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Across the Bridge

Across the Bridge is a 1957 British thriller film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Rod Steiger and Bernard Lee. It is based on the 1938 short story "Across the Bridge" by Graham Greene. Carl Schaffner (Steiger) is a crooked British (previously German) businessman who flees to Mexico after steal

Across the Bridge - Colorized by alugha

Across the Bridge is a 1957 British thriller film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Rod Steiger and Bernard Lee. It is based on the 1938 short story "Across the Bridge" by Graham Greene. Carl Schaffner (Steiger) is a crooked British (previously German) businessman who flees to Mexico after steal

Active learning

"Active learning" means getting involved, collaborating with others, and implementing concepts in the real world. It is intellectual hard work. But it allows you to remember the content better, understand it better and transfer it to other situations. Why does it work so well? We take a look at th

Paradiese Canyon

Paradise Canyon is a 1935 Western film starring John Wayne, directed by Carl L. Pierson. The film was Wayne's final Monogram Pictures/Lone Star Production Western. The film was released years later in a colorized version on home video/dvd under the title Guns Along the Trail. John Wyatt (John Wayne

Santa Fe Trail (film)

Santa Fe Trail is a 1940 American western film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan and Alan Hale. Written by Robert Buckner, the film is about the abolitionist John Brown and his campaign against slavery prior to the American Civil

The Active Learning Method

"Active learning" means you participate, collaborate with others, and apply concepts to the real world. It requires hard mental effort but leads to better retention and an understanding of the material that can be transferred to other situations. To explain how to apply Active Learning in classrooms

Sabotage (1936 film)

Sabotage, also released as The Woman Alone, is a 1936 British espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, and John Loder. It is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent, about a woman who discovers that her husband, a London cinema o

Riders of Destiny

Riders of Destiny is a 1933 pre-Code Western musical film starring 26-year-old John Wayne as Singin' Sandy Saunders, the screen's second singing cowboy (the first being Ken Maynard in the 1929 film The Wagon Master). It was the first of a series of sixteen Lone Star Westerns made for Monogram Pictur

Plan 9 from Outer Space

Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1957 American independent science fiction-horror film produced, written, directed, and edited by Ed Wood. The film was shot in black-and-white in November 1956 and had a preview screening on March 15, 1957, at the Carlton Theatre in Los Angeles under the title Grave Robb