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[
"The Crystal World",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | The Crystal World is a science fiction novel by English author J. G. Ballard, published in 1966. The novel tells the story of a physician trying to make his way deep into the jungle to a secluded leprosy treatment facility. While trying to make it to his destination, his chaotic path leads him to try to come to terms with an apocalyptic phenomenon in the jungle that crystallises everything it touches.
Ballard previously used the theme of apocalyptic crystallisation in the 1964 short story "The Illuminated Man" (included in The Terminal Beach), which is also set in the same locations.Plot summary
The protagonist is Edward Sanders, an English medical doctor, who arrives at the river port of Port Matarre, in Cameroon. From here he tries to reach a leprosy treatment facility where his friends, Max and Suzanne Clair, live. Soon, however, he starts to recognize that a mysterious phenomenon is crystallizing the jungle along with its living creatures. The same phenomenon is reported to be present in the Florida everglades and in the Pripyat Marshes (Soviet Union) as well. Scientific explanations of the phenomenon are provided within the book: however, Ballard offers mostly an interior and psychological perspective about it, directly through Sanders' experiences. Several facts, furthermore, remain unexplained: for example, the ability of jewels to liquefy the crystals. The crystals also have the property to keep objects and beings in a suspended state of existence. Many passages deal with this characteristic, pointing out its capability to stop time and life.
In his route towards the deep of the forest, Sanders gets involved in a personal feud between Ventress, a Belgian architect, and Thorensen, the director of a diamond mine. In one of the most striking episodes of the novel, Sanders discovers the reason of the deadly rivalry to be Ventress' former wife, Serena, who is terminally ill with tuberculosis. After a final confrontation, Thorensen decides to remain in his house within the jungle, in spite of the encroaching crystallization process. Two of the other characters met by Sanders in his voyage spontaneously make the same decision: Balthus, an apostate priest, and Suzanne. The latter, nearly gone mad and sporting the first symptoms of leprosy, is portrayed towards the end of the novel as the leader of a band of lepers who set for the interior of the crystallizing forest, clearly to never come back.
After having barely escaped from the now quickly spreading crystallization, Sanders reaches Port Matarre. Here, however, he makes the same decision as Balthus and Suzanne. In the final pages, Sanders goes back to the river to face the same fate as Suzanne. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"The Crystal World",
"followed by",
"The Atrocity Exhibition"
] | null | null | null | null | 7 |
|
[
"The Crystal World",
"follows",
"The Burning World"
] | null | null | null | null | 9 |
|
[
"Ninja Commando",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Any Man's Death",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Any Man's Death is a 1990 South African thriller drama film directed by Tom Clegg and starring John Savage, William Hickey, Mia Sara and Ernest Borgnine.Plot
An investigative journalist is sent to the volatile frontiers of Angola and South-West Africa to investigate the disappearance of a photographer during the South African Border War. He eventually stumbles across an unrepentant Nazi war criminal who researches local snake venom in the hopes of finding a cancer cure. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Siren of Atlantis",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Siren of Atlantis, also known as Atlantis the Lost Continent, is a 1949 American black-and-white fantasy-adventure film, distributed by United Artists, that stars Maria Montez and her husband Jean Pierre Aumont. It was the first feature she made after leaving Universal Pictures.André de Saint-Avit of the French Foreign Legion is discovered unconscious in the African desert. He claims he stumbled upon the lost kingdom of Atlantis, ruled by the beautiful Queen Antinea, who drove him to commit murder. | null | null | null | null | 2 |
[
"Siren of Atlantis",
"based on",
"Atlantida"
] | null | null | null | null | 22 |
|
[
"Keïta! l'Héritage du griot",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Panther Girl of the Kongo",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Panther Girl of the Kongo is a 1955 Republic movie serial that contains a great deal of stock footage from the 1941 Republic serial Jungle Girl. This was the penultimate of Republic's 66 serial films.Plot
Mad scientist Dr. Morgan wants sole access to secret diamond mines in the local area of Africa. He breeds giant crayfish ("Claw Monsters") to scare away any other inhabitants. Jean Evans, the Panther Girl and friend Larry Sanders encounter the plot while on a photo safari in the region.Cast
Phyllis Coates as Jean Evans, the Panther Girl
Myron Healey as Larry Sanders, a big game hunter
Arthur Space as Dr. Morgan, a mad scientist
John Daheim as Cass, one of Dr. Morgan's henchmen
Mike Ragan as Rand, one of Dr Morgan's henchmen
Morris Buchanan as Tembo
Roy Glenn as Chief Danka
James Logan as Constable Harris | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Secret Service in Darkest Africa",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Secret Service in Darkest Africa",
"main subject",
"World War II"
] | null | null | null | null | 2 |
|
[
"The Huggetts Abroad",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Plot
After Joe Huggett loses his job, the family decide to emigrate to South Africa, travelling via a land route that takes them across Africa. On their journey they become entangled with a diamond smuggler.
