On Stranger Tides escalates from there to closing mega-thrills so determinedly spiced that your palate is left almost jaded." Jack Adrian says that "Tim Powers has further refertilized the Sabatini swashbuckler," and describes the novel as a skillful blend of "high seas adventure with sorcery and black magic." Kim Newman based the name of a vampire in his "Anno Dracula" series on the main character of "On Stranger Tides". Ron Gilbert has been widely quoted that the "Monkey Island" series of adventure games was inspired by Disneyland's "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride. However, he stated in a blog that the ride was mainly
The Stranger Returns intriguing addition to the genre. Tony Anthony did some very interesting things with the spaghetti Western genre, including, perhaps, presaging the "Trinity" movies, while certainly "inventing" the West-meets-East subgenre." The Stranger Returns The Stranger Returns (Italian: "Un uomo, un cavallo, una pistola", lit. "A man, a horse, a gun") also known as Shoot First... Laugh Last!, is a 1967 Italian-German-American Spaghetti Western film directed by Luigi Vanzi. It is a sequel to "A Stranger in Town". The film is the second in a series of four western films starring Tony Anthony as "The Stranger". Paul Mavis, of DVDTalk, reviewing the