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  • Once known as Pinchgut, it was synonymous with abject hunger to the convicts because those who committed minor offenses could be deposited there in chains and on pitiful rations.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Okay, for this one, we're looking at Dennis Hopper's first starring role as a sailor who falls in love with a girl who may or may not be a mermaid in the 1961 Curtis Harrington movie Night Tide, move on to more Eurospy silliness in the 1967 film Kiss The Girls And Make Them Die and move on to the last film made by Ealing Studios, 1959's The Siege of Pinchgut, starring Aldo Ray.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Terry Frost 2010

  • Okay, for this one, we're looking at Dennis Hopper's first starring role as a sailor who falls in love with a girl who may or may not be a mermaid in the 1961 Curtis Harrington movie Night Tide, move on to more Eurospy silliness in the 1967 film Kiss The Girls And Make Them Die and move on to the last film made by Ealing Studios, 1959's The Siege of Pinchgut, starring Aldo Ray.

    206-666-4886.: Paleo-Cinema Podcast 53 - Kiss The Night Tide Off Pinchgut Terry Frost 2010

  • Yet Pinchgut, the noose and the threat of cannibal feasts did not stop the desperate from stealing food.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • In the meantime, exiles were to go in irons to a barren rock near the cove which had already earned the name “Pinchgut” and subsist there on quarter-rations of bread plus a little water.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • In the meantime, exiles were to go in irons to a barren rock near the cove which had already earned the name “Pinchgut” and subsist there on quarter-rations of bread plus a little water.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • No matter how many were banished in irons to Pinchgut, flogged, or even hanged, thefts of food continued.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Yet Pinchgut, the noose and the threat of cannibal feasts did not stop the desperate from stealing food.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • No matter how many were banished in irons to Pinchgut, flogged, or even hanged, thefts of food continued.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Paleo-Cinema Podcast 53 - Kiss The Night Tide Off Pinchgut

    Archive 2010-06-01 Terry Frost 2010

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