Their truck breaks down in the desert and Joe and his son-in-law Jimmy have to trek across the sand to find help for the family.Cast
Jack Warner as Joe Huggett
Kathleen Harrison as Ethel Huggett
Susan Shaw as Susan Huggett
Petula Clark as Pet Huggett
Dinah Sheridan as Jane Huggett
Hugh McDermott as Bob McCoy
Jimmy Hanley as Jimmy Gardner
Peter Hammond as Peter Hawtrey
John Blythe as Gowan
Amy Veness as Grandma Huggett
Peter Illing as Algerian Detective
Frith Banbury as French Doctor
Olaf Pooley as Straker
Esma Cannon as Brown Owl
Sheila Raynor as Woman with Straker | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"The Magnificent Two",
"narrative location",
"South America"
] | Plot
Two British Action Man travelling salesmen are sent to the South American country of Parazuellia to sell their goods. During the train journey, Eric accidentally opens a door leading to the death of the returning British educated Torres who is the figurehead of a revolutionary movement and a government secret policeman arresting him. Upon arrival in the city of Campo Grande, Eric is mistaken by the revolutionaries for Torres, and though they discover the death of the real Torres they pay Eric and Ernie to maintain Eric's impersonation of Torres to lead a revolution to oust a brutal dictator. However, once the revolution is successful Eric gains an inflated opinion of himself. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Jungle Blue",
"narrative location",
"South America"
] | Jungle Blue is a 1978 American pornographic exploitation film directed by Carlos Tobalina under the pseudonym Troy Benny. The film stars Kathie Kori as Jane, a woman who journeys into the jungles of South America in search of her missing father, accompanied by explorers who secretly plan to steal jewels that they believe are being guarded by a native tribe. The other members of the cast include Nina Fause and Bill Cable. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Fresh Hare",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Nightbreed",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | Filming
For the film, Barker used three soundstages at Pinewood Studios shooting some scenes on location at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK over several nights and in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Bob Keen and his crew had two months to play around with ideas before doing any modeling work. They used computer-controlled animatronics but only where necessary. Towards the end of principal photography, Barker brought Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie in to paint mattes for the Necropolis sequences and design the history of the Breed in a symbolic way on an enormous mural across a 60-foot space on the set at Pinewood to be used in the opening credits.During an interview in 2022 on The Ghost of Hollywood, cinematographer Robin Vidgeon, mentioned that he disliked working with David Cronenberg, stating Cronenberg complained to Clive that he was being usurped.Barker was contractually obligated to deliver an R-rated film and could not make it as gory as his previous picture Hellraiser. Barker previewed the first cut of Nightbreed with a temporary soundtrack that did not go well, as people were confused by the characters' motives. He made some changes and the second test screening was much more successful. However, the ending with Decker's death was not well received and Barker changed it. In late July 1989, the studio pushed the release date for Nightbreed from its original autumn 1989 date to early February 1990 instead. The press release cited "the complex demands of the film's ground-breaking post-production optical effects", but this also included McQuarrie's mural and matte paintings, and a week of additional shooting in late August that would see key parts of the narrative re-shot. Barker shot extra scenes over three days in Los Angeles in late 1989 which included additional scenes with David Cronenberg which expanded and clarified his character. Barker's original version ran two-and-a-half hours and Fox asked for almost an hour to be cut prompting editor Richard Marden to leave the project in protest. Nightbreed was cut to two hours and then again to 102 minutes. | null | null | null | null | 2 |
[
"Nightbreed",
"performer",
"Danny Elfman"
] | null | null | null | null | 5 |
|
[
"Nightbreed",
"based on",
"Cabal"
] | Nightbreed is a 1990 American dark fantasy horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based on his 1988 novella Cabal. It stars Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Hugh Quarshie, and Doug Bradley. The film follows an unstable mental patient named Aaron Boone who is falsely led to believe by his doctor that he is a serial killer. Tracked down by the police, his doctor, and his girlfriend Lori, Boone eventually finds refuge in an abandoned cemetery called Midian among a tribe of monsters and outcasts known as the "Nightbreed" who hide from humanity.
