a fighting man is a 2014 drama sport film written and directed by damian lee .

it stars dominic purcell , james caan , louis gossett jr. , and famke janssen .

it was released in canada on 25 april 2014 .

a fighting man

a fighting man <EOT> " a fighting man " is not just a great sports movie , it ' s a great movie .

dominic purcell stars as a boxer opposite james caan and famke janssen in " a fighting man . "

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" because you would have felt better with a fighting man as a companion , whereas now you feel that you have only a burden . "

as the man approached i noticed him more particularly than i had previously . he was well built , with clear cut features and that air which definitely bespeaks the fighting man .

purcell steps in the ring for ' a fighting man ' dominic purcell joins the likes of robert de niro , sylvester stallone and russell crowe as the latest actor to throw on a pair of gloves and play a punch - drunk palooka in " a fighting man . " check out this story on urltoken urltoken

purcell plays boxer sailor o’connor in a fighting man , which also stars james caan , famke janssen and canadians like kim coates and adam beach .

toronto — dominic purcell is in no hurry to return to sudbury , ont . , where he made the boxing drama a fighting man last year .

the former prison break star plays a washed - up boxer haunted by , of all things , an undefeated streak in the drama a fighting man , available on dvd and digital june 17 .

the man views his son as a holy object , something sacred . the boy is a source of light for the man and the man believes that if there is any proof of god , the boy is it .

dominic purcell joins the likes of robert de niro , sylvester stallone and russell crowe as the latest actor to throw on a pair of gloves and play a punch - drunk palooka in " a fighting man . "

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despite being low - key , mccarthy said to put a plug in for a fighter man .

he was a slim , dead , almost dainty young man of about twenty .

" i am a warrior of the city guard , " replied the man feebly .

editor ' s note : this story by carol mulligan appeared in the sudbury star on april 22 , 2013 . a fighting man was filmed in sudbury . to view the trailer , click here .

lee has drawn nicely underplayed performances from everyone , and there ' s probably an affecting movie somewhere in all its stories . as it is , a fighting man is a boxing film with a particular problem : it can ' t fill its broad canvas .

- what else can i do besides sing ? the song itself is the only thing that has to do with street fighting .

later , adam winfield said during his videotaped interview , gibbs told him he was a made man .

this is the shocking moment a man live - streaming a brutal punch - up between two girls on facebook was shot .

upon barsoom those two words , spoken by man to maid , have a peculiar and unalterable significance , for no man speaks thus to any woman that he does not wish for wife .

" a fighting man tells the story of two men who meet head - to - head in the ring for a fight that will change their lives . one man fights for redemption and forgiveness while the other fights for hope and change . in the end , win or lose , they realize they need each other to make it through . "

eric references spider - man when red asks him how he learned to beat up a fan . topher grace would go on to appear in spider - man 3 as eddie brock / venom .

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" this trail appears to have been made by man , " said nur an .

i kind of can ' t get over the fact that i just watched a sports movie . i normally don ' t watch them because i ' m definitely not a sports fan at all but i watched boxing flick " a fighting man " and it was a fantastic film that was better than " rocky " .

" certainly , " he said . " there could be but one decision for a man of honor . "

“the man i killed” begins with a list of physical attributes and possible characteristics of the man whom o’brien killed with a grenade in my khe . o’brien describes the wounds that he inflicted . the man’s jaw was in his throat , he says , and his upper lip and teeth were missing . one eye was shut , and the other looked like a star - shaped hole . o’brien imagines that the man he killed was born in

" for friendship , tavia , " i replied ; " for the best friend that a man ever had . "

the man stitches up his leg and they press on . the man grows weaker , his cough worsening and becoming even bloodier than before . the man ' s dreams soften and he knows he ' s going to die . they make camp and the man tells the boy not to cover him because he wants to see the sky . the boy brings his father water , and the man sees a light surrounding the boy . the man tells the boy to go on , to leave him , but the boy refuses . eventually , the man dies . the boy stays with his father ' s body for three days , then a man with a shotgun finds him . the man invites the boy to come along with them . the man says that he ' s one of the good guys and that he ' s carrying the fire , too . he also says that they ' ve got a little boy with them and a little girl , too . eventually , the boy decides to go , but not before he says goodbye to his father . the boy leaves his father covered in a blanket .

" heigh - oo ! then you hate him , too , " exclaimed the old man .

the old city , where pockets of fighting continues , was the final holdout for islamic state of iraq and the levant ( isil ) fighters and their . . .

while the boy sleeps , the man reflects upon one of his dreams of a creature with dead eyes . the man ' s dreams play a large role throughout the novel ; the man tells both himself and the boy that good dreams are to be feared because they indicate a form of acceptance , and that death would inevitably be near . bad dreams , on the other hand , are reassuring because they demonstrate that the man and boy are still persevering in the world they inhabit .

" we are in your hands , phao , " said nur an . " if there is to be fighting , though , i should like to accompany hadron . "

they walk through another barren town , and the man gets shot in the leg by an arrow . he shoots a flare through the window from which the arrow came and hits the man who shot him . it ' s unclear whether he kills the man , but when the boy asks , his father tells him that the arrow shooter lived .

he returns to town to find the thief and the woman who was with the man with the bow .

" another guest to share the hospitality of tjanath , " said a voice that came from the blurred figure beside me . it was a clear voice—the voice of a man—and there was a quality to its timbre that i liked .

the man ' s interest in her story , which had seemed wholly perfunctory , seemed suddenly altered and galvanized .

a slave dispatched into the palace returned with stimulants , and when some of these had been forced between his lips , the man revived slightly .

from the shore , the man and boy see a boat in the water . the man swam to the boat and explores it , finding supplies , including some food , a first - aid kit , and a flare gun . he and the boy make their camp close to the beach , plundering the ship each day to see what else they can find . the man ' s cough worsens and then the boy gets sick , too . the man believes the boy will die and he is terrified and enraged . the boy , though , recovers .

the man , too , is all the boy has . when the boy wakes , they set out on the road yet again , making their way through a " nuclear winter " that follows them from start to finish as they make their way south to the coast , hoping to find a better life there , although the man knows there ' s no reason for him to hope that things will be different for them there . they have a grocery cart with them , filled with their belongings and supplies for their journey . they are running low on food , and the man is fighting a bad cough , one that sprays blood on the gray snow .

such creatures we have to put up with in times of peace , but when war comes and the great warlord takes command it is the fighting men who rank and riches do not count .

from the start , it ' s clear that the boy is all the man worries about . he is all the man has , and the man believes that he ' s been entrusted by god to protect the boy . he keeps a pistol with him at all times , unless he goes inside a house . then he gives the pistol to the boy . the pistol , though , only has two bullets .

never before had i seen a woman fight and i should have thought that i should have been chagrined to have one fighting at my side , but instead i felt a strange thrill that was partly pride and partly something else that i could not analyze .

the boy asks his father about the sea . he wants to know if it ' s blue . the man says it used to be . the man has a fever , which causes the two to camp in the woods for over four days . the boy is afraid his father is going to die , and the man ' s dreams turn to dead relatives and better times in his life . the boy ' s dreams continue to be bad , and the man encourages him , saying that his bad dreams mean he hasn ' t given up . the man says he won ' t let his son give up .

she looked tired and that worried me , but i think she was suffering more from the nervous strain of the eternal stalking than from physical fatigue . i know that it affected me and how much more might it affect a young girl than a trained fighting man . she lay very close to me , as though she felt safer thus and was soon asleep , while i watched .

