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  2. Hanging Up - Wikipedia

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    The film was released in the United States on February 18, 2000. It made $15.7 million over the opening four-day Presidents' Day weekend, finishing second behind The Whole Nine Yards. [citation needed] Hanging Up opened in 2,618 theaters at an average of exactly $6,000. It dropped out of the top 10 in its third week of release, and lasted eight ...

  3. Hangup - Wikipedia

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    Hangup, also called Hang Up and later released under the name Super Dude, [1] is a 1974 film directed by Henry Hathaway. It stars William Elliott and Marki Bey. [2] This was the last film directed by Hathaway. [3] The film falls in the blaxploitation subgenre of "vigilante group cleans up ghetto streets". [4]

  4. Dangler (plot device) - Wikipedia

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    Dangler is a literary term meaning a plotline that is metaphorically left to "dangle" or "hang". A dangler, or dangling plotline, is a plot device in fiction where a plotline is forgotten, phased out and eventually dropped, thus a resolution is never achieved. Although dangling plotlines can occur in all forms of media, they typically appear in ...

  5. The Shooting of Dan McGrew - Wikipedia

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    The poem was recited by Miss Marple in the 1964 film Murder Most Foul, as her audition to join a theatrical troupe. The character of Dan McGrew was based on William Nelson McGrew (1883-1960), who was born and raised in Guinda, California to Isaac and Nellie Ophelia (Thomas) McGrew and whose nickname was "Dangerous Dan".

  6. Hangmen (play) - Wikipedia

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    After a 1963 prologue showing British executioner Harry Wade at work, hanging a man, Hennessy, who goes to his grave proclaiming his innocence and pronouncing a curse on Harry, Hangmen flashes forward to 1965 in a town in northern England. The action centres around Harry, who we discover is the second-best hangman in the land.

  7. Phone Booth (film) - Wikipedia

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    In the 1960s, Larry Cohen pitched Alfred Hitchcock an idea for a film which took place in real-time, entirely within the confines of a telephone booth. Hitchcock liked the idea, but the project did not move forward, because the two men were unable to devise a plot which explained why the action had to be restricted to one location. [2]

  8. Picnic at Hanging Rock (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1967 historical fiction novel by Australian author Joan Lindsay. [1] Set in Victoria , Australia in 1900, it is about a group of female boarding school students who vanish at Hanging Rock while on a Valentine's Day picnic, and the effects the disappearances have on the school and local community.

  9. Tribute to a Bad Man - Wikipedia

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    Tribute to a Bad Man is a 1956 American Western film directed by Robert Wise and starring James Cagney about a rancher whose harsh enforcement of frontier justice alienates the woman he loves. It was based on the short story "Hanging's for the Lucky" by Jack Schaefer , the author of Shane .