• Rope of Sand is a 1949 American adventure-suspense film noir directed by William Dieterle, produced by Hal Wallis, and starring Burt Lancaster and three...
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  • "Escape to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand", titled onscreen as "Clone High School, USA!", is the series premiere of the American animated television sitcom...
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    Corinne Calvet (category University of Paris alumni)
    Hal B. Wallis. Wallis saw a test of Calvet, and in August 1948, took her back to Paramount for a role in Rope of Sand (1949) opposite Burt Lancaster and...
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  • parodies of the show, as featured in the film Scary Movie, the "Peterotica" episode of Family Guy, and the "Escape to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand" series...
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    Hayden Rorke (category American Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni)
    uncredited. However, it was an opening, and in later films, beginning with Rope of Sand, he is listed in the credits, although he again shows up uncredited in...
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    Michael J. Fox (category Officers of the Order of Canada)
    Officer of the Order of Canada in 2010, and was inducted to Canada's Walk of Fame in 2000 and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2002. For his advocacy of a cure...
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    Paul Henreid (category American people of Austrian-Jewish descent)
    as John Muller / Dr. Bartok Rope of Sand (1949) as Commandant Paul Vogel So Young So Bad (1950) as Dr. John H. Jason Last of the Buccaneers (1950) as Jean...
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    Burt Lancaster (category American people of English descent)
    early appearance. Lancaster appeared in a fourth picture for Wallis, Rope of Sand, in 1949. Norma Productions signed a three-picture deal with Warner Bros...
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  • Lead Actor. The American Film Institute ranks Lancaster as #19 of the greatest male stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Lancaster performed as a circus acrobat...
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    Peter Lorre (category American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent)
    during and after his lifetime and the cultural legacy of his persona remains in media today. Lorre, of Jewish descent, left Germany after Adolf Hitler and...
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    Kenny Washington (American football) (category College Football Hall of Fame inductees)
    including Rope of Sand (1949), Pinky (1949), and The Jackie Robinson Story (1950). Washington died of heart and lung problems at the age of 52 in Los...
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    Sam Jaffe (category American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent)
    parents Heida (Ada) and Barnett Jaffe at 97 Orchard Street (current location of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum) in New York City, New York. His mother...
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  • Cornell Gunter (category Place of birth missing)
    Cornel Gunter) "Lift Me Up Angel" / "Rope Of Sand" (Warner Brothers #5266) (1962) "It Ain't No Use" / "In A Dream Of Love" (Warner Brothers #5292) (1962)...
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    NBCUniversal (category Entertainment companies of the United States)
    Number, Bride of Vengeance, Rope of Sand and My Friend Irma), owned by Paramount itself) Working Title Television Telemundo originals Telemundo of Puerto Rico...
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    Dingane (category Monarchies of South Africa)
    of southern Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 373–375. ISBN 0-521-63389-3. Laband, John (1995). Rope of sand: the rise and fall of the...
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    Stablehand (uncredited) Malice in the Palace (1949)-Nubian Guard (uncredited) Rope of Sand (1949) - Batsuma Chief (uncredited) White Witch Doctor (1953) - Bakuba...
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    Secession in the United States (category Confederate States of America)
    the existing Union] is a rope of sand, to be penetrated and dissolved by the first adverse wave of public opinion in any of the States. In this manner...
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    Claude Rains (category Academics of RADA)
    Frederick William Rains. He lived in the slums of London. Rains was one of 12 children, all but three dying of malnutrition when still infants. His mother...
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    John Bromfield (category United States Navy personnel of World War II)
    Indiana. He played football and was a boxing champion at Saint Mary's College of California, where he also lettered in football, baseball, track and swimming...
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  • (1960-08-01). "The League of Nations: Another "Rope of Sand"". Current History | University of California Press. University of California Press: 82–86....
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    Mike Mazurki (category American people of Ukrainian descent)
    (1949) as Sam Rope of Sand (1949) as Pierson The Devil's Henchman (1949) as Rhino Abandoned (1949) as Hoppe Samson and Delilah (1949) as Leader of Philistine...
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  • (1960-08-01). "The League of Nations: Another "Rope of Sand"". Current History | University of California Press. University of California Press: 82–86....
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    to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand" until "Changes: The Big Prom: The Sex Romp: The Season Finale", and depicted as dating a clone of Julius Caesar. In the...
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  • Hal B. Wallis (category American people of Polish-Jewish descent)
    Love of Martha Ivers (1946) Desert Fury (1947) I Walk Alone (1947) So Evil My Love (1948) Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) The Accused (1949) Rope of Sand (1949)...
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    S. H. Kapadia (category Chief justices of India)
    "A day might come when the rule of law will stand reduced to a rope of sand." Justice Kapadia reacting to a flood of Public Interest Litigations (PIL)...
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  • Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History (2006), 3 vol; 2064pp; 650 articles by experts ISBN 0415968267 Draper, Alan. A rope of sand : the AFL-CIO...
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  • Movie Award for Best Screenplay Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Golden...
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  • The following is a list of films originally produced and/or distributed theatrically by Paramount Pictures and released in the 1940s. All films (with a...
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    Friction burn (redirect from Rope burn)
    such as rope burn, carpet burn or rug burn. Because friction generates heat, extreme cases of chafing may result in genuine thermal burning of the outer...
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  • Door[b][c] Manhandled[b][c] Port of New York[b][d] The Reckless Moment[b][c] Red Light[b][c] The Red Menace[a] Rope of Sand[b] Scene of the Crime[b][c] The Set-Up[b][c]...
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