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In the 1909 novel The Phantom of the Opera, as well as subsequent film and stage adaptations, the title character appears disguised as The Red Death at a ball.; In Chapter 4 of the 1940 movie serial Drums of Fu Manchu, "The Pendulum of Doom", the hero Allan Parker is trapped in a "Pit and the Pendulum" peril (Fu Manchu actually states that the Poe story inspired this torture device).
Poe Dameron is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He was introduced in the 2015 film The Force Awakens, and is portrayed by Oscar Isaac.Poe is an X-wing fighter pilot for the Resistance who inadvertently brings the renegade stormtrooper Finn and the Jakku scavenger Rey into battle against the First Order.
The TCM site adds the observation that although the film suggests that Poe's name would have meant nothing to the other characters in 1848, he was already well known. [4] C. Auguste Dupin appeared in " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " (1841), " The Mystery of Marie Rogêt " (1842) and " The Purloined Letter " (1844).
Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin [oɡyst dypɛ̃] is a fictional character created by Edgar Allan Poe.Dupin made his first appearance in Poe's 1841 short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", widely considered the first detective fiction story. [1]
Edgar Allen Poe [] is a 1909 American silent drama film produced by the Biograph Company of New York and directed and co-written by D. W. Griffith. [2] Herbert Yost stars in this short as the 19th-century American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe, while Linda Arvidson portrays Poe's wife Virginia. [3]
Eleanora Poe is the sister of Mr. Arthur Poe, who is in charge of the Baudelaire orphans' affairs. Eleanora is the editor-in-chief of The Daily Punctilio . She is first mentioned as " a tiresome woman named Eleanora " who was in an elevator at the Hotel Preludio with the Baudelaire family one day when Bertrand played a prank that forced her to ...
Ang Panday (lit. ' The Blacksmith ') is a 1980 Filipino action-fantasy film produced and directed by Fernando Poe Jr., who also stars as the titular character.It is based on the fictional comics character of the same name, created by Carlo J. Caparas and illustrated by Steve Gan.
Ethan Poe, a writer living in the shadow of his infamous ancestor, is under deadline to finish his next book. He moves to a small town to concentrate on his novel and meets Anne who falls for the troubled writer. When the shadow of Poe's ghost falls over the two lovers women turn up murdered in Poe-etic fashion. Ethan is the Police's prime suspect.