortunes of mr. teal) (the saint in england )
mr. capone - e - 25 to life feat. hpg soldiers (produced by clumsy beatz )
mr. manders will look after me ,
she said to him ,
won' t you, mr. manders ?
i made some suitable asseveration, and she added :
mr. garland' s a member, you know, and dying to go into the pavilion .
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when one of his cricket friends runs afoul of a ruthless moneylender, raffles decides to pay the man' s bill... and then some. he also agrees to take on a job for the moneylender. but when the man tries to double - cross him, raffles decides to execute summary justice .
obviously !
says she, with an impromptu superiority worthy of raffles himself .
i wonder you never thought of that, mr. manders, when you know what a trick you both played mr. levy only yesterday. mr. raffles himself told us all about that; and i' m very grateful to you both; you must know i am - - for teddy' s sake ,
added miss belsize, with one quick remorseful glance towards the great arena .
still it only shows what mr. raffles is - - and - - and it' s what i meant when we were talking about him yesterday .
i was afraid they might be, mr. manders, though i have never seen one off the stage .
i want to speak to you first ,
she said ,
where we shan' t be overheard. it' s about mr. raffles !
added miss belsize as she met my stare .
i thought you didn' t like him ?
had been my remark, and
who says i do ?
was hers .
but he has done a lot for teddy ,
she went on ,
and never more than yesterday ,
with her hand for an instant on my arm ,
when you helped him! i am dreadfully sorry for mr. garland, sorrier than i am for poor teddy. but mr. raffles is more than sorry. i know he means to do what he can. he seems to think there must be something wrong; he spoke of bringing that brute to reason - - if not to justice. it would be too dreadful if such a creature could turn the tables on mr. raffles by trumping up any charge against him !
i want to speak to you, mr. manders ,
she said quickly but without embarrassment .
where can we talk ?
and you do see why i want to put mr. raffles on his guard ?
she said pointedly as we shook hands .
it' s only because you and he have done so much for teddy !
napoleon bonaparte, (son of a. j. raffles) (1924 - 1966 )
from the beginning “raffles” had a further life on stage and screen. in 1903 hornung and eugene wiley presbrey adapted two of the stories for a play, raffles, the amateur cracksman, that ran successfully on broadway. there was a film of raffles in 1905, listed as a short, that seems to have been lost. the great actor - manager gerald du maurier mounted a west end staging of the play in 1908 with himself in the title role. the production ran for two years .
he' s all right !
muttered raffles with a long breath .
so is our mr. shylock, bunny; we fixed things up in no time after all. but the worst of it is i shall only be able to stop - -
but why ?
i asked, as i followed raffles into the press behind the carriages .
and what about raffles ?
i asked as we struck out for ourselves across the grass .
but it was all a joke ,
she reminded us both with a bit of a start .
it must have been a joke, if mr. raffles did it at all. and it would be dreadful if anything happened to him because of a wretched practical joke !
oh, i shall be all right ,
she said .
i know where to find mr. garland, even if i don' t pick up an escort on the way .
george orwell demonstrated that not only could works of popular fiction provide evidence of social attitudes but they could also include fine writing. he can hardly be blamed for ignoring the film or stage adaptations, even though the last raffles movie was being revived in 1944 when he was writing the essay. there was, however, a stage version of no orchids for miss blandish running in london in 1942, and a film appeared in 1948. the british censor later apologised for failing to protect the british public from such a dangerous film. as yet i have not tracked down this version, which was made in england in american settings and proved to be a great success. less successful was robert aldrich’s 1971 adaptation made in america, the grissom gang, which after extensive rewriting by leon griffith became a powerful full - scale tragedy. all of which will be the subject of another article .
raffles was already saying he must go, with an explanatory murmur to mr. garland, who clasped his hand with a suddenly clouded countenance. but miss belsize only bowed, and scarcely took her eyes off a couple of outwardly inferior men, who had attracted my attention through hers, until they also passed out of the ground .
