Sentences with phrase «land baron»

Though he appears in just three scenes in Roman Polanski's 1974 masterpiece Chinatown, John Huston creates one of movie history's most formidable villains: Noah Cross, the wealthy and ruthless land baron who masterminds an elaborate plot to buy up cheap desert property in the San Fernando Valley, irrigate it after bribing the water department, and sell the land for millions.

He finally comes to his senses after being shot protecting his former girlfriend from an evil land baron.

Enter real estate crowdfunding — offering the promise of exciting new ways for Canadians to become mini land barons.

It reminds of me of the English land barons.

The film - about a Chi - town man (Gere), his sister (Linda Manz) and his girl (Brooke Adams), who hoodwink a wealthy, dying and lonely land baron (Sam Shepard) into loving them - is virtually flawless.

These absentee land barons dispatched emissaries to govern on their behalf, implanting a system of taxation and rents designed to keep the Irish forever indebted.

Uncovering a plot by greedy land baron Mr. Greene (Ken Jeong) to build condos in the arctic, naturally he trundles off to the big city with his lemming pals to make things right.

This dark Western has the feel of a Gothic horror movie, featuring Charles Middleton (best known as Ming the Merciless in the Flash Gordon films of the»30s) as a sadistic land baron who holds a young woman prisoner in order to force her to marry him.

Western Outlaw: Wanted Dead or Alive 2003 In this first - person shooter inspired by the old Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns, players take on the role of the Stranger — a gunslinger who must rescue a kidnapped girl from an evil land baron.

Natalya Petrovna Islaeva is feeling disillusioned in her marriage to her land baron husband Mikhail...

The party continues the next night with Alexander Payne's The Descendants, a bittersweet comedy, based on Kaui Hart Hemmings» 2007 novel, about a land baron (George Clooney) trying to reconnect with his estranged daughters after his wife slips into a coma.

A land baron (George Clooney) tries to re-connect with his two daughters after his wife suffers a boating accident.

At one point, I must have been a land baron, with holdings of perhaps seven or eight of these plots — all, alas, now decomposing in some landfill.