Inheritance
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When I read the description of "Uncle Silas," I thought it sounded suspiciously like "The
Inheritance"
- after all, did Jean Simmons go around playing one young heir after another?
Gianna was also Marco's lover, and the two scheme to murder Nancy because when she "comes of age", the
inheritance
is hers.
She offers herself and her prospective
inheritance
as the reward for his going along with the plan.
I know nothing of the director Charles Frank apart from "Uncle Silas" but the hands of a talented craftsman are clearly at the helm of this atmospheric adaptation of the Victorian Gothic melodrama about a dastardly uncle's attempt to wrest an
inheritance
from his trusting young niece.
The boys track "Honest" Icabod Slipp (Kenneth MacDonald) who has made off with their
inheritance.
Lansing is a crazed plastic surgeon who makes a disfigured dancer look like his missing daughter to claim a $2 million dollar
inheritance.
The films title was changed to "The
Inheritance"
and a scene where Uncle Silas has Dudley propose marriage to Caroline had been cut by the censures (incest was taboo in American cinema back then).
More acutely than I've experienced in a long time, this film captures the process of personality
inheritance
within families.
For nothing but monetary gain, he murdered his wife (who refused him a divorce) in order to marry a woman for her
inheritance.
Along the way, he murdered two of his "beloved" fiancée's brothers in order to increase her share of the
inheritance.
A surviving human brother tends to the house, cleans up the bodies and blood and has an overacting, beer-guzzling, white trash adoptive family that want his
inheritance
to contend with.
Another theme concerns three older siblings who must go on this particular pilgrimage in order to collect an
inheritance.
Jasper Whyte calls all of his associates and friends (few in number) to his house (on a night with plenty of rain, thunder, and lightning) to give away all of his estate before an
inheritance
tax would lessen the amount.
Whyte and Dean send for the police in order to find out who the first woman was and who had her killed, and Doris (the second and real one) must be able to survive until midnight when she gets her
inheritance.
A pair of sisters and their boyfriends-none of whom you care about, visit an old family
inheritance.
But a new secret plan this tricky new developer who needs money to buy the new land can only get his
inheritance
from a millionaire princess.
But Red has prepared a "gift" for Jason's inheritance, unlike anything he leaves to the rest of the family.
In "The Cemetery"(..directed by Boris Sagal), a loathsome money-hungry nephew, Jeremy Evans(Roddy McDowell, playing him as a really slimy scumbag) ready and willing to horde on his Uncle's inheritance, just waiting for the old timer,William Hendricks(George Macready) crippled and ravaged by a stroke that has taken his means of movement and communication, to croak.
Jeremy finds out that he'll receive his Uncle's
inheritance
due to the fact that his mother is dead and her share will go to him thanks to a clause in Hendrick's will.
In the US, for example, sustained political determination would help to close massive loopholes in estate planning and inheritance, as well as in household and corporate taxation, that disproportionately benefit the wealthy.
Squeezing the FutureBOSTON: Few people desire to saddle their children with mountains of debt as an
inheritance.
So, in the financial arena, as elsewhere, there is light and shade in the Thatcher
inheritance.
In developing countries, legal reforms that give women equal rights in land ownership, inheritance, and access to credit are essential.
It absorbed much of the political
inheritance
of Germany’s Bundesbank, whose establishment after World War II reflected Allied insistence on breaking with German central banking’s past traditions, in which political subservience and close ties to the financial establishment undermined monetary stability, leading to inflation and the destruction of the currency.
The
inheritance
of some characteristics, including eye color, is simple.
Inheritance
and reproduction have been seen in terms of DNA and its replication, and variation in terms of random changes in DNA sequences.
Yet discoveries made during the latter part of the twentieth century have shown that there is much more to
inheritance
than DNA.
This epigenetic
inheritance
is a crucial part of normal development in multi-cellular animals like us.
Epigenetic
inheritance
occurs not only within individuals during their development; it also occurs between generations : individual yeast cells or bacterial cells can transmit epigenetic variations from one generation to the next, and multi-cellular organisms can transmit them through their sperm and eggs.
Gal Raz and one of us (EJ) recently went through the scientific literature and found 101 cases of epigenetic
inheritance
between generations of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, plants, and animals, and we are sure that this is just the tip of a very large iceberg.
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