Double Klondike Double Klondike Double Klondike is a variant on the playing card game popularly known either as Solitaire or Snap-Up Patience, specifically a variant on the most well-known version of the game, Klondike. It is sometimes referred to simply as "Double Solitaire". Triple Solitaire, Quadruple Solitaire, etc. is also possible and is played. It is not to be confused with the single-player game of Gargantua which is also known as Double Klondike. As the name suggests, Double Klondike is a two-player game, and is played with two full packs of playing cards, minus the Jokers; for the purpose of Double Klondike,
The Pickwick Papers (1952 film) The Pickwick Papers (1952 film) The Pickwick Papers is a 1952 British black-and-white film based on the Charles Dickens classic. Both screenplay and direction were by Noel Langley. The film premiered at the Gaumont Cinema at Haymarket in London on 14 November 1952. In 1954, the Soviet Union paid £10,000 for the distribution rights, and it became the first British film to be shown in the Soviet Union after World War II, premiering on 29 July 1954 in a number of cities with a dubbed soundtrack. The film was followed a month later by a Russian reprint of Dickens's book,