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True Lies is a 1994 American action comedy film written and directed by James Cameron, based on the 1991 French comedy film La Totale! [4] The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Harry Tasker, a U.S. government agent, who struggles to balance his double life as a spy with his familial duties.
Francisco Franco Bahamonde [f] [g] (born Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming ...
Biography, Drama, History, War. 1942 Spain Red and Black: Rojo y negro: Carlos Arévalo Calvet: Drama, War. Falange's fifth column in Madrid 1943 United States The Fallen Sparrow: Richard Wallace: Film-Noir, Mystery. Spy thriller based on Dorothy B. Hughes novel 1943 United States For Whom the Bell Tolls: Sam Wood: Adventure, Drama, History ...
It's been nearly 30 years since True Lies set a new standard for the high-octane action-comedy genre, and Jamie Lee Curtis clearly still feels a great deal of connection to her iconic character ...
The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil española) [note 2] was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left -leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic . [ 10 ]
Franco, one of the coup's leaders, [19] and his Nationalist army won the Spanish Civil War in 1939. Franco ruled Spain for the next 36 years until his death in 1975. [ 19 ] Besides the mass assassinations of republican political enemies, political prisoners were imprisoned in concentration camps [ 20 ] and homosexuals were confined in ...
The first Francoism (1939–1959) was the first stage in the history of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship, between the end of the Spanish Civil War and the abandonment of the autarkic economic policy with the application of the Stabilization Plan of 1959, which gave way to the developmentalist Francoism or second Francoism, which lasted until the death of the Generalissimo.
For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 American epic war film produced and directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Katina Paxinou and Joseph Calleia. The screenwriter Dudley Nichols based his script on the 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls by American novelist Ernest Hemingway .