Historien des sports de combat et artiste martial
Le Cap Mystère espagnol (1935) est une adaptation d'un des romans d'Ellery Queen. Deux cousins, Frédéric Dannay et Manfred Lee, qui a écrit un certain nombre de romans policiers sous le pseudonyme du personnage-titre. Dans ce film, Ellery Queen est de prendre des vacances en Californie avec son ami le juge Macklin. Bien sûr, ils ne sont pas longs dans leur
In December 1920, robbers killed Patrolman Charles Daly at the entrance to his home in the 4000 block of Forest Park Boulevard. St. Louis Police aggressively investigated the murder but it was never solved. Prior to his death, the Daly name was already well-known in St. Louis. Charles Daly was the son of professional prizefighter Dan Daly, who fought in
Le triomphe de Sherlock Holmes (1935) is one of the five Sherlock Holmes films starring Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes. Director Leslie S. Hiscott adapted the Sherlock Holmes novel The Valley of Fear but added to the story to give Professor Moriarty and Col. Sebastian Moran roles in the story. Une partie importante du film est le récit de
While famous for fighting John L. Sullivan in the last world championship prizefight contested under bare knuckle rules, Jake Kilrain also took part in many gloved bouts. Prizefighting was transitioning from bare knuckle rules to gloved bouts under the Marquess of Queensberry Rules (early amateur and professional boxing) in the late 19th Century. Like Sullivan, Kilrain would fight in major
En Janvier 1921, Ad Santel started a minor controversy by claiming Ed “Strangler” Lewis was a better wrestler than the late Frank Gotch. Santel trained with both Gotch and Lewis, so he did have an insider’s knowledge. Was he right though? Gotch was the last Undisputed World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. Gotch won the title by defeating the great Georg Hackenschmidt.
Paul Pons était le champion de lutte gréco-romaine de la France dans les années 1890. Il a remporté un tournoi à l'Folies-Bergères, avant de remporter un tournoi en Russie 1898. Ces victoires lui ont permis de remporter le Championnat du monde de lutte gréco-romaine. Pons a capitalisé sur cette notoriété en ouvrant un gymnase pour former des lutteurs et des hommes forts. Pons’ la victoire a été particulièrement remarquable en raison de
Dans 1934, Charles Arthur “Joli garçon” Floyd a terminé sa carrière criminelle dans un East Liverpool, champ de maïs de l'Ohio après une fusillade avec des agents du FBI et les agents chargés de l'application de la loi locale. Cependant, en décembre 1925, il était détenu nombre 29078 au pénitencier du Missouri. The 21-year-old Floyd had just been convicted of robbing the Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company main office
On October 16, 1920, Special Officers Preston Anslyn and William A. Moller were following two burglars in the 3800 block of Juanita Avenue during a heavy fog. One or both burglars shot the officers from a gangway as they walked onto the lawn of a house, where they thought the burglars entered. The officers both suffered fatal wounds, which killed
I’m continuing with watching some old Alan Ladd movies that I first saw thirty years ago on American Movie Classics (AMC), when they showed classic movies. I recently watched Appointment with Danger (1950), which was as entertaining as I remembered it. Paramount Pictures released Appointment with Danger (affiliate link) in London in 1950 but didn’t release it in the United
Running a pawn shop has always been a tough business because you constantly have to be on the look out for thieves attempting to pawn their stolen goods in your shop. In the late 19th Century, police detectives worked with pawn shops, as they do today, to try to stop the fencing of goods. In August 1885, future St. Louis