General Crack is a 1928 historical novel by the British writer Marjorie Bowen, written under her pen name of George Preedy. In 1929, it was adapted into...

Barrymore's last historical epic together. It was based on the 1928 novel General Crack by the British writer Marjorie Bowen, published under the name George...

Cracking India (1991, U.S., 1992, India; originally published as Ice Candy Man, 1988, England) is a novel by author Bapsi Sidhwa. Setting: Lahore Time:...

notable writer, winning the 1962 Hawthornden Prize for his novel The Sun Doctor. His novel and play The Man in the Glass Booth was an international success...

"Jimmy Crack Corn" or "Blue-Tail Fly" is an American song which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances...

Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia...

crack cocaine in the city of Detroit, Michigan, during the mid-1980s. At the height of their power, the gang controlled over 50 percent of the crack cocaine...

"The cracks continue to show in Coppola's directorial style, but The Outsiders remains a blustery, weird, and fun adaptation of the classic novel." Roger...

walk around in with the guidance of a helpful angel who cracks wise. In a review comparing the novel with the film adaptation, Nathan Rabin expressed a negative...

novelist/screenwriter Jimmy McGovern. McGovern adapted Joseph Mckeown's novel Back Crack Boy for this emotionally raw meditation on innocence and pain. Frears...

17, 2008. Sahagian, Jacqueline (May 11, 2015). "TV Takes a Crack at Unfilmable Vonnegut Novel". Showbiz Cheat Sheet. "Cat's Cradle, a calypso musical based...

was an American adventure novelist and underwater explorer. His thriller novels, many featuring the character Dirk Pitt, have been listed on The New York...

The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844...

three-year break, Fleet Foxes reconvened in 2016 to record their third album Crack-Up, which was released the following year on Nonesuch Records. This was...

year, he won the Al-Adab magazine literature award. His second novel was titled A Crack in a Long History (1970) then came A Thousand and Two Nights in...

list of allies of James Bond who appear throughout the film series and novels. M is a Rear Admiral of the Royal Navy, and the head of the Secret Intelligence...

Steamer" "The General Slocum An Unlucky Craft. Has Had Collisions And Accidents by the Score. Has Run Ashore Many Times. She Was a Crack Harbor Boat Thirteen...

novel's front cover. Also used on the book's jacket in Britain was a heartfelt quote from the author Mary Renault, "A spirited sea-tale with cracking...

This Side of Paradise is the 1920 debut novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It examines the lives and morality of carefree American youth at...

Double Indemnity is a 1943 crime novel by American journalist-turned-novelist James M. Cain. It was first published in Liberty magazine in 1936 as an...

novel series written by American author Brandon Sanderson, planned to consist of ten novels. As of 2024, the series comprises five published novels and...

Robert Carlyle and Kelly Macdonald in her film debut. Based on the 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh, the film was released in the United Kingdom on 23 February...

Kavalier & Clay, a novel that John Leonard would later call Chabon's magnum opus. It received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. His novel The Yiddish Policemen's...

Descriptive Tale is an 1823 historical novel by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. It was the first of five novels published which became known as the...

motivations are ambiguous in the film, the novel explains that the computer is unable to resolve a conflict between his general mission to relay information accurately...

limited edition tournament prize figure of "General Frank Rock" was released as well. In the graphic novel Tank Girl, Tank Girl's helmet has "Sgt. Rock...

to crack the case successfully. Their findings reveal a shocking organ trade related to the corneal surgeries that were done at the Manhattan General Hospital...

General Jinjur is an antagonist in the 1904 novel The Marvelous Land of Oz. She is a character in the Oz books by L. Frank Baum and his successors. Jinjur...

existence which is defaced by the career, or a revealing staging which cracks the veneer and superficiality of everyday circumstances and exposes its...

refuses to let him in, convinced it is a Watcher imitating John. The Watchers crack the mirror in anger. Madeline returns the items to the Burrow to appease...