Sentences with phrase «mysterious benefactor»
A "mysterious benefactor" is someone who helps or gives things to others, but their identity or motives are unknown or unclear. Full definition
This third talking - picture version of Charles Dickens» novel Great Expectations stars Michael York as Pip, the humble British lad whose aspirations to become a gentleman are financed by a mysterious benefactor.
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The story is the familiar one of young Pip (George Breakstone as a boy, Phillips Holmes as an adult) whose future wealth is assured through the auspices of a mysterious benefactor.
Hired by a mysterious benefactor named Catherine Langford, Dr. Daniel Jackson (an «aliens totally built the pyramids!»
Pip's humble upbringing is altered irrevocably when a mysterious benefactor wants to make him a gentlemen... Mike Newall's version of Great Expectations is a traditional period drama.
Dr Grant reluctantly agrees, thinking that an aerial tour would be safe, and he really needs the money, but things don't turn out as expected, when Dr Grant, the mysterious benefactor, his wife, and an airplane crew of dubious reputation, end up stranded on the island fighting for survival...
11:45 am — TCM — Great Expectations (1946) David Lean's definitive version of one of Charles Dickens» most well - known books, about the boy Pip and his rise to fortune through the aid of a mysterious benefactor.
The promising premise is that four magicians of varying styles and abilities are assembled by a mysterious benefactor.
He then gets to the meat of the film: a terse, tense three - hander structured around Caleb and Ava's seven «sessions» and the programmer's nighttime hangouts with his mysterious benefactor.
A motley band of four loosely - connected magicians are assembled by a mysterious benefactor in order to pull off the greatest trick the world has ever seen.
While rummaging through the attic, the two unearth an old letter from the city's mysterious benefactor that contains clues to a treasure hunt.
Addison ventures into the Spill Zone, a toxic wasteland filled with frightening creatures, to obtain an item for a mysterious benefactor.
SILENT ECHO, set in the Scottish Highlands, is about single mother Rachel Erskine's journey when she inherits a house from a mysterious benefactor.
Mixing up mythical elements with a tale of espionage, Fear Effect Sedna sees veteran mercenaries Hana and Rain working for a mysterious benefactor as they look into an art heist.
After Yaiba is comically sliced apart after a fateful encounter with our favorite dragon ninja, a mysterious benefactor resurrects him, tasking him with finding the source of a zombie outbreak that is destroying the city.
Maybe this mysterious benefactor happens to have been Harebrained Schemes, who are now reviving the concept.
The scientists» mysterious benefactors must be extremely powerful, however, as they engineered the Paris attacks («another false flag event»), in order to leave nothing to chance during the climate talks.