one of the genial algy’s made famous by mr p. g. wodehouse, and accordingly he often ejaculated “what? what? ” to show he could hardly believe his own brilliance. (charteris 1928, 22. )
i’d just like to correct the statement, “…to the posthumous raffles of the m. c. c. in 1979. ” .
about raffles again! about raffles, after all that she had learnt the day before! i did not enjoy the prospect as i led the way past the ivy - mantled tennis - court of those days to the practice - ground, turned for the nonce into a tented lawn .
story: anthony valentine stars as the debonair a. j. raffles who is constantly in demand as a house guest on english country estates at the turn of the century. what his hosts don' t realise is that raffles is also an accomplished jewel thief and safe - cracker .
things are going well for charles dance. the english - born actor best known stateside for his portrayal of tywin lannister on game of thrones is celebrating his 68th birthday today, as well as the release of the horror - action film dracula untold that will see him looking especially creepy as the master vampire .
no; the first time was over there at the nets before play began. i noticed those two men behind teddy' s net. they were not watching him; that called my attention to them. it' s my belief they were lying in wait for mr. raffles; at any rate, when he came they moved away. but they followed us afterwards across the ground .
however, also in 1975, yorkshire television produced raffles, a telemovie scripted by philip mackie from the same stories that were used in the play and the 1930 film. anthony valentine played raffles and christopher strauli was cast as bunny. then in 1977 there were broadcasts of a fourteen - episode mini - series entirely scripted by mackie and also starring valentine and strauli. they all followed the original hornung stories closely, and this was almost certainly the most faithful treatment of the characters ever attempted. the settings are victorian / edwardian and the upper classes are enjoyably arrogant and pretty much deserve to be robbed. hornung’s raffles, for all his adherence to his own code and his occasional chivalry, is far more ruthless than he had ever been played on screen before .
if raffles took a cab to his rooms ,
i said ,
he must be nearly there and i must telephone to him .
you would back your raffles right or wrong ?
i murmured, perceiving that camilla belsize was, after all, like all the rest of us .
the plot of the movie is a box of tricks: is the alarm on? who turned it off? where is the necklace hidden? what makes this work as well as it does is colman. instead of the dashing crook of the “amateur cracksman” collection he plays the more regretful character of the later stories. of course the film does not follow the last story, “the knees of the gods”, in which raffles goes to the boer war, exposes a spy and dies heroically in action. but colman does capture the spirit of atonement and regret that is an essential part of hornung’s vision. satisfyingly in the movie raffles gets away in the end. but he has promised to reform .
one realises just how good this version is when one compares it with the 1939 remake. it is virtually the same sidney howard script, with some additions by john van druten which are not for the best. raffles’s “crimes” are more in the nature of pranks, not a livelihood, and david niven’s charming cracksman has nothing like the depth of colman’s. certainly dudley digges makes an excellent mackenzie and dame may witty is much more believable as lady melrose than alison skipworth’s enjoyably over - the - top performance was in the earlier film .
i' ve been an avid fan of both sherlock holmes and aj raffles for as long as i was able to read. this tv series stays fairly true to the characters of raffles and bunny (the criminal version of sherlock and watson), but most would only appreciate this short lived series if they were familiar with e. w. hornung' s characters (or if you' re familiar with lawrence block' s burgling bernie rhodenbarr character, his bookstore cat is named after aj raffles). more great british entertainment .
barry perowne (real name philip atkey) died on christmas eve 1985. he wrote and published several raffles stories after 1979 in ellery queens mystery managzine, the last in 1983 .
