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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 (аффилиате линк) based on the popular comic book super hero. Captain Marvel is known as Shazam today. Billy Batson, played by Frank Coghlan, Јр, accompanies the Malcolm Expedition to Siam. While searching an
Истог дана Јое Стецхер се рвао са Станислаусом Збисзком за признату верзију Светског првенства у рвању у тешкој категорији у Ст.. Лоуис, И “Давитељ” 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
Октобра 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 “Б” филмови. 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
Еван “Давитељ” Луис је био страшно конкурент. Иако није био велики човек у 5’09” и тежак 170 фунти, Луис’ мајсторство поднесака му је једнак или боље од већине рваче свог доба. Џек Царкеек је сјајна рвач али меч са Луисом замало је да се пензионише. Луис’ репутација је била уско повезана са његовим страхом
Априла 7, 1914, 22-year-old Wladek Zbyszko met 22-year-old Ed “Давитељ” Lewis would meet in the first of many matches between the two men. They would cooperate in a number of worked or “prearranged” шибице. 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
Франк Ј. Куинн, локални Св. Лоуис адвокат, служио је као менаџер професионалних рвача Џорџа Баптиса, Чарли Олсон и Фред Бил. Првобитно обожавалац Џорџа Баптиста, који је био легенда у цркви Св. Насеље Лоуис око авеније Цоок и Вандевентер. Баптисте би запослио Квинна као свог јасла, а касније и адвоката за своју компанију за шаторе и тенде. During his
On January 29, 1940, First National Pictures, the Warner Brothers “Б” 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. Док Британци
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
У рано 1916, Мартин “Фармер” Бернс, који је тренирао и водио Френка Гоча на Светско првенство у тешкој категорији, почео да пориче да је развио тренутног америчког шампиона у тешкој категорији Џоа Стечера. Тврдња се чинила чудном јер је Бернс радио са Стецхером неколико година. Бернс је помогао у припреми Стецхера за његов шампионски меч са Чарлијем Катлером 1915. На неки начин, шта Бурнс