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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 (kidea lotura) 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
Egun berean, Joe Stecher-ek Stanislaus Zbyszko borrokatu zuen St-en Munduko Pisu Astunen Borroka Txapelketaren bertsio aitortua lortzeko.. Louis, Eta “Strangler” Lewis challenged “Big” 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
Urriaren On 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” filmak. 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 scary lehiatu zen. Ez zen gizon handi bat izan arren 5’09” eta pisatu 170 libera, Lewis’ bidalketak maisutasuna berdinak edo hobeto bere garaiko borrokalari gehienek bat egin zion. Jack Carkeek emanaldirik Wrestler zen, baina Lewis partida ia eragindako erretiroa zion. Lewis’ ospea oso lotuta zegoen bere beldurrarekin
Apirilaren 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” matches. 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, bertako St. Luis abokatua, George Baptise borrokalari profesionalen zuzendari gisa aritu zen, Charley Olson eta Fred Beell. Jatorriz George Baptisteren mireslea, nor kondaira bat izan zen St. Louis auzoa Cook eta Vandeventer etorbideen inguruan. Baptistek Quinn hartuko zuen bere kudeatzaile gisa eta geroago bere karpa eta toldoen enpresaren abokatu gisa. During his
Urtarrilaren On 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. Britainiarra berriz
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. Rachmann’s plan for establishing Aberg was going as planned after the tournament kicked off
Hasieran 1916, Martin “Baserritarrak” Erredurak, who trained and managed Frank Gotch to the World Heavyweight Championship, began denying that he developed current American Heavyweight Champion Joe Stecher. The claim seemed odd because Burns had been working with Stecher for several years. Burns helped prepare Stecher for his championship bout with Charlie Cutler in 1915. In a way, what Burns