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Stipes de pelliculis qui alterum in duplici libellum egit et inter clientes solvendas traxit 1931 et 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 (affiliate link) in London in 1950 but didn’t release it in the United
On March 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.
Drummond Bulldog Oppugnationes Back (1934) vicesima prima est Drummond Bulldog productiones in serie. Hoc film tamen esse a pluma film cum Colmanus in primis munus Ronald. Post Bulldog Drummond membrana starring John Howard sunt “B” Tiberius Catius. Bulldog Drummond has just attended the marriage of his best friend Algie, portrayed by 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 annis. Half Shot at Sunrise (1930) was the fourth film (affiliate link) starring Wheeler and Woolsey. Set in Paris during World War I, Half Shot at Sunrise tells the
On January 10, 1927, Universum Film (UFA) released Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) (affiliate link). 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 stellae. It is #104 on the Top 250. In a theme society has wrestled with since the beginning
Caedes a Canariis Case (1929) missa erat ut tacitum film. Autem, melius esse ratus maxima picturam loquentem Studio exsecutiva. Ad moram studio Mauris accumsan donec sonus addere. The addition of sound was not without its challenges. Lorem ipsum dolor, Duis stellas amet, Louise Brooks, had
British International Pictures (BIP) released The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1934) (affiliate link) pro- 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 est arguably melius film portrayer Sherlock Holmes. Quinta et postrema ejus sicut Holmes in Excursiuncula quod homicidium ad Baskervilles (1937). Film (affiliate link) was released in the United Kingdom in 1937 sed non dimisit in America, mense Januario, 15, 1941. Wontner was excellent as usual but Murder at the Baskervilles is the weakest offering
Reginaldus Owen stellarum ut, Sherlock Holmes in una ex primis non posset abduci American loquentes adaptationes Sherlock Holmes. A Study in Scarlet (1933) (affiliate link) videt Holmes solvere nititur homicidiis inter coetus fœderati. Arthur Wontner stellatum in pluribus aptationes ex Anglis series, Hollywood sequi sectam quam veri simile. Lorem ipsum dolor, Reginald Owen did not