"Royal in February 2018 before touring the UK. Brighton Rock (novel) Charles ""Fred"" Hale comes to Brighton on assignment to distribute cards anonymously for a newspaper competition (a variant of ""Lobby Lud""; in this case, the name of the person to be spotted is ""Kolley Kibber""). The antihero of the novel, Pinkie Brown, is a teenage sociopath and up-and-coming gangster. Hale had betrayed the former leader of the gang Pinkie now controls, by writing an article in the ""Daily Messenger"" about a slot machine racket for which the gang was responsible. Ida Arnold, a plump, kind-hearted and decent woman, is"
"Scarface"". In Brighton in 1935, a gangster named Kite is found dead, shortly after a newspaper published a story exposing local rackets and gang wars. Kite's old gang, now led by the psychopathic teen-aged hoodlum Pinkie Brown, learns that the reporter who wrote the story, Fred Hale, will be in town for one day for a promotional stunt (similar to the real-life ""Lobby Lud"" promotion). Fred will play ""Kolley Kibber"", leaving cards around town that can be redeemed for a monetary prize, with a larger prize for the first person who publicly identifies Fred as Kolley Kibber. Pinkie and the"
"published five books parallel with the production of the radio play. A theatre play based on the radio play debuted in Norway in 2011. The story is set in the 1920s in Chicago and tells the story of Dickie Dick Dickens evolving from a simple pickpocket to the ""most dangerous man in Chicago's underworld"", ""a shining star in the wonderful million city's gangster sky"". Among the members of his gang are the old friend Opa Crackle and superstitious Bonzo. His chief opponent is fellow gangster leader Jim Cooper while his opponents in the police include Chief Sergeant Lionel McKenzie and"
"Pinkeltje Pinkeltje (known in English as Fingerling) is a fictional character from the eponymous children's book series by the Dutch writer Dick Laan. Pinkeltje is a white-bearded gnome and wears a pointed hat and is as big as a pinky finger, hence its name, meaning ""fingerling"" (literally ""little pinky"") in Dutch. 29 books were published in a series between 1939 and 1977. The last four volumes appeared posthumously. A successful film was also released with the same title and based on the books. The early stories focus mainly on Pinkeltje's adventures in the Grote Huis (Big House), inhabited by a"
"plays ""Pinkie"", the role originally played by Richard Attenborough. Filming began in October 2009. It was largely filmed in the nearby town of Eastbourne, with Eastbourne Pier standing in for Brighton Pier, and at Beachy Head. Some scenes were shot at Hedsor House in Buckinghamshire and in Brighton itself. In 1964, Pinkie Brown, the sociopathic enforcer of a Brighton gang, murders Fred Hale, who has himself killed the gang leader, Kite. Brown befriends Rose, a young waitress who witnessed the gang's activity, to keep an eye on her. She falls in love with him. To prevent her from being compelled"
"in essence not only more genial, but more intelligent."" It praised Coward’s protégé Graham Payn, who ""dances with consummate grace... singularly fresh and boyish"", adding, whether innocently or not, ""Benevolent Uncle Noel has found a first-class nephew"". Ace of Clubs (musical) Ace of Clubs is a 1950 musical written, composed and directed by Noël Coward. The show is set in a 1949 London nightclub called ""Ace of Clubs"". Nightclub singer Pinkie Leroy falls in love with a sailor. Pinkie and her lover get mixed up with gangsters, a lost package and a missing diamond necklace. In the end, the police"
"celebrities, fighting gangsters both at home and abroad and even facing elements of fantasy and science-fiction. The real-life gangster Al Capone and his sworn enemy Eliot Ness of the ""Untouchables"" are also regular characters. Although occasionally violent, the emphasis of the series is on humour. The 40th book in the series was published in 2009 and it was announced that it would be Sammy's final adventure. The series is based in 1920s Chicago at the height of Prohibition. Jack Attaway runs a bodyguard agency with his sidekick Sammy Day and their adventures take them all over the world. Although their"
"Brighton Rock (1948 film) Brighton Rock is a 1948 British gangster film noir directed by John Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough as violent gang leader Pinkie Brown (reprising his breakthrough West End creation of the character some three years earlier), Carol Marsh as the innocent girl he marries, and Hermione Baddeley as an amateur sleuth investigating a murder he committed. The film was adapted from the 1938 novel ""Brighton Rock"" by Graham Greene, and was produced by Roy Boulting through the Boulting brothers' production company Charter Film Productions. It was later released in the United States under the title ""Young"