At the time of its release, the film was a commercial and critical failure. In several interviews, Barker protested that the film company tried to sell it as a standard slasher film, and that the powers-that-be had no real working knowledge of Nightbreed's story. Since its initial theatrical release, Nightbreed has become a cult film.Over time, Barker expressed disappointment with the final cut approved by the studio and always longed for the recovery of the reels so the film might be re-edited. In 2014, original film elements for the cut material were re-obtained and were edited into a director's cut, released through Scream Factory. | null | null | null | null | 22 |
[
"Nightbreed",
"main subject",
"serial killer"
] | null | null | null | null | 30 |
|
[
"Nightbreed",
"main subject",
"supernatural"
] | null | null | null | null | 31 |
|
[
"Ginger Snaps (film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Ginger Snaps (film)",
"followed by",
"Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed"
] | null | null | null | null | 20 |
|
[
"The Mysterious Pilot",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | The Mysterious Pilot is a 15-episode 1937 Columbia movie serial based on the book by William Byron Mowery and starring the record-breaking aviator Frank Hawks. This was the second serial produced by Columbia. In the serial, Hawks plays a flying "mountie".Plot
Carter Snowden (Kenneth Harlan) about to marry Jean McNain (Dorothy Sebastian), is accused of murder. When his accuser is killed, Jean flees the train she is on, and heads into the Canadian woods. Snowden sends a bodyguard to find Jean, who appeals to RCMP Captain Jim Down (Frank Hawks) for help. With his friend "Kansas" (Rex Lease) and Indian Luke (Yakima Canutt), Jim hides Jean.
Snowden tracks down Jean and tries to lure her to his aircraft by telling her that Jim is injured and needs her. As soon as they realize what has happened, Jim and Kansas take to the air and force Snowden's aircraft down. Jean is unhurt but Snowden dies in the crash. Trying to get down to Jean, Jim's parachute gets tangled in the trees and Jean ends up rescuing him. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"The Mysterious Pilot",
"main subject",
"aviation"
] | The Mysterious Pilot is a 15-episode 1937 Columbia movie serial based on the book by William Byron Mowery and starring the record-breaking aviator Frank Hawks. This was the second serial produced by Columbia. In the serial, Hawks plays a flying "mountie". | null | null | null | null | 7 |
[
"One Week (2008 film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | One Week is a 2008 Canadian drama film directed by Michael McGowan and starring Joshua Jackson, Liane Balaban, and Campbell Scott. The film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2008, and was released theatrically on March 6, 2009.
Jackson plays Ben Tyler, who has been diagnosed with cancer. Requiring immediate treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto across Canada to Vancouver Island. Along the way, he meets several people that help him reevaluate his relationship with his fiancée Samantha (played by Balaban), his job, and his dream of becoming a writer.
The scenic backdrop of the Canadian landscape as well as an all-Canadian soundtrack serve as prevalent influences in the film.
Joshua Jackson won Best Actor at the 2010 Genie Awards for his portrayal of Ben Tyler. Liane Balaban was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"D2 (video game)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | Plot
The game opens with Laura Parton falling asleep on an airplane trip to an undisclosed location. After being jolted awake by a tone over the airplane's PA system and a friendly conversation with a fellow passenger named David, a group of terrorists, who seem to be guided by some kind of mysterious cultist chanting to himself, suddenly and violently takes control of the plane. David, who turns out to be a special agent within the FBI, attempts to stop the terrorists, but he is thwarted when a meteorite strikes the plane, sending it crashing into the Canadian wilderness.
After a series of bad dreams, Laura awakens in a small cabin being cared for by Kimberly Fox, a poet, and songwriter who also survived the crash. She explains that ten days have passed since the accident, although Kimberly had only found her some distance from the crash site two days prior, leaving a strange eight-day gap where she was mysteriously taken care of. The moment of peace is broken when another survivor, one of the hijackers, staggers into the cabin before suddenly transforming into a hideous plant-like monster. Here, Laura and Kimberly meet Parker Jackson, a CETI researcher and fellow crash survivor who drives out the monster, only to be driven out himself by a distrusting Kimberly.
Laura then sets out into the wilderness in order to investigate the possibility of contacting the outside world and seeking out other survivors only to discover that more strange, hideous creatures are lurking in the area, as something is causing the crash survivors to mutate into the very same monsters she must avoid and battle while traveling through the region. She is driven deeper into the mystery when she must venture into an abandoned mining facility in order to locate Jannie, a lost little girl Kimberly had found along with Laura and one of the plane's former passengers. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"D2 (video game)",
"different from",
"D2"
] | null | null | null | null | 5 |
|
[
"Hit the Ice",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Battle Grand Prix",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"The View from Castle Rock",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | The View from Castle Rock is a book of short stories by Canadian author Alice Munro, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, which was published in 2006 by McClelland and Stewart.