for those of us in the 1960s and 1970s who wanted to teach and study mainstream fiction and film seriously, two essays were an inspiration: raymond chandler’s “the simple art of murder” and george orwell’s “ raffles and miss blandish ”. the latter was more “respectable”. it was after all written by the author of nineteen eighty - four and a noted essayist, while “ the simple art of murder ” was by a writer of private - eye novels. in fact they were both excellent critics, even if orwell was, perhaps, the more self - consciously intellectual. he chose e. w. hornung’s “raffles” stories to compare with james hadley chase’s novel no orchids for miss blandish because of their popularity and also because they “shine the limelight on the criminal” .
how' s that ?
came almost simultaneously in teddy' s ringing voice. up went the umpire' s finger, and down came raffles' s hand upon my thigh .
still ,
i pursued, with painfully sustained amusement ,
you were ready to find a. j. raffles being shadowed here at lord' s of all places in the world ?
there was no mistake about her feeling now; she really felt that it would be
dreadful if anything happened
to the man whom yesterday she had seemed both to dislike and to distrust. her voice vibrated with anxiety. a bright film covered the fine eyes, and they were finer than ever as they continued to face me unashamed; but i was fool enough to speak my mind, and at that they flashed themselves dry .
but why should these men follow him ?
said i, really wondering why they should .
if there were anything definite against old raffles, don' t you think he would be arrested ?
for orwell, what was important about the raffles stories was that their protagonist is not an honest man who has gone astray, but a public school man who has gone astray—a gentleman. moreover, hornung has made him a cricketer; a game where in victorian and edwardian england sportsmanship and “good form” were valued over winning. “in making raffles a cricketer as well as a burglar, ” orwell argues, “hornung was drawing the sharpest moral contrast he could possibly imagine. ” the stories are, the famous socialist insists, about snobbery. raffles and bunny are at best upper - middle - class, without the means to sustain their lifestyle. raffles is only welcomed into “society” because of his cricket and his personal charm. his revenge is to steal from these same upper classes. but he does have standards. as a houseguest he will rob the other guests but not his host. orwell insists that raffles usually goes unarmed and executes his robberies without violence. the overall impression, he concludes, is one of boyishness, of a time when there were standards, even if they were foolish ones .
oh! if i can' t get on without you ,
said raffles, not nicely ,
i' ll let you know fast enough. but do drop the subject now; here come old garland and camilla belsize !
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and because she did not end by reminding me of my promise, i was all the more reluctantly determined to keep it to the letter, even though raffles should think as ill as ever of one who was at least beginning to think better of him .
and the best catch !
cried raffles .
come on, bunny; that' s my nunc dimittis for the day. there would be nothing to compare with it if i could stop to see every ball bowled, and i mustn' t see another .
orwell was mistaken when he stated raffles was usually unarmed. a close reading of the stories reveals he usually carries a revolver and is prepared to use it. barrymore was ahead of his time when he explored the cracksman’s addiction to danger, but mackie and valentine portray this aspect of the character with relish. revolvers also appear and are even fired—occasionally. the series is shot in the usual style for british television of the period: videotape for interiors, 16mm film for exteriors. the acting is unabashedly theatrical, which suits the victorian / edwardian setting. mackie builds up the character of inspector mackenzie, making him, as played by victor carin in ginger side - whiskers, as unpleasant and arrogant as he is in the books. mackie mines the rich vein of comedy in the originals at the expense of making bunny an outraged silly ass straight out of p. g. wodehouse. only occasionally does the rather anguished character of the original emerge. however, bunny is given at least two episodes where he executes daring rescues as some kind of compensation. there is also the delicious image of raffles and bunny climbing the wall of a country house in full evening dress complete with top hats .
you' ll let me know when it' s to be ?
i whispered, but raffles only answered ,
i wonder jack studley didn' t wait till there was more of a crust on the mud pie. that tripe' s no use without a fast wicket !
this is a delightful period piece with witty dialog and loveable
bad guys .
by pinching jewels from the wealthy, raffles and bunny are able to maintain their upper middle class lifestyle using a bit of robin hood logic to justify their crimes (robbing from the rich to help the poor - the poor being themselves). the original author was e. w. hornung, the brother - in - law to sir arthur conan doyle. hornung wanted to create a criminal character as a foil to the ever popular sherlock holmes. raffles might not be a famous as sherlock but he is every bit as clever and quite endearing .