"Ace of Clubs (musical) Ace of Clubs is a 1950 musical written, composed and directed by Noël Coward. The show is set in a 1949 London nightclub called ""Ace of Clubs"". Nightclub singer Pinkie Leroy falls in love with a sailor. Pinkie and her lover get mixed up with gangsters, a lost package and a missing diamond necklace. In the end, the police arrest the perpetrators, and Pinkie gets her man. The musical premiered at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, on 16 May 1950, followed by more tryouts at the Liverpool Empire Theatre and the Birmingham Alhambra Theatre. It transferred to"
"(1978) was produced by P. Hans Frankfurther, and includes Emmy Lopes Dias, Aart Staartjes, Wieteke van Dort, and Lex Goudsmit. A soundtrack was also released with vocals of Harrie Geelen and Joop Stokkermans. Pinkeltje Pinkeltje (known in English as Fingerling) is a fictional character from the eponymous children's book series by the Dutch writer Dick Laan. Pinkeltje is a white-bearded gnome and wears a pointed hat and is as big as a pinky finger, hence its name, meaning ""fingerling"" (literally ""little pinky"") in Dutch. 29 books were published in a series between 1939 and 1977. The last four volumes appeared"
"residents and tourists engaged in their regular activities, unaware that a movie was being made. The climax of the film takes place at the Palace Pier, which differs from the novel, the end of which takes place in the nearby town of Peacehaven. The Colleoni gang was modeled after the Sabini racetrack gang of the 1930s, which fought public battles with straight razors in its competition to control crime at racecourses in southern England, including one at Brighton. A former Sabini gang member named Carl Ramon served as technical adviser, including teaching Attenborough how to behave as Pinkie. Ramon also"
"The Poisoned Chocolates Case The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) is a detective novel by Anthony Berkeley set in 1920s London in which a group of armchair detectives, who have founded the ""Crimes Circle"", formulate theories on a recent murder case Scotland Yard has been unable to solve. Each of the six members, including their president, Berkeley's amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham, arrives at an altogether different solution as to the motive and the identity of the perpetrator, and also applies different methods of detection (basically deductive or inductive or a combination of both). Completely devoid of brutality but containing a lot"
"Pink (novel) Pink is a novel written by film maker Gus Van Sant. It was published in 1997 on the Nan Talese imprint of ""Doubleday"". The story is set in Saquatch, Oregon, United States, and details the life of Spunky Davis, a middle-aged maker of infomercials who is trying to find his next assignment and finish the science-fiction screenplay that he hopes will bring him Hollywood glory. The science-fiction screenplay sections of the book were written by Lanny Quarles. Spunky meets Jack and Matt who are from another dimension called Pink. The book has a flip-book element and other drawings"
"Pinky (film) Pinky is a 1949 American race drama film starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters about a light-skinned black woman passing for white, played by Crain. All three actresses were nominated for the Academy Award, Crain for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and Barrymore and Waters for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. The film was adapted from the Cid Ricketts Sumner novel ""Quality"" by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols and directed by Elia Kazan. ""Pinky"" was released by Twentieth Century Fox to both critical acclaim and controversy. Pinky Johnson (Jeanne Crain) returns to the South"
"up to that point. ""Peaky Blinders"" is a gangster family epic set in Birmingham, England in 1919, several months after the end of the First World War in November 1918. The story centers on the Peaky Blinders gang and their ambitious and highly cunning boss Tommy Shelby (played by Cillian Murphy). The gang comes to the attention of Chief Inspector Major Chester Campbell (played by Sam Neill), a detective in the Royal Irish Constabulary sent over by Winston Churchill from Belfast, where he had been sent to ""clean up"" the city of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Communists, gangs and"
"up in the early 1950s. Throughout his childhood, Pink longs for a father figure. He discovers a scroll from ""kind old King George"" and other relics from his father's military service and death, placing a bullet on the track of an oncoming train. At school, he is caught writing poems in class and humiliated by the teacher who reads a poem which is the song ""Money"". To the tune of ""Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)"", Pink imagines a surrealistically oppressive school system in which children fall into a meat grinder. The children then rise in rebellion and destroy"