The book is a collection of historical and autobiographical stories. The first part of the book narrates the lives of members of the Laidlaw branch of the family tree of the author, starting from their Scottish origins in the 18th century. The second part consists of fictionalized tales inspired by events in her own life.Contents
Foreword
Part One / No Advantages
"No Advantages"
"The View from Castle Rock"
"Illinois"
"The Wilds of Morris Township"
"Working for a Living"
Part Two / Home
"Fathers"
"Lying Under the Apple Tree"
"Hired Girl"
"The Ticket"
"Home"
"What Do You Want to Know For?"
Epilogue
"Messenger"The View from Castle Rock
This story narrates the voyage of James Laidlaw and his family to Canada.
The title stems from the event when James took his ten-year-old child Andrew to the top of the Rock of Edinburgh Castle to show him the coast of America (actually Fife).
James Laidlaw (Old James) had one daughter, Mary, and 5 sons, Robert, James, Andrew, William, and Walter.
Robert and William had moved to the Highlands before the move, while the others followed in the voyage (although James has left earlier).
Andrew's family is composed of his pregnant wife Agnes and their infant son (Young) James.
Agnes gives birth to a girl during the ocean crossing.
Mary is very attached to Young James: she takes care of him and panics when he disappears.
Young James dies shortly after their landing.
Walter writes down an account of the trip in his journal.
He meets a rich girl suffering from tuberculosis; her father suggests he follow them and get a job in his business, but Walter refuses. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"The View from Castle Rock",
"follows",
"Runaway"
] | null | null | null | null | 4 |
|
[
"The View from Castle Rock",
"followed by",
"Too Much Happiness"
] | null | null | null | null | 6 |
|
[
"The Devil's Partner",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"The Devil's Partner",
"different from",
"The Devil's Partner"
] | null | null | null | null | 5 |
|
[
"The Savage (1917 film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | The Savage is a 1917 American silent drama film starring Colleen Moore and Monroe Salisbury that is set in Canada and was directed by Rupert Julian. The film is presumed to be lost. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"The Savage (1917 film)",
"significant event",
"lost film"
] | The Savage is a 1917 American silent drama film starring Colleen Moore and Monroe Salisbury that is set in Canada and was directed by Rupert Julian. The film is presumed to be lost. | null | null | null | null | 10 |
[
"Gold (2013 film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | Plot
The film depicts a trek of settlers of German and Austrian-Hungarian origin on their way through a sparsely populated part of Canada. The Group travels in 1899 from Ashcroft, British Columbia to Dawson City, following the Klondike Gold Rush. | null | null | null | null | 2 |
[
"Gold (2013 film)",
"main subject",
"Klondike Gold Rush"
] | Plot
The film depicts a trek of settlers of German and Austrian-Hungarian origin on their way through a sparsely populated part of Canada. The Group travels in 1899 from Ashcroft, British Columbia to Dawson City, following the Klondike Gold Rush. | null | null | null | null | 16 |
[
"Cold Comfort (film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | Cold Comfort is a Canadian psychological thriller film, released in 1989. The film was written by Richard Beattie and Elliot L. Sims based on the play by Jim Garrard, and directed by Vic Sarin.The film premiered in August 1989 at the Montreal World Film Festival.Plot
Stephen Paul Gross is a salesman who gets drawn into a sexual psychodrama between Floyd (Maury Chaykin), a sociopathic truck driver, and his daughter Dolores (Margaret Langrick), when the three are caught together in a blizzard.
The film's cast also includes Jayne Eastwood, Ted Follows, Richard Fitch and Grant Roll.Production
The film was slated to be shot in Edmonton and Winnipeg, but had to be relocated to Ontario after production delays led the arrangements to fall through. Cynthia Preston had also been originally cast in the role of Dolores, but had to drop out after suffering injuries in a car accident, and Langrick was cast to replace her.In 1990, Langrick reprised the role of Dolores in a Vancouver stage production of Garrard's original play. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Dear Canada",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | Dear Canada is a series of historical novels marketed at kids first published in 2001 and continuing to the present. The books are published by Scholastic Canada Ltd. They are similar to the Dear America series, with each book written in the form of the diary of a fictional young woman living during an important event in Canadian history. The series covers both familiar and little-known topics such as Home Children, North-West Rebellion, and the 1837 Rebellion. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Dreamspeaker",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Excited (film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | Excited is a 2009 Canadian romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Vancouver-based director Bruce Sweeney and produced by Catherine Middleton and Bruce Sweeney. It has screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Seattle International Film Festival. It was given a theatrical release with Union Pictures.