a. j. raffles, cracksman, was a light - hearted rascal, who had never worried about leading a double existence until he met camilla belsize. camilla only knew about him as a cricketer - one of the gentlemen of england - a public idol, and a charming companion. but raffles realised that he could never ask her to marry him, and he cursed the very nature that had made him a dangerous, as well as adored member of society. and so, when young teddy garland, wicket keeper for oxford, stepped in, he found he had a clear field, and he won the hand of camilla .
characters that rick lai postulated were wold newton family members (such as dr. james noel and dominick medina), and characters who, by descent, must be wold newton family members (examples are rasputin, raffles holmes, archie goodwin, creighton holmes, dawn drummond - clayton, ching yao chang, hsu - tei
that catch will console me for a lot ,
i heard him say quite heartily to raffles. but camilla' s comment was altogether perfunctory; indeed, i wondered that so sophisticated a person did not affect some little enthusiasm. she seemed more interested, however, in the crowd than in the cricket. and that was usual enough .
the essay was written in 1944 but was still influential in the 1960s. my friend and mentor bill maidment contemplated making a similar analysis of mickey spillane, and together with john flaus encouraged me to undertake an article for film digest comparing ross macdonald, raymond chandler and dashiel hammett’s novels with their screen adaptations. another source of inspiration was chandler’s “the simple art of murder”, also written in 1944. even though they are both masterpieces of literary and cultural criticism, these two great essays are very much of their time. chandler was making the case for the more “realistic” type of crime fiction that had emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, while orwell was commenting on the underlying attitudes in british popular fiction. however, he told only part of the story .
graham greene penned a neat little three - act play, ‘the return of a. j. raffles’, in 1985, which captures the spirit of the original stories beautifully. (four new books by hornung have been published during the past nine months, incidentally, and the 150th anniversary of his birth will be celebrated in middlesbrough on 7 june 2016. )
just in time ,
said raffles, as he sat down and the cambridge men emerged from the pavilion, capped and sashed in varying shades of light blue. the captain' s colours were bleached by service; but the wicket - keeper' s were the newest and the bluest of the lot, and as a male historian i shrink from saying how well they suited him .
anthony valentine and a stellar cast of british actors deliver superb performances in these beautifully crafted adaptations of the work of e. w. hornung, brother - in - law of sir arthur conan doyle. in each episode, the roguish raffles and his intrepid companion set out to plunder the wealth of the aristocracy, stay out of the reach of the law, and revel in the thrill of the game .
there was an absolute echo of my own tone in
trumping up any charge ,
and i thought the echo sounded even more insincere. but at least it showed me where we were. miss belsize was not deceived; she only wanted me to think she was. miss belsize had divined what i knew, but neither of us would admit to the other that the charge against raffles would be true enough .
i eagerly inquired as to the upshot of the earlier interview, but raffles looked as though he had not heard. the oxford captain had come out to open the innings with a player less known to fame; the first ball of the match hurtled down the pitch, and the oxford captain left it severely alone. teddy took it charmingly, and almost with the same movement the ball was back in the bowler' s hands .
raffles was quite right. another wicket fell cheaply in another way; then came a long spell of plucky cricket, a stand not masterly but dogged and judicious, in which many a ball outside the off - stump was allowed to pass unmolested, and a few were unfortunate in just beating the edge of the bat. on the tricky wicket teddy' s work was cut out for him, and beautifully he did it. it was a treat to see his lithe form crouching behind the bails, to rise next instant with the rising ball; his great gloves were always in the right place, always adhesive. once only he held them up prematurely, and a fine ball brushed the wicket on its way for four byes; it was his sole error all the morning. raffles sat enchanted; so in truth did i; but between the overs i endeavoured to obtain particulars of his latest parley with dan levy, and once or twice extracted a stray detail .
