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John Robbie, a former jewel thief, is suspected of being active again on the French Riviera. Chased by the police, he first visits Bertani, a former accomplice who now owns a restaurant and employs all of John's former gang. The gang is afraid John will have them arrested again, but Bertani helps John escape. John then meets the representative of the company that insures many jewels owned by people currently present in the area and enter with him into an agreement to catch the actual thief, in order to prove his innocence. Posing as a rich American, he befriends the Stevens, the mother Jessie and her daughter Frances. Frances is convinced that John is the actual thief and wants to participate in his next robbery. Based on the list of insured jewels, John stakes out the location of the most probable next robbery but is almost killed by an accomplice of the real thief. The accomplice dies accidentally and is presented by the press as the actual thief; he actually is one of John's former accomplices. John and the Stevens then prepare a trap for the thief during a masked ball. The thief is finally caught, she is the daughter of the former accomplice, working under orders from Bertani.

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In a remote Australian town, dentist Nathan decides to simulate the death of his wife Lucy to claim her life insurance and payback his gambling debts. They kidnap Alice, one on Nathan's patients, to provide a suitable dead body. While they prepare the fake, fatal car accident, they are unknowingly observed by Wolfe, a hired killer, who has been hired by Alice's husband Jack to kill his wife. Wolfe believes Nathan's murder is successful and claims his payment from Jack. But before leaving Jack, Alice had taken the money from the safe, and Lucy had found the money while preparing the accident. Jack gets an extra day from Wolfe to get money from his bank, but is killed in the meanwhile by Alice's lover Dylan, after revealing that Wolfe killed Alice. Wolfe then blackmails Nathan into giving him Alice's money and kills him when the payment is being made. Wolfe then goes to his mistress who happens to be Lucy, and tells her he's leaving with the money. Dylan suddenly appears, wanting to avenge Alice's death, and accidentally kills Lucy. He's saved in the nick of time by Alice, who had managed to escape from the car before it fell off the cliff, and Wolfe is left to die. Dylan and Alice then leave together.

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When the Civil War reaches Georgia, train engineer Johnnie Gray wants to enlist to impress his fiancee Annabelle, but he is rejected because he's more useful as an engineer. Mislead by her brother, Annabelle claims she won't talk to him until he's in uniform. A year later, Johnnie's train is stolen by a commando of Union soldiers. Annabelle, who was still aboard the train, is taken prisoner. Johnnie chases his train first on foot, then by handcar. He warns the army at the next station, then chases his train using another train, dodging the Union soldiers' attempt to stop him. He then finds himself in a territory occupied by Union soldiers, leaves the train and hides in the forest. By nightfall, he finds shelter in a house, which happens to be the Union's headquarters, where he learns of their plan and where Annabelle is kept prisoner. Disguised as a soldier, he rescues her and they hide in the forest. By morning, they steal the General back, knocking out an officer who was onboard the train, and flee to the south to warn the Confederate army of the planned attack, chased by confederate soldiers on two trains. Johnnie eventually gets rid of his pursuers by setting fire to a bridge and manages to reach the army. A battle ensues, where the Union soldiers are pushed back. Johnnie then delivers the knocked-out Union officer to the Confederates, and is enlisted as a lieutenant as a reward. Annabelle is finally proud of him.

‘coffee aromas and a light, sweet flavour’'

Roasted flavours not unlike coffee, and slightly flowery too. Contains malted barley, and wheat.

Swannay Brewery, Orkney, Scotland. 4.0% alcohol.