The film collected four Leo Awards including Best Feature length Drama and Best Direction of a feature-length drama. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Jatt & Juliet",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"The Grip of the Yukon",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | The Grip of the Yukon is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by Ernst Laemmle, the nephew of Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle. The film starred Francis X. Bushman and Neil Hamilton, and is based on a story by William MacLeod Raine, "The Yukon Trail, A Tale of the North".Plot
An old-time Alaskan miner dies and leaves his fortune and holdings to his daughter in the states. She comes north and is befriended by two old friends of her father. And she needs all the befriending they can provide as a true-blue villain has designs on her holdings and attributes. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"The Grip of the Yukon",
"significant event",
"lost film"
] | null | null | null | null | 11 |
|
[
"The Royal Mounted Rides Again",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Trudeau (film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | Trudeau is a 2002 television miniseries and biography dramatizing the life of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. It aired on CBC Television on Sunday and Monday evenings and was written by Wayne Grigsby and directed by Jerry Ciccoritti.The miniseries was one of the highest-rated Canadian television programs of the year, resulting in 8 wins and 3 nominations. Two of the wins were from Directors Guild of Canada; one being the DGC Craft Award, as Jerry Ciccoritti won Outstanding Achievement in Direction and Dean Soltys won Outstanding Achievement in Picture Editing and the other being the DGC Team Award. As well, it won several Gemini Awards including Best Actor, Best Writing and Best Direction. Colm Feore also won Monte-Carlo TV Festival's Best Performance by an Actor. "With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, Trudeau is a beautiful show – the best Canadian political teleplay since Denys Arcand's Duplessis 25 years ago, and maybe the best ever."The miniseries follows Pierre Trudeau through the major events of his political mandates up to the patriation of the Canadian Constitution. A few of the major characters in the film (notably "Greenbaum" and "Duncan") are fictional, or composite characters.
It was filmed in various locations in Canada, but mainly in Halifax, Nova Scotia and at Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Distributed in both official languages English and French, the two episodes first aired on 31 March and 1 April 2002.
As background research, writer Wayne Grigsby spoke to numerous people who had known Trudeau, but the Trudeau family did not reply to the requests by the CBC.A prequel, Trudeau II: Maverick in the Making, came out in 2005, examining Trudeau's early life. This $8-million, four-hour CBC production was originally designed as a "double shoot," to be filmed in both French and English versions; however, it ended up being made in English only – even though most of the actors, including lead Stéphane Demers, are Québécois. (Demers inherits the role from Colm Feore, who was tied up playing the villain in The Chronicles of Riddick.) | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Trudeau (film)",
"main subject",
"politics"
] | null | null | null | null | 4 |
|
[
"The Snow Bride",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Strangers on Honeymoon",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Kazan (1949 film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Warm Bodies (film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Warm Bodies (film)",
"based on",
"Warm Bodies"
] | null | null | null | null | 7 |
|
[
"Warm Bodies (film)",
"main subject",
"aviation"
] | null | null | null | null | 22 |
|
[
"Challenge to White Fang",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Stuck (2007 film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | Cast
Mena Suvari as Brandi Boski
Stephen Rea as Thomas "Tom" Bardo
Russell Hornsby as Rashid
Rukiya Bernard as Tanya
Carolyn Purdy-Gordon as Petersen
Lionel Mark Smith as Sam
Wayne Robson as Binckley
R.D. Reid as Manager
John Dunsworth as Cabbie
Patrick McKenna as JoeProduction
The film marks the first production under the newly reformed Amicus Productions. It was filmed in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"And Hope to Die",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | Plot
Blamed for the death of three gypsy children in a plane crash in France, Tony Cardot flees to Canada, pursued by gypsies intent on revenge. In Montreal he witnesses a shootout, takes care of a wounded man who soon dies, but not before giving Tony $15,000 and whispering the enigmatic words: "Toboggan committed suicide." Then Tony is assaulted by two thugs, Mattone and Paul, who can't find the cash on him and take him back to their hideout on an island. There he meets the group leader Charley who threatens to kill Tony if he doesn't reveal where the money is. Nevertheless, he lets Tony stay, and the two men proceed to play mind games with one another. In the meantime, Charley's girlfriend Sugar and Paul's sister Pepper are both vying for Tony's attention. Tony succeeds in convincing the group he is also a gangster, and they enlist him in their plan: to kidnap a crucial witness in a mafia trial. After the partial failure of the kidnapping and the dispersal of the gang, Tony and Charley hole up together in the gangsters hideout, waiting for the police. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"The Country Doctor (1936 film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | Plot
The Country Doctor is set in a remote area of Quebec, Canada. The country doctor John Luke (Jean Hersholt) is an unlicensed general practitioner who cares for the residents of a small Canadian timber station taking much of his payment in barter. Having spent years operating from the station and from his own dwelling, and following a particularly bad epidemic of diphtheria in which several children die, the doctor decides to travel to Montreal to speak with the medical Managing Director of the region. The doctor's hope is that the director will try to get the rich corporation who owns the land to pay for a proper hospital.
