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The 1942 Casablanca centers on the development of conscience in the cynical American Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) in the face of oppression by the Nazis and the example of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo. The David Lean and Robert Bolt screenplay for Doctor Zhivago ( an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel ) focuses strongly on the conscience of a doctor-poet in the midst of the Russian Revolution ( in the end " the walls of his heart were like paper "). The 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner focuses on the struggles of conscience between and within a bounty hunter ( Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford )) and a renegade replicant android ( Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer )) in a future society which refuses to accept that forms of artificial intelligence can have aspects of being such as conscience.
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The famous 1942 film Casablanca underlined the city's colonial status at the time — depicting it as the scene of a power struggle between competing European powers.
Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.
* In the 1942 film Casablanca, Captain Renault, a corrupt official played by Claude Rains recites the last two lines of the poem when talking to Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, referring to his power in Casablanca.
University of Cambridge experiments in 2002 and 2003 attempted to use machinima to re-create a scene from the 1942 live-action film Casablanca.
Besides his Oscar-winning scores, some of Steiner's popular works include King Kong ( 1933 ), Little Women ( 1933 ), Jezebel ( 1938 ), Casablanca ( 1942 ), and the film score for which he is possibly best known, Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ).
In 1942, Steiner won his second Oscar for Now, Voyager, and was also nominated for Casablanca, which remains one of his most famous scores.
Other propaganda movies, such as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ( 1944 ) and Casablanca ( 1942 ), have become so well loved by film viewers that they can stand on their own as dramatic films, apart from their original role as propaganda vehicles.
Among the films the studio made during the war were Casablanca, Now, Voyager, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( all 1942 ), This Is the Army, and Mission to Moscow ( both 1943 ), the latter became controversial a few years afterwards.
* Oscar winners: Rebecca ( 1940 ), How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ), Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), Casablanca ( 1943 ), Going My Way ( 1944 ), The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ), Hamlet ( 1948 ), All the King's Men ( 1949 ).
* Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1940s include: The Maltese Falcon directed by John Huston ( 1941 ), It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra ( 1946 ), Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder ( 1944 ), Meet Me in St. Louis directed by Vincente Minnelli ( 1944 ), Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles ( 1941 )," The Great Dictator directed by Charlie Chaplin ( 1940 ).
Max Steiner weaves quotes from " La Marseillaise " throughout his score for the 1942 film Casablanca.
He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man ( 1933 ), The Wolf Man ( 1941 ), a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Mr. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), and, perhaps his most notable performance, as Captain Renault in Casablanca ( 1942 ).
Following The Invisible Man, Universal Studios tried to typecast him in horror films, but he broke free, starting with the gleefully evil role of Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ), then with his Academy Award-nominated performance as the conflicted corrupt US senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), and followed with probably his most famous role, the flexible French police Captain Renault in Casablanca ( 1942 ).
He was also nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Casablanca ( 1942 ), Mr. Skeffington ( 1944 ), and Notorious ( 1946 ).
Lorre played the role of Joel Cairo in The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ) and portrayed the character Ugarte in Casablanca ( 1942 ).
* Casablanca ( 1942 )
Prime examples of his work in the 1940s are The Sea Wolf ( 1941 ), Casablanca ( 1942 ) and Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ).
The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, Casablanca.
* 1942: Casablanca, by Michael Curtiz ( voice of Curt Bois, the thief )
He is best known for his Warner Bros. films with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre, which include The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ) and Casablanca ( 1942 ).
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1942 and centers
Daniel Clement Dennett ( born March 28, 1942 ) is an American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.
In 1942, the USSR again moved to strengthen the Afghan Armed Forces, by providing small arms and aircraft, and establishing training centers in Tashkent ( Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic ).
The first SU-122s produced in December 1942 were sent to training centers and two new combat units, the 1433rd and 1434th self-propelled artillery regiments.
Bryan and Hill, in 1942, stressed the importance of microstructural observations by proposing that stony corals begin skeletal growth by configuring calcification centers, which are genetically derived.
The center opened on August 11, 1942 when internees began arriving by train from the Pomona, California, Santa Anita, California, and Portland, Oregon assembly centers.
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research ( CSIR ) established in 1942, is an autonomous body and India's largest Research and Development ( R & D ) organization, with 39 laboratories and 50 field stations or extension centers spread across the nation, with a collective staff of over 17, 000.
By 1942, Shōwa Steel Works total production capacity reached 3, 600, 000 tonnes, making it one of the major iron and steel centers in the world.
The third of the novels, The Singapore Grip, centers upon the Japanese capture of the British colonial city of Singapore in 1942, while also exploring at some length the economics and ethics of colonialism at the time, as well as the economic relationship between developed and Third World countries at the time that Farrell was writing.
In 1942, he left teaching to work at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D. C., and the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University, all research centers for the war effort.
Then, on May 3, 1942, DeWitt issued an order requiring Japanese and Japanese-Americans to report to offices, where they would be taken to relocation centers.
1942 and on
Work on Volume 2, was begun in 1941, interrupted by the war in 1942, and resumed in 1945.
" Aside from Roger Ackroyd, the most critically acclaimed Poirot novels appeared from 1932 to 1942, including such acknowledged classics as Murder on the Orient Express, The ABC Murders ( 1935 ), Cards on the Table ( 1936 ), and Death on the Nile ( 1937 ).
A medal awarded to women who served in the Women Army Auxiliary Corps from 10 July 1942 to 31 August 1943, and to the Women Army Corps from 1 September 1943 to 2 September 1945 featured Athena on the front.
* 1942 – World War II: the Battle of Guadalcanal begins – United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
* 1942 – World War II: The two-person crew of the U. S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean.
* 1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured.
* 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Bataan / Bataan Death March – United States forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula.
* 1942 – World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan.
* 1942 – World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
* 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean Raid.
* 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
* 1942 – World War II: The most famous ( and first international ) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore ( with 25 fellow Texas A & M graduates who are under his command ), while 1. 8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5 hour attack.
During a 1935 – 1942 colonization attempt, the island was most likely on Hawaii time, which was then 10. 5 hours behind UTC .< ref > Since it is uninhabited the island's time zone is unspecified, but it lies within a nautical time zone 12 hours behind UTC.
* Brazil in World War II ( 1942 – 1945 ): Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany in August 1942 and in 1944 sent 25, 334 soldiers to fight in Italy.
It last convened on 26 April 1942.
Taking command on 13 August 1942, he immediately became a whirlwind of activity.
( Churchill sent a telegram to Alexander on 23 September 1942 which began, " We are in your hands and of course a victorious battle makes amends for much delay.
FBI pressure on Chaplin grew after his 1942 campaign for a second European front in the war and reached a critical level in the late 1940s, when Congressional figures threatened to call him as a witness in hearings.
In September 1942, Japanese daily rations on New Guinea consisted of 800 grams of rice and tinned meat.
The last mounted saber charge by Italian cavalry occurred on August 24, 1942 at Isbuscenski ( Russia ), when a squadron of the " Savoia Cavalry Regiment " regiment charged the " 812th Siberian Infantry Regiment ".
The final Italian cavalry action occurred on October 17, 1942 in Pola ( Croatia ) by a squadron of " Alexandria Cavalry Regiment " against a large group of Yugoslav partisans.
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