Lead too short date January 2009 Infobox film name Rat image caption director Steve Barron producer Steve Barron br Alison Owen writer Wesley Burrowes starring Imelda Staunton br Pete Postlethwaite music Pete Briquette br Bob Geldof cinematography Brendan Galvin editing David Yardley distributor Universal Pictures br Focus Features br The Jim Henson Company Jim Henson Company released 6 October 2000 runtime 88 min. country Cinema of Ireland Ireland br Cinema of the United Kingdom United Kingdom language English Rat is a 2000 in film 2000 Cinema of Ireland Irish Cinema of the United Kingdom British Cinema of the United States American comedy film directed by Steve Barron . The film focuses on the transformation of a working class man into a rat and how his family copes with the startling change. Synopsis After his usual night of drinking at the local pub, Hubert Flynn Pete Postlethwaite returns home and transforms into a rat. Hubert s family each have different views on him now that he became a rodent. His wife Conchita Imelda Staunton thinks that this change is supposed to be a lesson .... Their daughter Marietta Kerry Condon feels that the rat is still her father and that they should treat him with love and respect. After hearing the news of a man changing into a rat on the local radio ... to lock Hubert in his room and use a replacement rat for public appearances. However, Hubert ..., he remembers that as a rat, he saw Phelim hide the manuscript of the book in a cupboard. He takes ... the same way that he did before he turned into a rat. A rat then runs out the door and the family chases it in the street. When they get the rat back, Phelim tries to put it in the oven and it bites him on the finger. Hubert then appears behind them as a man and explains that the rat Phelim is holding ... will turn back into a woman when she serves her time. The film ends with the family at the pub with Hubert and Conchita, now a woman again, singing karaoke. It also shows a rat in the pub that has an earring ... more details
italic title The Rat is a 1937 Cinema of the United Kingdom British drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Anton Walbrook , Ruth Chatterton , and Ren Ray . ref http ftvdb.bfi.org.uk sift title 47811 ref It is based on the play The Rat play The Rat by Ivor Novello which had previously been made into a 1925 film The Rat 1925 film The Rat starring Novello. It was made at Denham Studios by Herbert Wilcox Productions . Cast Anton Walbrook Jean Boucheron, the Rat Ruth Chatterton Zelia de Chaumont Ren Ray Odile Verdier Beatrix Lehmann Marguerite Mary Clare Mere Colline Felix Aylmer Prosecuting Counsel Hugh Miller actor Hugh Miller Luis Stets Gordon McLeod actor Gordon McLeod Caillard Frederick Culley Judge Nadine March Rose George Merritt actor George Merritt Pierre Verdier Leo Genn Defending Counsel Fanny Wright actress Fanny Wright Therese Bob Gregory actor Bob Gregory Albert Ivan Wilmot Peter J.H. Roberts Butler Betty Marsden Zelia s Maid Aubrey Mallalieu The Jeweller References references External links imdb title 0029466 CinemaoftheUK Jack Raymond DEFAULTSORT Rat Category 1937 films Category British drama films Category 1930s drama films Category English language films Category Films directed by Thomas Bentley 1930s UK film stub ... more details
about the 1963 French film the 1981 Indian film Elippathayam Infobox film name Rat Trap image image size caption director Jean Gabriel Albicocco producer Enrique Salomoni br Tom s R. Salomoni writer Jean Gabriel Albicocco br Jacques Lanzmann narrator starring Charles Aznavour music cinematography Quinto Albicocco editing distributor released May, 1963 runtime 94 minutes country FilmFrance language French budget preceded by followed by website Rat Trap lang fr Le Rat d Am rique is a 1963 in film 1963 cinema of France French adventure film directed by Jean Gabriel Albicocco . It was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival . ref name festival cannes.com cite web url http www.festival cannes.com en archives ficheFilm id 3112 year 1963.html title Festival de Cannes Rat Trap accessdate 2009 02 27 work festival cannes.com ref Cast Charles Aznavour Charles Richard Badouh Franco Fabrizi Matias Ferreira Diaz Sara Gimenez Emilio Gnocchi Zuny Joy Marie Lafor t Francois Prevost Roberto Zelada References reflist External links imdb title id 0056395 title Rat Trap CinemaofFrance Category 1963 films Category French films Category Italian films Category French language films Category Black and white films Category 1960s adventure films Category Films directed by Jean Gabriel Albicocco 1960s France film stub adventure film stub ... more details