the technical slang of the modern cricket - field is ever a weariness; at the moment it was something worse, and i resigned myself to the silent contemplation of as wild an over as ever was bowled at lord' s. a shocking thing to the off was sent skipping past point for four .
tripe !
muttered raffles to himself. a very good one went over the bails and thud into garland' s gloves like a round - shot .
well bowled !
said raffles with less reserve. another delivery was merely ignored, both at the wicket and at my side, and then came a high full - pitch to leg which the batsman hit hard but very late. it was a hit that might have smashed the pavilion palings. but it never reached them; it stuck in teddy' s left glove instead, and none of us knew it till we saw him staggering towards long - leg, and tossing up the ball as he recovered balance .
saw this years ago, most likely on pbs, and it' s stuck with me ever since. it' s a lovely production, the sets and dialogue really draw you in and make you feel like you' re in another decade. unfortunately, my rating has to be 4 stars because acorn didn' t add subtitles, something that i thought all dvds were supposed to have. i' m not hard - of - hearing, but sometimes the audio or a thick accent garbles a word and that takes away from the overall enjoyment of the experience. still... if you want to have a good time with a likable scoundrel and his sidekick, i recommend raffles. it' s a wonderful way to while - away an afternoon, sipping tea and laughing at upper class high - jinks and impecunious young men inadvertently saving the day .
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teddy garland looks as though nothing had happened ,
was what i said at the time, as i peered through my binocular at the padded figure with the pink face and the gigantic gloves .
that' s because he knows there' s a chance of nothing more happening ,
was the reply .
i' ve seen him and his poor old governor up here since i saw dan levy .
he broke off, mouth open as it might have been mine. a ball had been driven hard to extra cover, and quite well fielded; another had been taken by teddy as competently as the first, but not returned to the bowler. the oxford captain had played at it, and we heard something even in block b .
he' s caught him, bunny !
he cried in my ear above the cambridge cheers .
the best bat on either side, and teddy' s outed him third ball !
he stopped to watch the defeated captain' s slow return, the demonstration on the pitch in teddy' s honour; then he touched me on the arm and dropped his voice .
he' s forgotten all his troubles now, bunny, if you like; nothing' s going to worry him till lunch, unless he misses a sitting chance. and he won' t, you' ll see; a good start means even more behind the sticks than in front of' em .
the old sinner has a place on the river, bunny, though i have my suspicions of a second establishment nearer town. but i' m to find him at his lawful home all the next few nights, and sitting up for me till two in the morning .
i' m going there this morning for a peep at the crib; there' s no time to be lost, but on the other hand there' s a devil of a lot to learn. i say, bunny, there' s going to be another change of bowling; the fast stuff, too, by jove !
a massive youth had taken the ball at the top end, and the wicket - keeper was retiring to a more respectful distance behind the stumps .
that' s the worst ball that ever took a wicket in this match !
vowed a reverend veteran as the din died down .
you' re not thinking of doing it to - night, a. j. ?
but if i can help you ?
i whispered, after a momentary separation in the throng .
only just to hear what they think of teddy ,
the poor old boy confessed; and when we had arranged where to meet in the interval, away he hurried with his keen, worn face .
and watch as well ?
i suggested, thinking of the young man at his best behind the sticks .
i' m afraid he' s in some danger ,
replied miss belsize. and she stopped in her walk and confronted me as frankly as though we had the animated scene to ourselves .
danger !
i repeated, guiltily enough, no doubt .
what makes you think that, miss belsize ?
not if you don' t want me to ,
said i, taken aback more by her manner than by the request itself .
there are so many men to notice ,
said i to gain time .
but these were not the sort one expects to see here to - day .
only because i saw you watching them ,
said i, recalling the whole scene .
i looked round to see ,
said miss belsize, avoiding my eyes for the first time .
