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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) is loosely based on The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual. The short story was published in The Strand Magazine during May 1893. It was later compiled in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. In the story, the Musgrave Mansion held a secret that even it’s inhabitants did not know. This film follows the same plot line
Few events shocked St. Louis like the line of duty death of Lt. Sidney Sears in June 1924. For almost 30 år, Lt. Sears was considered the best pistol shot on the St. Louis polisen. I 1904, Sears was also National Pistol Champion of the United States. For someone to kill Lt. Sears in a shootout was considered impossible.
Kate Chopin, daughter of a prominent French family and at the time local author, collapsed at the St. Louis 1904 World’s Fair on August 20, 1904. Madame Chopin was only 54 years old and suffered a brain hemorrhage or aneurism. She died at her home on McPherson Avenue on August 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
I’ve been on an Alan Ladd kick lately. When I was still in college, I watched a number of Alan Ladd films one summer. I’ve been watching them over again the last few weeks on Amazon Prime. I’ll share some of these films over the next few months. The first film I watched was Thunder in the East (1951) starring
Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Eftersom fansen bara ansåg att Clarence Whistler var skicklig nog att verkligen hota hans regeringstid, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. På maj 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, som
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) är den sista posten i “B” filmserie. RKO Pictures tog serien över från Republic Pictures, som släppte den ursprungliga Dick Tracy följetonger i slutet av 1930-talet och början av 1940-talet. RKO Pictures släppt filmen till teatrar på September 26, 1947. RKO tog Boris Karloff in för att spela Gruesome, one of Dick Tracy’s arch
På tisdag, Juli 4, 1916, former St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond passed away after an illness of two years. Desmond was in Alexian Brothers Hospital from October 1915 until his death on Independence Day 1916. The 59-year-old Desmond left a 12-year-old son, William Desmond, Jr. Chief Desmond’s wife died several years before him. For 17 years from 1890
När Twentieth Century-Fox beslutat att släppa Charlie Chan serien efter Castle in the Desert (1942), Sidney Toler köpt rättigheterna till serien och tog den till Bilder Monogram. Efter att 11 filmer med Twentieth Century-Fox, Toler skulle göra 11 Charlie Chan filmer med Monogram Pictures. Skuggor över China (1946) was the ninth film that Toler made for Monogram
When Frank Gotch retired as World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion after beating Georg Lurich in his last match, promoters scrambled to find a successor. Samuel Rachmann tried to put forth his own champion by hosting the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament in New York City. Rachmann wanted his challenger Aberg to win the tournament and be recognized by the public as the
1909 var förmodligen det värsta året för Parker Lonzo Bator Zimmerman liv. Han förlorade både sin tio månader gamla dotter Ida May Zimmerman och hans andra hustru Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman. Innan Parkers död i Cape Giraurdeau Tornado av 1949, he would bury two more of his children. Both of them were adults. I can only imagine how hard 1909