It is based on the novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich, and is a remake of the 1969 Francois Truffaut film Mississippi Mermaid.

Other film work includes the scores to The Phantom President ( 1932 ), starring George M. Cohan, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum ( 1933 ), starring Al Jolson, and, in a quick return after having left Hollywood, Mississippi ( 1935 ), starring Bing Crosby and W. C. Fields.

Also later in the film at the battle of Fredricksburg you can see both the 114th Pennsylvania defending the pontoon bridges against General Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade, and the 5th New York briefly as the Union are looting Fredricksburg.

His final film was Advise and Consent ( 1962 ), for which he received favorable comments for his performance as a southern US Senator ( for which accent he studied recordings of Mississippi Senator John Stennis ).

Interestingly, both film versions — François Truffaut's La sirène du ( Mississippi Mermaid, 1969 ) and Michael Cristofer's Original Sin ( 2001 ) — place the action at a later time ( and elsewhere ).

For the remake, the setting of the film is moved from London to Saucier, Mississippi, home of a riverboat casino.

The River is a 1938 short documentary film which shows the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States, and how farming and timber practices had caused topsoil to be swept down the river and into the Gulf of Mexico, leading to catastrophic floods and impoverishing farmers.

The 1991 film Mississippi Masala starred Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury, and profiled a family of displaced Ugandan-Indians living and working in Mississippi.

Nair and her husband first met in 1988, when she went to Uganda for the first time to research for the film Mississippi Masala.

Hawks again named the Nelson / Caan character after a state ( in this case, Mississippi ) and in a wry, humorous twist on the original film, Hawks made him inept with firearms, but skilled with a knife.

In the 1986 film Crossroads, blues musicians Robert Johnson and Willie Brown sell their souls to a " Mr. Legba " at a Mississippi crossroads.

* The case was the basis ( loosely ) of the feature film Mississippi Burning ( 1988 ).

Evan Rachel Wood's character, Melodie St. Ann Celestine, in the Woody Allen fictional film Whatever Works is from Eden, Mississippi.

Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime drama film loosely based on the FBI investigation into the real-life murders of three civil rights workers in the U. S. state of Mississippi in 1964.

Neither production gave the real names of the murderers, due to legal considerations, and Mississippi Burning does not mention the victims ( who are referred to as " the Boys ") by name in the film.

The film was shot in Benoit, Mississippi in the J. C. Burrus house, built in 1848, the only antebellum house in Bolivar County.

The working titles for the film included the name of the play and " Mississippi Woman "; actress Carroll Baker claims that Kazan changed the title to Baby Doll as a present to her.

*( 1935 ) Mississippi ( film )

He is portrayed in the film Mississippi Burning by actor Geoffrey Nauftts who is identified in the credits simply as " Goatee.

* The film Mississippi Burning ( 1988 ) was based on the murders and ensuing FBI investigation.

The film tells the story of Detective Michael Tabb, to be played by Tim Roth as he investigates the murders of young girls burned and washing ashore along the Mississippi River.

Seth's film credits in the 1990s included roles in Not Without My Daughter ( 1991 ), Mississippi Masala ( 1991 ), Street Fighter ( 1994 ), and Harish Saluja's The Journey ( 1997 ).

* The Writers Guild of America, East ( WGAE ), representing TV and film writers East of the Mississippi.

Examples of such courts include the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals ( which existed from 1844 to 1947 ), the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors ( which has been renamed the Connecticut Supreme Court ), the Kentucky Court of Errors ( renamed the Kentucky Supreme Court ), and the Mississippi High Court of Errors and Appeals ( since renamed the Supreme Court of Mississippi ).

Barges are also used for very heavy or bulky items ; a typical barge measures 195 by 35 feet ( 59. 4 m × 10. 6 m ), and can carry up to 1, 500 tons catalytic cracking unit reactor was shipped by barge from the Tulsa Port of Catoosa in Oklahoma to a refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

* Knollenberg, Bernhard, " General Amherst and Germ Warfare ," Mississippi Valley Historical Review 41 ( 1954 – 1955 ), 489 – 494.

Image: DiscoscaphitesirisCretaceous. jpg | The ammonite Discoscaphites iris, Owl Creek Formation ( Upper Cretaceous ), Ripley, Mississippi.

James Charles Evers ( born September 11, 1922 ), the older brother of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers, is a leading civil rights spokesman within the Republican Party in his native Mississippi.

In the context of American slavery, this ancient sense of " down " converged with the concept of " down the river " ( the Mississippi ), where slaves ' conditions were notoriously worse, a situation which left the idiom " sell down the river " in present-day English.

