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I remember seeing some battlefields strew with both dead soldiers and dead indians in many western movies.
And of course in real life if the soldiers won only dead Indians would be left on the battlefield and if the Indians won only dead soldiers would be left on the battlefield.
So I just looked at a video of the ending of the movie and in the scene where Comanche/Tonka and White Bull are found on the battlefield by the soldiers there are some other dead Sioux & Cheyenne lying on the ground amoung the dead soldiers.
So that means that in the movie White Bull wasn't treated any differently than the other "dead" Sioux and Cheneye warriors.
When I first saw <i>Tonka</i> as a kid long ago, I sort of wondered why White Bull ended up in a soldier's uniform at the Fort at the end of the film. Maybe he didn't have any family or friends to go back to, and his only friend was the horse.
But if he was the only wonded warrior left on the battlefield to be found and probably killed and mutilated by the indian scouts of the army, he could feel like he was abandoned by his people, that they had turned against him, and that he had to find a new group to belong to.
But with all the other "dead" warriors lying around the battlefield, White Bull wouldn't feel like his people were against him.
Unless maybe he believed that the way all the "dead" warriors had been abandoned by their people was disgracefully ungrateful for their scrifices in battle and he didn't want to live among such ingrates anymore..
I never quite understood the new Baltar mission.
At the end of "Saga of a Star World", in the tv version, the previous Inferious (I mean Imperious) Leader is killed when Carillon explodes and destroys his basestar. In the last scene the new Imperious Leader tells Baltar he believes that it is possible to live in peace with Humans and assigns Baltar to command a mission to find the Humans and negotiate with them. And he assigns Lucifer to be his assisant I don't remember whether Lucifier was present when the Imperius Leader told Baltar his mission but presumably LUcifer would have been given a copy of the mission orders.
In "Lost Planet of the Gods" Baltar goes down to the planet Kobol andfinds Adama in a pyramid and tries to convince Adama that the Cylons now want peace. Meanwhile Lucifer in the Basestar orders Cylcon raiders to attack Kobol and the Colonial fleet, which seems to be exceedng his authority if the mission is to make peace withthe Colonials. Baltar is trapped in the collapsing pyramid and begs Adama to help him but Adama leaves, angering Baltar.
And in later episodes Baltar is seen in command of a Cylon Basestar or two with Lucifer as his assistant, implying that Lucifer rescued him from the Pyramid. And the mission seems to be to track down and exterminate the surviving humans.
So why did the orders change? Did vengeance crazed Baltar change the mission on his own authority to extermination instead of negotiation after been abandoned by Adama? Did he convince the new Imperious Leader that extermination was the only way to deal with humans? Did the new Imperius Leader lie to Baltar (and the audience) about the mission and plan to order the exterminatin of the Humans once they were found, and did Lucifer know that all along?
It was the Duchess of Richmond's Ball. The Duke of Wellington was at the Ball, and was given a messag that Napoleon's army had crossed the border & the officers were all sent to prepare to march.
<blockquote>Elizabeth Longford described it as "the most famous ball in history".[1] "The ball was certainly a brilliant affair",[2] at which "with the exception of three generals, every officer high in Wellington's army was there to be seen".[3]</blockquote>
</blockquote> The ball inspired a number of writers and artists in the nineteenth century.[31] Sir Walter Scott mentioned it in passing in Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk.[32] It was described by William Makepeace Thackeray in Vanity Fair and by Lord Byron in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Byron emphasises the contrast between the glamour of the ball and the horror of battle, concentrating on the emotional partings, </blockquote>
</blockquote> Thackeray's dramatic use of the ball in Vanity Fair inspired, in turn, a number of screen depictions. One notable example comes from the 1935 RKO production Becky Sharp, the first full-length Technicolor film released after perfection of the full-color three-strip method,[34][35] which makes the Duchess of Richmond's Ball the first historical set-piece ever staged in a full-colour feature film.[36] Critics of the day were not kind to the picture itself, but the sequence in which the officers hurry to leave the ball — the red of their coats suddenly and emotionally filling the frame — was widely praised as showing great promise for the dramatic use of colour on-screen.[37] </blockquote>
<url> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchess_of_Richmond%27s_ball </url>
The Duchess of Richmond had little pleasure in the ending of her ball. One of her sons, Lord Henry Adam Lennox (1797-1812) joined the navy and drowned age 14. Three of her sons were officers in Wellington's army & were at Waterloo. Her 15-year-old son lost sight in one eye in a horse riding accident in the battle.