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Batman is a lonely, self-centered character who prefers to work alone. He also refuses to admit that he has any hate feeling for the Joker. During a party for the retirement of commissioner Gordon and the nomination of his daughter Barbara, Bruce Wayne inadvertently adopts Dick Grayson, an orphan who is a big Batman fan. Barbara also plans to restructure the Police so that it would not anymore rely entirely on Batman to fight super-villains. The Joker the crashes the party and all of his accomplices surrender. Batman, ever suspicious, decides to steal Superman's Phantom Zone projector, goes to Arkham asylum and sends the Joker to the Phantom Zone. Barbara, suspecting that Joker wanted to be sent there, locks up Batman and Robin. The projector is then stolen by Harley Quinn (who did not surrender), who uses it to get Joker and all the villains from various film franchises out of the Phantom Zone. Joker then announces that he has new accomplices. Realizing that she needs Batman's help, Barbara teams up with him, Robin and Alfred, but afraid of losing his new teammates, Batman sends them away and acts alone again. Joker then sends Batman to the Phantom Zone, but seeing how his actions have put his friends in harm's way, convinces the Zone's keeper to release him so that he can catch all the villains. At this point, Joker causes an explosion in Gotham city's power plant that fractures the ground and splits the city in two. With the help of the neglected, former accomplices of Joker, Batman's team (including Barbara as Batgirl) captures the villains and sends them back to the Phantom Zone. Batman then reluctantly admits that he exists as a hero because of Joker's existence. The city's inhabitants, heroes and villains then chain-link to bring the two halves of the city together again. Batman lets the villains escape, knowing they will be caught again. Batman then spends time with his new-found family.

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Lightning McQueen is a racing car with an overinflated ego. After its last race ended in a draw between three participants, a special race has been planned in California, and Lightning rushes there in its transport truck. An incident on the interstate causes it to get lost in a small town called Radiator Spring. After having accidentally destroyed the asphalt of the main street, Lightning is condemned by Doc, the local magistrate, to repair the road. At first the car is in a hurry to finish the job, but eventually gets to know the town's inhabitants and becomes fond of them. The town was flourishing on Road 66 until the interstate was built, at which point it became deserted. Lightning also discovers that Doc is a former racetrack legend who got forgotten after an accident. Eventually, Lightning's team catches up with the disappeared car and takes it to California for the race. The inhabitants of Radiator Springs join it there and become its pit crew. Lightning is about to win the race but decides to forfeit to come to the help of the oldest of the three contestants who has been thrown off the road by the other one. The latter car wins the race but the audience is more interested in Lightning's humane action.

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In a parallel universe where England and Russia still fight in the Crimean war, Thursday Next is a LiteraTec investigator whose job is to fight crimes against literary art. Soon after the original manuscript for Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit is stolen in London without the thieve having left any clue (not even on video-surveillance), Thursday is transferred to SpecOps 5 to advise an agent about Acheron Hades, a master criminal with the power to control minds and look like anyone. Having discovered that Hades has stolen the manuscript, she attempts to arrest Hades, but she is wounded and her colleagues are killed in the operation. After an investigation by SpecOps 1 who claims that Hades has died in a car accident, she sees her future self telling her to take the LiteraTec job in Swindon, her hometown. Upon her arrival she meets her family an especially her uncle Mycroft who shows her his new invention the Prose Portal, a device based on book worms that allow people to enter into literary works. Besides her new colleagues, she also meets Jack Schitt, a representative of the all-powerful Goliath corporation who recently promised a new plasma rifle that would end the Crimean war. Some time later, the manuscript for Jane Eyre is stolen by Hades, and Mortimer and his invention disappear. Hades demonstrates his power by removing a minor character from Martin Chuzzlewit, which causes all copies of the story get instantly modified. Thursday and her colleague travel to Haworth to investigate, but are delayed by a time distortion on the motorway which allows Thursday to talk to her past self. Thursday and her colleagues manage to track some of Goliath's associates, and they get a clue that the criminal is hiding in the People's Republic of Wales. Soon after, Hades kidnaps Jane Eyre and threatens to kill her unless he's paid a ransom. Schitt attempts to swindle the criminal who escapes again, and they track him to his hideout in Wales. There Thursday understands that Schitt wants to buy the Prose Portal from Hades to be able to get plasma rifles from a promotion book about plasma rifles, as in reality Goliath has been unable to develop the weapon. Convinced by Thursday to return Jane to her story, Hades goes into hiding in the story, quickly followed by Thursday, who spends there several months with Rochester, searching for Hades. They eventually find him and kill him, changing in the process the end of the story (that most people don't like) to turn it into the happily-ever-after version that exists in our universe.

“Golding hops, Tipple malted barley and our unique yeast… Individually packed and numbered, this bottle is one of only one hundred and sixty thousand produced.”

Very sweet, maybe dried fruit flavour, and a Madeira aroma. Contains malted barley.

Bottle N° 20388. Fuller, Smith & Turner, London, England. 8.5% alcohol.