Baron
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Scarlet Dawn casts Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. as a Russian
baron
rudely displaced by the forces of the Russian Revolution and now has to fend for himself in a world not terribly hospitable to former aristocrats.
Greedy land
baron
in the tiny western town of Prairie City wants all the ranchers off their land, using intimidation tactics and arson to get them to vacate; seems the town is swimming atop oil, and when a Swedish farmer refuses to leave, he's mowed down by the
baron'
s hired gun.
As for the rest of the cast, Paul Muller is somewhat effective as Dr. Charles Marshall, the
baron'
s assistant and an admirer of the daughter for some time.
An evil land
baron
is holding up water to a group of ranchers in order to try and take their properties for pennies on the dollar.
This is yet another western about a greedy cattle
baron
looking to push out small ranchers and farmers.
He eventually has to stand up the the evil land baron, Edward G. Robinson, who owns most of the valley and wants it all.
Desperate for money he makes a deal with the young rich wife of a cotton
baron
who is dying.
Greta Garbo plays a dancer staying at a hotel along with a thief disguised as a
baron
(John Barrymore), a young and beautiful stenographer (Joan Crawford), a stern businessman (Wallace Beery), a fidgety social outcast trying to enjoy what's left of his life (Lionel Barrymore), and a mysterious doctor (Lewis Stone).
A common burglar posing as a
baron.
Daniel Day Lewis stole the show as the ruthless
baron
of five points.
It's not as overstuffed as some modern movies, focusing on just five characters: a hotel thief pretending to be a
baron
(John Barrymore), an industrial magnate (Wallace Beery), his secretary (Joan Crawford), an aging and neurotic ballerina (Greta Garbo), and a nebbishy, dying man spending his last days in the luxurious hotel (Lionel Barrymore).
Beautiful location scenery and smart writing helps this story of a Mexican sheriff (Lancaster) betrayed and humiliated in a most blasphemous way by a vile land
baron
(Cypher) over the honor of a widowed Apache woman.
Clark plays the
baron'
s kindhearted lover who admires the sheriff for his decency and bravery.
Perhaps the most interesting example is Rupert Murdoch – the son of an Australian news
baron
– who recently split his family-controlled News Corporation, into the TV and film company 21st Century Fox and the less profitable new News Corp, which retains the news and publishing operations.
Far from engaging in Holmes’s free trade in ideas, Krugman has been the intellectual equivalent of a robber baron, exploiting his power to the point of driving decent people away from the public sphere – particularly younger scholars, who understandably dread a “takedown” by the “Invincible Krugtron.”
Yes, they have seen oil
baron
Mikhail Khodorkovsky imprisoned on questionable charges, and inconvenient journalists beaten or killed.
Victor Li Tzar-kuoi, the son of Hong Kong’s most powerful property baron, Li Ka-shing, astonished the public recently, saying in court testimony that it was a “painful experience” to deal with the government’s imperious Urban Renewal Authority.
The Tails Wagging the Kremlin Dog?MOSCOW – Imagine a crank who tries to pass himself off as a nineteenth-century Russian
baron.
The country’s biggest media baron, who happens to be the head of state security, expands his media empire by abusing the courts.
In those days the
baron
possessed Piolaine, which had three hundred hectares belonging to it, and he had in his service as steward Honoré Grégoire, a Picardy lad, the great-grandfather of Léon Grégoire, Cécile's father.
The baron, finding himself disarmed, took two or three steps back, but in this movement his foot slipped and he fell backward.
The first idea that occurred to Milady’s mind was that she had been betrayed by Kitty, and that she had recounted to the
baron
the selfish aversion toward himself of which she had imprudently allowed some marks to escape before her servant.
"Is he not your friend?" replied the baron, negligently.
"Do I look so?" asked the baron, rising and going a step backward.
cried Milady; and as if acted upon by a spring, she bounded toward the baron, who awaited her attack with his arms crossed, but nevertheless with one hand on the hilt of his sword.
And the
baron
pointed, with a slow and accusing gesture, to the left shoulder of Milady, which he almost touched with his finger.
Shortly a human form appeared in the shade of the corridor, and the young lieutenant, with whom we are already acquainted, stopped at the threshold to receive the orders of the
baron.
"Now," said the baron, "look at this woman.
"She is not to leave this chamber, understand, John," continued the
baron.
"It appears," said the baron, seating himself in the armchair opposite that occupied by Milady, and stretching out his legs carelessly upon the hearth, "it appears we have made a little apostasy!"
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