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Once a Thief (TV series)

Index Once a Thief (TV series)

Once a Thief (also billed as John Woo's Once a Thief) is a Canadian Action/Comedy television series inspired by the Hong Kong 1991 film of the same name. [1]

44 relations: A Clockwork Orange (film), Action fiction, Alliance Films, Canada, Casablanca (film), China, Comedy film, CTV Television Network, Dana Scully, English language, Extraterrestrial life, Fox Mulder, Graham Abbey, Greg Kramer, Humphrey Bogart, Ivan Sergei, James Allodi, James Bond, Jennifer Dale, John Woo, Julian Richings, MacGuffin, Men in Black (1997 film), Michael Wong (actor), Nicholas Lea, Nielsen ratings, Once a Thief (1991 film), Once a Thief (1996 film), Ontario, Orphan, Parody, Peter Marshall (footballer, born 1954), Prince (musician), Robert Ito, Samuel Beckett, Sandrine Holt, Stereophonic sound, The Lone Gunmen, The Maltese Falcon (1941 film), The X-Files, Toronto, Victoria Pratt, Waiting for Godot, 1999 (song).

A Clockwork Orange (film)

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name.

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Action fiction

Action fiction is the literary genre that includes spy novels, adventure stories, tales of terror and intrigue ("cloak and dagger"), and mysteries.

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Alliance Films

Alliance Films (formerly Alliance Entertainment, Alliance Communications, Alliance Atlantis Releasing Ltd. and also known as Alliance Vivafilm in Quebec) was a Canadian motion picture distribution and production company, which had served Canada, the United Kingdom, and Spain.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Casablanca (film)

Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz based on Murray Burnett and Joan Alison's unproduced stage play Everybody Comes to Rick's.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Comedy film

Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor.

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CTV Television Network

The CTV Television Network (commonly referred to as CTV) is an English-language broadcast television network in Canada launched in 1961.

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Dana Scully

Dana Katherine Scully is a fictional character in the Fox science fiction-supernatural television series The X-Files, played by Gillian Anderson.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life,Where "extraterrestrial" is derived from the Latin extra ("beyond", "not of") and terrestris ("of Earth", "belonging to Earth").

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Fox Mulder

FBI Special Agent Fox William Mulder is a fictional character in the Fox science fiction-supernatural television series The X-Files, played by David Duchovny.

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Graham Abbey

Graham Abbey (born Graham Robert Thomson Abbey, March 24, 1971) is a Canadian film, television and stage actor, who is best known for his role as Gray Jackson in TV drama The Border.

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Greg Kramer

Greg Kramer (5 November 1961 – 8 April 2013)Richard Burnett.

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Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899January 14, 1957) was an American screen and stage actor.

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Ivan Sergei

Ivan Sergei (born May 7, 1971) is an American actor known for his work in television.

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James Allodi

James Allodi (born February 26, 1967) is a Canadian actor, writer and director.

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James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.

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Jennifer Dale

Jennifer Dale (née Ciurluini, born January 16, 1956 in Toronto) is a Canadian television actress and former dancer.

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John Woo

John Woo SBS (Wu Yu-seng; Ng Yu-sum (Cantonese); born May 1, 1946) is a Chinese-born Hong Kong film director, writer, and producer.

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Julian Richings

Julian M. Richings (born 8 September 1955)Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.; at Ancestry.com is an English-born Canadian actor.

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MacGuffin

In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or maguffin) is a plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or another motivator that the protagonist pursues, often with little or no narrative explanation.

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Men in Black (1997 film)

Men in Black is a 1997 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and produced by Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald.

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Michael Wong (actor)

Michael Fitzgerald Wong (a.k.a. Wong Man-tak) (born 16 April 1965) is a Chinese-American actor based in Hong Kong.

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Nicholas Lea

Nicholas Lea (born Nicholas Christopher Herbert; June 22, 1962) is a Canadian actor known for his portrayal of Alex Krycek on The X-Files and of Tom Foss on Kyle XY.

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Nielsen ratings

Nielsen ratings are the audience measurement systems operated by Nielsen Media Research that seek to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States.

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Once a Thief (1991 film)

Once a Thief is a 1991 Hong Kong caper film written and directed by John Woo, starring Chow Yun-fat, Leslie Cheung, Cherie Chung, Kenneth Tsang and Paul Chu.

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Once a Thief (1996 film)

Once a Thief is a remake of a 1991 film of the same name.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Orphan

An orphan (from the ορφανός orphanós) is someone whose parents have died, unknown, or have permanently abandoned them.

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Parody

A parody (also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, lampoon, play on something, caricature, or joke) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation.

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Peter Marshall (footballer, born 1954)

Peter Marshall (born 9 December 1954) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Prince (musician)

Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and filmmaker.

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Robert Ito

Robert Ito (born July 2, 1931) is a Canadian-born voice, television, and movie actor of Japanese descent who is perhaps best known to television viewers for his roles as Sam Fujiyama on the NBC-TV series Quincy, M.E. and Lawrence 'Larry' Mishima on the CBS-TV night time soap opera series Falcon Crest.

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet, and literary translator who lived in Paris for most of his adult life.

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Sandrine Holt

Sandrine Claire Holt (born 19 November 1972) is a British-Canadian model and actress.

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Stereophonic sound

Stereophonic sound or, more commonly, stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that creates an illusion of multi-directional audible perspective.

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The Lone Gunmen

The Lone Gunmen are a trio of fictional characters, Richard "Ringo" Langly, Melvin Frohike and John Fitzgerald Byers, who appeared in recurring roles on the American television series The X-Files, and who starred in the short-lived spin-off, The Lone Gunmen.

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The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)

The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 film noir written and directed by John Huston in his directorial debut, and based on Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel of the same name.

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The X-Files

The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Victoria Pratt

Victoria Ainslie Pratt (born December 18, 1970) is a Canadian actress, author, and fitness model.

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Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), wait for the arrival of someone named Godot who never arrives, and while waiting they engage in a variety of discussions and encounter three other characters.

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1999 (song)

"1999" is a song by American musician Prince, the title track from his 1982 album of the same name.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_a_Thief_(TV_series)

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