After trying unsuccessfully to make any headway and finding himself stymied by governmental red tape, he crashes a public dinner given by the medical association to argue his point in person. The timber corporation hears of this protest and sends their lawyers to take revenge on the doctor. During the course of the investigation the doctor's lack of a license is quickly discovered and the local police are informed that the doctor has been practicing illegally. The doctor returns to the timber station in low spirits.
Before long, Asa Wyatt (John Qualen), one of the workers comes to the doctor's house with his pregnant wife (Aileen Carlyle). She is just about to give birth and the worker begs the doctor to help them despite his lack of a license.
The local constabulary become involved and warn the doctor that he could face charges if he delivers the baby, but the doctor finds that he can't simply stand by passively and he starts to help the mother as the police berate him. After delivering the child, the doctor realizes that the birth is actually a multiple birth and the delivery continues until the doctor has delivered five babies.
When word gets out, the doctor becomes a national hero, the building of a local hospital is set in motion, and the medical Managing Director in Montreal is congratulated by the Governor-General. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Renfrew of the Royal Mounted (1937 film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"IndyCar Racing",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"The Dawn Maker",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"The Dawn Maker",
"significant event",
"lost film"
] | null | null | null | null | 15 |
|
[
"Canadian Pacific (film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | Canadian Pacific is a 1949 American historical Western film, directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring Randolph Scott and Jane Wyatt. Filmed in Cinecolor on location in the Canadian Rockies in Banff National Park, Morley Indian Reserve in Alberta, and Yoho National Park in British Columbia, it is a story about the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Confessions of a Porn Addict",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Confessions of a Porn Addict",
"main subject",
"pornography"
] | null | null | null | null | 5 |
|
[
"Nomads of the North",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Nomads of the North",
"based on",
"Nomads of the North"
] | null | null | null | null | 17 |
|
[
"On the Great White Trail",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | On the Great White Trail also known as Renfrew on the Great White Trail is a 1938 American Northern starring James Newill as Sgt. Renfrew of the Royal Mounted in the second of the film series. It was produced and directed by Albert Herman.Plot summary
Even in the remote fur trading section of Canada, Sergeant Douglas Renfrew finds a lady in distress. Kay Larkin, whose father is a suspect to a crime. Larkin's partner, along with another Mountie, are found murdered: word came down from the remote region of the Pacific Northwest from Dr. Howe, who resides there. But after finding old man Larkin, and arresting him in the name of the Crown, Renfrew hears his story and suspect's Kay's father is innocent of the charges. Pierre, an employee of a trading post up north, is suspect until Dr. Howe's guilt is revealed. Howe committed the murders and attempted to frame Larkin. The motive was theft and greed that resulted in a murder neither party wanted to be involved, then attempted to cover their tracks. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Perils of the Wilderness",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Ramsbottom Rides Again",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | Plot
Yorkshire pub owner Bill Ramsbottom (Arthur Askey) is finding the introduction of the "telly" has ruined his business at the "Bull & Cow". When he receives a cable from Canada, and learns that his grandfather "Wild Bill" Ramsbottom has left his estate to him, he confers with his family before deciding to set off for the frontier town of Lonesome in Canada to claim his inheritance.
When all the family fortune is gathered together, there is not enough money to pay for tickets on a steamship for everyone. Ramsbottom and his mate, Charlie Watson (Glen Melvyn), stow away in big steamer trunks but are discovered by the crew. Made to work their passage, Charlie and Ramsbottom end up as culinary servers on the voyage. When the captain realizes that "Wild Bill" Ramsbottom's grandson is aboard, he allows him to travel as a passenger.
Arriving at Lonesome, Ramsbottom learns that part of his bequeathment, is that he is the new proprietor of the saloon, which also comes with the job of deputy sheriff in the lawless town. The feared outlaw Black Jake (Sid James) also claims he owns the saloon, but more importantly, wants to locate a hidden map that points the way to a uranium mine on Indian territory.
Ramsbottom and Black Jake have a confrontation at the saloon where the outlaw is arrested, but is later set free. When the map turns up, Charlie and Ramsbottom head off into Indian lands to locate the uranium mine. They run into Indian chief Blue Eagle (Jerry Desmonde), and the local tribe.
