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The Gun is a novel by C.S. Forester about an imaginary series of incidents involving a single eighteen-pounder cannon during the Peninsular War (1807–1814). The book was first published in 1933 and has as its background the brutal war of liberation of Spanish and Portuguese forces (regular and partisans) and their British allies against the occupying armies of Napoleonic France.
Colonel Carrington (Roy Gordon) and his command are assigned the job of constructing a chain of forts in the Sioux Indian territory of Wyoming during the 1880s. The Colonel recruits former cavalry soldiers turned frontier scouts Jim Bridger (Dennis Morgan) and "Dakota Jack" Gaines (Richard Denning), now running a Wild West show, to head the fort building.
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein is the collective title of five novels co-written by Dean Koontz. Though technically of the mystery or thriller genres , the novels also feature the trappings of horror , fantasy , and science fiction .
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously ...
Frankenstein, a play adapted by Christine Davey, premiered at La Mama Courthouse in 2023. This production updates the original story to explore the themes of gender rights, wealth, class and the patriarchy. [37] Frankenstein, a play adaptation by Shake & Stair Theatre Co, premiered at Queensland Performing Arts Centre in 2023. [38]
Frankenstein is a 1910 American short silent horror film produced by Edison Studios. It was directed by J. Searle Dawley , who also wrote the one-reeler 's screenplay, broadly basing his "scenario" on Mary Shelley 's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus . [ 4 ]
The sequels to The Curse of Frankenstein would feature Victor Frankenstein creating various different Frankenstein monsters, none of which would be played by Christopher Lee: The film The Revenge of Frankenstein has Victor Frankenstein placing the brain of a hunchback named Karl (portrayed by Oscar Quitak ) into a makeshift body (portrayed by ...
Victor Frankenstein is a fictional character who first appeared as the titular main protagonist of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.He is a Swiss scientist (born in Naples, Italy) who, after studying chemical processes and the decay of living things, gains an insight into the creation of life and gives life to his own creature (often referred to as ...