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Posts about films that played second on a double bill and drew the paying customers between 1931 e 1949.
At nearly 70 anos de idade, 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
Em outubro 14, 1932, RKO Pictures released The Phantom of Crestwood (1932) (link de afiliado), 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. One of
Em novembro 13, 1930, Roland V. Oeste lançou o Whispers Bat (1930) (link de afiliado), the talkie version of his silent classic, The Bat (1926). The film follows faithfully the script of the original. However, West is able to experiment with film techniques like tracking shots, still a novelty in early sound cinema. Edição ainda dominado como a continuidade ea história
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) é um dos primeiros filmes mudos de Alfred Hitchcock. It is based on the Marie Belloc Lowndes story and play based on the Jack the Ripper murders. Hitchcock directed the film (link de afiliado) em 1926; que foi lançado em fevereiro 1927 em Londres. It made it to the United States in 1928. The film begins with the
Em março 4, 1922, F.W. Murnau lançado Nosferatu (1922). Nosferatu (affilaite link) was Murnau’s adaptation of the Dracula novel by Bram Stoker. Murnau esqueceu de comprar os direitos para filmar a história da propriedade de Stoker, que quase levou a este filme que está sendo perdido para filmar os espectadores. Stoker’s widow successfully sued Murnau and the German film company that produced the motion picture.
Fritz Lang fez um de seus filmes iniciais de crime em 1922. Ele dirigiu o Dr.. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922) (link de afiliado), que decorreu cerca de quatro horas e trinta minutos. Conta a história do Dr.. Mabuse, professor de psicanálise. He is also the leader of a criminal ring in the mold of Professor Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes series. Em
H.G. Wells escreveu a história das coisas a vir, which was turned into a film (link de afiliado) em 1936. O filme abre durante o Natal 1940 em Everytown (obviamente Londres) direito antes da eclosão da guerra. A guerra dura quase 30 anos antes “os militares da Força Aérea” liderada por John Cabal, um antigo morador da 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, interpretado por Gene Tierney, 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
Em Maio 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. O filme (link de afiliado) opens with Inspector Hornleigh dictating his memoirs to
Em dezembro de 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