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Republic Pictures produced many quality movie serials in the 1930s and 1940s. One of their finer offerings was Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941), a twelve chapter serial (enlace de afiliado) based on the popular comic book super hero. Captain Marvel is known as Shazam today. Billy Batson, played by Frank Coghlan, Jr., accompanies the Malcolm Expedition to Siam. While searching an
El mismo día, Joe Stecher luchó contra Stanislaus Zbyszko por la versión reconocida del Campeonato Mundial de Lucha Libre de Peso Pesado en St.. Louis, Ed “Strangler” Lewis challenged “Grande” Wayne Munn for his disputed Michigan-Illinois World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Lewis dropped the title to Munn in February 1925. In April 1925, Zbyszko defeated Munn in a famous double-cross. The match between Lewis and
Jake Kilrain is best known as the last and toughest challenger to John L. Sullivan in the last bare knuckle world championship fight. Despite Kilrain’s inability to beat John L. Sullivan, he had a successful career both before and after the bout with the mighty Sullivan. Fighting for 10 more years in gloved bouts, Kilrain was mostly successful but on
En octubre 24, 1941, Monogram Pictures released Spooks Run Wild starring the East Side Kids and Bela Lugosi. At this point in his career, Bela Lugosi was relegated to “B” cine. He played in several films with the East Side Kids, which were all enjoyable if not exactly classic cinema. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall and Bobby Jordan play the leaders
Evan “Strangler” Lewis was a scary competitor. Although he was not a large man at 5’09” and weighed 170 libras, Lewis’ mastery of submissions made him an equal or better of most wrestlers of his era. Jack Carkeek was a terrific wrestler but one match with Lewis almost caused him to retire. Lewis’ reputación estaba fuertemente relacionada con su temido
En abril 7, 1914, 22-year-old Wladek Zbyszko met 22-year-old Ed “Strangler” Lewis would meet in the first of many matches between the two men. They would cooperate in a number of worked or “prearranged” cerillas. Lewis in fact dropped his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship to Wladek Zbyszko in 1917. In the early 1920s, Lewis would drop his World Heavyweight Wrestling
Frank J.. quinn, un santo local. abogado luis, se desempeñó como gerente de luchadores profesionales George Baptise, Charley Olson y Fred Beell. Originalmente admirador de George Baptiste, quien era una leyenda en el St.. Barrio de Louis alrededor de las avenidas Cook y Vandeventer. Baptiste emplearía a Quinn como gerente y luego abogado de su empresa de tiendas de campaña y toldos.. During his
En enero 29, 1940, First National Pictures, the Warner Brothers “B” film company, released the spy thriller British Intelligence (1940). The film is set in Britain during World War I. Released almost two years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the film showed that Hollywood and probably most of the countries sympathies were with Britain and the Allies. Mientras que los británicos
Samuel Rachmann promoted the International Wrestling Tournament in New York during 1915. Rachmann invited wrestlers from around the world to the tournament but his real intention was to establish European Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion Alex Aberg as the successor to the retired Frank Gotch as World Champion. El plan de Rachmann para fundar Aberg iba según lo previsto tras el inicio del torneo.
In early 1916, Martín “Agricultor” Quemaduras, quien entrenó y dirigió a Frank Gotch hasta el Campeonato Mundial de Peso Pesado., comenzó a negar que hubiera desarrollado al actual campeón estadounidense de peso pesado Joe Stecher.. La afirmación parecía extraña porque Burns había estado trabajando con Stecher durante varios años.. Burns ayudó a preparar a Stecher para su pelea por el campeonato con Charlie Cutler en 1915. En cierto sentido, lo que arde