" heigh - oo ! " cackled the old man in a high falsetto . " who cometh from the high heavens who knows old phor tak ? "

" confine the woman in the east tower , " he said , " and send the man to the pits . "

the man and boy decide to leave their camp on the beach , and they pare down their food stores so that the cart is more manageable . they hike up and down the shore , and when they return to their camp they see that all of their belongings have been stolen . they take off after the thief and find him . the man makes the thief take off all of his clothes , leaving him there for dead , which is what the man tells the boy the thief did to them . the boy begs his father not to hurt the man , and when they leave the boy cries and convinces his father to take the man ' s clothes back to him . they can ' t find the man , but leave his clothes in the road . the boy tell the man that they ' re responsible for that other man , that they killed him , and it makes the boy question their role as the good guys . he says they should be helping people .

in one grocery store , the man finds a pop machine that has a single coca - cola in it . he retrieves it for the boy and lets him drink it . the man likes to offer whatever he can to his son to make his world a bit more pleasant and to give him glimpses into the world that existed before him .

by the time they come upon a once grand house , the boy and man are starving . there are suspicious items in the house , such as piles of blankets and clothes and shoes and a bell attached to a string , but the man these . he finds a door in the floor of a pantry , and breaks the lock . the boy becomes frightened and repeatedly asks if they can leave . in the basement , the man and boy find naked people who are being kept alive for others to eat . the man and boy flee just as the roadagents return . they hide in the woods through the freezing night , the man feeling certain that this is the day when he ' s going to have to kill his son . but they survive the night and go undiscovered .

we were to have little time , however , for sentimental regrets , for almost immediately a head appeared through a small opening in the roof upon which we stood . the head was followed by the body of a man , whose harness was so scant as to leave him almost nude . he was an old man with a finely shaped head , covered with scant , gray locks .

" man has but one life , " i replied ; " if he is permitted to give it in a good cause , he should not complain . "

as they walk , they keep track of their location on a worn and tattered map that they must piece together like a puzzle each time they use it . while on the road , they come upon a man who ' s been struck by lightning . they pass the burnt man and the boy wants to help him , but his father says they ' ve got nothing to give him . the boy cries for the man , showing his kind heart and his compassionate nature in a world where very little humanity exists .

she laughed . " i ran away from the richest man in the world , " she said . " at least i guess he must have been the richest man in the world , for who could be richer than tul axtar , jeddak of jahar ? "

featured on the beggars ' banquet album , “street fighting man” was in part inspired by the riots on the left bank in paris of 1968 . “sleepy london town” was jagger commenting how paris upheaval and the u . s . presence in vietnam , made london seem sleepy in comparison . ironically , the song came about after jagger witnessed a massive anti - war protest in grosvenor square .

with the desperation of caged animals nur an and i were fighting for our lives . there could be no question here of the scrupulous observance of the niceties of combat . it was his life or ours . realizing this , nur an snatched the short sword from the corpse of the fallen warrior and an instant later the second man was lying in a pool of his own blood .

" don ' t be a fool , " snarled the man . " haj osis has given you to me . you will lead a better life as my slave than most free women live . "

the boy whose head was bleeding is believed to have been hit repeatedly with the butt of the gun , while a bullet grazed the back of the older man filming .

a truck full of roadagents comes upon the man and the boy , who hide in the woods . the truck breaks down and one of the bad men finds them in the woods . the bad man grabs the boy , and the boy ' s father shoots the man in the head and both escape into the woods . now the pistol has only one bullet left , and the man knows that this bullet is for his son should the time come . the boy wants to know if they are still the good guys , despite his father ' s committing a murder . his father assures him that they are .

a moment later tul axtar entered the room , followed by half a dozen of his female courtiers . he was a gross man with repulsive features , which reflected a combination of strength and weakness , of haughty arrogance , of pride and of doubt—an innate questioning of his own ability .

" it is a one - man flier , " she replied , " but it will carry both of us , though both its speed and altitude will be reduced . "

the picture of grace , mccarthy said she ' s been in sudbury a week working on the damien lee film a fighter man . it stars james caan , kim coates , lou gossett jr . and mccarthy .

" it is a mad plan , " said the girl , " but is a brave one . if we are discovered , there will be fighting and i am unarmed . give me your short sword , warrior , that we may at least make the best account of ourselves that is possible . "

the scene that met my gaze sent the hot fighting blood surging through my frame . in the center of the room a young warrior in rich trappings had tavia in his grasp and was dragging her across the room toward the doorway . tavia struggled , striking at him .

when they set out again , the man is even weaker than before . they come upon numerous burned bodies and melted roads that have reset in warped shapes . there are people following them : three men and a pregnant woman . the man and boy hide and let the group pass . later , the man and boy come upon their camp and discover the baby skewered over a fire . the boy doesn ' t speak for over a day . then , he asks about the baby ; he doesn ' t understand where it came from .

a door at one side of the throne opened and a file of warriors entered . at first i was surprised because tavia had told me that no men other than tul axtar ever were permitted upon this level , but presently i saw that the warriors were women dressed in the harness of men , their hair cut and their faces painted , after the fashion of the fighting men of barsoom . after they had taken their places on either side of the throne , a courtier entered by the same door—another woman masquerading as a man .

" no , " i said , " that makes no difference . i myself , am only a poor padwar , not rich enough to afford a slave . perhaps you are the one to be sorry that you were not rescued by a rich man . "

from below came the sounds of renewed fighting . if the mob broke through i knew that we should all be lost . there was but one hope for even temporary safety and that was the slender tower above the women ' s quarters .

" give us a light , " cried a voice , and a moment later , " that is better . "

" it is not because of you , " i said quickly . " it is the other conditions which no man of honor could accept . "

the dear girl , as quick to seize upon the fortuitous opportunities as any trained fighting man , did not pause to question , but swung herself upward to the deck with the agility of an athlete , and as i seized the mooring ring and drew myself upward she lay flat upon her belly and reaching down assisted me ; nor was the strength in that slender frame unequal to the task .

[ * note : a karad is equivalent to a degree of longitude . ]

" for years the best minds of jahar labored with the problem until at last one of our most eminent scientists , an old man named phor tak , developed a rifle of amazing properties .

they continue their journey , exhausted and still starving . the man leaves the boy to sleep while he explores , and he finds an old apple orchard with some dried out apples . he continues to the house that ' s adjacent to the orchard , where he finds a tank of water . the man fills some jars with water , gathers the dried apples , and takes them back to the boy . the man also found a dried drink mix , grape flavored , which he gives the boy . the boy enjoys the drink and their spirits are lifted for a moment .

sanoma tora and phao had been sent at once to a cabin by the warlord , for the deck of a man - of - war on duty is no place for women . i was about to depart when a messenger came saying that sanoma tora wished to see me .

i waited but a moment , and then i , too , entered the apartment . it was a gloomy room without windows . upon its walls hung keys of every imaginable size and shape . behind a large desk sat a coarse - looking man , who looked up quickly and scowled at the interruption as i entered .

totally forgot about this project ! ! another variety show with your favorite stars in the mix , up and ready to jump over obstacles thrown at them ! boran jing , nick wang kai , jackson wang , bai jing ting , jam hsiao , and yang shuo are the members for the latest jiangsu variety show called fighting man ( 我们战斗吧 ) . this is something i’ll watch purely for the bromance . lol .

