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Main Entry: action
Part of Speech: noun 1
Definition: activity
Synonyms: activity, agility, alacrity, alertness, animation, bag*, ball game,
big idea*, bit*, business, bustle, commotion, dash, deal, energy, enterprise,
flurry, force, functioning, game, going, happening, haste, hoopla*, life,
liveliness, motion, movement, occupation, operation, pipeline, plan, power,
process, proposition, racket*, reaction, response, rush, scene, spirit, stir,
stunt, trip, turmoil, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity, work, working, works
Antonyms: inaction, inactiveness, inactivity
The Movies in The Carlsbad Channel's Action Theatre are all of the above.
Black Dragons (1942)
Just
prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon
Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant
scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he
operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six
American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their
likeness and Dr. Melcher is condemned to a lifetime of imprisonment so the
secret may die with him.
Captain Kidd (1945)
In
this unhistorical account, Capt. William Kidd is already a clever, ruthless
pirate when, in 1699, he tricks the king into commissioning him as escort for a
treasure ship from India. He enlists a crew of pardoned cutthroats...and Orange
Povey, whom Kidd once abandoned on a reef and hoped never to see again. Of
course, Kidd's intentions are treacherous. But there's more to gunner Adam Mercy
than meets the eye. Adventure on the high seas! Roaring Seas ! Flaming Hearts ! Riotous Adventure !
Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939)
A
Japanese man claiming to be Mr Moto, of the International Police, is abducted
and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real
Mr Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British
and French governments. The dead man was his colleague, impersonating him to
throw the conspirators off his scent. Mr Moto recognises one of the conspirators
as a British Secret Service agent, and together they discover that the gang have
mined the harbour in preparation for the arrival of the French fleet. Their aim
is to throw the blame onto the British, which may start a second World War.
Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy is a comic strip detective and a popular character in American pop culture. The character of Dick Tracy is a hard hitting, fast shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched wits with a variety of often grotesquely ugly villains. Dick Tracy was created by cartoonist Chester Gould in 1931 for a newspaper comic strip also entitled Dick Tracy. The strip, which made its debut appearance on October 4, 1931, was distributed by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. Gould wrote and drew the strip until 1977.
Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947)
Dick Tracy battles the fiendish "Claw" in one of his most difficult cases.
Chester
Gould introduced a raw violence to comic strips, reflecting the violence of
1930s Chicago. Gould also did his best to keep up with the latest in crime
fighting techniques and, while Tracy often ends a case in a shootout, he uses
forensic science, advanced gadgetry, and plain hard thinking to track the bad
guy down. It has been suggested that this comic strip was the first example of
the police procedural mystery story. Others have noted that actual mystery plots
were relatively rare in the stories since the comic strip format is a difficult
one for that kind of plot. This film is one of the best in the series.
Dick Tracy VS Cueball (1946)
Tracy
hunts down the infamous Cueball when get wind of a vicious murder and a robbery
of precious diamonds.
As with all Dick Tracy stories, the character names are puns,
e.g., Vitamin Flintheart (who constantly tosses pills into his mouth), Cueball
(who is bald), Jules Sparkle (a Jeweler), Percival Priceless (owner of an
antique store), and Filthy Flora (owner and operator of a bar called the
Dripping Dagger). The characters all have strange names as in the comics.
The bad guys and many of the good guys have serious personality disorders. The
actors don't attempt to portray their characters as real people. We found it to
be weird and entertaining at the same time.
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