When Black Jake rounds up his gang, a shootout takes place at the saloon. With the help of townspeople and the RCMP, Ramsbotttom is successful in defeating the outlaws and establishing peace in the town. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"The Little Wild Girl",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Canada (novel)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | Canada is a 2012 novel by American author Richard Ford. The novel follows 15-year-old Dell Parsons, who must learn to fend for himself after his parents are arrested for robbing a bank. The book also re-visits Great Falls, Montana, a setting that Ford frequently uses in his work. It was Ford's first "stand alone" novel since Wildlife (1990).Plot
After his parents are arrested for robbing a bank, fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons is left to fend for himself. His twin sister Berner has run off, leaving him to a family friend who secrets him away to Saskatchewan, Canada. There Dell is to live with the American Arthur Remlinger, a man with a cool demeanor and a hidden inner violence that threatens Dell's well-being. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Canada (novel)",
"follows",
"The Lay of the Land"
] | null | null | null | null | 7 |
|
[
"Friends (1988 film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"The Long Dark",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | The Long Dark is a first-person survival video game developed and published by Hinterland Studios. The player assumes the role of crash-landed bush pilot Will Mackenzie who must survive the frigid Canadian wilderness after a geomagnetic storm. The game received seed financing from the Canada Media Fund, and further funding was secured through a successful Kickstarter campaign in October 2013.An alpha version was released through Steam Early Access in September 2014. The alpha version was later launched on the Xbox One as one of the first two launch titles associated with Microsoft's Game Preview Program in June 2015. Early reviews of the alpha release were generally positive, and the game went on to sell around 750,000 copies by April 2016. It was officially released on all aforementioned platforms on August 1, 2017, as well as for PlayStation 4. In 2017, it was announced that a film adaptation of The Long Dark was in the works. On September 17, 2020, it was announced that the game would be coming to Nintendo Switch later that same day.Development
Following completion of his work as director on Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, Raphael van Lierop left Relic Entertainment to work on projects which he felt were "more personal" and "more representative of [his] values". Van Lierop also left Vancouver, moving his family from the city to the northern part of Vancouver Island. Inspired by these new surroundings, he formed Hinterland and began to work on The Long Dark, a game about surviving the Canadian wilderness. Hinterland wanted to explore a post apocalyptic world from the fringes, away from the urban apocalypse, which "we've all seen a million times" and away from "B-movie cliches like zombies". Van Lierop was also keen to impart a Canadian identity upon the game, having been frustrated with homogenised AAA video games which sacrificed character for mass market appeal, he summed up his approach with, "I'm Canadian. This game is Canadian. Deal with it."When van Lierop announced the Hinterland team in September 2013, members included Alan Lawrance, formerly a lead at Volition, Marianne Krawczyk, writer of the God of War series, and David Chan, BioWare's first audio designer. A year later, they were joined by Ken Rolston, the lead designer of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Hinterland operated as a virtual team, with its members remote workers. Lawrance cites remote work as a crucial factor in his decision to join Hinterland.Hinterland obtained seed funding from the Canada Media Fund, and in September 2013, launched a Kickstarter campaign for The Long Dark to raise C$200,000 and build a community around the game. The campaign was successful, raising C$256,617 upon its completion in October 2013. PayPal contributions following the Kickstarter campaign pushed the final total to over C$275,000 by March 2014. Hinterland announced the game's voice cast during the Kickstarter campaign, allowing The Long Dark to capitalise on the actors' individual fan bases; the cast announced were Mark Meer, Elias Toufexis, Jennifer Hale and David Hayter. Hinterland were mindful of the game's scope, not wanting to expand the team's size and increase risk, and so limited their Kickstarter stretch goals to those that added quality, rather than those that added in-game content.Van Lierop spoke of their studio's approach to early access at the 2015 Game Developers Conference where he warned against allowing the player community to dictate the game's direction. Van Lierop spoke of the differing play styles in the game's audience; though players that preferred a "hardcore survival" experience were in the minority, they were most vocal in the player community. Had Hinterland pandered to those requests, they might have alienated the silent majority of their player community.In April 2016, Van Lierop posted an update about the Story-mode release, explaining that Hinterland had elected to delay the launch of Story mode until it contained 4–6 hours of initial gameplay instead of the originally planned 2 hours. He also declined to set a release date, saying, "You won't get another promise from me about when it will ship, until we are close enough to being done with it that I can say with 100% certainty, and give you a definitive date that I know isn't going to end up with us pushing out an experience we aren't 100% satisfied with". He pointed to the evolution of Sandbox mode as another reason for delay, saying that its popularity had grown to the point that Hinterland decided to bring back regular updates for it, even though it was originally conceived merely as a test-bed for the Story mode. His post also provided a developmental road-map with short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals for additions and improvements.In February 2020, the developers asked Nvidia to remove The Long Dark from GeForce Now, a cloud streaming service, shortly after the service exited beta and went "live". The developers said that their game was improperly placed on the service without any sort of licensing agreement; Nvidia agreed to remove it as a result. The game returned to GeForce Now in May 2020 after Nvidia announced they would switch to an opt-in policy for including games on their platform.In October 2022, Hinterland announced the development of their first paid content expansion named "Tales from the Far Territory", the expansion plans to add additional gameplay systems, regions and Tales, narrative-themed challenges that explore the regions added. Additionally Hinterland plans on adding free content along with each update of the paid expansion. On December 5, 2022, Tales from the Far Territory officially releases.