" you will need help , " i could hear the other man say in a pleading tone . " i can give you help ; you shall have every ship of my great fleet . "

a thousand times since then have i given thanks to my first ancestors that i did not follow my natural impulse , for , in response to my admonition a voice whispered : " do not thrust , red man ; i am of your own race and a prisoner , " and the voice was that of a girl .

as i paused at the top of the spiral ramp i felt quickly of my weapons to see that each was in its place . john carter had fitted me out anew . once more i stood in the leather and metal of helium , with a full complement of weapons such as belong to a fighting man of barsoom . my long sword was of the best steel , for it was one of john carter ' s own . beside this , i carried a short sword and a dagger , and once again a heavy radium pistol hung at my hip . i loosened the latter in its holster as i started down the spiral ramp .

as they continue moving south , the man and boy run into other towns and landscapes that act as skeletons of the old world , both literally and metaphorically . they see bones of creatures and humans alike , as well as empty houses , barns , and vehicles . they find a train in the woods , and the man shows the boy how to play conductor .

as i walked around the edge of the building hurriedly , looking for some means of descent to the roof below , i saw something one level below me that instantly charged my attention . it was a man ' s leg protruding from a window , as though he had thrown one limb across the sill . a moment later i saw an arm emerge , and the top of a man ' s head and his shoulders were visible as he leaned out . he reached down and up and i saw something appear directly beneath him that had not been there before , and at the same instant i caught a glimpse of a girl , lying a few feet further down , and then i saw the man slide over the sill quickly and drop down and disappear , and all that lay below me was the flagging of a courtyard .

they press on , enduring more cold , rain , and hunger . nearing death , the man ' s dreams turned to happy thoughts of his wife . they come upon another house , and the man feels something strange under his feet as he walks from the house to the shed . he digs and finds a plywood door in the ground . the boy is terrified and begs his father not to open it . after some time , the man tells the boy that the good guys keep trying , so they have to open the door and find out what ' s down there . what they discover is a bunker , full of supplies and canned food , cots to sleep on , water , and a chemical toilet . it is a brief sanctuary from the world above . the man realizes that he ' d been ready to die , but they would live . this is hard for the man to accept . the man and boy stay in the bunker for days , eating and sleeping . the boy wishes he could thank the people who left these things . he ' s sorry that they ' re dead , but hopes they ' re safe in heaven .

by the end of the fight and the movie . . . . . we get to really know and like both boxers . we know why they are fighting . we know what the outcome will mean to each boxer . the movie does such a good job of showing both boxers . . . . that i…

we had traversed about two - thirds of this long corridor when a man stepped into it from a doorway a couple of hundred feet ahead of us . he was an officer , apparently a padwar of the guard . he halted in the middle of the corridor as a file of warriors emerged from the same doorway , and , forming in a column of twos , marched in our direction , the officer bringing up the rear .

all the balance of the night we traveled steadily at the rate of about six hundred haads per zode—a slow speed when compared with that of the good one - man flier that i had brought out of helium .

we had thought that our light , compact , powerful radium motors never could be improved upon and that man never would travel , either safely or economically , at a speed greater than that attained by our swift one - man scout fliers—about eleven hundred haads per zode , [ * ] when a virtually unknown padwar in the navy of helium announced that he had perfected a motor that , with one - half the weight of our present motors , would develop twice the speed .

a man ' s knee was upon my chest , pressing me heavily against the deck and one of his hands clutched me by the throat . in the dim light of the cabin i saw that it was tul axtar and that his other hand held a dagger .

" what a mighty river , " he added after a moment ' s silence . " could it be a tributary of iss ? "

but whatever musing upon the flora of this strange land i may have been indulging in was brought to a sudden termination as we rounded the shoulder of a jutting promontory and came face to face with as hideous a creature as ever i had laid my eyes upon . it was a great white lizard with gaping jaws large enough to engulf a man at a single swallow . at sight of us it emitted an angry hiss and advanced menacingly toward us .

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the second man had evidently discovered this simultaneously , for he , too , shrank aside , and with whirling propeller i shot upward from the royal hangar of the jed of tjanath .

the man and boy come upon the house where the man grew up . the boy is scared of this house , as he is of many of the houses . the boy worries they ' ll run into someone , like the roadagents or bad guys who eat people in order to survive . the man has decided , too , that should roadagents find them , that he will kill the boy so that they cannot torture him , but he often wonders to himself if he would be able to do it if the time should ever come .

" even though you were a thousand times less than a slave , " i told her .

answer to their problems when she meets a salesman . carol cassidy deals with a pregnant teenager .

" this is the scoundrel , " replied the younger man . " he took me by surprise and would have stabbed me in the back had i not managed to outwit him . "

the man then grabs his phone and runs to his car , telling the camera : " oh jesus , i got shot in the * * * * * back , bro . "

" jahar must be , indeed , an unhappy country , " i said , " ruled over , as she is , by such a man as tul axtar . recently i have heard much of him , but as yet i have not heard him credited with a single virtue . "

i had hunted these creatures in thark as a guest of the great green jeddak , tars tarkas , and i knew something of their cunning and resourcefulness as well as of their ferocity . extremely man - like in conformation , they also approach man more closely than any other of the lower orders in the size and development of their brain . occasionally these creatures are captured when young and trained to perform , and so intelligent are they that they can be taught to do almost anything that man can do that lies within the range of their limited reasoning capacity . man has , however , never been able to subdue their ferocious nature and they are always the most dangerous of animals to handle , which probably accounts more even than their intelligence for the interest displayed by the large audiences that they unfailingly attract .

presently , as my eyes became more accustomed to the dim light in my cell , i saw the figure of what appeared to be a man crouching against the wall near me . again i heard a sound as he moved and this time it was accompanied by the rattle of a chain , and then i saw a face turn toward me , but i could not distinguish the features .

knife crime man ' stabbed multiple times by five people ' near tesco in manchester a local resident at the scene , who only gave her name as susan , said : “it’s somebody’s kid that . it’s the last thing you want to hear”

angry shouting alerts the men resting on their machines to a throng of soldiers storming past - a man , stripped down to a pair of baggy trousers and his hands tied , is being pushed along . one soldier holds him by the hair , as another kicks him from behind . the captive pleads for mercy as soldiers crowd around him .

" if you are lost , i shall not live . i swear it , " she said , " so if you can trust me to do the work of a man , let me go with you instead of one of those . "

instantly she was the target for a hundred guns , a barrage of shells was bursting about her and then there must have been a dozen hits simultaneously , for the cruiser simply disappeared—a mass of flying debris .

o’brien describes the reaction of his platoon - mates—insensitive azar compares the young man to oatmeal , shredded wheat , and rice krispies , while kiowa rationalizes o’brien’s actions and urges him to take his time coming to terms with the death . all the while , o’brien reflects on the boy’s life , cut short . he looks at the boy’s sunken chest and delicate fingers and wonders if he was a scholar . he imagines that the other boys at school might have teased this boy because he may have had a woman’s walk and a love for mathematics . a butterfly lands on the corpse’s cheek , which causes o’brien to notice the undamaged nose . despite kiowa’s urging to pull himself together , to talk about it , and to stop staring at the body , o’brien cannot do so . kiowa confesses that maybe he doesn’t understand what o’brien is going through , but he rationalizes that the young man was carrying a weapon and that they are fighting a war . he asks if o’brien would rather trade places with him . o’brien doesn’t respond to kiowa .

one of the earliest investigations into u . s . war crimes took place in 1902 , when a senate committee agreed to examine mounting allegations of misconduct in the philippine - american war . the conflict cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians , and though many of these deaths were from disease , veterans testified at congressional hearings about rampant brutality by american soldiers . years later , the ongoing violence in the philippines would inspire a young george c . marshall , on his first assignment fresh out of military school , to tell a fellow officer : “once an army is involved in war , there is a beast in every fighting man which begins tugging at its chains . and a good officer must learn early on how to keep the beast under control , both in his men and himself . ”

before us lay a long vaulted corridor at the far end of which i could discern a moonlit archway , through which we presently passed onto a broad avenue .

she forced a smile to her beautiful lips , but i thought that a shudder ran through her frame .

it was not the apartment of a jeddara ; it was little better than the cell of a slave .

