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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 (link affiljat) 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
On the same day Joe Stecher wrestled Stanislaus Zbyszko for the recognized version of the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in St. Louis, Ed “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
Ottubru 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 was a scary competitor. Although he was not a large man at 5’09” and weighed 170 liri, 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’ reputation was strongly related to his feared
Dwar April 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” logħbiet. 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, a lokali St. Louis avukat, serva bħala l-manager għal wrestlers professjonali George Baptise, Charley Olson u Fred Beell. Oriġinarjament ammiratur ta' George Baptiste, li kien leġġenda fis-St. Louis lokal madwar Cook u Vandeventer Avenue. Baptiste kien jimpjega lil Quinn bħala maxtura tiegħu u aktar tard avukat għall-kumpanija tiegħu tat-tinda u tal-awning. During his
Fuq Jannar 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. Il-pjan ta’ Rachmann biex jistabbilixxi Aberg kien sejjer kif ippjanat wara li beda t-turnament
In early 1916, Martin “Farmer” Burns, li ħarreġ u mexxa lil Frank Gotch għall-Kampjonat Dinji tal-Heavyweight, beda jiċħad li żviluppa ċ-Champion kurrenti Amerikan tal-Heavyweight Joe Stecher. It-talba dehret stramba minħabba li Burns kien ilu jaħdem ma’ Stecher għal diversi snin. Burns għen biex jipprepara lil Stecher għall-ġlieda tiegħu tal-kampjonat ma' Charlie Cutler ġewwa 1915. B'xi mod, dak Burns