His major subsequent films include The French Connection ( 1971 ), in which he played Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle ; The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ); The Conversation ( 1974 ); Superman ( 1978 ), in which he played arch-villain Lex Luthor ; Hoosiers ( 1986 ); Mississippi Burning ( 1987 ); Unforgiven ( 1992 ); The Firm ( 1993 ); Crimson Tide ( 1995 ); Get Shorty ( 1995 ); The Birdcage ( 1996 ); Enemy of the State ( 1998 ); and The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ).

American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium ( University Press of Mississippi ; 2010 ), 253 pages.

* John Ford ( minister ) ( 1767 – 1826 ), American political and religious ( Methodist ) leader in South Carolina ( two terms in state legislature ) and Mississippi Territory

After U. S. ownership of the region was confirmed in the Treaty of Ghent ( 1814 ), the U. S. built or expanded forts along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, including adding to Fort Bellefontaine, and constructing Fort Armstrong ( 1816 ) and Fort Edwards ( 1816 ) in Illinois, Fort Crawford ( 1816 ) in Prairie du Chien Wisconsin, Fort Snelling ( 1819 ) in Minnesota, and Fort Atkinson ( 1819 ) in Nebraska.

The breadth of the alluvial region along the Mississippi is from 10 to 60 miles ( 15 to 100 km ), and along the other rivers the alluvial region averages about 10 miles ( 15 km ) across.

The Mississippi River flows along a ridge formed by its own deposits ( known as a levee ), from which the lands decline toward a river beyond at an average fall of six feet per mile ( 3 m / km ).

Jonathan H. Green's book, An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling ( G. B. Zieber, Philadelphia, 1843 ), described the spread of the game from there to the rest of the country by Mississippi riverboats, on which gambling was a common pastime.

In Life on the Mississippi ( 1883 ), Mark Twain, on the other hand, satirized the impact of Scott's writings, declaring ( with humorous hyperbole ) that Scott " had so large a hand in making Southern character, as it existed before the

He received a 15-year sentence at the Mississippi State Penitentiary ( Parchman Farm ), of which he served two years.

* August 15 – By act of the U. S. Congress ( March 3 ), the Alabama Territory is created by splitting the Mississippi Territory in half, on the day the Mississippi constitution is drafted, four months before Mississippi became a State of the United States.

Twain, in the autobiographic book Life on the Mississippi ( 1883 ), used the term within quotes, indicating reported usage, but used the term " negro " when speaking in his own narrative persona.

Blues music, rooted in the work songs and spirituals of slavery and influenced greatly by West African musical traditions, was first played by blacks, and later by some whites, in the Mississippi Delta region of the United States around the time of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Born into a musical family in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Carson, California, Norwood first appeared in a supporting role on the short-lived ABC sitcom Thea in 1993.

A version of the state's signature musical form somewhat closer in structure to its African roots ( often eschewing the chord change for the hypnotic effect of the droning, single chord vamp ), the north hill country blues style ( or at least its aesthetic ) may be heard to have been carried on in the music of such figures as Junior Kimbrough and R. L. Burnside, while serving as the original impetus behind creation of the Fat Possum record label out of Oxford, Mississippi.

In 2010, Life on the Mississippi was adapted as a stage musical, with book and lyrics by Douglas M. Parker and music by Denver Casado.

Chatmon's family was well known in Mississippi for their musical talents ; Chatmon was a member of the family's string band when he was young.

* The song is referenced in the 1935 Rodgers and Hart musical, Mississippi.

Containing only lyrics and no musical notation, the book was very popular west of the Mississippi.

Their appeal as well as that of newcomers La Mississippi increased dramatically in the 1990s as musical tastes now allowed a broader public to appreciate their work.

They ultimately reach their location in Mississippi: a rural crossroads in the middle of nowhere, where Willie reveals the ultimate secret: his musical ability ( specifically, the harmonica ) and the musical ability of Robert Johnson came about because of deals with the devil made at this very location.

In 1988, Rogers and Smith left Mississippi for Los Angeles, California to pursue their musical interests.

The stated purpose of the River Music Experience is to give Quad City residents and visitors opportunities to experience America's music, especially the music of the Mississippi River, through live musical performances, and programs which nurture, educate and inspire musicians and music appreciators.

Lester Young was born in Woodville, Mississippi, and grew up in a musical family.

Such a list would include towns famous for theatrical events ( Stratford, Niagara on the Lake ), musical events ( Tanglewood, Woodstock ), high concentrations of artisans working in one artistic area ( Nelsonville, Ohio ; Northport, Alabama ; Portland, Maine ; Oxford, Mississippi ); or which host large numbers of artists, actors, or writers ( Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, Northampton, Provincetown, in Massachusetts ).