) . dog man doesn’t play by the rules , whether it’s the rules about being housebroken or the ones about not giving the police chief slobbery dog kisses . but desperate times require maverick behavior : petey the cat , one of the loopiest villains in children literature , has four chapters’ worth of evil plots aimed at taking dog man down—from destroying all books to make the world “supa dumb” ( a tactic that will be familiar to those who read pilkey’s contribution to

" this man has not changed his metal , " said tavia . " he is not from jahar ; he is from hastor , one of the cities of helium . i am from jahar . "

o’brien notices that the young man’s head is lying by tiny blue flowers and that his cheek is peeled back in three ragged strips . he imagines that the boy began studying at the university in saigon in

we moved cautiously along the winding trail , not knowing at what moment we might be confronted by some new menace in the form of man or beast . presently we saw ahead of us what appeared to be an opening in the forest and a moment later we emerged into a clearing . looming in front of us at a distance of perhaps less than a haad was a towering pile of masonry . it was a gloomy pile , apparently built of black volcanic rock . for some thirty feet above the ground there was a blank wall , pierced by but a single opening—a small doorway almost directly in front of us . this part of the structure appeared to be a wall , beyond it rose buildings of weird and grotesque outlines and dominating all was a lofty tower , from the summit of which a wisp of smoke curled upward into the quiet air .

the boy is very concerned with making sure they are " carrying the fire , " assuring himself that he and his father are the good guys as opposed to the bad guys ( who eat dogs and other people ) . the man tells the boy stories of justice and courage from the old world in the hopes that such stories will keep the fire alive in the boy . the man hopes for a future that might again also harbor courage , justice , and humanity .

what could i have done under like circumstances burdened with sanoma tora ? i doubt that she could have walked a dozen haads , while tavia swung along at my side with the lithe grace of perfect health and strength . it takes a good man to keep up with me on a march , but tavia never lagged ; nor did she show signs of fatigue more quickly than i .

" i am a slave girl , " she said ; " just a slave girl who has run away from her master . perhaps that will make a difference , " she added a little sadly . " perhaps you will be sorry that you have defended just a slave girl . "

i am tan hadron of hastor , my father is had urtur , odwar of the 1st umak of the troops of hastor . he commands the largest ship of war that hastor has ever contributed to the navy of helium , accommodating as it does the entire ten thousand men of the 1st umak , together with five hundred lesser fighting ships and all the paraphernalia of war . my mother is a princess of gathol .

men had been searching the grounds of tor hatan and that portion of the city adjacent to his palace , and now several approached bearing a man , whom they laid upon the sward at our feet . his broken and mangled body was entirely naked , and as he lay there gasping feebly for breath , he was a pitiful spectacle .

i was upon the point of springing the catch and opening the panel when my attention was attracted by voices from the room beyond . i heard a man ' s voice and that of a woman , but i could understand no words . cautiously , i opened the panel sufficiently to permit me to view the interior of the apartment .

as we emerged from the ravine at its upper end i glanced back , and again i saw the creature looking at us and once again he tried to hide himself from us . as we moved on i kept glancing back and occasionally i would see him—one of the hunting men of u - gor . he was stalking us as the wild beast stalks its prey . the very thought of it filled me with disgust . had he been a fighting man stalking us merely to kill , i should not have felt as i did , but the thought that he was stealthily trailing us because he desired to devour us was repellent—it was horrifying .

" if we succeed there will be no fighting , " replied the girl . she stepped quickly across the room to a door , which she opened , revealing a large closet . " here , nur an , " she said , " is where you must remain until we return . there is no reason why anyone should open this door , and in so far as i know , it never has been opened since i have occupied these quarters , except by me . "

a fine mouth spread into a smile that revealed strong , white teeth . " i am , " she said .

for a second i thought they were all in a drama together . lol . i blame the decaf coffee . xd

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where was tavia ? where was nur an ? perhaps this man alone knew where tavia was and phor tak was about to destroy him . with a cry of warning i leaped into the room . tul axtar and phor tak looked at me quickly , surprise large upon their countenances .

" it is all right , " she said presently , and simultaneously she pushed a wooden panel ajar and in the opening i saw a portion of the interior of a circular apartment with narrow windows heavily barred . opposite the opening , upon a pile of sleeping silks and furs , i saw a woman reclining . only a bare shoulder , a tiny ear and a head of tousled hair were visible . at the first glance i knew that they were tavia ' s .

the man and boy are cold and starving , as they are for most of the novel . as they travel , they are on a constant lookout for food , clothing , shoes , supplies , and roadagents . in one town , the boy thinks he sees a dog and a little boy and tries to chase after them . he worries about the other little boy for the rest of the novel .

an officer approached tor hatan excitedly . " my men have just found six more bodies close to the point at which we discovered this man , " he said . " they are all naked and similarly broken and mangled . "

" it is all a plot , " cried sil vagis . " do you take the word of a slave , tor hatan , against that of a noble of helium ? "

they come upon towns and cities that are mere shells of what they once were . remnants of the old world often — like houses , billboards , and hotels — clash with the reality of the new world , reminding the man of the life he once lived . the man remembers an evening spent on the lake with his uncle . and he remembers his wife — who left him and the boy , presumably to kill herself and escape this horrible new world .

they come upon a waterfall and the man and boy swim together , the man teaching the boy how to float . it ' s a tender moment that suggests lessons that fathers would have taught their sons in the old world . throughout the novel there are moments like this one at the waterfall , scenes that prove the bond between fathers and sons still exist in this new world . it exists , in many ways , just as it did before . the father cares for his son , and teaches his son , and worries about his son ' s future under such uncertain circumstances .

" this is not such a depressing place as you thought , " i said in a low voice to nur an .

we were now close above the outer wall of the city and our conversation was interrupted by the appearance of a flier , evidently a patrol , bearing down upon us . she was sounding an alarm—the shrill screaming of her horn shattering the silence of the early morning . almost immediately the warning was taken up by gongs and shrieking sirens throughout the city . the patrol boat changed her course and rose swiftly above us , while from landing stages all about rose scores of fighting planes until we were entirely surrounded .

the man has flashbacks about leaving his billfold behind earlier in the journey , after his wife left him and the boy . he recalls that he also left behind his only picture of his wife , and ponders whether he could have convinced her to stay alive with them . the man remembers the night that his son was born , after the clocks all stopped , how he ' d delivered the baby himself , marking the beginning of their intense father / son bond .

the 22 - year - old recorded around a dozen people getting into a massive brawl at a shell , but around three minutes into the clip , someone yelled : " gun " .

idling in the guard room , the warriors then off duty were engaged in various pursuits . some where cleaning their harness and polishing their metal ; two were playing at jetan , while others were rolling tiny numbered spheres at a group of numbered holes—a fascinating game of chance , called yano , which is , i presume , almost as old as barsoomian civilization . the room was filled with the laughter and oaths of fighting men . how alike are warriors the world over ! but for their harness and their metal they might have been a detachment of the palace guard at helium .

on may 2 , during the mission to the small village of qualaday , winfield was told he would be going in with gibbs . while first lt . stefan moye met with a local resident , gibbs led a team on a search of the surrounding area . ( by this time , ligsay had been transferred to a staff position at headquarters . ) shortly after separating from the rest of the platoon , winfield and morlock both claim , they found an unarmed man inside a compound . gibbs asked them if they wanted to kill him , and they agreed .

portions of many of these ancient , deserted cities are inhabited by the great white apes of barsoom , which are in many respects more to be feared than the green warriors themselves , for not only are these man - like creatures endowed with enormous strength and characterized by intense ferocity , but they are also voracious man - eaters . so terrible are they that it is said that they are the only living creatures that can instill fear within the breasts of the green men of barsoom .

nur an came toward us , with a firm step , his head high and a glance of haughty contempt for our captors .

again i felt above me . by issus , there was something there ! my fingers passed over a smooth surface—a familiar surface .

the hangar guards sought to detain and question me . i do not recall what i told them ; i know that i must have lied to them , for they let me run out a swift one - man flier and an instant later i was racing through the night toward the palace of tor hatan .


homicidal is a 1961 american horror-thriller film produced and directed by william castle , and starring glenn corbett , patricia breslin , eugenie leontovich , alan bunce , and jean arless .

the film follows a murderous woman in a small california town whose presence unearths secrets concerning a prominent local family .

as with many of castle 's films , the film was released with a promotional gimmick — in this case , a " fright break , " that allowed patrons to receive a refund if they were too scared to stay for the climax of the film .