The second part to the expansion pass, released March 31, 2023, added the first Tale named "Signal Void".
A new Tale named "Frontier Comforts" was released on June 21, 2023. | null | null | null | null | 3 |
[
"Undercover Men",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Numb (2015 film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | Numb is a 2015 Canadian thriller from director Jason R. Goode, and produced by Jenkinson/Goode Productions | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"A Woman's Faith",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Almost America",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"First Round Down",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Red Riders of Canada",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Blueprint (film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Blueprint (film)",
"main subject",
"cloning"
] | Blueprint is a 2003 German drama film directed by Rolf Schübel. It is based on the 1999 novel by Charlotte Kerner. The film raises the ethical issue of human cloning. | null | null | null | null | 8 |
[
"Blueprint (film)",
"main subject",
"mad scientist"
] | null | null | null | null | 13 |
|
[
"Blueprint (film)",
"based on",
"Blueprint"
] | Blueprint is a 2003 German drama film directed by Rolf Schübel. It is based on the 1999 novel by Charlotte Kerner. The film raises the ethical issue of human cloning. | null | null | null | null | 19 |
[
"Stateline Motel",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Calendar (1993 film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 2 |
|
[
"The Savage Innocents",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | The Savage Innocents is a 1960 adventure film directed and co-written by Nicholas Ray. Anthony Quinn and Yoko Tani star, with Lee Montague, Marco Guglielmi, Carlo Giustini, Anthony Chinn, and Michael Chow in supporting roles, alongside Peter O' Toole in an early film role. It was adapted from the novel Top of the World by Swiss writer Hans Rüesch.
The film was an international co-production, with British, Italian and French interests involved; in the United States it was released by Paramount Pictures. The film was shot on-location in the Canadian Arctic, with interiors shot in Britain's Pinewood Studios and in Rome's Cinecittà studios. It was entered in the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. The film's themes include Inuit survival in the extreme arctic wilderness, as well as their raw existence and struggle to maintain their lifestyle against encroaching civilization.Plot
An Inuk hunter kills a Christian missionary who rejects his traditional offer of food and his wife's company. Pursued by white policemen, the Inuk saves the life of one of them, resulting in a final confrontation in which the surviving cop must decide between his commitment to law enforcement and his gratitude to the Inuk. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Black Robe",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Black Robe",
"followed by",
"The Colour of Blood"
] | null | null | null | null | 7 |
|
[
"Black Robe",
"follows",
"Cold Heaven"
] | null | null | null | null | 9 |
|
[
"Curse of the Fly",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 2 |
|
[
"Curse of the Fly",
"follows",
"Return of the Fly"
] | null | null | null | null | 15 |
|
[
"Curse of the Fly",
"main subject",
"mad scientist"
] | null | null | null | null | 18 |
|
[
"The Wolf Hunters (1949 film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"The Wolf Hunters (1949 film)",
"different from",
"The Wolf Hunters"
] | null | null | null | null | 9 |
|
[
"The Great Barrier (film)",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | The Great Barrier is a 1937 British historical drama film directed by Milton Rosmer and Geoffrey Barkas and starring Richard Arlen, Lilli Palmer and Antoinette Cellier. The film depicts the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. It was based on the 1935 novel The Great Divide by Alan Sullivan. It was made at the Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush. The film's sets were designed by Walter Murton.Cast
Richard Arlen as Hickey
Lilli Palmer as Lou
Antoinette Cellier as Mary Moody
Barry MacKay as Steve
Roy Emerton as Moody
J. Farrell MacDonald as Major Rogers
Ben Welden as Joe
Jock MacKay as Bates
Ernest Sefton as Magistrate
Henry Victor as Bulldog Kelly
Reginald Barlow as James Hill
Arthur Loft as William Van Horne
Frank McGlynn Sr. as Sir John MacDonald | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Black Bridge",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"CART Fury Championship Racing",
"narrative location",
"Canada"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
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