i was ready for anything, anywhere ,
said miss belsize ,
after all i heard yesterday afternoon .
it was an ingenuously disingenuous suggestion; it brought my companion' s eyes back to mine, with something of the scorn that i deserved .
but surely you didn' t take all that seriously ?
said i, without denying the just impeachment .
how could i help it? the insinuation was serious enough, in all conscience !
exclaimed camilla belsize .
do you mean it might have been a trick ?
said i, recalling the victim' s own make - believe at the albany. and not only did camilla appear to embrace that theory with open arms; she had the nerve to pretend that it really was what she had meant .
i don' t remember ,
said i, remembering fast enough .
in the rockery ,
she reminded me .
when you asked what people said about him, and i said that about living on his wits .
i' m not so sure ,
said i .
but his wits wouldn' t carry him very far if he only took necklaces and put them back again .
oh! i don' t know ,
was the slightly irritable answer .
i only think he should be warned that he is being followed .
yes !
said she .
whatever he has done - - after what he did for teddy yesterday !
and suppose he really did take mrs. levy' s necklace ?
i spoke as one playfully plumbing the abysmally absurd; what i did desire to sound was the loyalty of this new, unexpected, and still captious ally. and i thought myself strangely successful at the first cast; for miss belsize looked me in the face as i was looking her, and i trusted her before she spoke .
against a vulgar extortioner, most decidedly !
she returned, without repudiating the possessive pronoun .
it doesn' t follow that i think anything of him - - apart from what you did between you for teddy yesterday .
we had continued our stroll some time ago, and now it was i who stood still. i looked at my watch. it still wanted some minutes to the luncheon interval .
only in the pavilion, i believe, for the use of the members .
but it was she who escorted me to the tall turnstile nearest wellington road .
the' gentleman cracksman' s' exploits are meant to be fun, but they are also blessed by darker textures. with lead characters based in part on oscar wilde and lord alfred douglas, there is a subtle gay sub - text in the originals - - just one of the elements that drew george orwell' s incisive attention
for orwell, no orchids for miss blandish is “a header into a cesspool”. the story is of the kidnapping of a heiress—the miss blandish of the title—by two separate gangs. the original plan had been to kill her as soon as the ransom money was received but slim, a simple - minded member of the gang whose sole pleasure in life consists of driving his knife into other people’s bellies, takes a fancy to her even though he is sexually impotent. his mother, the brains of the gang, decides to keep miss blandish alive until slim can rape her and cure his impotence. the rape is achieved but an equally brutal private eye breaks the case and the gang is exterminated. miss blandish, who has acquired a taste for slim’s caresses, throws herself out of the window of a skyscraper after she is rescued .
orwell concedes that no orchids for miss blandish is “a brilliant piece of writing, with hardly a wasted word or a jarring note anywhere” and mentions that the plot derives from william faulkner’s sanctuary. what he finds deplorable is that “the english author has made a complete mental transference to the american underworld”. the whole theme of this and chase’s other books, he argues, is the pursuit of power—pure fascism indistinguishable in orwell’s opinion from the stalinists in the socialist movement. clearly he was still vividly recalling his experiences in the spanish civil war, which he had brilliantly described in homage to catalonia. orwell’s conclusion is typically incisive :
comparing the schoolboy atmosphere of the one book with the cruelty and corruption of the other one is driven to feel that snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated .