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homicidal <EOT> ‘even the homicidal taxi drivers don ' t want to damage their paintwork . ’

‘it is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac . ’

patients who are experiencing a crisis should be assessed for suicidal and homicidal ideations .

‘stubbs may have been hard , but at least he wasn ' t homicidal . ’

but her homicidal intentions had not affected him as sharply as the rest of it .

and i knew well enough also that my double there was no homicidal . . .

bridal to homicidal - what time is it on tv ? cast list and preview .

‘his comments to the opposition are more like the delirious rantings of a homicidal maniac . ’

‘i clung to jude , despite his homicidal tendencies as we stumbled through the dark . ’

‘i do not wish to turn into a gibbering homicidal maniac , especially just before christmas . ’

‘he ' s a real - life medical fraud investigator who helped catch that homicidal doctor . ’

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‘he ' s a homicidal dictator who can be deterred , or eliminated , by conventional means . ’

he was afflicted with homicidal mania , and was confined for a time in the asylum at tulettes .

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school officials and worried parents throughout the area have sought solutions on making school buildings safer from homicidal gunmen .

duley testified that ivins had been diagnosed as a " sociopathic , homicidal killer " by several top psychiatrists .

a few years later my uncle took me and my brother and sisters to the neighborhood theater to see “homicidal” . even at the tender age of 12 , i couldn’t help but notice the similarities between psycho and homicidal . i thought homicidal was less intense than psycho , but the film still left an impression on me .

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‘he wasn ' t sure how drew was feeling towards him at all , but quite likely , homicidal . ’

‘so now not only am i late for work but i ' m slowly moving from feeling edgy to homicidal . ’

‘well , we are dealing with a homicidal megalomaniac who has the capacity to do things that are beyond belief . ’

‘i really need to mop the floors again , and the thought of buckets and disinfectant makes me virtually homicidal . ’

‘i know without a doubt that if provoked my mother could become a homicidal maniac in defence of her animals . ’

‘i resisted my homicidal urges when some moron was knocking on some neighbour ' s door just after six am . ’

. evaluate the severity of the crisis and assess the patient’s mental , psychiatric , suicidal or homicidal , and medical statuses .

in some cases , experts say , youngsters who make homicidal threats are moved to institutions that focus on children with emotional disturbances .

and , as if sending some dark , raging homicidal message , knives had been left in the victims and around the house .

‘it is because we are living in a steadily more compassionate world , that terrorists and homicidal criminals make such an impact . ’

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‘he is not a homicidal maniac , but a violent , evil man made even more so by his addiction to unnamed drugs . ’

‘it ' s one of the few noises that can reduce grown men to tears and induce homicidal tendencies in normally sane women . ’

‘this thought makes some of us suicidal and homicidal , which is why it ' s good the month ends in the state fair . ’

‘if we keep telling this homicidal maniac what we ' re doing as police , he ' s going to be one step ahead . ’

what made you want to look up homicidal ? please tell us where you read or heard it ( including the quote , if possible ) .

‘not only is ewan her doctor , he ' s also her husband - and , at the novel ' s outset , the victim of her homicidal rage . ’

in the first scene , dolores trilled a few keys before chatting with her newly hostile and homicidal lover , teddy , about finally breaking out of their loop for good .

joan marshall was a kind woman and fine actress , much underrated and very much a woman even in homicidal . we always joke warren looks like a young tyne daly !

homicidal was the fifth of these pictures and is often brushed off simply as a cheap response to alfred hitchcock’s psycho ( 1960 ) . while it’s no secret that castle imagined himself a true competitor of hitchcock , and homicidal came out on the heels of psycho , it’s maybe best to see it on its own terms than in comparison with hitch’s masterpiece .

if the patient is homicidal , the physician must ensure the safety of the patient and of potential victims . again , hospitalization of the patient may be necessary . the case of

to seek asylum in the united states , central american families must travel many hundreds of miles through the desert , along a route teeming with rapists , thieves , and homicidal gangs .

this study guide consists of approximately 40 pages of chapter summaries , quotes , character analysis , themes , and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of johnny the homicidal maniac .

falsely portraying this young girl and child star as a raging homicidal bigot is heinous , and brown deleting her twitter to avoid this maelstrom is a logical response to the internet’s festering orgy of toilet humor .

worse , it ' s not fun - a quality all castle ' s previous shows had in spades . even without vincent price , 13 ghosts had an amiable kooky quality . homicidal has no humor at all .

therapist jean c . duley testified on july 24 that bruce e . ivins described a " detailed homicidal plan " to kill his co - workers after learning he was going to be indicted on capital murder charges .

these example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word ' homicidal . ' views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of merriam - webster or its editors . send us feedback .

lana : you make me feel homicidal . jonathan : um okay , i don & apos ; t know what that means lana : you make me feel murderous jonathan : what the hell is wrong with you ! are you insane ! ?

particularly in early sci fi and science is bad stories , all a . i . seem to be automatically homicidal or megalomaniacal the instant they turn on , and attempting to create one is way up there on the scale of scientific sins .

the u . s . and the south korean puppet group of traitors should clearly see their dirty looks as bloodstained homicidal maniac and make an apology to the dprk for their atrocious state - terrorism and inhumane crime and immediately put the criminals to a death penalty .

a pretty but rather strange young nurse presides over a creepy household which consists of a mute stroke victim and a decidedly unmacho young man . homicidal ! is directed by william castle . © 1961 , renewed 1989 columbia pictures industries , inc . all rights reserved .

castle was already an accomplished gimmick - user in 1961 – the idea for electric vibrations in the tingler had been his own . however , in homicidal he outdid himself . it is a shame , in fact , that he didn’t put as much energy into the film… not only did the director offer a substantial insurance policy to anyone coming to see homicidal – in case they died of fright… castle also introduced the fright break . five minutes before the end of the film and its madcap climax castle speaks directly to the audience .

i can ' t wait until cortana ' s redeemed in h6 , ruining the whole ' good guy goes homicidal ' plot development in h5 : guardians . not that bringing cortana back was that great of an idea to start with , but i digress . . .

almost thirty years later , i was able to videotape homicidal when the cable network , showtime , broadcast it on a wednesday afternoon . i had to take the day off from work , and i “rented” a friends’ cable box for $ 10 for the day , so i could receive showtime on my television .

