Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mandeville, Jamaica...
Devil's Island was supposed to be one of the world's tightest prisons. And one of the world's tightest movie sets is the location in Jamaica where Papillon, Henri Charrière's bestselling account of his escape, is being filmed...
...Arboretum, located in Jamaica Plain, has experienced increased public usage over the past three years and was the location of large beer-drinking parties over the warm, three-day Patriot's Day weekend...
JOHN J. HOGAN '73. Hogan lives in Jamaica Plain...
...Harder They Come (the title itself has a certain chiding irony) benefits immeasurably from having been made in Jamaica. Indeed, it is the first full-fledged Jamaican feature, and it gives a view of the island-shabby houses, tense little nightclubs and baked-out countryside-that is not part of the standard paradise tour. For all its naive charm, the movie is not consistently successful. Its crudities of characterization and carelessness about certain matters of plot give it a kind of jerry-built look. But The Harder They Come is always exuberant, and sometimes strong, as casually surprising and effortlessly...