View allAll Photos Tagged commit
The Black Sleep (1956)
dai.ly/x14wrtw Full Feature on Daily motion
England, 1872. The night before he is to be hanged for a murder he did not commit, young Dr. Gordon Ramsey is visited in his cell by his old mentor, eminent surgeon Sir Joel Cadmund. Cadmund offers to see that Ramsey gets a proper burial and gives him a sleeping powder to get him through the night, which Ramsey takes, unaware it is really an East Indian drug, "nind andhera" ("the black sleep"), which induces a deathlike state of anesthesia. Pronounced dead in his cell, he is turned over to Cadmund, who promptly revives him and takes him to his home in a remote abbey. Cadmund explains he believes Ramsey is innocent and needs his talents to help him in an project, which he is reluctant to immediately discuss further. In fact, Cadmund's wife lies in a coma from a deep-seated brain tumor, and he is attempting to find a safe surgical route to its site by experimenting on the brains of others, whom Ramsey comes to learn are alive during the process, anesthetized by the "black sleep", and are taken to a hidden recovery room in the abbey from which few emerge, though they still live...
- Written by Rich Wannen
Old-fashioned as it is, however, The Black Sleep still gets the job done at least as well as most of the movies to which it hearkens back. Most notably, it crystallized a vague sense I’ve had for some time now that it’s too bad Rathbone got pigeonholed so early on as Sherlock Holmes. He had a commanding elegance about him akin to that later displayed by Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, and which nobody else on the 30’s and 40’s horror scene could match. Lionel Atwill and John Carradine came close on occasion, but Atwill was always a little too foppish and Carradine a little too homespun to play the depraved Old World nobleman with Rathbone’s authority; neither of them would have been up to the challenge of Tower of London’s Richard III, for example. As Joe Cadman, Rathbone simultaneously prefigures the Cushing Frankenstein, and hints at all the brilliant mad movie scientists that might have been if only Rathbone hadn’t been so busy chasing Nazi agents all over the English moors during the years of the second Hollywood horror boom. He might even have injected some unwonted class into a Monogram or PRC production! The rest of the cast doesn’t quite match up to the top-billed star, but most of those who are required to do any actual acting (which is to say, not Tor Johnson, Bela Lugosi, or Lon Chaney Jr.) acquit themselves respectably well. Another thing The Black Sleep does right is to incorporate a bit of defensible real-world science into the mad variety more familiar from movies of its type. Much of the film’s horror stems from the certainty that attempting such delicate neurological investigations with the clumsy and invasive techniques of the late 19th century really would produce monstrous derangement's of brain function, even if these specific symptoms (John Carradine’s character is convinced that he’s Bohemond of Taranto— the hell?) are not always especially plausible. Finally, Udo the Gypsy, who in most horror films of this era would be nothing but a comic relief character, is portrayed in much too sinister a light to become as irritating as one might anticipate. His clowning creates more unease than anything else, for it is plainly but a cover for a complete absence of conscience. All in all, The Black Sleep represents a commendable effort to bring some seriousness of purpose back into the gothic mad scientist movie, which had grown silly enough on its own over the years that it hadn’t really needed Abbott and Costello to poke fun at it.
A ceremony celebrating NMH student/athletes who have committed to universities and colleges next year and beyond, December 9, 2021, at the Rhodes Room, Beveridge Hall. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
the word “love” in the Qur’an appears on over 90 places but interestingly it doesn’t define the word love but speaks about the very first consequence of love…”committing.” Islam talks about commitment; if you truly love, then commit, if you do not commit then your claim of love is not real.
~Sheikh Yassir Fazaga
Baitul Mukarram, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The BC Search and Rescue Association received $10 million in one-time funding from the Province to help bolster training, administrative support and equipment renewals.
Minister of State for Emergency Preparedness Naomi Yamamoto announced that the BC Search and Rescue Association will work with its membership to bolster ground search and rescue services across British Columbia. Once allocated, the funding will be spent according to the needs of the local ground search and rescue teams, replacing or updating equipment, providing administrative support and paying for new or additional training.
