#duncan maclain

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Back in January I was exclusively reading 1940s detective novels

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The final chapter has been posted, and the story is now complete. Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to read it.

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Happy Birthday, Brian Donlevy (February 9, 1901 – April 6, 1972)

On the big screen, he was known for playing tough guys and dangerous characters in noir dramas (The Glass Key), though he could work just as effectively outside of this realm. One of his most famous roles came in Preston Sturges’ The Great McGinty, a comedic political satire where he played a bum enlisted into a run for office. He also starred in two British films as scientist Bernard Quatermass, battling aliens bent on world domination.

On radio, Donlevy starred as Steve Mitchell, a two-fisted American secret agent, on Dangerous Assignment. Mitchell was a globetrotting troubleshooter who protected Americans and American interests all around the world. Donlevy reprised the role in a successful television series. He also made three appearances on Suspense, including “Out of Control” (originally aired on CBS on March 28, 1946). In this memorable episode, Donlevy starred as Captain Duncan Maclain, a blind private investigator.

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For just $3.99 Released October 16, 1942: Edward Arnold plays Mac Maclain, a blind detective who investigates a murder and discovers espionage against the WWII war effort. Genre: Crime Duration: 1h 20min Director: Fred Zinnemann Actors: Edward Arnold (Duncan 'Mac' Maclain), Ann Harding (Norma Lawry), Donna Reed (Barbara Lawry), Stephen McNally (Gabriel Hoffman), Katherine Emery (Cheli Scott), Allen Jenkins (Marty), Stanley Ridges (Hansen), Reginald Denny (Stephen Lawry), John Emery (Paul Gerente), Rosemary DeCamp (Vera Hoffman), Erik Rolf (Boyd), Barry Nelson (Mr. Busch), Reginald Sheffield (Victor), Steven Geray (Mr. Anderson), Mantan Moreland (Alistair), John Butler (taxi driver), Edward Kilroy (pilot), Ivan Miller (detectife Herman), Thomas Murray (man), G. Raymond Nye (Hugo), Milburn Stone (detective Pete), Franklin M. Thomas (Police Lieutenant), Marie Windsor (actress at rehearsal). *** This item will be supplied on a quality disc and will be sent in a sleeve that is designed for posting CD's DVDs *** This item will be sent by 1st class post for quick delivery. Should you not receive your item within 12 working days of making payment, please contact me so we can solve this or any other questions. Note: All my products are either my own work, licensed to me directly or supplied to me under a GPL/GNU License. No Trademarks, copyrights or rules have been violated by this item. This product complies with rules on compilations, international media, and downloadable media. All items are supplied on CD or DVD.

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Clans with chiefs: List of tartans

Clans with chiefs

Agnew Anstruther Arbuthnott Arthur Bannerman Barclay Borthwick Boyd Boyle Brodie Broun Bruce Buchan Burnett Cameron Campbell Carmichael Carnegie Cathcart Charteris Chattan Chisholm Cochrane Colquhoun Colville Cranstoun Crichton Cumming (Comyn) Cunningham Darroch Davidson Dewar Drummond Dunbar Dundas Durie Elliot Elphinstone Erskine Farquharson Fergusson Forbes Forsyth Fraser Fraser of Lovat Gordon Graham Grant Gregor Grierson Gunn Guthrie Haig Haldane Hamilton Hannay Hay Henderson Home Hope Hunter Irvine Jardine Johnstone Keith Kennedy Kerr Kincaid Lamont Leask Lennox Leslie Lindsay Lockhart Lumsden Lyon MacAlister MacBean MacDonald Macdonald of Clanranald MacDonald of Keppoch Macdonald of Sleat MacDonell of Glengarry MacDougall Macdowall MacIntyre Mackay Mackenzie Mackinnon Mackintosh Maclachlan Maclaine of Lochbuie MacLaren MacLea (Livingstone) Maclean MacLennan MacLeod MacLeod of Lewis MacMillan Macnab Macnaghten MacNeacail MacNeil Macpherson MacTavish MacThomas Maitland Makgill Malcolm (MacCallum) Mar Marjoribanks Matheson Menzies Moffat Moncreiffe Montgomery Morrison Munro Murray Napier Nesbitt Nicolson Ogilvy Oliphant Primrose Ramsay Rattray Riddell Robertson Rollo Rose Ross Ruthven Sandilands Scott Scrymgeour Sempill Shaw Sinclair Skene Stirling Strange Stuart of Bute Sutherland Swinton Trotter Urquhart Wallace Wedderburn Wemyss Wood