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younger u. s. audiences — those who missed out on last action hero in 1993 — probably don’t realize the actor has a long acting resume prior to playing the ruthless lord of casterly rock. dance’s imdb credits list him in just about every bbc production since 1985, not to mention his three dozen or so stage roles. in celebration of charles dance — and as an excuse to remind you that he was in the contractor with wesley snips and a movie called space truckers — here’s a timeline of roles you might have forgotten the actor played before making his way to westeros .
only a man whose heart is pure can wield the knife, and only a man whose ass is narrow can get down these steps. and if mine’s is such an ass, then i shall have it .
the deli where i grabbed my lunch yesterday had “this tv network” on yesterday, which was playing china moon, starring ed harris, madeline stowe, benicio del toro, and charles dance .
i think the 1989 bond movie with tim dalton was “license to kill” or the other one who’s name escapes me .
i’m considering this a massive oversight: the 1990 tv version of phantom of the opera. he played the phantom .
my favorite filmed version of the story, and the only version where he actually works as a sympathetic character .
can’t explain why, but i remember space truckers fondly. tho, the robot male parts were still creepy as shit
and there’s no way anyone forgot about last action hero. movie’s too much fun .
i remember watching something called hidden city where he’s running around an unfamiliar london. it was a bit like “frantic” and looking at the imdb entry ([ www. imdb. com ]) it sounds intriguing and there’s some great talent involved. it was boring as shit .
around 2001 or so, i saw charles dance, paul rudd and jessica lange in a play. i can’t remember much of the play (on account of terrible seats and jetlag), but i remember dance was really impressive on stage. and i also remember thinking, “is that the guy from clueless? ”
he played a hustler archaeologist in pascali’s island. bonus scantily clad helen mirren ,
even buzzfeed puts more effort into their obvious clickbait lists than this. you couldn’t even be bothered to write a single sentence about each role? just a quick trip to imdb and google and call it the day? this is the sort of stuff you see on a first timers attempt at using listal .
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according to acorn media uk, this release is not subtitled .
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our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things. the honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist. (greene, 85 )
i help brave men who cannot help themselves. i give them a chance to get back a little of their own from the men who battened and fattened on them, who helped to starve their dependents while they were fighting, who smoked fat cigars in the haunts of their betters, and hoped the war might never end. (lloyds magazine, march 1921, 382. )
then came the war. who should be the first to answer the call but verrell, whose soul craved for adventure? time after time he performed deeds of valour which caused his name to ring loud with renown throughout the army, but miraculously his life was spared and his bravery earned its own reward, for he was presented with the m. m. (graeme 1925, 25 )
what little difference there was… merely the matter of a shirt; although blackshirt wore the evening clothes of his other self, the one thing he never used was the spotless white shirt of richard verrell, knowing full well that to do so would, in effect, be asking for trouble. (graeme 1929, 87. )
i’ve met the most wonderful girl in the world. by all the laws of adventure, i’m bound to have to to save her life two or three times during the next ten days. i shall kiss her very passionately in the next chapter, and we shall be married. (charteris 1928, 21. )
in the event, he kisses her passionately, and more, in the last chapter, but he doesn’t marry her. like his hero, charteris himself plays fast and loose with generic expectations. in the same book, meet the tiger, there is a silly - ass character, with a silly - ass name – algernon de breton lomas - coper. he is defined by charteris in literary terms, as :
very interesting reading. ‘the durable desperados’ is a 1973 book which discusses these topics further .
surprised yoou didn’t mention john buchan’s john macnab, where the central characters take up poaching - a half - way stage to outright criminality - as a cure for boredom .
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), a gentleman of leisure and a first - class cricketer. but when he’s not dining at his club or taking wickets for england, he’s often engaged in his other favorite activity - - relieving the wealthy of their riches .
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charming. not the strongest bbc production, but the old - fashioned, well... charm... keeps me going back .
charming victorian villain that steals from the rich, and yet people keep inviting him back! they have an idea it is him, but he is so loveable and charming that they like him and want to be in his company anyway. he is quite the dandy and is in all the rich and famous circles so no one suspects it is him in the beginning. but all roads lead to him toward the end of the series. will he get away with it? this is an older series that i had never seen before, but i really looked forward to watching it every day until finished .
fantastic. i don' t know why everyone isn' t watching this! i can' t lend it to my friends fast enough! it' s gentle, fun, funny, adventurous. it is especially timeless and a great portrayal of the victorian period. i love the acting, the stories, the characters, the sets. there is nothing about this that i don' t love. and a cat burglar cricketer and his mate chronicler and fellow cat burglar! it' s exciting stuff !
as the show went on the actor' s became more comfortable in their roles i found it to be enjoyable .
loved it. a cody warm british series. witty, well acted, well written .
a really good show. only problem is the subtitles get messed ...
a really good show. only problem is the subtitles get messed up at around act 2, someone should like. look into that .
it was okay. the plot was
see through
. the ending was fun .
