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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 (affiliate länk) 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
Samma dag brottades Joe Stecher Stanislaus Zbyszko om den erkända versionen av World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship i St.. Louis, Och “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
På Oktober 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” filmer. 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 en skrämmande konkurrent. Även om han inte var en stor man vid 5’09” och vägs 170 pounds, Lewis’ behärskning av inlagor gjorde honom en lika eller bättre i de flesta brottare av hans era. Jack Carkeek var en fantastiskt brottare men en match med Lewis nästan fick honom att gå i pension. Lewis’ reputation was strongly related to his feared
På 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” tändstickor. 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, en lokal St. Louis advokat, tjänstgjorde som manager för professionella brottare George Baptise, Charley Olson och Fred Beell. Ursprungligen en beundrare av George Baptiste, som var en legend i St. Louis grannskap runt Cook och Vandeventer Avenues. Baptiste skulle anställa Quinn som sin krubba och senare advokat för sitt tält- och markisföretag. During his
På Januari 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. Medan brittiska
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. Rachmanns plan för att etablera Aberg gick som planerat efter att turneringen startade
I början 1916, Martin “Farmer” Burns, som tränade och ledde Frank Gotch till världsmästerskapet i tungvikt, började förneka att han utvecklat den nuvarande amerikanska tungviktsmästaren Joe Stecher. Påståendet verkade konstigt eftersom Burns hade arbetat med Stecher i flera år. Burns hjälpte till att förbereda Stecher för hans mästerskapsmatch med Charlie Cutler in 1915. På ett sätt, vad Burns