Armigerous clans

Abercromby Abernethy Adair Adam Aikenhead Ainslie Aiton Allardice Anderson Armstrong Arnott Auchinleck Baillie Baird Balfour Bannatyne Baxter Bell Belshes Bethune Beveridge Binning Bissett Blackadder Blackstock Blair Blane Blyth Boswell Brisbane Buchanan Butter Byres Cairns Calder Caldwell Callender Campbell of Breadalbane Campbell of Cawdor Carruthers Cheyne Chalmers Clelland Clephane Cockburn Congilton Craig Crawford Crosbie Dalmahoy Dalrymple Dalzell Dennistoun Don Douglas Duncan Dunlop Edmonstone Fairlie Falconer Fenton Fleming Fletcher Forrester Fotheringham Fullarton Galbraith Galloway Gardyne Gartshore Gayre Ged Gibsone Gladstains Glas Glen Glendinning Gray Haliburton Halkerston Halket Hepburn Heron Herries Hogg Hopkirk Horsburgh Houston Hutton Inglis Innes Kelly Kinloch Kinnaird Kinnear Kinninmont Kirkcaldy Kirkpatrick Laing Lammie Langlands Learmonth Little Logan Logie Lundin Lyle MacAlpin(e) MacAulay Macbrayne MacDuff MacEwen MacFarlane Macfie MacGillivray MacInnes MacIver Mackie MacLellan Macquarrie Macqueen Macrae Masterton Maule Maxton Maxwell McCorquodale McCulloch McKerrell Meldrum Melville Mercer Middleton Moncur Monteith Monypenny Mouat Moubray Mow Muir Nairn Nevoy Newlands Newton Norvel Ochterlony Orrock Paisley Paterson Pennycook Pentland Peter Pitblado Pitcairn Pollock Polwarth Porterfield Preston Pringle Purves Rait Ralston Renton Roberton Rossie Russell Rutherford Schaw Seton Skirving Somerville Spalding Spens Spottiswood Stewart Stewart of Appin Stirling Strachan Straiton Sydserf Symmers Tailyour Tait Tennant Troup Turnbull Tweedie Udny Vans Walkinshaw Wardlaw Watson Wauchope Weir Whitefoord Whitelaw Wishart Young

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Second Sight: EYES IN THE NIGHT (‘42) by R. Emmet Sweeney

EYES IN THE NIGHT (‘42) is a percolating potboiler that pits a blind detective against a cabal of stateside Nazis. What could have been a routine programmer is enlivened by a garrulous Edward Arnold performance as the sightless investigator, whose seeing-eye dog Friday performs some remarkably agile stunts. Though the cast is crowded, including a dewy-eyed Donna Reed, it’s the man and his dog that steal the show. It is an early effort by Fred Zinnemann, the “Director of the Week” on FilmStruck, and one he did not remember fondly, having a miserable time dealing with the dog and with Arnold. But directors are rarely astute critics of their own work, and EYES IN THE NIGHT is an eccentrically entertaining thriller, regardless of how difficult it was to film.

The idea to make the movie originated with Edward Arnold, whose father had been blind the last 25 years of his life. Arnold became interested in a series of books by Baynard Kendrick about Duncan Maclain, a detective who had been blinded in WWI. Kendrick served in that conflict with the First Canadian Battalion, and based Maclain on some of the blinded veterans he met during the war. According to Martin F. Norden’s essay in The Films of Fred Zinnemann, Arnold “approached MGM about making several films on the novelist’s works with him in the lead. He found a receptive audience in the form of Dore Schary, the studio’s newly appointed B-film executive producer.” Zinnemann had just directed his first feature, the crime procedural KID GLOVE KILLER (‘42), after five years in MGM’s shorts department. He was assigned to direct EYES IN THE NIGHT, and was in no position to turn it down despite disliking the script.

