Charlie Chan en Secret (1936)

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The series of the Charlie Chan films starring Warner Oland were probably the strongest films in the Charlie Chan series. Sidney Toler made several good films also but eventually the series would become low-budget “B” films produced by Monogram Pictures. Charlie Chan en Secret (1936) (kidea lotura) was one of the earlier Twentieth-Century Fox films about Charlie Chan. The production values

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Zbyszko and the Last Shoot Match

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Stanislaus Zbyszko was born Stanislaw Jan Cyganiewicz on April 1, 1879 in Jodlow, Polonian, which was part of the Austria-Hungarian Empire. Wikipedia arabera, he chose the ring name Stanislaus Zbyszko because it was the name of a fictional Polish knight. An article in the Walla Walla, Washington newspaper, The Evening Statesman’s Tuesday, Otsaila 8, 1910 edition, publicized Zbyszko’s university and

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Black Camel du (1931)

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Black Camel du (1931) is the oldest surviving Charlie Chan film (kidea lotura) starring Warner Oland. Fox sailerako serie bigarren filma izan zen. Lehenengoa, Hirugarren, laugarren eta bosgarren filmetan galdu egiten dira, nahiz eta gaztelaniaren Charlie Chan bertsio bat egiten On (Hamahiru izan ziren, 1931) existitzen. The Black Camel was released on June 21, 1931.

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Easton Taylor Trust Company Robbery

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Apirilaren 5, 1920, Frederick Charles Smith, also known as “The Red-Headed Bandit”, walked into the Easton-Taylor Trust Company at 4474 Easton Avenue. Smith had a revolver in each hand and demanded money from the cashier. Fearing for his life, the clerk promptly dropped $15,309 in a sack. John Lanigan, the bank’s president, sat in his office off the lobby

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