This investment builds on the $6.3 million that the BC government already provided this year to cover ground search and rescue operational costs for deployment, as well as training and equipment costs, and the insurance and liability for the members of the 80 groups serving across the BC landscape.
Across Canada, ground search and rescue teams take part in roughly 2,000 ground rescues each year; 65 per cent of those rescues take place in BC.
For more information, please visit:
When you're out of ankle socks you can either rumple down your hiking socks and pretend they don't look stupid when you're wearing shorts, or you can pull them up with pride and pretend you're a fashion leader.
Sticker on a West Vancouver bus stop, just outside the BC Ferries terminal building in Horseshoe Bay.
A ceremony celebrating NMH student/athletes who have committed to universities and colleges next academic year and beyond, May 11, 2021, at Forslund Gymnasium. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
A no-longer abandoned auto body shop across the alley from the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre shop near downtown Vancouver. Hard to believe that a business operated in here for years, especially considering the state of the second floor - yikes! Some speculation that it was a low-profile chop shop. At any rate, squatters moved in not long after these pics were taken - decent enough folks, keep the outside clean.
A no-longer abandoned auto body shop across the alley from the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre shop near downtown Vancouver. Hard to believe that a business operated in here for years, especially considering the state of the second floor - yikes! Some speculation that it was a low-profile chop shop. At any rate, squatters moved in not long after these pics were taken - decent enough folks, keep the outside clean.
A ceremony celebrating NMH student/athletes who have committed to universities and colleges next year and beyond, December 9, 2021, at the Rhodes Room, Beveridge Hall. Photography by Glenn Minshall.
What heinous crime did the rocking horse commit to get banged up? Maybe we will never know. Is the boot an accomplice visiting to ensure that the horse didn't squeal? Or maybe the boot is the old plod who caught him red-hoofed!
Such intrigue in a simple game of Monopoly!
At the #NATCAinWashington congressional reception, Cleveland Center (ZOB) members Ronny Shonk and Josh Santiago and Youngstown ATCT (YNG) member Nick Yochman did 22 pushups with Congressman Steve Stivers in recognition of the 22 veterans that commit suicide daily. Thank you for your support, Congressman, both for our nation’s veterans and for our dedicated NATCA members.
Build relationships with your elected officials and make a difference for your profession and our Union by becoming legislatively active: www.natca.org/index.php/travel/120-nlc-content/1811-regis...
Dries allows Fureigh to press the enter button on his laptop, commiting their first core patch to git.
Transportation Minister Blair Lekstrom announced today that the Province is committing $8 million to additional concrete median barrier and other safety improvements on the Malahat.
Learn more:
www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2012/03/8-million-to-improve-safet... and
www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2012/07/malahat-barrier-installati...
A no-longer abandoned auto body shop across the alley from the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre shop near downtown Vancouver. Hard to believe that a business operated in here for years, especially considering the state of the second floor - yikes! Some speculation that it was a low-profile chop shop. At any rate, squatters moved in not long after these pics were taken - decent enough folks, keep the outside clean.
Why do I need this Protection?
Identity theft takes place when somebody uses your personally identifying information, such as your name, Social Security number, or your credit card number, without your permission, to commit fraud and other crimes.
The US government estimates that as many as 9 million Americans have their identities stolen every year. In fact, you or someone you know may have experienced some form of identity theft.
This crime takes different forms. Identity thieves may rent a house, get a credit card, or establish a telephone number using your details. You may not find out about the crimes until you check your credit card statement and notice charges you did not make - or until you’re contacted by a debt collection agency.
Identity theft is very serious. While some identity theft victims can resolve their problems quickly, others spend hundreds of dollars and a lot of time attempting to repair the damage done to their good name and credit history.
Some consumers victimized by identity theft may lose out on job opportunities, or be denied bank loans for school, housing or cars because of the negative data on their credit reports. In rare cases, they may even be arrested for crimes they did not commit.