... lovingly photographed and subject of Bloody Mary's famous song) doing near the Japanese shipping lanes? But director Richard Pearce has adapted well to the greater realism imposed on the story by film. He gives us a much fuller sense of the native ...

... Louis XIV. In 1865, begonias became major players in the conservatories of the wealthy and powerful when botanist Richard Pearce returned from the Andes Mountains in South America, bringing with him the parent of today's tuberous types. The ...