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Alexander Knox
1) Accident
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
The complex relationships among an Oxford professor, one of his students, and the young woman who captivates both of them is the subject of this difficult but rewarding drama. Director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter had previously collaborated on 1963's The Servant, and they surrounded this recasting of a Nicholas Mosley novel with a similar atmosphere of ominous mystery. The story is presented through flashbacks and disconnected memories that...
Pub. Date
1955.
Language
English
Description
The theory that life is pre-ordained and that dreams are a glimpse into the future prompts Commander Lindsay to relate a dream he has experienced to his fellow dinner guests. The dream involves a Dakota carrying the Air Marshall, an attractive girl, a very important person and five other civilians, who, with a crew of five, number thirteen. The aircraft is lost over the sea, the radio fails, and fuel is running short when, through a break in the clouds,...
3) Sister Kenny
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Could a simple country nurse possibly have found a treatment for polio when educated doctors have failed? This is the remarkable true story of Elizabeth Kenny, a nurse far out in the Australian bush, who follows her instincts to treat small children inflicted with the dreaded crippling disease.
4) Gorky Park
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When three murder victims are discovered in Moscow's Gorky Park their faces and fingertips removed detective Arkady Renko is determined to identify the bodies and find the killer. But when the clues point toward the involvement of the KGB, Renko is hunted by the secret police and confronted by an intricate web of deception and treachery reaching the highest political levels.