In the 18th century it became customary in the British army to recruit boys who were trained to become musicians (drummers, fifers, buglers & trumpeters) so they would be ready for the job when they were older.
And so the lists of those killed at Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 includes four or five soldiers of the 24th infantry with the rank of boy.
In another post made today, Mar. 04/05 2024, I quote from a mention of a boy killed at Waterloo.
And I have read a story about a young British drummer boy captured in Spain in 1808. Napoleon teased the boy by threatening to shoot him as a spy unless he could prove he was a soldier. The boy demonstrated he could play the charge on a drum and then was told to play retreat, but said he didn't know retreat because the British never retreated.
And there is a story about a British Infantryman who could couldn't make to his square when French cavalry charged at Waterloo and so hid. When the French cavalry retreated, he jumped up to say he was alright, and then a cannonball knocked off his head.
And there a version where that infantryman was the drummer boy from 1808, probably no longer a boy after 7 years.
I note that the Duchess of Richmond must not have been happy with the famous ending of her Ball in Brussels. One of her sons, Lord Henry Adam Lennox (1797-1812) joined the navy and drowned age 14. Three of her sons were officers in Wellington's army & were at Waterloo. Her 15-year-old son Lord William Lennox lost sight in one eye in a horse riding accident in the battle.
All armies of that era would have a small proportion of enlisted men and officers who were boys.
George Kepple, 6th Earl of Albemarle (13 June 1799-21 February1891) was an ensign in the British 14th Regiment of Foot at the Battle of Waterloo 18 June 1815 aged 16 years and 5 days. In <i>Fifty Years of My Life</i>, 1876 he wrote about his experiences at Waterloo.
On June 19th the day after the battle:
<blockquote> Some
of my comrades went over the field of battle. I set out
with the same intent, but soon returned to the Chateau
from the deep depression which the scene produced upon
me. One sight especially riveted my attention. It was
the body of a boy, who from his appearance could not
have been more than fourteen years of age. The finely-
chiselled features of the poor lad contrasted strongly with
the coarse lineaments of corpses in his neighbourhood,
which had been rendered still more grim by the agony
of the death-struggle. Like the bodies around him, no
vestige of dress remained to show his rank or nation.
Prom his peculiarly fair hair it may be assumed he was
a German ; from his small white hands, that he was of
gentle race; and from the heaps of dead horses around
CH. VIIL] OUR ENTRY INTO NIVELLES. 157
him, that he had fallen in a charge of cavalry. I have
looked over the lists of the killed and wounded, but can
find no one answering his description. The probability is
that he was a " freiwilliger," or volunteer, some of whom
were attached to most regiments, British or Prussian.
One thing is proved to me, that there was in the field
one younger>than myself. </blockquote>
<url>https://archive.org/stream/fiftyyearsofmyli00albeuoft/fiftyyearsofmyli00albeuoft_djvu.txt</url>
At least some episodes of Dr. Who were seen in at least some parts of the USA before 1975.
I remember beginning to watch Dr. Who in the mid 1970s. I think that the first episode I watched was from the 1975 season, probably an episode of "Revenge of the Cybermen", at the same time or after it was broadcast in the UK. And I remember watching those episodes on my grandmother's color television.
As I remember, I watched the first season of Space 1999 (1975-1977) on black and white tv and the second season on color tv, so the date my grandmother got a color tv should should depend on when the seasons were shown in the USA.
I also remember that Dr. Who was on tv in the USA years before that. I specifically remember watching the ending of "Dr. Who and the Silurians" in the USA at the same time or after it was first broadcast on 14 March 1970.
As for Leia's wealth, possibly the Royal family of Alderaan had the equivalent of offshore bank accounts. Which Leia is no the heir of. Possibly Lei can also access the Alderaan government's bank accounts in banks on other planets.
As for wasting the resources of Alderaan by blowing up the planet, that might have made the mineral resources at least easier to get out.
Earth and other planets have giant cores of metal thousands of miles deep. It is mostly iron, with some nickel. And it has traces of other metals. And though they are traces, on the scale of a planetary core, they are many, many times as much as can be mined from near the surface of a planet.
Alderaan was turned into an asteroid field, and of course on a small asteroid valuable metals can't be far below the surface because the asteroid is so small.
