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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 (tengja hlekkur) 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
Sama dag glímdi Joe Stecher Stanislaus Zbyszko um hina viðurkenndu útgáfu af heimsmeistaramótinu í þungavigt í St.. Louis, Og “Strangler” Lewis challenged “Stór” 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
Á október 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” movies. 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 var skelfilegur keppandi. Þótt hann væri ekki stór maður á 5’09” og vó 170 £, Lewis’ leikni uppgjöf gert hann jafnan eða betri flestra wrestlers af tímum hans. Jack Carkeek var frábær wrestler en einn leik með Lewis nánast lét hann af störfum. Lewis’ reputation was strongly related to his feared
Apríl 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” eldspýtur. 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, staðbundinn St. Louis lögmaður, starfaði sem framkvæmdastjóri atvinnuglímukappanna George Baptise, Charley Olson og Fred Beell. Upphaflega aðdáandi George Baptiste, sem var goðsögn í St. Louis hverfinu í kringum Cook og Vandeventer Avenue. Baptiste myndi ráða Quinn sem jötu sinn og síðar lögfræðing fyrir tjald- og skyggjufyrirtækið sitt. During his
Janúar 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. While British
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. Áætlun Rachmanns um að stofna Aberg gekk eins og áætlað var eftir að mótið hófst
In early 1916, Martin “Farmer” Burns, sem þjálfaði og stýrði Frank Gotch til heimsmeistaramótsins í þungavigt, byrjaði að neita því að hann hafi þróað núverandi bandaríska þungavigtarmeistarann Joe Stecher. Krafan virtist undarleg vegna þess að Burns hafði unnið með Stecher í nokkur ár. Burns hjálpaði til við að undirbúa Stecher fyrir meistarakeppnina með Charlie Cutler inná 1915. Á vissan hátt, hvað brennur