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The Pledge (German: Das Versprechen) is a crime novella by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt, published in 1958, after Dürrenmatt thought that his previous movie script, Es geschah am hellichten Tag ("It happened in broad daylight") did not have a realistic ending.
The Pledge is a 2001 American neo-noir psychological mystery drama film directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson alongside an ensemble supporting cast of Patricia Clarkson, Aaron Eckhart, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Vanessa Redgrave, Sam Shepard, Mickey Rourke, Tom Noonan, Lois Smith and Benicio del Toro.
Rumsey's third and final Dunsany adaptation was The Pledge (1981), based on the author's story “The Highwayman”. In 1790, the compatriots of an executed highwayman attempt to keep their word to him by cutting down his rotting corpse and interring it in an Archbishop's tomb, believing that only this course of action will free their friend's ...
The Pledge, an 1831 play by James Kenney; The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel, a 1958 novella by Friedrich Dürrenmatt; The Pledge, a 2001 American mystery directed by Sean Penn; The Pledge, the title of the DVD release of A Gunfighter's Pledge, a 2008 TV Western; The Pledge (British TV programme), 2016-2020
Das Versprechen: Requiem auf den Kriminalroman, original title of The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel, a 1958 German novella by Friedrich Dürrenmatt; Das Versprechen, original German title of 1995 film The Promise; Das Versprechen, original German title of 2016 documentary Killing for Love
Requiem (Russian: Реквием, Rekviem) is an elegy by Anna Akhmatova about the suffering of people under the Great Purge. It was written over three decades, between 1935 and 1961. [1] She carried it with her, redrafting, as she worked and lived in towns and cities across the Soviet Union. The set of poems was conspicuously absent from her ...
Requiem, like Brethren and Crusade before it, follows Will Campbell, a Templar involved in a secret order known as the Anima Templi. After the Fall of Acre, Will returns to Europe to find out that his order agreed to help King Edward I to conquer Will's homeland, Scotland. Will decides to leave the Templars and fight together with his people ...
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