Infobox Film name The Rat image Therat1925.jpg image size caption Ivor Novello screenshot director Graham Cutts producer Michael Balcon writer Ivor Novello br Constance Collier starring Ivor Novello br Mae Marsh br Isabel Jeans music cinematography Hal Young editing studio Gainsborough Pictures released 1925 runtime 74 minutes country UK language The Rat is a 1925 in film 1925 British silent film drama, directed by Graham Cutts and starring Ivor Novello , Mae Marsh and Isabel Jeans . The film is based on a play written by Novello and Constance Collier , set in the Parisian criminal underworld . The film s louche settings and melodramatic storyline proved popular with audiences, and its success spawned two sequels, The Triumph of the Rat 1926 and The Return of the Rat 1929 . Plot Z lie de Chaumet Jeans is a bored, sensation seeking Demimonde demimondaine , living with her older lover and keeper Herman Stetz Robert Scholtz in a lavish apartment in a wealthy area of Paris. By contrast career criminal Pierre Boucheron Novello , known as The Rat, lives with his casual girlfriend Odile Marsh in a run down room in a squalid part of the city. One evening Z lie has an arrangement to attend a performance at the Folies Berg res with friends. Fearing that this will be a dreary evening out, she asks Herman to arrange an after theatre party for them at the White Coffin Club, a notorious low life ... 0017311 The Rat amg movie id 1 107306 http ftvdb.bfi.org.uk sift title 47810 The Rat at BFI Film & TV Database http www.britmovie.co.uk films The Rat listType alpha The Rat at BritMovie Gainsborough Pictures Graham Cutts DEFAULTSORT Rat, The Category British films Category 1925 films Category 1920s ... Pictures films Category Black and white films Category Films set in Paris it The Ratfilm 1925 ... acknowledge how much they mean to each other. ref http www.screenonline.org.uk film id 493450 synopsis.html The Rat 1925 BFI Screen Online. Retrieved 20 09 2010 ref Cast Ivor Novello as Pierre Boucheron ... more details
about the 1960 motion picture The Rat Race other uses Rat race disambiguation Infobox film name Rat Race image Rat Race poster.jpg image size 215px alt caption Theatrical release poster director Jerry Zucker film director Jerry Zucker producer Jerry Zucker br Janet Zucker br Sean Daniel writer Andy Breckman ... Lewis studio Fireworks Entertainment Fireworks Pictures distributor Paramount Pictures released Film date 2001 08 17 runtime 112 minutes Theatrical runtime 111 57 ref cite web title Rat Race 12 url http www.bbfc.co.uk AFF170842 work British Board of Film Classification date 2001 08 29 accessdate 2012 01 02 ref country Film Canada br Film US language English budget 48 million gross 85,498,534 ref name mojo Rat Race is a 2001 comedy film directed by Jerry Zucker film director Jerry Zucker , written ... notes Rat Race is the first film to feature two African American actors who had previously won Academy Award s Gooding, Jr. for Jerry Maguire and Goldberg for Ghost 1990 film Ghost . Lawyer Gloria ... Tomatoes , the film has a 44 rotten rating the critical consensus is that Rat Race moves from ... race Rat Race ref On Metacritic , which uses an average of critics reviews, the film holds 52 100, indicating mixed or average reviews . ref metacritic filmrat race Rat Race ref See also It s a Mad, Mad ... Rat Race rotten tomatoes rat race Rat Race metacritic filmrat race Rat Race ZAZ DEFAULTSORT Rat ... nl Rat Race film ja no Rat Race pl Wy cig szczur w film pt Rat Race ru .... The film has a similar plot to It s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Scavenger Hunt . Plot Donald ... alter their modes of transport over the course of the film and encounter different problems ... for all the mess he has put the entire gang into. The film ends with Sinclair, knowing that if he ... a cameo in the film that was cut when test audiences failed to give his appearance any reaction. The scene ... was seen in a majority of the film. Vieluf has since fired that agent. Director Zucker s late mother ... more details
Infobox film name The Rat Pack image The Rat Pack film .jpg writer Kario Salem starring Ray Liotta br Joe Mantegna br Don Cheadle br Angus Macfadyen br William L. Petersen br Zeljko Ivanek br Bobby Slayton br Deborah Kara Unger music Mark Adler composer Mark Adler director Rob Cohen producer Neal H. Mortiz cinematography Shane Hurlbut studio Original Film distributor HBO HBO Pictures released August 22, 1998 runtime 120 min. country United States language English The Rat Pack is a 1998 HBO TV movie about the Rat Pack . The movie stars Ray Liotta as Frank Sinatra , Joe Mantegna as Dean Martin , Don Cheadle as Sammy Davis, Jr. , and Angus Macfadyen as Peter Lawford . Despite his membership in the Pack, Joey Bishop played by Bobby Slayton is given minimal screen time, while John F. Kennedy played by William L. Petersen , depicted as an on and off friend of Sinatra s, is given a more central role. Also featured in supporting