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Posts about films that played second on a double bill and drew the paying customers between 1931 eta 1949.
At nearly 70 urte, Stanislaus Zbyszko made his film debut in Night and the City (1950). Billed as Gregorious, a retired wrestler and the father of London’s wrestling promoter, Zbyszko displayed his wrestling skills, even at his advanced age, in the film’s signature scene. The movie begins with a man chasing Harry Fabian, a London hustler always looking
Urriaren On 14, 1932, RKO Pictures released The Phantom of Crestwood (1932) (kidea lotura), the film end to a radio play of the same year. The film concerns the murder of Jenny Wren or more properly “Who Killed Jenny Wren?” Wren, played by Karen Morley, blackmails several prominent men, who carried on affairs with her in the past. Bat
Azaroaren on 13, 1930, Roland V. West released The Bat Whispers (1930) (kidea lotura), the talkie version of his silent classic, Bat egin (1926). The film follows faithfully the script of the original. Hala ere, West is able to experiment with film techniques like tracking shots, still a novelty in early sound cinema. Editing still dominated as the continuity and story
Lodger du: London Fog of Story A (1927) da Alfred Hitchcocken filmak isila goiz bat. It is based on the Marie Belloc Lowndes story and play based on the Jack the Ripper murders. Hitchcock directed the film (kidea lotura) in 1926; Otsailean kaleratu zen 1927 Londresen. It made it to the United States in 1928. The film begins with the
Martxoan 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau kaleratu Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu (affilaite link) was Murnau’s adaptation of the Dracula novel by Bram Stoker. Murnau ahaztutako eskubideak erosteko istorioa filmatzeko Stokerren finka batetik, horrek ia film hau galtzen ari ikuslek filmatzeko ekarri. Stoker’s widow successfully sued Murnau and the German film company that produced the motion picture.
Fritz Lang made one of his early crime films in 1922. He directed Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922) (kidea lotura), which ran approximately four hours and thirty minutes. It tells the story of Dr. Mabuse, a professor of psychoanalysis. He is also the leader of a criminal ring in the mold of Professor Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes series. Urtean
H.G. Wells wrote the story of Things to Come, which was turned into a film (kidea lotura) in 1936. The film opens during Christmas 1940 in Everytown (obviously London) right before the outbreak of war. The war lasts almost thirty years before “the Airmen” led by John Cabal, a former resident of Everytown, leads the survivors to victory over the
Laura (1944) is the story of an ambitious young woman pulled into the middle of a murder investigation by both amorous suitors and jealous women. Laura Hunt, Gene Tierney erretratatu, is an advertising executive about to marry a shiftless seducer, Shelby Carpenter, portrayed by Vincent Price. To complicate matters, her aunt Anne Treadwell is in love with the seducer
Maiatzaren On 17, 1941, Twentieth Century – Fox released the third and last Inspector Hornleigh feature film, Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It. The series blends comedy and crime drama to create a unique product. Gordon Harker plays Inspector Hornleigh, while Alistair Sims reprises his role as Sgt. Bingham. The film (kidea lotura) opens with Inspector Hornleigh dictating his memoirs to
Abenduaren on 1, 1939, Twentieth Century-Fox released Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939), the second film in the three film series. Gordon Harker starred as Scotland Yard Inspector Hornleigh. The film opens in Brighton-on-the-Sea, where a storm has kept Inspector Hornleigh and his assistant Sergeant Bingham, played by Alastair Sim, inside for their first few vacation days. Following the rule in