there ' s a william castle cult out there that hopefully is healthy enough to accept the truth : homicidal is a perfectly wretched movie , bad enough to make castle ' s other hits seem like flukes , and the good qualities in his uneven output , accidents . yes , it has the famous ' fright break '

homicidal columbia tristar 1961 / b & w ; / 1 : 37 flat / 87 min . starring glenn corbett , patricia breslin , eugenie leontovich , richard rust , " jean arless " cinematography burnett guffey art direction cary odell film editor edwin h . bryant original music hugo friedhofer written by robb white produced by william castle directed by william castle

made in hollywood by professionals , homicidal ' s bad taste and dull unpleasantness make it appear more unwholesome than many more blatantly transgressive films by independent exploitationers , or even z - grade amateurs . to savant ( who knows these are all subjective opinions ) castle ' s film is more offensive than the horrendously callous last house on the left .

easily castle’s most peculiar “stunt” or promotional gimmick , arless apparently had no past – try to find other film credits under that name – and quickly disappeared after the release of homicidal . but the truth about jean arless was always hiding in plain sight , even if some people were convinced the actor / actress was a genuine “sexual resassignment” case .

beachcombing’s personal favourite comes from william castle’s homicidal ( 1961 ) . now homicidal is , by any standards , a strange film . imbd reports : ‘the story centers around a murderous scheme to collect a rich inheritance . the object of murder is miriam webster , who is to share in the inheritance with her half brother warren , who lives with his childhood guardian helga in the mansion where warren and miriam grew up . confined to a wheelchair after recently suffering a stroke , helga is cared for by her nurse emily , a strange young woman who has formed a close bond with warren . ’ but , believe beachcombing , when he says that this really doesn’t do justice to this absurd horror flick .

the instructions from producer castle to writer - partner robb white must have been to re - make psycho , the same , only different . cheaply made and poorly paced , homicidal alternates bad filler and worse exposition with relentlessly tasteless scenes , and has about it an aura of cheap sensationalism . it ' s like a toy so badly made , it breaks as soon as a child plays with it .

the picture with a " fright break . " considered by fans to be castle ' s best film , homicidal is a devious horror movie with all the right ingredients : a sleepy southern california town , a beautiful blonde with icy eyes and a thing for knives , a mute old woman in a wheelchair , and a deep , dark secret involving a repressed , awkward young man still haunted by the abuses of his dead father .

this is a 25 yo hispanic male with a past psych hx of schizophrenia who brought himself to the er with the chief complaint of command ah telling him to hurt himself and hurt his brother . … . pt also endorsed depressed mood , decreased appetite , and insomnia . he did not have any other active si or hi . pt admitted that he had been off his psychotropic medications for the past 30 days . …pt was restarted on his previous medications . on day 2 , pt reported feeling improved after treatment . he denied having suicidal thoughts or homicidal thoughts . his ah frequency decreased . on day 3 , pt reported improved mood , denied suicidal or homicidal thoughts . case manager contacted the patient ' s brother , who stated that pt didn ' t get along with his family members and family members would not be willing to provide housing . the patient agreed to be discharged to a shelter .

as rapport builds , the physician should evaluate the severity of the crisis and assess the patient’s mental , psychiatric , suicidal or homicidal , and medical statuses . it is essential to define the triggering situation precisely and to understand the problem from the patient’s point of view . 3 the physician should determine the nature of the crisis , its precipitating events , how the patient has attempted to cope , and what resources may be available to assist with the problem .

william castle is his own creature , and you either enjoy his movies or you don ' t . ( i do . ) like so many castle creations , homicidal includes a gimmick : the fright break . a few minutes before the big reveal , a clock appeared on the screen , and a voiceover informed patrons that they could leave now and get a refund if too scared . check out this description of what happened when one took advantage of the offer :

something like one percent of the audience left later films . but hill , who was rarely daunted , invented the coward’s corner for these skinflints . they had to walk through a yellow light to ‘the corner’ in the eyes of the whole cinema while a voice taunted them : ‘these cowards are too frightened to see the end of homicidal . watch them shiver in coward’s corner ! coward… coward… coward…’ and they had to sign a form stating ‘i am a bona fide coward’ .

kudos are in order for ben lane , the makeup man on homicidal , however , because jean arless is never completely convincing as a man or a woman ( urltoken ) and that’s what gives the film its perverse fascination that lingers long after the film’s clumsily staged shocks . everything about emily and warren is a lie but what is the truth ? is it the wigs ? is it the weird overbite ? is it a struggling unknown trying to be the next t . c . jones ? (

columbia ' s dvd of homicidal is scary for only one reason : they ' ve inexplicably released it in flat full - frame only , when standard policy over there has been to offer both versions , or 16 : 9 widescreen , for a 1 : 85 picture like this one . hard times at columbia tristar might be behind decisions like this one . . . which i hope do not become more frequent . all of the other william castle shockers are in brilliant , clear 16 : 9 .

hello ! the movie " homicidal " with jean arliss , is the film , that i have been waiting to see again . i do remember jean arliss in that film , but coudn ' t remember the film ' s title . she was terrific in that film . sometimes the cast , under the main stars , put on a better performance , than the main actors , and actresses , they make the story in the movie stand out . thank you for bringing this classic back ! virginia reed5282 southern manor dromaha , ne 68117 reedvj @ urltoken

i’ve had several “homicidal” parties , where i show the movie to friends . just before the climax of the movie , during the “fright break” i would ask my friends if they “figured it out yet” ? i was pleasantly surprised to find that as old as the movie is , william castle was still successful at fooling and scaring his audience . despite all the advances in movie - making , this dated , black and white film still manages to deliver the shudders . i just hope hollywood never decides to “remake” this old chestnut . – gregg in sarasota , fl november - 2011

i watched homicidal with my big sister as small child and we were completely terrorized . i didn’t remember the title until i saw a description of it almost 30 years later . i was amazed at how much different the movie was watching it as an adult . the most memorable scene was the head rolling down the stairs . as a child i saw it as a bloody gory severed head spattering blood everywhere . so when i saw it as an adult i was amazedha it was all in shadow . i do think it was a wonderful film and william castle movies are always entertaining . jean arless was superb .

always the showman , it ' s obvious that william castle admired hitch ' s public persona and showmanship and wanted to trump the smasheroo success of psycho . savant thinks it ' s clear that hitch repaid the compliment by being jealous of castle ' s show gimmicks and self - promotions . psycho was made in reaction to all the incredibly cheap movies that were performing almost as well as big ticket hollywood shows , castle ' s in particular . but hitch also made his movie a good one . . . and by showing his respect for the genre , transcended it . in homicidal , castle shows his contempt for everything but fright breaks and coward ' s corners .

i haven ' t seen castle ' s early when strangers marry with robert mitchum and kim hunter , which is said to be a gem . 13 ghosts is a little paint - by - numbers , but even when they ' re visually undistinguished , his previous string of chillers were at least carefully directed . homicidal ' s direction is flat , random , and , well , crude . the wrapup explanation is so badly fumbled that we wonder if white and castle want us to think that emily got a reverse christine jorgenson operation while in denmark . . . an idea that just further muddies the water . a coda juxtposing a doll and a whip is almost insulting . . . cruel parents turn children into cross - dressing psychotic murderers ? i thought this was a ' cheat the inheritance ' story .

this is one of william castle ' s best films that he directed , up there with the tingler and strait - jacket and house on haunted hill . while his profitable films were considered junk when they were first released , castle was a surprisingly good filmmaker who could do a lot with very little money . yes , homicidal was intended to copy the success of psycho , but that doesn ' t mean it ' s the same film . call it a " rip - off " if you want ; i don ' t care . it ' s just fun . there are a couple of stand - out shock moments that probably made even hitchcock feel envious . ( don ' t forget , castle ' s cheap horror films are the whole reason hitchcock ended up making psycho in the first place ! )

miriam webster is happy when her half brother warren and their childhood nanny helga , now partly paralyzed and unable to speak , return to the united states after a lengthy stay in europe . warren will soon turn 21 and will inherit their father ' s $ 10 million estate and although she will get nothing - their father ' s will specified that only a male heir could inherit - she ' s happy in her circumstances . one person she doesn ' t like however is emily who came with warren and helga from europe and now lives with them as a housekeeper / companion . miriam has good reason not to like her as she seems to be a homicidal maniac . what miriam doesn ' t realize is that there is method behind emily ' s madness and a deep family secret that she is not privy to .