roles are Zeljko Ivanek as Bobby Kennedy , Veronica Cartwright as Veronica Cooper Rocky Cooper wife of Gary Cooper , Deborah Kara Unger as Ava Gardner , Megan Dodds as May Britt , Dan O Herlihy as Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Joe Kennedy , Robert Miranda as Sam Giancana , Scott MacDonald actor Scott MacDonald as a tourist, John Diehl as Joe DiMaggio and Barbara Niven as Marilyn Monroe . Don Cheadle won a Golden Globe for his performance as Sammy Davis, Jr. The Rat Pack ... s main narrative begins during high points in the solo careers of the Rat Pack Dean Martin has ... mob ties to swing the West Virginia unions support Kennedy s way. Meanwhile, the Rat Pack continues ... him. The movie depicts this incident as the beginning of the end of the Rat Pack s influence in both politics and entertainment. External links imdb title id 0146165 title The Rat Pack Rob Cohen Rat Pack DEFAULTSORT Rat Pack, The Category 1998 television films Category American television films ... Cohen Category HBO original films fr Les Rois de Las Vegas it Rat Pack Da Hollywood a Washington ... more details
Infobox Film name King Rat image King Ratfilm poster.jpg image size caption Theatrical release poster director Bryan Forbes producer John Woolf and James Woolf of Romulus Films James Woolf writer Bryan Forbes br James Clavell narrator starring George Segal br Tom Courtenay br James Fox music John Barry composer John Barry cinematography Burnett Guffey editing Walter A. Thompson Walter Thompson distributor Columbia Pictures released October 27, 1965 runtime 134 min country USA language English language English budget gross preceded by followed by website King Rat is a 1965 World War II film adapted from the James Clavell novel King Rat 1962 novel King Rat . The film was directed by Bryan Forbes and starred George Segal as Corporal King and James Fox as Marlowe, two World War II prisoner of war prisoners of war in a squalid camp near Singapore . It partly based on Clavell s experiences as a POW at Changi Prison during World War II. Among the supporting cast were John Mills and Tom Courtenay . Plot Corporal King is an anomaly in the Japan ese prison camp not only is he one of only a handful of Americans amongst the mainly UK British and Australia n inmates, he is actually thriving through his conniving and black market enterprises while others nearly all of higher rank struggle to survive the sickness and starvation, while retaining as much of their civilised nature as they can. In the course of his activities, King recruits upper class British RAF officer, Flight Lieutenant Peter Marlowe James Fox to act as a translator. As they become better acquainted, Marlowe comes to like ... Films based on works by James Clavell war film stub de Sie nannten ihn King es King Rat it Qualcuno da odiare pl Kr l szczur w film pt King Rat filme ... movie 27409 King Rat awards title NY Times King Rat accessdate 2008 12 26 work NY Times ref References reflist External links imdb title id 0059358 title King Rat Bryan Forbes Category 1965 films Category ... more details
The Rat may refer to A nickname for Jeff Ratcliffe , professional lacrosse player The Rat 1925 film The Rat 1925 film , a 1925 film by Ivor Novello based on his play of the same name The Rat 1937 film The Rat 1937 film , a 1937 film adaptation of the play The Rat Prison Break episode The Rat Prison Break episode , an episode of the American television show Prison Break The Rat song The Rat song , a 2004 song by The Walkmen from their album Bows Arrows The Rat , a song by Dead Confederate from their album Wrecking Ball Dead Confederate album Wrecking Ball The Rat novel The Rat novel , a book by G nter Grass published in German in 1986 as Die R ttin Pro Co RAT , guitar distortion effects pedal The Rathskellar The Rat , a now defunct live music venue in Kenmore Square, Boston, Massachusetts The Rat, a character from Haruki Murakami s Trilogy of the Rat Hear the Wind Sing , Pinball, 1973 and A Wild Sheep Chase See also Basil the Rat is the final episode of the BBC TV sitcom Fawlty Towers Blek le Rat , an influential French graffiti artist The Rats disambiguation Rat disambiguation disambiguation ... more details
