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Hammond Innes
Ralph Hammond Innes (15 July 1913 – 10 June 1998) was a British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as works for children and travel books. Biography Innes was born in Horsham, Sussex, and educated at Feltonfleet School, Cobham, Surrey, where he was head boy, and later at Cranbrook School in Kent. He left in 1931 to work as a journalist, initially with the ''Financial News''. ''The Doppelganger'', his first novel, was published in 1937. In WWII, he served in the Royal Artillery, eventually rising to the rank of Major. During the war, further books were published, including '' Wreckers Must Breathe'' (1940), '' The Trojan Horse'' (1940) and '' Attack Alarm'' (1941), the last of which was based on his experiences as an anti-aircraft gunner during the Battle of Britain at RAF Kenley. After being demobilized in 1946, he worked full-time as a writer, achieving multiple early successes. His novels are known for a fine attention to accurate detail in descriptions of places, su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horsham
Horsham () is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Nearby towns include Crawley to the north-east and Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill to the south-east. It is the administrative centre of the Horsham (district), Horsham district. History Governance There are two main tiers of local government covering Horsham, at non-metropolitan district, district and non-metropolitan county, county level: Horsham District Council and West Sussex County Council. Much of the built-up area of Horsham is an unparished area, but some of the suburbs are included in civil parishes, notably North Horsham. The town is the centre of the Horsham (UK Parliament constituency), parliamentary constituency of Horsham, re-created in 1983. Jeremy Quin had served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Horsham since 2015, succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snowbound (1948 Film)
''Snowbound'' is a 1948 British thriller film directed by David MacDonald and starring Robert Newton, Dennis Price, Stanley Holloway, Herbert Lom, Marcel Dalio and Guy Middleton and introducing Mila Parély. Based on the 1947 novel '' The Lonely Skier'' by Hammond Innes, the film concerns a group of people searching for treasure hidden by the Nazis in the Alps following the Second World War. Plot British film director Derek Engles recognises Neil Blair, an extra on his set, whilst he prepares to shoot a scene. He pulls him out and goes for a private chat. In order to investigate some intelligence that he has picked up in Italy, Engles offers Blair a job as he trusts him (he used to be Blair's commanding officer). He wants Blair to inform him on the activities of everyone who stays at a ski lodge, whilst posing as a scriptwriter. Blair accepts this offer and travels to the Italian Alps where he meets the cameraman Joe Wesson, who is part of the set up to look as if they are ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suffolk
Suffolk ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county town. The county has an area of and a population of 758,556. After Ipswich (144,957) in the south, the largest towns are Lowestoft (73,800) in the north-east and Bury St Edmunds (40,664) in the west. Suffolk contains five Non-metropolitan district, local government districts, which are part of a two-tier non-metropolitan county administered by Suffolk County Council. The Suffolk coastline, which includes parts of the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape, is a complex habitat, formed by London Clay and Crag Group, crag underlain by chalk and therefore susceptible to erosion. It contains several deep Estuary, estuaries, including those of the rivers River Blyth, Suffolk, Blyth, River Deben, Deben, River Orwell, Orwell, River S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Radio 4 Extra
BBC Radio 4 Extra (formerly BBC Radio 7) is a British digital radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It mostly broadcasts archived repeats of comedy, drama and documentary programmes, and is the sister station of Radio 4. It is the principal broadcaster of the BBC's spoken-word archive, and as a result the majority of its programming originates from that archive. It also broadcasts extended and companion programmes to those broadcast on Radio 4, and provides a "catch-up" service for certain programmes. The station launched in December 2002 as BBC 7, broadcasting a mix of archive comedy, drama and current children's radio. The station was renamed BBC Radio 7 in 2008, then relaunched as BBC Radio 4 Extra in April 2011. For the first quarter of 2013, Radio 4 Extra had a weekly audience of 1.642 million people and had a market share of 0.95%; in the last quarter of 2016 the numbers were 2.184 million listeners and 1.2% of market share. According to RAJAR, the station broa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Doomed Oasis
''The Doomed Oasis'' is a 1960 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. A solicitor helps a young man to travel to the Arabian Peninsula to find his father, a famous oil prospector Colonel Charles Whitaker. Plot Publishers of the novel offered the following overview of the book's plot: "Charles Whitaker is a Welshman who forsakes his native country for the deserts of Arabia. Adapting quickly to this hostile terrain, he soon becomes more Bedouin than British. Whitaker's illegtimate son, David, sets out to find his father. He in turn is followed by a Welsh solicitor who hopes to reunite the two men. The story moves at two levels: One involves a desperate struggle for desert oil; the second, hardly less intense, for father and son to find each other. Both struggles are resolved at Saraifa, the doomed oasis of the title." Reception In his review of the novel, Robert Wilfred Franson only gives The Doomed Oasis a qualified recommendation, stating that Hammond Innes does wha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nullagine, Western Australia