"Ginger. But then suddenly, Ginger disappeared! Later on Thanksgiving Day, the dog went missing. Jerry and his sister Rachel tried to find Ginger, but could not. They go all around Cranbury and ask neighbors to help, and later find out that Ginger had been tied up in a shed. They then discover the identity of the thief: Wally Bullwinkle. The book closes with Ginger home safe to a happy family. Pinky Pye is a 1958 book by Eleanor Estes, the sequel to Ginger Pye. In this book, the eponymous black kitten is adopted by the Pyes during their summer vacation"
"Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates about a group of teenage girls in upstate New York in the 1950s who form a gang called Foxfire. The book takes the form of a memoir by Madeleine ""Maddy"" or ""Monkey"" Wirtz. Maddy is a fifty-year-old astronomer's assistant, but as a young girl was one of the five original members of Foxfire. This group included Betty ""Goldie"" Siegfried, Loretta ""Lana"" Maguire, Elizabeth ""Rita"" O'Hagan, and their leader, Margaret ""Legs"" Sadovsky. The girls all grew up together in the fictional town"
"discarded mistresses; and some more. At the very end of the novel, however, there is no doubt as to the identity of the perpetrator. The Poisoned Chocolates Case The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929) is a detective novel by Anthony Berkeley set in 1920s London in which a group of armchair detectives, who have founded the ""Crimes Circle"", formulate theories on a recent murder case Scotland Yard has been unable to solve. Each of the six members, including their president, Berkeley's amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham, arrives at an altogether different solution as to the motive and the identity of the perpetrator,"
"apparent in the short and the mysterious motivation of Beppo. Note that the theme of kidnapping by a gorilla is present here three years prior to the ""King Kong"" film of 1933. In ""The Picnic"", (November 14, 1930) Minnie introduces her boyfriend to her new pet dog, Rover. This is actually Pluto making his first appearance as an individual character. Two unnamed bloodhound guard dogs strikingly similar to him had previously appeared in ""The Chain Gang"" (August 18, 1930) which featured Mickey incarcerated in prison without Minnie at his side. Otherwise the short features a typical picnic excursion harassed by"
"The Graham Greene novel ""Brighton Rock"" featured the Palace Pier. John Boulting's 1947 film adaptation helped established ""low life"" subculture in Brighton, and the climax of the film is set on it, where gangleader Pinkie Brown (played by Richard Attenborough) falls to his death. The 1953 B movie ""Girl on a Pier"" is set around the Palace Pier and also features the clash between holidaymakers and gangsters in Brighton. The Who's 1973 concept album ""Quadrophenia"" was inspired in part by band leader Pete Townshend spending a night underneath the pier in March 1964. It is a pivotal part of the"
"gang."" The book begins in 2003 with the death of Dante Scott's mother, father, older sister and brother at the hands of the Brigands M.C. South Devon President, Ralph ""Führer"" Donnington, after Dante's father refuses to go through with the plans to redevelop the Brigands' clubhouse, turning it into shops and flats. After saving his eighteen-month-old sister Holly from the burning house (the Führer attempted to burn the evidence), nine-year-old Dante escapes, is put under the wing of child psychologist Ross Johnson, and is questioned by police in an attempt to convict the Führer. On the night of the murders,"
"A Gun for Sale A Gun For Sale is a 1936 novel by Graham Greene about a criminal called Raven, a man dedicated to ugly deeds. When he is paid, with stolen notes, for killing the Minister of War, he becomes a man on the run. Tracking down the agent who double-crossed him, and eluding the police simultaneously, he becomes both the hunter and the hunted. The novel was published and filmed in the United States under the title ""This Gun For Hire"". The novel prefigures Greene's later, more famous, work, ""Brighton Rock"", wherein Pinkie Brown's killing of Hale sets"
"to exact deadly revenge on those who betrayed him to the Nazis. Events and characters from the different periods - and in particular, the different women in the protagonist's life - constantly interweave and influence each other in unexpected ways. Dark Hero Dark Hero is a 1946 thriller by Peter Cheyney featuring a Chicago gangster involved in the gang wars of the 1930s, who during the Second World War finds himself in Nazi-occupied Norway and becomes a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance - by applying essentially the same skills which had made him a successful and feared gangster. The book's"
"a date. Pinkie is also being pressured by Colleoni, the older and more powerful leader of a rival gang, and by the police, who want him to leave town to avoid further gang warfare. Deciding that Spicer is a liability, Pinkie sends him to the racetrack in hopes that Colleoni's men will kill him there. However, Pinkie is also attacked by Colleoni's men and both he and Spicer escape with their lives. Pinkie ends up finishing Spicer off himself by pushing him down a stairwell. Rose falls in love with Pinkie, and he decides to marry her so she cannot"