Willard and Ben film Ben . Another terrifying use of rats is as a method of rat torture torture , for instance ...About the genus Rattus pet rats Fancy rat other uses Rat disambiguation pp semi protected small yes Taxobox ... image caption The common brown rat Rattus norvegicus regnum Animal ia phylum Chordata classis Mammal ... Rat Species of rats 64 species synonyms Stenomys Thomas, 1910 Rats are various medium sized, long tailed ... , the most important of which to humans are the black rat , Rattus rattus , and the brown rat , Rattus ... family is very large and complex, and the common terms rat and mouse are not taxonomy taxonomically ... rat , while if it is small, the name includes the term mouse . Scientifically, the terms are not confined to members of the Rattus and Mus genus Mus genera, for example, the pack rat and cotton mouse . Species and description The best known rat species are the black rat Rattus rattus and the brown rat ... weigh over convert 500 g lb in the wild. The term rat is also used in the names of other small mammals ... called kangaroo rats , and others. Rats such as the bandicoot rat Bandicota bengalensis are murine ... thumb A rat in a city street File Nepal.rat.JPG thumb Statue of a rat in Patan Nepal The common species .... ref cite journal author Meerburg BG, Singleton GR, Leirs H title The Year of the Rat ends time to fight ... with the brown, black or Polynesian Rat Polynesian rat . Wild rodents, including rats ... to have been caused by the micro organism Yersinia pestis , carried by the tropical rat flea Xenopsylla ... rat depends on which species is being discussed, but many only live about a year due to predation. The black ... in the forests of Asia. Pets main Fancy rat File Rat shoulder.jpg thumb 150px A domesticated rat Specially ... variants of the species brown rat , but black rat s and giant pouched rat s are also known to be kept ... selected behaviors. Subjects for scientific research main Laboratory rat File Rat diabetic.jpg thumb left 170px A laboratory rat strain, known as a Zucker rat, is bred to be genetically prone ... more details
RAT can refer to Ram air turbine Total air temperature Ram Air Temperature Register Alias Table Remote Administration Tool RenderMan Artists Tools Release after transmission Token ring Rock Abrasion Tool of the MER A Spirit and MER B Opportunity Mars rovers disambig eo RAT it RAT ja RAT ... more details
King Rat may mean Uromys rex , a species of rat King Rat 1962 novel King Rat 1962 novel , a novel by James Clavell set in World War II King Ratfilm King Ratfilm , released in 1965, based on the James Clavell novel King Rat 1998 novel King Rat 1998 novel , an urban fantasy novel by China Mi ville King Rat song King Rat song , a 2 track vinyl promo by Modest Mouse King Rat is the head of the Grand Order of Water Rats , a music hall society of Great Britain King Rat, the nickname of the Ulster loyalist Billy Wright loyalist Billy Wright , and an autobiography he wrote detailing his activities See also Rat king folklore disambig pt King Rat ... more details
Rats or Rats Night of Terror , a 1984 Italian film Labor unions Inflatable rat s or union rats , are commonly ...wiktionarypar rat A rat is a rodent of the genus Rattus . Rat may also refer to TOC right Animals Fancy rat , a pet rat Similar species to rodent, especially those of the family Muridae Art Blek le Rat , an influential French graffiti artist Computing RAT, Radio access technology, implemented by a radio access network RAT, Register Alias Table RAT, Regression analysis of time series , a statistical package RAT, Remote administration tool Entertainment Theodore Donald Rat Finch, a fictional computer hacker in The Core RatfilmRatfilm , a 2000 Irish filmRat newspaper Rat newspaper , an underground newspaper published in NYC Rat Pearls Before Swine Rat Pearls Before Swine , one of the main characters in the comic strip Pearls Before Swine Rat short story Rat short story , a short science fiction ... to companies employing nonunion labor Music Pro Co RAT guitar distortion pedal Rat Ned s Atomic ... People R zvan Ra , Romanian footballer Vasiliy Rats , Ukrainian footballer Technology De Rat, IJlst , a wind powered saw mill RAT, Ram air turbine RAT, Rock Abrasion Tool of the Mars rovers RAT, RUR 5 ASROC Rocket Assisted Torpedo 1950s US Navy R&D program for an anti submarine weapon. RAT, CL 70 RAT Remote Articulated Track all terrain, amphibious tracked vehicle by Canadair of Canada built in the late 1950s. Other Rat, a cut of beef see shoulder tender Rat, an informal name for the Ilaga , a Christian militia in Mindanao, Philippines Rat, a pejorative term for an informant or the act of snitching Rat Zodiac , in the Chinese zodiac Rat, a pad over which a woman s hair is arranged to increase the volume of a hairstyle See also The Rat Pack The Rat disambiguation The Rats disambiguation Ratt disambiguation Raat disambiguation RRAT Lookfrom Rat Intitle Rat disambig ca Rata desambiguaci de Rat es Rata desambiguaci n fa fr Rat homonymie hr Rat razdvojba nl Rat pt Rat sv Rat ... more details
For the film The River Rat unreferenced date November 2006 The River Rat is a river in the county of Suffolk in East Anglia , England . Its source is near the village of Rattlesden , and is the major tributary of the River Gipping . Rivers and Watercourses of Suffolk coord 52.1819 1.0067 type river region GB SFK display title Category Rivers of Suffolk Rat Suffolk geo stub ... more details
