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Posts about films that played second on a double bill and drew the paying customers between 1931 y 1949.
I’ve been on an Alan Ladd kick lately. When I was still in college, I watched a number of Alan Ladd films one summer. I’ve been watching them over again the last few weeks on Amazon Prime. I’ll share some of these films over the next few months. The first film I watched was Thunder in the East (1951) starring
I’m continuing with watching some old Alan Ladd movies that I first saw thirty years ago on American Movie Classics (AMC), when they showed classic movies. I recently watched Appointment with Danger (1950), which was as entertaining as I remembered it. Paramount Pictures released Appointment with Danger (enlace de afiliado) in London in 1950 but didn’t release it in the United
En marzo de 7, 1939, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Company released the first of the Inspector Hornleigh films, Inspector Hornleigh. Inspector Hornleigh is a Scotland Yard Inspector assisted in his investigations by Sergeant Bingham. Gordon Harker played Hornleigh, while Alastair Sim provides the comic relief as Sergeant Bingham. Inspector Hornleigh opens with the discovery of a murdered man in a local inn.
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934) es una de las primeras producciones del siglo XX en la serie de Bulldog Drummond. Esta película aún sería considerado un largometraje con Ronald Colman en el papel principal. Más tarde películas Bulldog Drummond protagonizada por John Howard eran “B” films. Bulldog Drummond acaba de asistir a la boda de su mejor amigo Algie, interpretado por Charles Butterworth.
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were a Broadway comedy team before transitioning to films in 1929. Before Robert Woolsey’s untimely death in 1938, Wheeler and Woolsey made 24 films in 8 año. Half Shot at Sunrise (1930) was the fourth film (enlace de afiliado) starring Wheeler and Woolsey. Set in Paris during World War I, Half Shot at Sunrise tells the
En enero 10, 1927, Universum Film (UFA) released Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) (enlace de afiliado). The German film company produced a science fiction class, which still holds up today. On the Internet Movie Database website (IMDB), users rate it 8.3 out of 10 stars. It is #104 on the Top 250. In a theme society has wrestled with since the beginning
El caso Canary Murder (1929) recibió un disparo originalmente como una película muda. Sin embargo, el ejecutivo de la Paramount estudio pensó que sería mejor como película hablada. El estudio retrasó el lanzamiento hasta que pudieran añadir sonido a la película. La adición de sonido no estuvo exento de desafíos. Desafortunadamente, one of the main stars of the film, Louise Brooks, had
British International Pictures (BIP) released The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1934) (enlace de afiliado) de abril 19, 1934. Ralph Richardson takes his only turn as the English hero Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond. Drummond recently married long-time love interest Phyllis Clavering. Politics and the presence of old foe Carl Peterson intrude on Drummond’s wedded bliss. When Peterson kidnaps Phyllis, Drummond determines to
Arthur Wontner es posiblemente el mejor retratista película de Sherlock Holmes. Su quinta y última salida como Holmes en Asesinato en los Baskerville (1937). The film (enlace de afiliado) fue lanzado en el Reino Unido en 1937 pero no fue lanzado en Estados Unidos hasta enero 15, 1941. Wontner fue excelente como de costumbre pero Asesinato en los Baskerville es la ofrenda más débil
Reginald Owen stars as Sherlock Holmes in one of the early American talking motion picture adaptations of Sherlock Holmes. Estudio en escarlata (1933) (enlace de afiliado) sees Holmes trying to solve murders among a group of confederates. Arthur Wontner starred in several successful English adaptations of the series, which probably inspired Hollywood to follow suit. Desafortunadamente, Reginald Owen did not