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The 1958 Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (Showa Station) inspired the 1983 hit film Antarctica, of which Eight Below is a remake. [3] [4] Eight Below adapts the events of the 1958 incident, moved forward to 1993. [5] In the 1958 event, 15 Sakhalin Husky sled dogs were abandoned when the expedition team was unable to return to the base.
The dogs' survival was a national news story at the time. Jiro continued working as a sled dog in Antarctica and died there in 1960; his remains were stuffed and moved to the National Science Museum of Japan, the same museum where Hachiko is displayed. Taro was relocated to Sapporo and lived the remainder of his life at Hokkaido University. He ...
July 26, 1957: The Young Don't Cry: July 1957: The 27th Day: August 2, 1957: Jeanne Eagels: August 7, 1957: 3:10 to Yuma: Remade in 2007: August 8, 1957: Fire Down Below: co-production with Warwick Films; Filmed in CinemaScope: August 13, 1957: Pickup Alley: August 17, 1957: Operation Mad Ball: August 1957: No Time to Be Young: Town on Trial ...
Gladys May Aylward (24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970) was a British-born evangelical Christian missionary to China, whose story was told in the book The Small Woman: The Heroic Story of Gladys Aylward, by Alan Burgess, published in 1957.
With “The Six Triple Eight,” the self-made mogul — who leveraged his success to build a production studio on a former U.S. Army base outside Atlanta — has found a story ideally suited to ...
Each member of the traitorous eight received 100 shares, 225 shares went to Hayden, Stone & Co and 300 shares remained in reserve. Fairchild provided a loan of $1.38 million. [63] To secure the loan, the traitorous eight gave Fairchild the voting rights on their shares, with the right to buy their shares at a fixed total price of $3 million ...
The film was based on a book Captain Dreyfus: Story of Mass Hysteria which was published in 1955. [2] In October 1955 MGM acquired an option on the film rights. The story had been filmed previously, notably in The Life of Émile Zola, but MGM claimed the book "contains quite a bit of material that had not come to life before".
Eight O'Clock Walk is a 1954 British drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Richard Attenborough, Cathy O'Donnell, Derek Farr and Maurice Denham. [3]Based on a true story, [4] Eight O'Clock Walk is an anti-capital punishment film (the title refers to the hour at which executions were traditionally carried out) that points out the danger of circumstantial evidence resulting in the ...