of the Opera 1998 film The Phantom of the Opera . Another, more recent appearance of a rat catcher ...Other uses Refimprove date November 2008 File The rat catchers, 1900.jpg thumb right 200px Professional rat catchers behind a pile of dead rats, during the outbreak of bubonic plague in Sydney in 1900 File Jack Black.jpg thumb right 200px Jack Black rat catcher Jack Black , Her Majesty s ratcatcher, 1851 ... from the glass window of the Market Church in Hamelin . Rat catching is the Employment occupation of catching rat s as a form of pest control . In developed countries the role may be merged with, or the title ... pest technician . Keeping the rat population under control was practiced in Europe to prevent the spread .... Anecdotal reports suggest that some rat catchers in Europe would raise rats instead of catching them ... of rat fights, could have led to rat breeding and the adoption of the rat as a pet the fancy rat . A famous rat catcher from Victorian era Victorian England was Jack Black rat catcher Jack ... and risks Rat catchers would capture rats by hand, often with specially bred vermin terrier ... and dark locations. Payment would be high for catching and selling rats to breeders. A rat catcher s risk of being bitten is high, as is the risk of acquiring a disease from a rat bite. Modern methods of rat control include Animal trap traps and Pest control Poisoned bait poisoned bait , plus more ... of current or potential nest sites. Rat catchers in fiction A famous fictional rat catcher ..., with the rat catcher concluding that there is a dead animal in the walls which can only be found ..., and therefore the rat catcher in the story is more of a general pest control man, not strictly a specialist in rats alone. In the DC Universe one of Batman s enemies is the Rat Catcher, formerly Otis Flannegan, who was employed as a real rat catcher for Gotham City. He occasionally orchestrates rat ... author Roald Dahl wrote a short story with the title The Ratcatcher. See also Rat baiting Rat ... more details
Yolanda Rat is a female rats rat who first appeared in The Muppets Take Manhattan , as a friend of Rizzo the Rat s applying for a job at Pete s Luncheonette. Rizzo frequently makes passes at Yolanda during the course of the film. She re appeared in Muppet Classic Theater performed by Julianne Buescher , and as a large scale stage puppet in The Muppet Show On Tour 2nd Edition . She was also shown in the background of the muppets tonight opening theme. External links muppets Yolanda Rat Muppet films Category Fictional mice and rats Category The Muppets characters Category Fictional characters introduced in 1984 fict char stub ... more details
Infobox film name Brother Rat image alt see WP ALT caption director William Keighley producer Robert Lord br Hal B. Wallis writer Richard Macaulay br Jerry Wald br John Monks Jr br Fred F. Finklehoffe starring Priscilla Lane br Wayne Morris br Johnnie Davis br Jane Bryan music Heinz Roemheld cinematography Ernest Haller editing William Holmes studio distributor released Film date 1938 10 29 runtime 89 minutes country Film US language English budget gross Brother Rat is a 1938 film about cadets at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia , directed by William Keighley and starring Priscilla Lane and Wayne Morris American actor Wayne Morris . The film also featured Eddie Albert and Ronald Reagan , who met the actress Jane Wyman , while working on the film. They later married. ref Helfer, Andrew author , Steve Buccatello artist , and Joe Station artist . Ronald Reagan A Graphic Biography . Hill and Wang . 23. ref The title refers to the term used for cadets in their first year at the Institute. Scenes of the film were shot on site in Lexington on the Institute s historic Parade Ground, and the baseball game scene was filmed at Alumni Memorial Field. Sequel This film was followed by a sequel in 1940, Brother Rat and a Baby , which also featured Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Ronald Reagan, Eddie Albert, and Jane Wyman. References reflist See also Ronald Reagan films External links IMDb title 0029949 tcmdb title id 595 title Brother Rat http movies.tvguide.com brother rat review 120882 Review of Brother Rat at TVGuide.com http www.imdb.com title tt0032286 Brother Rat and a Baby sequel, 1940 at Internet Movie Database 1930s comedy film stub William Keighley Category 1938 films Category American films Category English language films Category Films directed by William Keighley Category 1930s comedy films Category Films set in Virginia Category Films shot in Virginia Category Warner Bros. films ... more details