"to Paris and then England. She came to write the book when her own son was eight; after seeing ""The Sound of Music"" he remarked, ""now we know what it was like when Mummy was a little girl"". Kerr wanted him to know what it was really like and so wrote ""When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit"". The book gives a distinctive child's perspective on the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany and the experience of being a refugee, reflecting Kerr's positive feelings about her own experience: The story starts in Berlin, in March 1933, when nine-year-old Anna, the main character"
"that were created by Van Sant himself. Pink (novel) Pink is a novel written by film maker Gus Van Sant. It was published in 1997 on the Nan Talese imprint of ""Doubleday"". The story is set in Saquatch, Oregon, United States, and details the life of Spunky Davis, a middle-aged maker of infomercials who is trying to find his next assignment and finish the science-fiction screenplay that he hopes will bring him Hollywood glory. The science-fiction screenplay sections of the book were written by Lanny Quarles. Spunky meets Jack and Matt who are from another dimension called Pink. The book"
"Pink and Say Pink and Say is a children's book written and illustrated by Patricia Polacco. It was first published in 1994 by Philomel Books. The story is about two boy soldiers who meet each other in the battlefield during the American Civil War. One of the protagonists, Sheldon Russell Curtis (""Say""), is a white soldier who was injured while trying to escape battle. He is saved by a former slave named Pinkus Aylee (""Pink""), who is now a soldier of the 48th Regiment Infantry U.S. Colored Troops. Pink carries him back to his Georgia home where he and his"
"Dark Hero Dark Hero is a 1946 thriller by Peter Cheyney featuring a Chicago gangster involved in the gang wars of the 1930s, who during the Second World War finds himself in Nazi-occupied Norway and becomes a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance - by applying essentially the same skills which had made him a successful and feared gangster. The book's nonlinear narrative shifts and jumps back and forth between pre-war Chicago, wartime Norway, the Nazi concentration camp where the protagonist ended after being captured by the Gestapo, and London in the immediate aftermath of the war - where he seeks"
"had learned a lot from Dick Laan. His writing of screenplays for movies led to the writing of books. He first wrote a number of boy's juvenile (adventure) books However Laan is by far best known for his Pinkeltje series of children books, featuring a pinky-sized hero. The first book was published in 1939 and went on to sell 3 million copies in Dutch. He would write another 28 entries in the series, though the last four volumes were published only posthumously. Translations of Pinkeltje have been made in English, Chinese, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish and Icelandic."
"The Pink Panther The Pink Panther is a British-American media franchise primarily focusing on a series of comedy-mystery films featuring an inept French police detective, Inspector Jacques Clouseau. The franchise began with the release of the classic ""Pink Panther"" film in 1963. The role of Clouseau was originated by and is most closely associated with Peter Sellers. Most of the films were written and directed by Blake Edwards, with theme music composed by Henry Mancini. Elements and characters inspired by the films were adapted into other media, including books, comic books and animated series. The first film in the series"
"Pink Panic Pink Panic is the 26th cartoon produced in the ""Pink Panther"" series. A total of 124 6-minute cartoons were produced between 1964 and 1980. The Pink Panther, seeking a night's shelter from a storm, comes upon a Western frontier ghost town called Dead Dog, and the one hotel in the town is haunted. While trying to stay the night at the Dead Dog Hotel, the panther signs a guest book but the ink splatters his face. He wipes into a chair-covering sheet, which is indeed a nasty ghost because two menacing eyes appear and when Pink opens a"
"The Pink Panther (1963 film) The Pink Panther is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and co-written by Edwards and Maurice Richlin, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine and Claudia Cardinale. The film introduced the cartoon character of the same name, in an opening credits sequence animated by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. The film was selected in 2010 to be preserved by the Library of Congress as part of its National Film Registry, being deemed ""culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant."" As a child in Lugash, Princess Dala receives a gift from her father, the Maharajah: the ""Pink"