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One of the two main characters in one of the most highly acclaimed British films of the last 40 years is called Marwood, but is never referred to by that name in the film's script or its credits, although he was in the screenplay.

What is the film called?
 
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SteveM70 said:
One of the two main characters in one of the most highly acclaimed British films of the last 40 years is called Marwood, but is never referred to by that name in the film's script or its credits, although he was in the screenplay.

What is the film called?
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Which West Indian island suffered disastrous volcanic eruptions in 1995; leading to at least half of the island being "put out of action" -- a situation which essentially still obtains today?
 
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Mcr Warrior said:
= Martinique?
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Gloster said:
Montserrat.
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Martinique suffered a disaster of the kind, but in 1902. The 1995 victim was indeed Montserrat (incidentally, one of the rather few remaining Overseas Territories which while not forming part of the UK itself, are part of its sovereign territory -- self-governing internally only).

@Gloster: yours to set the next question.
 
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Montserrat was named after a mountain with a monastery. Where? (The nearest major city or well-known location, not just the country.)
 
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Monastery in mountain setting very near Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. (There was once a steam-worked rack railway to said monastery; closed, I think, some time in the 1950s.)
 
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Which American poet took, in that country's Civil War: a role, non-combatant, but generally reckoned very praiseworthy on his part (he would likely have been a bit old for the front line, anyway)? The name will suffice: but "virtual bonus points" for identifying what it was that he did.
 
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Peterthegreat said:
Longfellow?
He was an abolitionist I believe.
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Not him, I'm afraid -- though Longfellow was indeed a protagonist of the abolition of slavery; and later, pleaded earnestly for post-Civil-War reconciliation between north and south.
 
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