It was used as both a plot device and as a means to allow Superman's actor, Bud Collyer, to take occasional time off.

The plot of The Magnificent Seven directly inspired the 1980 sci-fi film, Battle Beyond the Stars, which included actor Robert Vaughn as one of the seven mercenaries hired to save a farming planet from alien marauders.

The plot of the play was inspired by the real-life story of David Hampton, a con man who managed to convince a number of people in the 1980s that he was the son of actor Sidney Poitier.

Tom Baker, the fourth actor to play the Doctor, had declined to appear in the special, and the plot was reworked to explain the events in the clips.

The plot focuses on Scottie Templeton, a popular actor who has spent his life shirking responsibility.

Young died on August 12, 2000, from ovarian cancer, at the Santa Monica, California home of her half-sister, Georgiana Montalbán, ( the wife of actor Ricardo Montalban ) and was interred in the family plot in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

For example, if the plot requires the hero to jump to a high place, the film crew could put the actor in a special harness, and use aircraft high tension wire to pull him up.

The murder is central to the plot of E. L. Doctorow's historical novel Ragtime, and in the 1981 movie veteran actor Donald O ' Connor sings " I Could Love a Million Girls ".

Incorporated in the plot is the character of Jake Roedel, played by actor Tobey Maguire.

In 1997, MacArthur returned without Jack Lord ( who was in declining health ) to reprise his character, who had become Hawaii's Governor in the plot, in the 1997 unaired pilot of Hawaii Five-O which starred actor Gary Busey.

Among other plot twists, shareholders hire an actor to impersonate a dead nominee, and conspire to murder another member.

The female actor is never meant to represent a character that directly effects the outcome of a plot or keep the story line going, but is inserted into the film as a way of supporting the male role and " bearing the burden of sexual objectification " that he cannot.

Rather than a simple dub of the Japanese-language original, this work represented an entirely re-edited version which restructured the plot to incorporate a new character played by an American actor, Raymond Burr.

In the run up to the war, Halder — in an attempt to avoid what they were certain would be a catastrophic war for Germany — was the main actor in a plot with several other generals in the Wehrmacht and Abwehr to remove Hitler from power.

Also speaking with Rue Morgue in the same issue, actor David Labiosa who plays Carla Moran's teenage son, Billy, revealed that Sidney J. Furie dropped an entire dream sequence and plot thread from The Entity which featured Carla being forced by the entity to have incestuous thoughts about her own son.

This short work combined the comedic style of Toriyama's successful Dr. Slump series with a more action-oriented plot and paid homage to famous martial art actor Jackie Chan.

The plot follows a few days in the life of the successful and self-obsessed light comedy actor Garry Essendine as he prepares to travel for a touring commitment in Africa.

His son named after him owns a plot in Pearblossom gained partly from a split inheritance from the actor.

The plot was written by Toufic Hakeem and was originally intended for theatre before it was transformed in the 1940s into a movie which starred legend actor / artist Mohammed Abdel Wahab and actress Rakiya Ibrahim.

Susarion's improvements in his native farces did not include a separate actor or a regular plot, but probably consisted in substituting metrical compositions for the old extempore effusions of the chorus.

Steele went on to appear in a number of Hollywood films as an actor throughout the 1940s, notably as " Bugsy ", one of the six Marines central to the plot of the Oscar-nominated Hail the Conquering Hero ( 1944 ), directed by Preston Sturges.

Robert Wise's 1949 film version of The Set-Up loses the poem's racial dimension by casting the white actor Robert Ryan in the lead, while the Merchant Ivory Productions 1975 version of The Wild Party changes March's plot to conflate the poem with the Fatty Arbuckle scandal.

The plot centers around a " bad-boy " actor who is forced to re-evaluate his life when his daughter, played by Fanning, arrives unexpectedly.

Written by Roberta Williams and Jane Jensen, KQVI is widely recognized as the high point in the series for its in-depth plot, landmark 3D graphic introduction movie ( created by Kronos Digital Entertainment ), and professional voice acting ( Hollywood actor Robby Benson provided the voice for Prince Alexander, the game's protagonist ).

Morgan hotly denied this and informed the Board of War that the men in camp linked the name of Peters with the plot against Washington.

The difference is that the masters took the bare frame of a plot and filled it with their own world ; ;

As you have doubtless guessed already, the plot is plastered with Freudian, Jungian, and Meinckian theory.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

At one time, while still under the impression that he was dealing with a Cuban plot, the President talked about invoking a total embargo on trade with Cuba.

So the plot creaks, the sets are decaying, the costumes are pre-historic, the orchestra was sloppy and not very well connected with what the singers were doing.

In 39, Agrippina and Livilla, with their maternal cousin, Drusilla's widower Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, were involved in a failed plot to murder Caligula, a plot known as the Plot of the Three Daggers, which was to make Lepidus the new emperor.

* Salomon, a senator of great wealth who in 1106 engaged in a plot with four brothers of the Anemas family.

Here Salieri returned to his collaboration with the young Boccherini who crafted an original plot.

Thereupon the Athenians concerted a plot with Nicodromus, the leader of the democratic party in the island, for the betrayal of Aegina.

The video for " Takes A Little Time " was a new direction for Grant ; with a blue light filter, acoustic guitar, the streets and characters of New York City, and a plot, Grant was re-cast as an adult light rocker.

A plot showing 100 random numbers with a " hidden " sine function, and an autocorrelation ( correlogram ) of the series on the bottom.

Dariush Mehrjui's film Sara ( 1993 ) is based on A Doll's House, with the plot transferred to Iran with Sara, played by Niki Karimi, is the Nora of Ibsen's play.

The second funeral is distinguished by themes contrasting with those of the first, as well as by a change in the direction of the plot which leads to Beowulf's fight against Grendel's Mother.

As with any good narrative, the story of Jonah has a setting, characters, a plot, and themes.

In an interview with Olga Carlisle from The Paris Review, Pasternak enthusiastically described the play's plot and characters.

This usually takes the form of a list of enemies with short descriptions ( e. g. the Metroid Prime and Castlevania games, as well as Dark Cloud and Final Fantasy ) and may even be central to the plot ( Pokemon series ).

First among them is the risk associated with portraying the king's ancestor as a murderer and conspirator in the plot to overthrow a rightful king, as well as the author's desire to flatter a powerful patron.

SWNTs are an important variety of carbon nanotube because most of their properties change significantly with the ( n, m ) values, and this dependence is non-monotonic ( see Kataura plot ).

The plot of the comedy is often concerned with an illicit love affair or some other scandal.

Films in this sub-genre blend comic antics and action where the film stars combine wit and one-liners with a thrilling plot and daring stunts.

The crisis led to an unsuccessful plot by Hugh Dalton to replace Attlee as Prime Minister with Ernest Bevin.