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Punchboard
A punchboard is a game board, primarily consisting of a number of holes, which was used once for lottery games. History Origin Punchboards were originally used in the 18th century for gambling purposes. A local tavern owner would construct a game board out of wood, drill small holes in it, and fill each hole with a small paper ticket or gamepiece. The holes were then typically covered with paper or foil. After a patron bought a chance at the punchboard, he would puncture one of the hole's paper or foil covers with a nail (engineering), nail and retrieve the ticket/gamepiece. If the gamepiece contained a winning number, the patron won the prize. In the nineteenth century, board operators eventually started cheating, selecting holes on the patron’s behalf rather than letting the patron choose. The punchboard's use started to decline. Paper punchboard In the late 1800s, a new type of punchboard was introduced. This one involved putting paper in both the front and back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winter In The Blood
''Winter in the Blood'' is the debut novel of James Welch. It was published by Harper and Row's Native American Publishing Program in 1974. Set on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in north-central Montana during the late 1960s, ''Winter in the Blood'' follows a nameless Blackfeet and Gros Ventre (A'aninin) man's episodic journey to piece together his fragmented identity. Welch received praise from such luminaries as Pulitzer Prize-winning Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich, celebrated American novelist Reynolds Price, and Coeur d'Alene author Sherman Alexie. Alexie later produced the film adaptation of the novel, which was released in 2012. Plot summary The novel features a self-destructive narrator undergoing an identity crisis. After getting into a bar fight with a white man, the narrator comes home drunk to discover that his girlfriend, Agnes, has disappeared with his electric razor and gun. The narrator travels to Malta, Montana, to track her down, where he meets a white na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flim-Flam Man
''The Flim-Flam Man'' (titled ''One Born Every Minute'' in some countries) is a 1967 American comedy film directed by Irvin Kershner, featuring George C. Scott, Michael Sarrazin, and Sue Lyon, based on the 1965 novel ''The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man'' by Guy Owen. The movie has well-known character actors in supporting roles, including Jack Albertson, Slim Pickens, Strother Martin, Harry Morgan, and Albert Salmi. The movie is set in the countryside and small towns of the American South, and it was filmed in the Anderson and Clark counties, Kentucky, area. It is also noted for its folksy musical score by composer Jerry Goldsmith. The movie's title song " Flim Flam Man," written by Laura Nyro, later became a hit for Barbra Streisand. Plot Mordecai C. Jonesa self-styled "M.B.S., C.S., D.D. Master of Back-Stabbing, Cork-Screwing and Dirty-Dealing!"is a drifting confidence trickster who makes his living defrauding people in the Southern United States using tricks such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Virginian (TV Series)
''The Virginian'' (later renamed ''The Men from Shiloh'' in its final year) is an American Westerns on television, Western television series starring James Drury in the title role, along with Doug McClure, Lee J. Cobb, and others. It originally aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971, for a total of 249 episodes. Drury had played the same role in 1958 in an unsuccessful pilot that became an episode of the NBC summer series ''Decision (TV series), Decision''. Filmed in color, ''The Virginian'' became television's first 90-minute Western series (75 minutes excluding Television advertisement, commercial breaks). Cobb left the series after four seasons, and was replaced over the years by mature character actors John Dehner, Charles Bickford, John McIntire, and Stewart Granger, all portraying different characters. It was set before Wyoming became a state in 1890, as mentioned several times as Wyoming Territory, although other references set it later, around 1898. The series was loosely based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of The Virginian Episodes
'' The Virginian'' is an American Western television series which ran from September 19, 1962 until March 24, 1971, with a total of 249 episodes across nine seasons. It aired on NBC in color and starred James Drury and Doug McClure Douglas Osborne McClure (May 11, 1935 – February 5, 1995) was an American actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s. He is best known for his role as the cowboy Trampas during the entire run from 1962 to 1 .... ''The Virginian'' was renamed ''The Men from Shiloh'' for its final season. Series Episodes Season 1 (1962–63) Season 2 (1963–64) Season 3 (1964–65) Season 4 (1965–66) Season 5 (1966–67) Season 6 (1967–68) Season 7 (1968–69) Season 8 (1969–70) Season 9 (1970–71) The ninth season aired as ''The Men From Shiloh''. References External links * {{epguides, Virginian, The Virginian Virginian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Thompson (writer)
James Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906 – April 7, 1977) was an American novelist and screenwriter, known for his hardboiled crime fiction. Thompson wrote more than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications, published from the late-1940s through mid-1950s. Despite some positive critical notice—notably by Anthony Boucher in ''The New York Times''—he was little-recognized in his lifetime. Only after death did Thompson's literary stature grow. In the late 1980s, several of his novels were re-published in the '' Black Lizard'' series of re-discovered crime fiction. His best-regarded works include '' The Killer Inside Me'', '' Savage Night'', '' A Hell of a Woman'' and '' Pop. 1280''. In these works, Thompson turned the derided crime genre into literature and art, featuring unreliable narrators, odd structure, and the quasi-surrealistic inner narratives of the last thoughts of his dying or dead characters. A number of Thompson's books were ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grifters (novel)
''The Grifters'' is a Hardboiled, noir fiction novel by Jim Thompson (writer), Jim Thompson, published in 1963. Plot Roy Dillon is a 25-year-old con artist living in Los Angeles. At the start of the novel, he gets hit in the stomach with a baseball bat when a simple con goes wrong. He seems to be well but when Lilly — his mother — visits him for the first time in almost eight years, he starts to deteriorate. She calls for a doctor, who informs her that Roy is internally hemorrhaging. Roy is taken to the hospital, where he begins to recover after several days. While at the hospital, his mother meets Moira Langtry, the woman that Roy is currently involved with. They take an instant dislike to each other. Lilly hires a nurse, Carol Roberg, in the hope that Roy will give up Moira for Carol. Roy then leaves the hospital and stays at Lilly's apartment where Carol looks after him. Roy discovers that Carol was the victim of a sexual experiment at Dachau concentration camp, Dachau. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Untouchables (1959 TV Series)
''The Untouchables'' is an American crime drama produced by Desilu Productions that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC television network. Based on the The Untouchables (1957 book), memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalizes the experiences of Ness as a Bureau of Prohibition, Prohibition agent fighting crime in Chicago in the 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their courage, moral character and incorruptibility, nicknamed the Untouchables (law enforcement), the Untouchables. The book was later made into The Untouchables (film), a celebrated film in 1987 and a second, less-successful The Untouchables (1993 TV series), TV series in 1993. A dynamic, hard-hitting action drama and a landmark television crime series, ''The Untouchables'' won series star Robert Stack the Emmy Award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Best Actor in a Dramatic Series in 1960. Series ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of The Untouchables (1959 TV Series) Episodes
This is a list of episodes for the 1959–1963 television series ''The Untouchables'', starring Robert Stack as Eliot Ness. Series overview Episodes Pilot (1959) Season 1 (1959–60) Season 2 (1960–61) Season 3 (1961–62) Season 4 (1962–63) Home releases The following DVD sets have been released by Paramount Home Video. at TVShowsOnDVD.com
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Orrie Hitt
Orrie Hitt (October 27, 1916 – December 8, 1975) was a prolific American author of over 150 books, mostly mid-century erotica, but including some crime novels early in his career. It has been said he wrote a book every two weeks at the prime of his career, sitting at his dining room table, fueled by large glasses of iced coffee and cigarettes. His first two books, ''I'll Call Every Monday'' and ''Love in the Arctic'' were hardcover books published by Red Lantern, but his career would ultimately be made writing paperback originals. As a paperback writer, many of his books were written as "work for hire" and the copyright held by the publishing company who, anticipating a very short shelf life, never bothered to renew the copyright or return the rights to the author. The fact that all of his books, prior to 1964, are in the public domain has been beneficial to the legacy of Orrie Hitt, in that it has made them more readily available to contemporary readers. Original Orrie Hitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of Superman (radio)
''The Adventures of Superman'' is a long-running radio serial that originally aired from 1940 to 1951 featuring the DC Comics character Superman. The serial came to radio as a syndicated show on New York City's WOR on February 12, 1940. On Mutual, it was broadcast from August 31, 1942, to February 4, 1949, as a 15-minute serial, running three or, usually, five times a week. From February 7 to June 24, 1949, it ran as a thrice-weekly half-hour show. The series shifted to ABC Saturday evenings on October 29, 1949, and then returned to afternoons twice a week on June 5, 1950, continuing on ABC until March 1, 1951. In all, 2,088 original episodes of ''The Adventures of Superman'' aired on American radio. History Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the Man of Steel first appeared in ''Action Comics'' #1 in 1938. The following year, the newspaper comic strip began and four audition radio programs were prepared to sell ''Superman'' as a radio series. When Superman was first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