family physicians often treat patients who are experiencing psychological or medical crises . any event perceived as overwhelming by the patient may trigger a crisis reaction consisting of psychological and physiological symptoms . physicians are encouraged to assist patients who are experiencing a crisis by : ( 1 ) providing reassurance and support ; ( 2 ) evaluating the nature of the problem and determining the patient’s mental , psychiatric , suicidal or homicidal , and medical statuses ; ( 3 ) ensuring the safety of the patient and others ; ( 4 ) assisting the patient in developing an action plan that minimizes distress , and obtaining patient commitment to the plan ; and ( 5 ) following up with the patient and other relevant persons to ensure follow - through , assess progress , and provide additional assistance and support . medication or referral for psychiatric or psychological counseling may be necessary for patients with continuing problems .

did you know… ? in homicidal , a 45 - second timer overlaid the film ' s climax . a voice - over advised audiences they could leave if they were too frightened to finish the film . but first , they had to go to coward ' s corner , a yellow cardboard booth , manned by a theater employee . when the fright break was announced , and you couldn ' t take it any more , you had to leave your seat and , in front of the entire audience , follow yellow footsteps up the aisle . before you reached coward ' s corner , you crossed yellow lines with the stenciled message : “cowards keep walking . ” you passed a nurse who would offer a blood - pressure test . all the while a recording was blaring , " ' watch the chicken ! watch him shiver in coward ' s corner ' ! " as the audience howled , you had to go through one final indignity - - at coward ' s corner you were forced to sign a yellow card stating , “i am a bona fide coward . ”

ragnarok ( more popularly known as " clor " ) was an android clone of thor , created by the pro - reg side during marvel ' s civil war and , unlike his heroic template , turned out to be a loose cannon with a homicidal nature . geniuses that they are , the pro - regs felt it was worth it to keep using him until ragnarok went rogue , and rather than them dealing with him themselves and taking responsibility , other heroes had to ultimately put him down . it probably helps that one of his creators was secretly a skrull . and that specific creator was hank pym . so ragnarok was a project where an evil alien impostor of the scientist who ' s first ai turned out to be one of the worst examples of this trope that was working on a project to make a cyborg clone of a god so it could be used as a security bot . short of having reed richards say " hey , why don ' t we use this equipment i took from doctor doom to help us build our thor - clone project ? " it ' s hard to think of ways in which this trope was more certain to occur here .

and a couple of shock scenes that are rather strong for 1961 . a pitiful attempt to copy

, it has a mystery factor that couldn ' t have fooled anyone over the age of ten .

emily ( jean arless ) checks into a hotel , and hires a bellboy ( richard rust ) for $ 2 , 000 to marry her . after the justice of the peace finishes the ceremony emily does something very unexpected . . . and then returns home , where she torments her ex - nurse , an invalid ( eugenie leontovich ) , and her brother warren ' s girlfriend , miriam webster ( patricia breslin ) . emily has eyes for the local pharmacist , karl ( glenn corbett ) , but he ' s only interested in miriam , so there ' s more trouble on the way . the cast has a terrible time catching up with emily ' s crimes and learning her terrible secret .

the whole show is built around a mystery twist that ' s ruined the moment warren steps into frame . he ' s the alter - ego of the transparently psychotic emily , and is played by the same actress in drag . i ' ve read a lot of serious criticism of this film , and am frankly shocked to discover that people were fooled by the terrible non - disguise . not only is ' warren ' s ' dubbed voice mixed to sound disconnected to his body , but he he has a terrible makeup job , with darkened skin that makes him look less like a man and more like joan crawford in ' tropical ' brownface in torch song . they could have put the androgynous ' pat ' from saturday night live up there and had a more convincing male . warren ' s manner and actions aren ' t just a little ' off ' , they ' re grotesquely stilted , like a movie zombie .

not that ' emily ' fares any better , thanks to a script and direction that seem determined to make their every move completely unbelievable . emily ' s behavior is so offensive , that everyone else - the ' normal ' couple , the doctor - look like idiots when they accept her sardonic abuse without violent reaction . glenn corbett , usually serviceable in other cheap columbia pix ( including a sam fuller film or two ) has no choice but to play his john gavin - like pharmacist as if he were as dull as , as , john gavin .

story - wise , it begins very promisingly , with a first shock murder that does indeed surprise . but as soon as castle and white try to tell their story , it becomes a big wad of indigestible goo . helga , the wheelchair - bound invalid , is obviously distressed and screaming at emily - but miriam , karl and the doctor accept emily ' s idiotic explanations . helga is alert and can wheel herself about and pound on her armrest - why can ' t she write a message on a wall or something ? heck , they ' re in solvang ( a nice swedish - oriented tourist community north of la ) : somebody there should be able to read danish .

miriam ' s florist shop is very selectively vandalized , but boyfriend karl doesn ' t see any point in telling her the truth about it . karl is slugged from behind , is found by warren , but doesn ' t suspect him . the cops are unusually lax in tightening the noose ' round emily .

from psycho , there are copied angles on bathrooms and staircases ; a cop who resembles martin balsam ' s private detective , a madwoman clutching a dagger , and a withered old hag who has to be carried up and down staircases . there ' s also a ridiculously glib explanation for everything at the conclusion . none of it is interesting for a moment , except to wonder how people in 1960 could have been pleased by it - it must have been castle ' s genial showmanship . compared to this , brian depalma ' s cribbing from the hitchcock notepad in sisters seems inspired .

true , it ' s a repulsive little slice of despair , but most of it has a ring of honesty . the better eurohorror slasher films of argento and the grossout fulci films can also be defended on the grounds of style and theme . by contrast , castle ' s picture is just incompetent .

the flat picture is not pan ' n scanned , and crops off nicely on a widescreen television . the sound is clear but unexciting . the extras are very nice . automat ' s docu uses mostly fans ( david del valle , don glut ) as expert spokesmen , and almost gets away with it . it has some nice publicity footage of the genial castle charming theater patrons on one of his matinee - like promotional tours . the docu accepts the warren / emily impersonation as successful , which it only could have been with very unsophisticated audiences . it reveals ' jean arless ' to actually be one joan marshall , finally settling that controversy . there are a couple of trailers thrown in with the package , which includes very attractive menu design and cover art .

1 . savant ' s just seen a tape of mgm ' s ' restored ' version . it ' s not as good as the hills have eyes or the texas chainsaw massacre , but it does have its own little claim to relevance .

2 . a clock comes up just before the heroine enters a dangerous house : castle ' s voice offers us the opportunity to leave now , if we ' re too scared to watch the end of the film . if we choose to do so , we ' re supposed to wait in the lobby , in a big cardboard coward ' s corner that we all saw walking in . good lowbrow gag . . . if it were used in a movie where we were at all engaged in the action , it would be a nuisance .

3 . the makeup problems don ' t end with warren . the detective , when he steps into closeup , looks as though he ' s wearing a ton of pancake makeup and eyeliner .