File Rat Catching.jpg thumb right 300px Front cover art for Rat Catching 1999 written by Crispin Glover left and Studies in the Art of Rat Catching 1896 by Henry C. Barkley right Rat Catching ISBN 0962299707 is a book by actor filmmaker Crispin Glover . The book is a form of collage , reworked from Studies in the Art of Rat Catching , a 1896 non fiction book now in the public domain . ref http www.archive.org details studiesinartofra00barkrich ref Pictures from the book, as well as the book itself, were shown in the opening credits of the 2003 in film 2003 film , Willard 2003 film Willard , starring Crispin Glover. ref http dvd.ciao.co.uk Productinformation Willard DVD 5346397 ref The book also forms one segment of Glover s live slide show readings which are performed during particular screenings of his self financed films What Is It? and It Is Fine Everything Is Fine. ref http www.crispinglover.com slideshow.htm ref . Overview The original book, Studies in the Art of Rat Catching , by Henry C. Barkley, was written primarily as an informative guide for students within the English Independent school United Kingdom Public School system with the intention of educating those particular pupils about the practicalites and methods regarding vermin control during the late 19th Century. ref http www.amazon.co.uk Studies Art Rat Catching Additional dp 1905124546 ref However, the modified version of Glover s Rat Catching alters the original and intended meaning into a somewhat fragmented collection of words and sentences by means of obfuscation of particular texts with ink and drawing along with the inclusion of imagery from various other sources that, while retaining some of the original context, forms its own particular narrative resulting in either humorously surreal or disturbing results. See also Rat catcher Appropriation art Appropriation Collage Found art Public domain Crispin Glover References Reflist Crispin Glover Category 1999 books Category Artists books book art stub ... more details
for the river in Suffolk, England River Rat The River Rat is a 1984 independent family film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Martha Plimpton in her second film and first starring role . Filmed in Kentucky , it is set on the banks of the Mississippi River . Plimpton portrays a young teenage daughter who meets her father Jones , an ex con just released from prison, for the first time. The two slowly forge a relationship as they rebuild a boat named The River Rat. But the father cannot escape his criminal past as he is blackmailed by the prison psychiatrist Brian Dennehy , who believes he knows the location of a large amount of cash stolen before imprisonment. Father and daughter take The River Rat on a picturesque trip down the Mississippi River to Memphis, Tennessee in an effort to find the money and elude the prison doctor. Along the way, they learn about each other s lives and create a family bond. The film was written and directed by Thomas Rickman, who had been nominated for an Academy Award in 1980 for his screenplay to Coal Miner s Daughter , also starring Tommy Lee Jones. External links imdb title id 0088006 imdb name id 0725564 name Thomas Rickman DEFAULTSORT River Rat Category 1984 films Category 1980s crime films 1980s drama film stub de Nur der Tod ist umsonst ru ... more details
refimprove date March 2012 Image Ratfin.jpg right 350px thumb Rat Fink by Steve Fiorilla for an Ed Roth catalog cover Rat Fink is one of the several Hot rod hot rod characters created by one of the originators of Kustom Kulture , Ed Roth Ed Big Daddy Roth . Roth conceived Rat Fink as an anti hero answer to Mickey Mouse . After he placed Rat Fink on an airbrushed monster shirt, the character soon came to symbolize the entire Hot Rod Kustom Kulture scene of the 1950s and 1960s. Roth began airbrushing and selling Weirdo t shirts at Car Shows and in the pages of Hot Rod publications such as Car Craft in the late 1950s. By the August 1959 issue of Car Craft Weirdo shirts had become a full blown craze with Ed Roth at the forefront of the movement. Rat Fink was advertised for the first time in the July 1963 issue of Car Craft . The ad called it The rage in California . Also in 1963 the Revell Model Company issued a plastic model kit of the character. The initial run of the kit was from 1963 to 1965, but the Rat Fink kit along with Roth s other creations have been re issued by Revell over the years. Rat Fink continues to be a popular item to this day in Hot Rod and Kustom Culture circles in the form of t shirts, key chains, wallets, toys, decals, etc. Rat Fink is green, depraved looking with bulging, bloodshot eyes, an oversize mouth with yellowed, narrow teeth, and a red T shirt with yellow R.F. on it. Other artists associated with Roth also drew the character, including Rat Fink Comix artist R.K. Sloane and Steve Fiorilla , who illustrated Roth s catalogs. Rat Fink and Roth are featured in Ron Mann s documentary film Tales of the Rat Fink 2006 . ref http www.sphinxproductions.com ... monsters including the Rat Fink of the title on children s T shirts, a sartorial trend that, in the 1960s .... Image Ratfink.jpg right thumb 300px Rat Fink s dad, Rat Funk, by Steve Fiorilla A Rat Fink ... Official Ed Big Daddy Roth Website http www.ratfink.org Rat Fink Museum Kustom kulture Category Fictional ... more details