They chose Kendrick’s 1941 novel THE ODOR OF VIOLETS as the first Maclain book to adapt. Changing the title to EYES IN THE NIGHT, the script was written by Guy Trosper and Howard Emmett Rogers. The convoluted plot springs to life when Norma Lawry (Ann Harding) goes to consult her old friend Duncan Maclain (Arnold) about her stepdaughter Barbara (Donna Reed). Barbara is dating a much older man, Paul Gerente (John Emery), a love ‘em and leave ‘em type who left Norma in the past. But when Paul winds up dead, this domestic squabble turns into an international conspiracy. For Norma’s husband Stephen Lawry (Reginald Denny) has perfected a secret formula that the Nazis are trying to steal. They have infiltrated the Lawry household inside and out and are waiting for the final signal to blast the safe, steal the secrets and shift the direction of the war. But unlucky for them Maclain is on the case, using all of his guile to delay the Nazi scheme.

Maclain is introduced during martial arts training, giving vicious judo throws to his unlucky sparring partners. Maclain is not a grand deductive intellect, but a blustery bulldozer of a man who thrives on improvisation and the art of the stall. While the Nazis are still protecting their cover in the Lawry home, Maclain pretends to be Norma’s uncle, and pretends to go full drunk, playing the organ at all hours of the night and sucker punching a goon while pretending to show him a braille card trick. He is a faultlessly optimistic man of action, at even keel and having a lark even when the bodies start to pile up. Arnold gives a performance of enormous charm, using every crevice of his booming voice to distract the criminals.

The cheap production takes advantage of the possibilities of having a blind detective, boldly staging a critical shootout in pitch black, Maclain smashing out the lights and declaring that the thug was now in his domain. Maclain is always playing the angles, looking for the move that can shift the power dynamics back in his direction, for with even the slightest hesitation he can use his martial art technique to take down an opponent. And that advantage often comes through his dog Friday, a genius specimen who obeys all his commands except the one about smelling roses (it makes Friday sneeze). But there are some remarkable leaps down from roofs, up through windows and perhaps most remarkably, his ability to open doors with his mouth. Friday is the ultimate distraction and partner, and Maclain wouldn’t get anywhere without him.

Zinnemann had only negative things to say about the shoot: “EYES IN THE NIGHT was something of a nightmare. The problem was very simple. Man and dog had to be together in most scenes, but I had an actor who couldn’t remember his lines and was only good on the eighth or ninth take, and a dog who was only good for one and who would then wander off and hide” (quoted in Fred Zinnemann, by Neal Sinyard). But Arnold gives a thoroughly charming performance, whether feigning drunk or throttling guys unconscious. If it took nine takes, it was worth it, for Arnold and the dog both. It wasn’t all bad though: “The only pleasures were working with the marvelous Ann Harding and with Donna Reed, who was delicate and charming."

Harding had been out of movies since 1937, after a brief run as one of RKO’s top leading ladies. Returning in EYES IN THE NIGHT is an indication as to how much her stock had fallen. Donna Reed, however, was on the ascent, and she plays Barbara with a plucky brio, climaxing with a strong right hand to the jaw of the Nazi lady ringleader. It’s jarring to see the squeaky-clean Reed lay one in on another gal, but the war was on, and everyone had to do their part.

EYES IN THE NIGHT is nothing new, but it is an energetic and inventive spin on the anti-Nazi narrative, using Maclain’s blindness as a way out of budget shortfalls. And when the combo of Edward Arnold and Friday is on-screen, something impressive would occur, whether it’s Arnold’s drunken oratory or another remarkable Friday leap. EYES IN THE NIGHT was a modest financial success, leading to one more Duncan Maclain film to be shot with Edward Arnold (THE HIDDEN EYE, ’45), unsurprisingly made without Fred Zinnemann.