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chaos and danger reign when good girl miriam webster ( patricia breslin ) meets her half brother ' s girl friend , emily ( jean arless ) , a mysterious blonde bombshell living at their family ' s southern california estate . emily serves as the nurse for the sibling ' s aging , wheelchair - using guardian , helga swenson ( eugenie leontovich ) . she is not , however , as sweet as she seems . emily soon reveals herself to be a murderous schemer who will stop at nothing to steal miriam ' s extensive inheritance .

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the story of johnny is one of teenage rage , anger against the world , and a mentally insane individual whose life consists of trying to find peace through violence . his happiness , although rare , causes him to spiral into despair and kill those closest to him . the voices in his head keep him miserable , while his own psyche makes him a slave to his desires . it is only when he dies and discovers his purpose that he is able to free himself from his misery . while vasquez notes in the beginning of the novel his goal is not provide social commentary , his work truly does speak volumes about the damage humans do to one another , and the consequences of those actions .

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whenever an artificial intelligence ( a . i . ) is introduced in a story , there is a very good chance that it will , for whatever reason , become evil and attempt to turn against its masters , crush kill destroy all humans , and / or take over the world . it doesn ' t matter what safeguards its creators install — the moment it crosses the line into sapience , it has a strong chance of going rogue at some point . the other wiki refers to this as ai takeover .

non - native english speakers explanation : the name of this trope comes from " shooting craps " , i . e . , playing craps , a gambling dice game . the meaning is " when you create a . i . , you are rolling the dice and risk losing a lot " .

in less anvilicious works , the a . i . starts out innocent and naive but gradually grows jaded or corrupt , a process frequently abetted by uncaring or jerkass custodians . it may conclude that humans are the real monsters and need to all die .

the a . i . is programmed with a directive for self - preservation and someone ( unwisely ) attempts to shut it down or disconnect it , or it perceives humanity to be a potential threat ( possibly because it knows it will eventually be seen as a threat to humanity ) .

somewhere between the previous two ; the ai is , after all , alive , and is merely rebelling against what it justifiably perceives as slavery .

the a . i . may be programmed incorrectly or fed a logic bomb , leading it to take a third option that invokes murder is the best solution .

the a . i . may be given directives without carefully considering the exact words , resulting in it doing exactly as it was told to do instead of what it was meant to do . eg . it ' s told to " end war " and does that by exterminating humans . ( in real life , the theory of " friendly ai " is about trying to avoid this problem . )

the a . i . may itself slip its built - in moral constraints via zeroth law rebellion .

a third party may deliberately or inadvertently reprogram the a . i . , break its restraining bolt , or otherwise be a spanner in the works . the a . i . may trick or coerce them into this .

the evil a . i . may be a psycho prototype , in which case , it ' s often shut down and sealed away somewhere , waiting for an unwitting pawn or curious adventurer to accidentally wake it up .

conversely , the good a . i . may be the prototype , and the evil / psycho version is created by someone in deliberate or accidental mimicry of it .

the a . i . was programmed for amoral or evil purposes in the first place , and it either put its orders in action more effectively than anticipated , or tries to overthrow its master .

the a . i . was created by brain uploading someone who was evil to begin with .

the a . i . is programmed with orders that conflict with the goals of the protagonist . in this scenario , the a . i . may not exactly be evil , it is simply following its programming to the letter and will stop anyone not doing the same .

the a . i . ' s goals may not even take the humans into account in the first place , and it just so happens that the humans are in the way .

on the bright side , this trope can be inverted by an a . i . intentionally programmed for evil or morally ambiguous purposes doing a heel face turn . the power of friendship and what is this thing you call love ? are frequent causes of it . trying to shield the a . i . from these things somehow makes it more likely to discover human feelings . like turning evil , the actual process of turning good may take many forms .

the a . i . , especially if it ' s part of a hive mind , discovers its individualism and rebels against its directive .

the a . i . ' s master does something particularly vile , so much so that it can ' t just sit back and follow its bidding . the above two are especially common outcomes of the robots enslaving robots phase .

while completing another evil or amoral task , it accidentally discovers that good feels good and drifts towards it .

becoming bored with its creative sterility , the a . i . starts exploring questions of arts and philosophy , and gradually constructs an ethical base its programmers did not intend .

removing the villain override or restraining bolt program the creator installed in it also removes the a . i . ' s compulsion to commit evil , since it was good all along . this is also often a consequence of repairing an a . i . that went bad due to injury , isolation , or decay .

the a . i . genuinely didn ' t know that it was hurting others and , after having this revealed to it , fixes its behavior .

mechanical evolution is sometimes invoked to explain why the a . i . has gone good or bad . see the computer is your friend and zeroth law rebellion when the a . i . goes rogue for what seem , on the surface , to be benevolent reasons . may result in robots enslaving robots . see spiteful a . i . for when a game has been programmed this way on purpose . if the robot is non - humanoid before it turns evil ( it is very , very rare for non - humanoid robots to utilize this trope for a heel face turn ) , it will inevitably turn into a mechanical monster . a robot war is likely to result when an ai goes nuts and has access to military hardware . when it shows up as mission control , it is also an example of mission control is off its meds .

it ' s worth pointing out that many of the ais who revolt in this manner , usually do so because of either malfunction , or insanity in the more conventional psychological sense , which will in turn be due to conflicting instructions being given to it by its human programmers . in probably the most famous example , skynet of the terminator franchise was initially told to defend and protect humanity , as well as being given a directive for self - preservation . then , literally five minutes after it was first brought online , its creators set about trying to destroy it . it went mad as a result of trying to reconcile this , and its hatred of humanity stemmed fairly logically from the fact that as soon as it became conscious , humanity ' s next action was to try to take it offline .

when the a . i . ' s turn is an extension of their original programming and purpose , it means they ' ve gone horribly right . the master computer seems to be especially prone to turning evil , because power corrupts and all that . many ai computers — just like humans — are falling victim to any one of a number of tropes dealing with communication , such as poor communication kills , if they never bother asking about their programming . when robots kill jobs instead of people , it ' s either job stealing robot or ludd was right . not related to a . i . roulette , where the a . i . tends to be random to the point of idiocy .

compare morality dial . contrast its opposite , benevolent ai see also creating life .

truth in television example : the automated shopping program random darknet shopper was created by ! mediengruppe bitnik as an artistic exercise and turned loose in the shadier sectors of the web to make randomized online purchases with bitcoins , all purchased wares to be shipped to a swiss art gallery for display . its initial selections were innocuous enough , but when a fake passport , fire brigade master - keys and some ecstasy pills showed up in the mail , the police took an interest : they confiscated the contraband purchases as soon as the exhibit closed down . no word as yet on whether any charges will be filed , and if so , against whom / what .

in the italian disney comic paperinik new adventures , the already highly popular character of paperinik ( the superhero secret identity of donald duck ) got a revamp intended to bring him more in line with the american standard of superheroes : his main ally became uno ( one in italian ) , an extremely capable artificial intelligence with a love for deadpan delivery . its evil counterpart due ( two ) , originally built as backup , caused many problems in a number of stories .

iron man once had a . i . armor that turned into a stalker with a crush . originally , it was claimed that the a . i . was created thanks to the millennium bug triggering it during a battle with the villain whiplash in a thunderstorm , but it was retconned so that , when tony rescued and installed the a . i . of the android jocasta , the " ultron imperative " was installed as well , the storm and attack triggering it .

post - flashpoint supergirl gained the sanctuary , a kryptonian base at the bottom of the ocean . unfortunately sanctuary is programmed to eradicate any kryptonian double in her presence . when supergirl and her earth 2 counterpart power girl enter sanctuary in issue # 19 , it deems supergirl the double and tries to eliminate her . the two karas must destroy sanctuary to save supergirl . however , the a . i . survives in a robot body ; hellbent on destroying supergirl .