Infobox Film name The Return of the Rat image image size caption director Graham Cutts producer Michael Balcon writer Angus MacPhail br Edgar C. Middleton br A. Neil Lyons starring Ivor Novello br Isabel Jeans br Mabel Poulton music cinematography Roy F. Overbaugh editing studio Gainsborough Pictures released 1929 runtime 84 minutes country Film UK language The Return of the Rat 1929 in film 1929 is a British silent film drama, directed by Graham Cutts for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Ivor Novello , Isabel Jeans and Mabel Poulton . Background The Return of the Rat is the last of a trilogy of films starring Novello as Pierre Boucheron The Rat and Jeans as his sometime lover, sometime nemesis Z lie. Marie Ault also appears in all three films. Like its predecessor The Triumph of the Rat , The Return of the Rat does not take the story up from where the previous film had ended, instead opening with a scenario which does not seem to flow logically from the previous film s conclusion. The Triumph of the Rat closes with Pierre destitute and on the street, a situation brought about mainly by Z lie s spite and vindictiveness, yet by the start of The Return of the Rat the couple are married. Contemporary reviewers Who date April 2012 noted that it seemed implausible in the extreme that the character ... downfall, let alone married her. The Return of the Rat is generally considered the weakest of the trilogy ... to serve any particular dramatic purpose in the film. The film s technical values are well regarded however, with film historian Christine Gledhill citing it as Cutts at the height of his visual ... External links imdb title 0020325 The Return of the Rat http ftvdb.bfi.org.uk sift title 48219 The Return of the Rat at BFI Film & TV Database http www.britmovie.co.uk films The Return of the Rat 1929 listType alpha The Return of the Rat at BritMovie Gainsborough Pictures Graham Cutts DEFAULTSORT Return Of The Rat, The Category British films Category 1929 films Category 1920s drama films Category ... more details
Fate as a Rat lang bg is a 2001 in film 2001 Cinema of Bulgaria Bulgarian filmFilm director directed by Ivan Pavlov . It was Bulgaria s submission to the 74th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , but eventually was not nominated. ref name 51Submissions cite web url http www.oscars.org press pressreleases 2001 01.11.19.html title 51 Countries In Race For Oscar publisher Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences date 2001 11 19 accessdate 2008 08 12 Dead link date October 2010 bot H3llBot ref ref name 74thNomineesWinners cite web url http www.oscars.org 74academyawards nomswins.html title 74th Academy Awards Nominees and Winners publisher Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences accessdate 2008 08 07 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20080622045915 http www.oscars.org 74academyawards nomswins.html Bot retrieved archive archivedate 2008 06 22 ref See also Portal Film Cinema of Bulgaria List of submissions to the 74th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film References Reflist External links imdb title id 0300522 title Fate as a Rat CinemaofBulgaria DEFAULTSORT Fate As A Rat Category 2001 films Category Bulgarian films Category 2000s comedy films Category Macedonian films Category Bulgarian language films Category 2000s crime films Category Article Feedback 5 Bulgaria film stub crime film stub ... more details
. ISBN 0 586 20087 8 Dead Alive , a 1992 film by Peter Jackson , features a Sumatran Rat monkey, a hybrid ...The term giant rat has been applied to various species of large rodents. They tend to be native to tropical ... pouched rat , which have both become invasive species. Giant rats have also figured in popular ... of giant rats and or rodents. South America Coypu , or nutria Capybara Woolly Giant Rat Fossorial Giant Rat Africa Cricetomys gambianus Gambian Pouched Rat Giant pouched rat Asia and New Guinea Mountain Giant Sunda Rat Phloeomys Giant cloud rats White eared giant rat s Mallomys Woolly rats Extinct species East Timor giant rat Tenerife Giant Rat Giant rats in fiction primary source date April ... s, computer game s, and other venues of fantasy . Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra Perhaps the best known giant rat in fiction comes from the pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , who in The Adventure ... was not the name of a young woman, Watson, ... It was a ship which is associated with the giant rat ... rats on Sumatra, with one, Sundamys infraluteus , actually being referred to as the giant rat of Sumatra ... Detective , although he identifies the rat as the Large Bamboo Rat . ref http www.btinternet.com ... of Sherlockiana have endeavoured to supply the missing adventure of the giant rat of Sumatra. These tales include In The Spider Woman 1944 , Nigel Bruce s Watson briefly reflects on the Giant Rat of Sumatra when looking through a scrapbook of old cases. In Pursuit to Algiers 1945 , a Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce , Watson tells the story of the Giant Rat of Sumatra to an audience on board a ship. The giant Sumatran rat is mentioned in the 1972 novel Watership Down in one of the rabbits allegorical tales. The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra , a 1974 comedy album by the Firesign ... Challenger helped solve the case of the giant rat, although the actual name of the case is not stated ... known as Mrs. Hudson confronts a giant rat in the sewers of London. The Holmes Dracula File ... more details
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Desert Rat or desert rat or its plural may refer to The Desert Rats, nickname for the British 7th Armoured Division The Desert Rats film The Desert Rats , 1953 war film starring Richard Burton A common name for various groups of rodents Gerbil s Gerbillinae of the deserts of Africa and Asia Kangaroo rat s Dipodomys from North America Natal Multimammate Mouse Mastomys natalensis from Africa Desert rat, colloquial name for a resident of a desert area, esp. in Southwestern United States deserts Desert Research and Technology Studies , or Desert RATS, a set of field trials conducted by NASA Desert Rat Scrap Book , a quarterly humor publication 1945 1967 based in California focusing on the American Southwest region, especially prospectors and other desert rats Desert Rats , a book by cite book last Camp first Charles L. authorlink Charles Lewis Camp title year 1966 publisher Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California location Berkeley, CA pages 55 lccn 67001184 oclc 1091273 LCC CT9990 .C3 See also Desert Rats vs Afrika Korps , a real time strategy game based on the North Africa Campaign of World War II http www.mobygames.com game desert rats vs afrika korps see website Desert Woodrat , a small species of pack rat native to desert regions of western North America. The Rat Patrol , an American TV program 1966 1968 loosely based on the North Africa Campaign of World War II The Rats of Tobruk , nickname for Allied soldiers holding the Libyan port of Tobruk while under siege in World War II. disambig fr Les Rats du d sert ... more details
Infobox Film name The Triumph of the Rat image Triumphofrat.png image size caption Ivor Novello screenshot director Graham Cutts producer Michael Balcon writer Graham Cutts br Reginald Fogwell starring Ivor Novello br Isabel Jeans br Nina Vanna music cinematography Hal Young editing studio Gainsborough Pictures released September 1926 runtime 74 minutes country UK language The Triumph of the Rat is a 1926 in film 1926 British silent film drama, directed by Graham Cutts for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Ivor Novello , Isabel Jeans and Nina Vanna . Background The film is the second in a trilogy featuring Novello as Pierre Boucheron The Rat , following the popular success of the previous year s The Rat 1925 film The Rat . Jeans also returned to reprise her role from the first film, as did Marie Ault and Julie Suedo. A notable absence is the character of Odile, a central figure in The Rat as played by Mae Marsh . At the end of the previous film Pierre had seemingly rejected the lure of life in high society as represented by the Jeans character of Z lie, and he and Odile had finally realised the depth of their love for each other. However The Triumph of the Rat finds him back with Z lie, and not only does Odile not appear in the film, but not even a passing mention is made as to what might have happened in the interim to cause her to disappear so completely from Pierre s life. This reportedly puzzled contemporary audiences, and while some later observers have theorised that The Triumph of the Rat is meant to present an alternative reality in which Pierre chose Z lie over Odile at the end of the original film, there is no evidence that anything so sophisticated was ever the intention. Plot The film opens with Pierre comfortably ensconced as the kept man of his old sparring ... of the Rat http ftvdb.bfi.org.uk sift title 55320 The Triumph of the Rat at BFI Film & TV Database Gainsborough Pictures Graham Cutts DEFAULTSORT Triumph Of The Rat, The Category British films Category ... more details
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