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Movie history events from 1936
German troops reoccupy the Rhineland. (Angela's Ashes)
Alvy Singer born. (Annie Hall)
Rick fights with the Loyalist Spaniards. (Spain) (Casablanca)
Clive Candy shoots a Polar Bear. (Labrador) (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Indiana Jones races against the Nazis to find the Ark of the Covenant. (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Indiana Jones braces numerous traps in order to obtain the Hovito idol, only to have it quickly stolen away by his rival Rene Belloq. (The jungles of Peru) (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Ray Robinson (later Charles) starts to lose his sight from glaucoma after seeing his brother drown in the washtub. (Greenville, Florida) (Ray)
A young officer named John Truscott arrives in Sarawak to govern the local people. While there, he falls in love with his 'sleeping dictionary', a local girl named Selima. (Sarawak) (The Sleeping Dictionary)
Johnny Hooker goes to top con-artist Henry Gondorff to help him 'sting' mob boss Doyle Lonnegan. (Joliet, Illinois) (The Sting)
Saturday 18th July: There is a military uprising led by the Fascist General Francisco Franco against the democratically elected government of Spain. (Spain) (Land and Freedom)
Wednesday 5th August: Alvin Karpis is sent to Alcatraz prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping. (Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover, The )
Monday 24th August: David Carr, an underemployed miner and a devote communist, hears an impassioned account of fascist atrocities in Spain and makes up his mind to head off to Barcelona to fight for the Republic. (Liverpool, England) (Land and Freedom)