All the valuable metals in Alderaan's core were locked away forever out of reach thousands of miles below the surface of planet which would have to be taken apart to get at them. And then Alderaan was instantly taken apart, exposing the metals.
"More importantly, why would a king and queen agree to adopt some stranger's child as their own and let her become a princess?"
There are many examples in the Roman Empire of an Emperor without a son adopting a man to make them their heir and the next emperor.
So I see no reason why a king and queen couldn't adopt a daughter, especially if they had sons expected to be heirs to the throne.
It was also common to claim that a monarch was not really the rightful monarch because he wasn't the son of the previous monarch. In many eras a royal woman had to give birth in public with dozens of witnesses watching to see that the baby actually emerged from her. And yet in some cases enemies of the child claimed they had been smuggled into the birthing room and weren't actually the child of the mother. Enemies of the monarch would use that in their propaganda about them.
So the people who believed those stories could believe that if a king and queen were childless they might pretend to have a baby and heir to the throne just to spite whoever was next in line for the throne or to make the king more secure on the throne, or whatever. And if people could believe that some people could have motives for having a fake child, maybe a small proportion of people actually might have motives to fake having a child.
Today, Feb. 6, 2024, "God Complex" was on again and that inspired me to check whether the episode listing in IMDB said anything about it.
And the Trivia section for "God Complex" says:
<blockquote>The location where Agent Maggie Bell fell through the floor was The Church of St. Anselm and St. Roch at 685 Tinton Ave, Bronx, NYC. It is a historic landmark undergoing renovation.</blockquote>
<url>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27099261/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv</url>
The church has its own page at Wikipedia:
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St._Anselm_and_St._Roch_(Bronx)</url>
And it is mentioned in other sites:
<url>https://nylandmarks.org/celebrate-50-at-50/church-of-st-anselm-and-st-roch/<url>
And here is a link to online images of the church:
<url>https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&sca_esv=87ccfbe49ac67335&sxsrf=ACQVn08T8rOvW0Ej-RBkzHg-4LAjKcdHZg:1707269528390&q=St.+Anselm+%26+Roch+Roman+Catholic+Church+the+Bronx&tbm=isch&source=lnms&prmd=mihnvsbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi71ZnOipiEAxVuN2IAHQe6ATMQ0pQJegQIDhAB&biw=1849&bih=993&dpr=1</url>
I have to say that it looks much better in online photos than in the episode, where it is made to look really spooky & creepy.
Do you know what the fictional location of the building that Greystone "acted" as was?
Is <i>Picture Mommy Dead</i> set in Los Angeles or somewhere else?
Does anyone know the fictional location of <i>Dead Ringer</i> (1964)?
Was it set in the Los Angles area, or was it supposed to happen somewhere else? Considering all the dozens of movies filmed at the Greystone Mansion. it might have appeared as fictional mansions in 10 states and few foreign countries.
Did Julia Duffy have the worst luck of any working actress?
What about all the female actors, some Jewish, working in Eastern Europe in 1941?
Dominque Dunne gained fame from her role as Dana Freeling in <i>Poltergeist</i> (1982). On September 26, 1982, she broke up with her boyfriend John Sweeney after he got violent with her. On September 20, 1982, he came to her house and strangled her. She died on November 4, 1982, aged 22 years, 11 months, and 12 days.
<url> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Dunne</url>
Rebecca Shaeffer gained fame in the role of Patti Russell in <i>My Sister Sam</i> (1986-1988). On July 18, 1989, aged 21 years, 8 months, and 12 days, she was shot and killed by fan Robert Bardo, which caused many stars to become paranoid about their fans.
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Schaeffer</url>
Peace activist and child actress Samantha Smith died in an airplane crash on August 25, 1985 aged 13 years, 1 month, and 27 days. Her fan Robert Bardo then became a fan of Rebecca Shaeffer.
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Smith</url>
Heather O'Rourke gained fame in her role as Carol Ann Freeling (sister to Dana) in <i>Poltergeist</i> (1982). After filming <i>Poltergeist III</i>(1988) she suddenly became sick on January 31, 1988, and died February 1, aged 12 years, 1 month, and 5 days. If her <i>Poltergeist</i> (1982) co star Oliver Robbins (b. July 22, 1971) is the least bit superstitious he must have often worried about a <i>Poltergeist</i> curse.