Nullagine is an old goldrush town in Western Australia's Pilbara region. It is located on the Nullagine River 296 km south-east of Port Hedland and 1,364 km north-north-east of Perth on the old Great Northern Highway. The town originated from gold being discovered in the area in 1886 by a prospector, N.W. Cooke. The population increased sharply as a result and by the mid-1890s the community wanted to have a town declared. Lots were surveyed and released in 1897 and the state government gazetted the town in 1899. Nullagine comes from the Aboriginal name of a nearby river, the Ngullagine river; the meaning of the word is unknown. Besides gold other minerals were mined in the area including diamonds and other gemstones. Between 1895 and 1914 the town boomed and contained a number of general stores, three hotels, eight stamp mills and a population of over 3,000. Its population was 1,500 prior to World War II. Now, with the decline of gold mining, only about 200 remai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Soak
''Golden Soak'' is a 1979 Australian-British mini-series about an English mining engineer who travels to Australia. It was based on the 1973 Golden Soak (novel), book of the same title written by Hammond Innes.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p200 In the Netherlands, the series was broadcast under the title ''De Verlaten Mijn'' ("The abandoned mine"). Its theme music, ''The Lonely Shepherd'' by the James Last Orchestra and soloist Gheorghe Zamfir, Georghe Zamfir, reached the top 5 in the Dutch Top 40 in 1979. Cast * Ray Barrett as Alec Hamilton * Elizabeth Alexander (actress), Elizabeth Alexander as Janet Garrety * Bill Hunter (actor), Bill Hunter as Chris Culpin * Christiane Kruger as Rosa Hamilton * David Cameron (Australian actor), David Cameron as Johnny Culpin * Ruth Cracknell as Prophesy * Les Foxcroft as Jacko References External links''Golden Soak''at IMDb''Golden Soak'' at AustLit 1970s Australian television mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Soak (novel)
''Golden Soak'' is a 1973 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. It was adapted into a 1979 Australian Golden Soak, television series of the same title. In 1981 it was adapted to a children's story. With his Cornwall, Cornish mining business struggling, a man fakes his own death and heads to Western Australia where he becomes mixed up with intrigue concerning huge copper deposits in the Gibson Desert. References Bibliography * James Vinson & D. L. Kirkpatrick. ''Contemporary Novelists''. St. James Press, 1986. 1973 British novels Novels by Hammond Innes British thriller novels Novels set in Cornwall Novels set in Australia British novels adapted into television shows William Collins, Sons books {{1970s-thriller-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wreck Of The Mary Deare
''The Wreck of the Mary Deare'' (in the UK published as ''The Mary Deare'') is a 1956 novel written by British author Hammond Innes, which was later adapted as a film starring Gary Cooper released in 1959 by MGM. According to Jack Adrian, the book "at a stroke launched him into that rarefied empyrean most writers yearn for though few attain, supersellerdom." The success of the book - and the 1959 film based on it starring Gary Cooper - enabled Innes to buy his own 42 ft ocean racer, which he named ''Mary Deare''. Plot The book tells the story of a very old ship described as "a deathtrap of rattling rivets", which is found adrift at sea by salvager John Sands. Sands boards it hoping to claim it for salvage, but finds the first officer, Gideon Patch, still aboard and trying to run the ship on his own. Patch convinces Sands to help him beach the ship, even though it will void his salvage claim. When they return to London, Patch is brought before a board of inquiry to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wreck Of The Mary Deare (film)
''The Wreck of the Mary Deare'' is a 1959 Metrocolor (in CinemaScope) British-American thriller film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Gary Cooper (in his penultimate film) and Charlton Heston, and featuring Michael Redgrave, Cecil Parker, Virginia McKenna, Richard Harris, and John Le Mesurier. The screenplay by Eric Ambler was based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Hammond Innes. Plot A phantom cargo ship is found adrift at sea in a storm in the English Channel by a marine salvage team aboard the ''Sea Witch''. She is the steamship ''Mary Deare'', out of Hong Kong. John Sands boards it hoping to claim it for himself and his partner, Mike, but finds former First Officer Gideon Patch alone but still in command. He has been Captain for four days since the death of its original skipper, Captain Taggart. Patch describes two fires, a dynamiting, and having been hit on the head and left unconscious when the crew abandoned the vessel. After Patch refuses to let the shi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbell's Kingdom (novel)
''Campbell's Kingdom'' is a 1952 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. A British man, ill and largely inactive since the Second World War, inherits land in the Canadian Rockies. He travels there to investigate his grandfather's instinct that there are valuable oil reserves under the land. Innes wrote about his travels in Canada to research ''Campbell's Kingdom'' in Chapter 5 of his non-fiction book ''Harvest of Journeys'' (1960). Film adaptation In 1957, the book was made into a British film of the same name directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael Craig, and Barbara Murray Barbara Ann Murray (27 September 1929 – 20 May 2014) was an English actress. Murray was most active in the 1940s and 1950s as a fresh-faced leading lady in many British films such as ''Passport to Pimlico'' (1949) and '' Meet Mr. Lucifer'' (1 ....Goble p. 238 References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbell's Kingdom
''Campbell's Kingdom'' is a 1957 British adventure film directed by Ralph Thomas, based on the 1952 novel of the same name by Hammond Innes. The film stars Dirk Bogarde and Stanley Baker, with Michael Craig, Barbara Murray, James Robertson Justice and Sid James in support. The story is set in Alberta, Canada, and largely follows the principles of the Northwestern genre of film-making. Plot Recently diagnosed with a terminal disease, Bruce Campbell unexpectedly finds himself the owner of a small valley in the Canadian Rocky Mountains as the result of a bequest from his grandfather. After travelling from England, Bruce arrives at "Campbell's Kingdom" (as the locals disparagingly call it) to find its existence under threat from the construction of a new hydroelectricity dam. Convinced that his grandfather was right and that the Kingdom might yield oil, the race is on to prove that there is oil under Campbell's Kingdom before the mining company building the dam can flood the val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