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EYES IN THE NIGHT | Ann Harding | Edward Arnold | Full Length Crime Movie | English | HD | 720p

A blind detective and his seeing-eye dog investigate a murder and discover a German plot. —————- Edward Arnold – Duncan ‘Mac’ Maclain Ann Harding – Norma Lawry Donna Reed – Barbara Lawry Stephen McNally – Gabriel Hoffman http://putocrespo.com/eyes-in-the-night-ann-harding-edward-arnold-full-length-crime-movie-english-hd-720p/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

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A woman finds herself unwillingly mixed up in a series of murders. At the behest of the district attorney, private detective Duncan MacLain (Kent Taylor) investigates the probability of corruption in high government circles.

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It’s complete! Chapter 7 has been posted.

Series: Part 3 of 1950s AU Summary: Finally, some answers.

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Episode 286 - Blind Man's Bluff (Murder Clinic & Suspense)

Crooks made the mistake of underestimating private detectives Max Carrados and Captain Duncan Maclain because both men were blind. After you hear their radio adventures, you'll know that a lack of sight doesn't stand in the way of these gentlemen as they solve seemingly impossible murders. Ernest Bramah's gentlemanly Carrados (voiced by Alfred Shirley) stars in "The Holloway Flat Tragedy" from Murder Clinic (originally aired on Mutual on August 18, 1942). Then, Baynard Kendrick's Maclain (played here by Brian Donlevy) is heard in "Out of Control" from Suspense (originally aired on CBS on August 23, 1946).

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Series: Part 3 of 1950s AU Summary: Chapter 6 has been posted. We’re getting closer to some answers. Matt finds out where Komarov is, but someone else gets there before him.

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Chapter 5 is now available!

Series: Part 3 of 1950s AU Summary: Maclain finds out who is opening the door. Komarov is still missing, but there may be a way to move the search forward. Later, Karen and Sybella have a woman-to-woman talk.

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Chapter 4 has been posted. Maclain is still missing. No one knows who took him or why, or how to find him.

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Chapter 3 has been posted!

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Summary: Things get complicated, and not only in the search for Komarov.

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Chapter 2 is up! Summary: Matt, Foggy, and Karen intervene when Cappo is pulled over for “Driving While Black.” They meet with Duncan Maclain and Spud Savage, and the search for Komarov begins. Maclain has a conversation with a G-man.

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Chapters: 1/7 Fandom: Daredevil (TV), Duncan Maclain Mystery Series - Baynard H. Kendrick Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Matt Murdock & Franklin "Foggy" Nelson & Karen Page, Matt Murdock/Karen Page, Duncan Maclain/Sybella Ford Maclain, Duncan Maclain & Samuel "Spud" Savage Characters: Matt Murdock, Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, Karen Page, Duncan Maclain, Samuel "Spud" Savage, Cappo Marsh, Sybella Ford Maclain, Rena Savage, Vladimir Ranskahov, Arnold Cameron, Original Characters, Schnucke (Seeing-Eye dog), Dreist (police dog) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - 1950s, Cold War, Soviet Union, KGB, russian spies, Spy Story, Space Race, rocket scientist, Blindness, Blind Characters, Canon disabled characters, Secret Identity, FBI, minor original character death, Smoking, Period-Typical Sexism, Period-Typical Racism, Period-Typical Ableism, Period Typical Attitudes

Series: Part 3 of 1950s AU

Summary: A return to the 1950s AU with Duncan Maclain. It’s 1958. The Cold War is in full swing. The Soviet Union launched Sputnik in October of 1957, and the U.S. is playing catch-up in the space race. A Russian rocket scientist has escaped from the Soviet Union and is hiding in Hell’s Kitchen. When he goes missing, Matt, Foggy, and Karen team up with Maclain and his partner in the detective business, Spud Savage, to find him before the KGB does.