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unusual facts about The Mechanic


The Sabertooth Vampire

Russell, who writes regular movie reviews for The Oregonian, a daily newspaper in Portland, created the Sabertooth Vampire in January of 2011 while waiting for a preview screening of the The Mechanic to begin.


Brucine

Brucine was also mentioned in the 1972 movie The Mechanic, starring Charles Bronson in which the young hitman Steve McKenna (Jan-Michael Vincent) betrays his mentor, aging hitman Arthur Bishop (Bronson), using a celebratory glass of wine spiked with brucine, leaving Bishop to die of an apparent heart attack.

Frank de Kova

He played Abiram in The Ten Commandments, appeared in Cowboy (1958) with Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon, and in The Mechanic (1972) with Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent and the Ralph Bakshi film American Pop.

John Tomkins

Security analysts who have examined "The Bishop"'s modus operandi speculate that he may be emulating the 1972 Charles Bronson movie The Mechanic.


see also

Arkham Horror

Based on the Robert W. Chambers story The King in Yellow, this expansion introduces the mechanic of the Herald — a special card that permanently alters the game rules.

Latil

In 1898 La société Korn et Latil was founded by the engineer Georges Latil and the mechanic Alois Korn in Marseille.

Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game

The mechanic for which the game is most widely known is the "Roll & Keep" system, designed by Dave Williams and John Wick.

Mary E. Sweeney

When the Morrill Act passed in 1862, the "mechanic arts" became an important curricular reform movement for the U.S., offering wider access to education which until that time had focused on preparing young men for white-collar professions.

Samuel Vaughan Merrick

He subsequently studied engineering, and in 1824 founded with chemist, William Keating, The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts.

The Mother, the Mechanic, and the Path

During the first weeks of sales, purchases of The Mother, the Mechanic, and the Path from Best Buy were accompanied by a bonus DVD (containing the music video to "Hair" and a 35-minute making-of documentary), while Target customers were rewarded with an exclusive bonus track.