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There is a lot at
stake
here, from physical survival to soulful salvation.
Star Pickford and director Tourneur -- along with his two favorite cameramen and assistant Clarence Brown doing the editing -- bring great beauty and intelligence to this story of poor, isolated Scottish Islanders -- the same territory that Michael Powell would
stake
twenty years later for his first great success.
The plot is actually quite similar to Blood Rites, as we focus on a dysfunctional family unit, and of course; there is an inheritance at
stake.
And even though there's a Great deal of money at
stake
it's fun.
Dorcas is depict as witch at 5years old who is burned at the
stake.
And, later in the movie, she also faces the complications of being descended from ''a major metaphysical celebrity'' and the charges of witchcraft brought against her which mean that she will be burnt at the
stake.
There are just so many holes in this epic - when trying to determine if someone is really your daughter and hundreds of thousands of dollars are at
stake
- no DNA testing ??? Come on.
The funniest part is when they're setting the
stake
- out and the librarian faints.
270 years ago in Salem, a witch and her father were burned at the the
stake
by a New England Puritan, who is cursed along with all his descendants by black magic and will never find happiness in romance; jump ahead to the present day (circa 1942), the witches are released from their holding spot and the bewitching lass discovers the latest descendant is a handsome politician with a shrew for a fiancée (the witch's father tells her men always marry the wrong woman--it's the girls who get away who cause the real unhappiness).
Even her alter-ego would probably want to stab a
stake
in her heart.
The Brits and The Americans fighting amongst themselves showed that cultural differences will breed a bunch of dissent and angst in situations where survival is at
stake.
Any good review of this film was done by someone that had a
stake
in the movie.
The balance of power is a
stake
as three of the most powerful species in the Universe go head-to-head.
Why do these meteors and asteroids always aim for the well-known cities? 7) It should have been more devastating; they showed it's impact to be more like that of a huge earthquake than a meteor, 8) the absurdity that governments would actually think about politics when the future of the entire planet is at
stake
- and that they actually need convincing that warheads need to be used?!
Here it just looks like he filled that role himself to save the money he'd have to give another actor as Im sure Pollio had a lot at
stake
in this movie being the Producer with limited funds too.
In particular, this second part contains an easily-unnoticed topic of how much insult the male pride can take, and whether or not it is worth being guarded when love is at
stake.
Single mom Rosemary Zoltanne (Markie Post) and her smart-ass teen daughter Sarah (Sarah Chalke) move from L.A. to a big house in Massachusetts where a witch was burned at the
stake
300 years earlier.
Instead, it allows viewers to decide what the core issues at
stake
are as well as provide solutions for the world's most troubling social epidemics.
Spoiler-Peter Cushing does not drive a
stake
through Christopher Lee's heart in this movie.
The only problem is that Paul Sheridan is assigned to watch Lona on a
stake
out with other detectives and have her apartment watched and her telephone wires tapped.
To appreciate it you have to remember two things - firstly, it was made in 1942, and thus there are quite a few patriotic themes in the movie, since that was the kind of film being made at the beginning of World War II, when the U.S. didn't yet know if it would be successful fighting a two front war in which everything was at
stake.
In the funniest part of the movie, the old fellow, who looks like a friendly grandpa, takes out a hammer in a morgue, driving a
stake
through a corpse's heart with the words "In the name of my grandfather, I destroy you".
If the film doesn't convince you of the justness of its cause, it at least offers a means to understand the issues and measure what is at
stake
for gay couples who seek the rights and validation offered by legally sanctioned marriage.
A group of Russian soldiers discover the tomb of the Dracula family, and one of them foolishly removes the
stake
from the body of Dracula's dog Zoltan, and in which the dog raises Dracula's servant/original owner too.
This was 47 min of pure drivel and the makers should be burned at the
stake.
Mostly it consists of voice-over and randomly assembled footage; the footage is typically a girl undressing and hanging around what is (I think) Los Angeles City College - the pretext involves a Salem witch who was burned at the
stake
and in the present day of the early 1970s convinces a descendant to embark on sexual adventures.
"The Empire in Africa" is a courageous examination of a tragic and complex topic, the civil war in Sierra Leone, its propaganda-driven portrayal in the international media, the global commercial interests at stake, the regional and international contribution to the continued violence and the effects on the civilian population of war and poverty in a country that is extremely wealthy in natural resources.
She is simpleminded, seems to be able to function only in a relationship of dependency, as is illustrated when she turns down Miss Bea's offer of a 20%
stake
in a multi- million dollar business that was based on her pancake recipe because she wants to stay a housekeeper.
Throughout the entire thing, one keeps thinking, "Why would anyone hire these guys if their life was at stake."
This movie has black magic, a man skinned alive, treachery, phobia, and a chess game with lives at
stake.
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