Stingray - Vol. 5 - Tune Of Danger / Rescue From Skies / Cool Caveman / Marineville / Trapped

Starring: Don Mason, Ray Barrett Director: Alan Fennell, Alan Pattillo, David Elliott, Desmond Saunders, John Kelly Original UK Premiere: 1964 Dvd Release: 2nd April, 2001 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Stingray is a childrens marionette television show, made by Sylvia & Gerry Anderson. An AP Films production for ATV & ITC Entertainment. 39 half-hour episodes, 1964 - 1965. Originally screened on ITV in the UK & syndication in the US. Scripts by Gerry & Sylvia Anderson, Alan Fennell & Dennis Spooner. Music composed & conducted by Barry Gray. Special Effects Director Derek Meddings. Stingray was the first Supermarionation show to be filmed in colour & also the first in which marionettes had interchangeable heads with different facial expressions. It was also the first UK TV show to be filmed entirely in colour. At the time the US networks were gearing up for full-time colour broadcasting, although ITV in Britain did not begin colour transmission until late 1969. Supercar had featured a vehicle that could travel on land, sea & air & Fireball XL5 featured a spaceship. The next logical step was a series about a submarine, although this presented a number of technical challenges.

Trapped is a 2002 suspense/action film starring Kevin Bacon, Charlize Theron, Dakota Fanning, Stuart Townsend & Courtney Love. The movie starts by introducing Bacons character, a man who is apparently in the business of kidnapping rich peoples children for ransom. The viewer is then introduced to a typically happy family whose father/husband is a research physician who has just had his big career break by patenting a new drug. Previsibly, the couples daughter is kidnapped by Bacons character & his associates. The movie then follows the tense situation lived by the couple, separated by the bandits & kept in the dark as to what the outcome to their predicament is to be. The situation is worsened by a health problem of the childs about which the kidnappers were uninformed. A final plot twist involves a revelation as to the real reasons that led Bacons character to select that family for what is revealed to be the fifth & final strike of the group & his real plans for the outcome of the situation.

Ray Barrett is an Australian actor. Ray Barrett was one of the more popular leading men on British television in the 1960s, including an appearance in the Doctor Who serial The Rescue in 1965. He was on the series The Troubleshooters from 1965 to 1971 & did the voice of John Tracy on the Gerry Anderson marionette series Thunderbirds. It was only in the decades that followed that he emerged to big-screen stardom in his native country. He won the 2005 Australian Film Institute Awards Longford Life Achievement Award. In his youth he was fascinated by radio, then a marvellous new entertainment medium & won an on-air talent competition in 1939. Ray Barrett at the Internet Movie Database.

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David Elliott is a British born curator & Gallery Director. After studying History at the University of Durham Elliott worked as an Exhibitions Officer at the Arts Council of Great Britain after which he was Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford from 1976 to 1996 & the Moderna Museet in Stockholm from 1996 to 2001. Elliott is currently director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo - the largest privately endowed Modern Art Museum in the World.

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John Kelly was a senior Irish politician. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann on his second attempt in 1973 as a Fine Gael TD. He retained his seat until his retirement from politics at the 1989 General Election. He served in the Government of Liam Cosgrave as Parliamentary Secretary to the Taoiseach & subsequently as Attorney General. He served in the first Cabinet under Garret FitzGerald from 1981 until 1982. He was a distinguished academic lawyer & author of the standard work on the Irish Constitution. He died on January 24, 1991.

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