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A spanyol Cape Rejtély (1935) is an adaptation of one of the Ellery Queen novels. Két unokatestvérek, Frederic Dannay és Manfred Lee, aki írt számos detektív regények álnéven, a címszereplő. Ebben a filmben, Ellery Queen vesz egy nyaralás a kaliforniai barátjával bíró Macklin. Természetesen, they are not long into their
Decemberben 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
Sherlock Holmes diadala (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. A film jelentős része az újramondása
Míg arról híres, hogy John L. Sullivan a legutóbbi világbajnoki díjharcban csupasz csülökszabályok mellett vívott, Jake Kilrain is sok kesztyűs viadalon vett részt. A nyereményharc áttért a csupasz ütős szabályokról a kesztyűs viadalokra a Queensberry Márquess Rules szabályai szerint. (korai amatőr és profi boksz) a 19. század végén. Mint Sullivan, Kilrain őrnagyban harcolna
Januárjában 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 volt a görög-római birkózás bajnok Franciaország a 1890-es években. Ő nyert egy versenyen, a Folies-Bergeres előtt megnyerte a versenyt Oroszországban 1898. These victories allowed him to claim the World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship. Pons kihasználja ezt a hírhedtté megnyitásával a tornaterem vonat birkózók és az erős férfiak. Pons’ victory was particularly remarkable because of
-Ben 1934, Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd ended his criminal career in an East Liverpool, Ohio corn field after a shoot out with FBI agents and local law enforcement officers. Viszont, in December 1925, he was inmate number 29078 at the Missouri Penitentiary. The 21-year-old Floyd had just been convicted of robbing the Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company main office
Október 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, amely megölte
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