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universe, along with general dates or known periods of operation. many on the list were originally placed in the universe by philip josé farmer (not intended to be an all - inclusive list - see
tarzan alive and doc savage). i have added many more through their involvement in crossover stories with farmer' s original wold
clark savage iv, pam savage, spencer holmes, james suzuki, and spock of vulcan) .
brown text indicates revisions and additions to the character list by dennis power. the revisions and additions will reflect new characters, speculations on the relationships between the characters and additional background information. these are often brought in by his own research and do not necessarily reflect the characters accepted by the original wold
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his many identities throughout the ages may have included methusaleh, jeroboam, achilles, alexander the great, leonardo da vinci, william shakespeare, johannes brahames, dr. wilson evergreen, micah brack, abramson, sten from marcos ii, dr. emil vaslovik
thorn, dominion, a sharpness on the neck, a question of time, a matter of taste, seance for a vampire. the differences between stoker' s dracula and saberhagen' s dracula are discussed
hero of napoleon' s army. character created by a. c. doyle
captain wilton parmiter, sgt. morgan o' rourke, cpl. randolph agarn and other members of f -
impey barbicane, j. t. maston, and other members of the baltimore gun club (1865 - 1886 )
james moriarity was character created by a. c. doyle. he appears in the
the green eyes have it - or are they blue? , by christopher carey .
character created by george w. trendle and fran striker for nationally syndicated radio show .
character created by e. w. hornug (brother in law of a. c. doyle )
charles beauregard, sr. (grandfather of clive reston) (1887 - 1920s )
boothby, guy: a bid for fortune, or dr. nikola' s vendetta (html at forgotten futures )
boothby, guy: dr. nikola returns (html at blackmask. com )
boothby, guy: the lust of hate (html at blackmask. com )
and his associates, lord john roxton * and edward d. malone (1893 - 1920s )
nan sherwood of pine camp; or, the old lumberman' s secret .
nan sherwood at rose ranch; or, the old mexican' s treasure. 1919
and as a main character in tarzan at the earth' s core and back to the stone age .
( completed from upfield' s notes by j. l. price and dorothy strange )
captain philip collins, seaman jake holman and the rest of the crew of the u. s. s. san pablo
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mr. justice raffles is a 1921 british crime film directed by gaston quiribet and starring gerald ames , eileen dennes and james carew . it was based on the 1909 novel mr. justice raffles by e.w. hornung featuring his gentleman thief aj raffles . the plot changed a number of details from the novel and inserted a romantic interest into the plot which sees raffles fall in love with camilla belsize , while trying to conceal his secret life as a leading cracksman from her . 
mr. justice raffles is a 1921 british crime film directed by gaston quiribet and starring gerald ames, eileen dennes and james carew. it was based on the 1909 novel mr. justice raffles by e.w. hornung featuring his gentleman thief aj raffles. the plot changed a number of details from the novel and inserted a romantic interest into the plot which sees raffles fall in love with camilla belsize, while trying to conceal his secret life as a leading cracksman from her.
mr. justice raffles is a 1921 british crime film directed by gaston quiribet and starring gerald ames, eileen dennes and james carew. it was based on the 1909 novel mr. justice raffles by e.w. hornung featuring his gentleman thief aj raffles. the plot changed a number of details from the novel and inserted a romantic interest into the plot which sees raffles fall in love with camilla belsize, while trying to conceal his secret life as a leading cracksman from her.