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The Steam Man of the Prairies by Edward S. Ellis was the first U.S. science fiction dime novel [1] and archetype of the Frank Reade series. It is one of the earliest examples of the so-called " Edisonade " genre. [ 2 ]
Frank Reade was the protagonist of a series of dime novels published primarily for boys. [1] [2] The first novel, Frank Reade and His Steam Man of the Plains, an imitation of Edward Ellis's The Steam Man of the Prairies (1868), was written by Harry Enton and serialized in the Frank Tousey juvenile magazine Boys of New York, February 28 through April 24, 1876. [3]
An Ordinary Man is a 2017 American drama thriller film written, directed and produced by Brad Silberling.It stars Ben Kingsley, Hera Hilmar and Peter Serafinowicz. [1] [2] Filmed in Belgrade, Serbia in 2015, it was screened at the Bari International Film Festival in April 2017 and picked up in February 2018 by Saban Films, [3] who released it direct-to-video in June 2018.
The movie received positive reviews. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gave Steamboy a rating of 61% based on over 90 reviews, and an average rating of 6.1/10, with the site's consensus "The story isn't the greatest, but there's an abundance of sci-fi eye candy to compensate."
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The Best Man is a 1964 American political drama film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner with a screenplay by Gore Vidal based on his 1960 play of the same title.Starring Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson and Lee Tracy, the film details the seamy political maneuverings behind the nomination of a presidential candidate at their party's national convention.
"Steamboat Round the Bend" is referenced as a movie playing in a movie house outside a restaurant scene in the movie "Paper Moon" (1973) Rogers' "medicine" is named POCAHONTAS, and in scrambled history says she married John Smith, the man whose life she saved. Actually, Pocahontas married another colonist, John Rolfe.