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2 unusual facts about The Dummy


The Dummy

The Great Gabbo (1929) feature film about a mad ventriloquist, starring Erich von Stroheim

Dead of Night (1945) British horror film, "Ventriloquist's Dummy" sequence, starring Michael Redgrave



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2011 Queensland Cup season

Brad Davis was the architect of the second try, selling the dummy to the Wynnum Manly defence and drawing the fullback before putting Cody Nelson over the line.

Educating Archie

The duo recorded songs from the show on the HMV label namely "The Dummy Song" and "Lovely Dollar Lolly".

Tobashi scheme

Depositing ¥200 billion in Japanese government bonds, the Yamaichi subsidiary then used the dummy companies to generate profits for clients while eventually absorbing losses of ¥158.3 billion.

Wycliffe and the Scapegoat

Every Halloween in Cornwall, the life size effigy of a man rolls down the cliffs and into the sea inside a flaming wheel; the morbid commemoration of an age old Pagan ritual whereby the dummy would in fact be a human sacrifice.

Yamaichi Securities

Depositing ¥200 billion in Japanese government bonds, the Yamaichi subsidiary then used the dummy companies to generate profits for clients while eventually absorbing losses of ¥158.3 billion.