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_O%27Rourke</url>
Judith Eva Barsi was a successful child actress, aged 10 years, 1 month and 19 days, when she and her mother were murdered by her father on July 25, 1988.
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Barsi</url>
Myca Dinh Le, age 7 (male), and Renee Shi-Yi Chen age 6 (female), were killed on the set of <i>Twilight Zone: The Movie</i> (1983) on July 23, 1982, when Le was decapitated by blades of a falling helicoptor & Chen was crushed to death by the landing skids.
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_accident </url>
I find it hard to believe that no actresses have died tragically young since the 1980s.
Did Julia Duffy really have the worst luck of any working actress?
I guess my memory was inaccurate.
I didn't say they did.
You're right.
With all the different locations for versions of <i>The Cat and the Canary</i> I can imagine hypothetical versions set in a recreation of an ancient Roman villa like the Villa Romano del Casale, for example.
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Romana_del_Casale</url>
Or maybe in a futuristic mansion on the Moon.
It is possible they used a matte painting for the house.
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matte_painting</url>
<blockquote>Does anybody know if the exterior shot of the Oaks was supposed to be a real house or a miniature model? That is one freaky looking house. </blockquote>
There is a third possibility. It could be a matte painting. Many solid looking landscapes and structures, etc. in movies and tv shows are actually matte paintings.
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matte_painting</url>
Vincent Price (1911-1993) who played Dr. Wells should have been about 48 when his scenes were filmed.
Was Well's companion at the Hunting Lodge seen during the filme? If the companion was only talked about, he could have been someone who died of old age decades ago.
Was the date mentioned or seen in the film? Possibly the visual aspects were consistent with it happening a few years earlier than 1959.
Possibly Dr. Wells was older than he looked. Possibly when Dr. Wells was at the hunting lodge age 20, his companion was aged 70 and had built the house 40 years earlier. That would make the house built about 70 years before about 1959 or earlier, in the 1880s or 1890s.
If Dr. Wells' companion is seen in the film or mentioned as being alive during the film, he should have built the house in the 1950s or 1940s or possibly the 1930s.
Here is a link to an article about Mystery Castle built in the 1930s:
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Castle</url>
Here is a link to an article about the castle like mansion Glencairn completed in 1938:
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glencairn_Museum</url>
Here is a link to an article about Bishop Castle, built over decades beginning in the 1960s:
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_Castle</url>
Here is a link to an article about Rubel Castle built 1n 1959 to 1986:
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubel_Castle</url>
Here is a link to an article about Bull Run Castle built 1986-1996:
<url>https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/virginia/bull-run-castle-hidden-va/</url>
Here are links to an article about Pensmore, a chateau like mansion completed in 2016.
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensmore</url>
Back in the 1960s I bought a paperback book at a sort of little fair on the lawn of my high school.
The cover said:
Mary Roberts
Rinehart
The Bat
And after I read it I was puzzled by the fact that The Bat was never named as "Rinehart" anywhere, so I read the book again searching for the name "Rinehart" and still couldn't find it. So I was quite mystified why someone named Mary Roberts wrote a novel called <i>Rinehart The Bat</i> without the Bat ever being named Rinehart anywhere in it.
Anyway, Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote <i>The Circular Staircase</i> (1908) which was made into a feature length movie <i>The Circular Staircase</i> (1915). It was also adapted as an episode of <i>Climax!</i> (1956).
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circular_Staircase</url>
Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood adapted and revised the plot of <i>The Circular Staircase</i>, making many changes including adding The Bat, to write a play called <i>The Bat</i> (1920). A novelization of <i>The Bat</i> was published in 1926, claimed to be by Rinehart and Hopwood, but ghostwritten by Stephen Vincent Benet. I suppose that what I read was a paperback reprint from the 1950s or 1960s of that 1926 novelization.
Film adaptations of <i>The Bat</i> include the silent <i>The Bat</i> (1926), <i>The Bat Whispers</i> (1926), and <i>The Bat</i> (1959), and there were some television adaptations. And I guess that there could have been novelizations of one of those movies.
<url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat_(play)</url>
The book I read described The Bat's fame and how he could not be captured by the police, and how "crime's four hundred" sought to capture The Bat and force him to work for them, but also failed. I had never heard of high society's "four hundred" but I vividly remember the strange phrase "crime's four hundred".