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Sou Out 2, 1947, Max M. King Productions te pibliye Killer Dill (1947), yon fim krim ke wrèstle pwofesyonèl Mike Mazurki jwe "Little Joe", yon kokenn k ap jwe toulède pati yon gang. Stuart Erwin jwe kòm Johnny "Killer" Dill, yon designer lenjri ak vandè, moun ki fè erè pou yon gangster. Apre aksidantèlman enplike tèt li nan yon lagè gang, l '
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) lage Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) an Novanm 1941. Youn nan fim yo pita Thin Man (lyen afilye), fim nan gen vignettes enteresan pou fanatik lit. Nick Charles, played by William Powell, yo rale nan yon ankèt eta a nan yon bag jwèt aza lokal. De pwomotè lit lokal yo kouri bag jwèt aza, ki se atis imite lavi si
Li te fèt Norman Edward Wescoatt nan Hawaii nan mwa Out 2, 1911, "Rusty" Wescoatt te jwe foutbòl pou University of Hawaii anvan li te fè premye lit pwofesyonèl li nan Hawaii pandan 1933. Wescoatt te tou yon chanpyon naje. Okòmansman, Wescoatt te fè plis nouvèl pou naje li pase lit li lè li te vwayaje nan kontinantal Etazini an. 1935. Nan Dimanch Pak, Avril
Sou Oktòb 14, 1932, RKO Pictures released The Phantom of Crestwood (1932), the film end to a radio play of the same year. The film concerns the murder of Jenny Wren or more properly “Who Killed Jenny Wren?” Wren, played by Karen Morley, blackmails several prominent men, who carried on affairs with her in the past. One of the men
Sou Novanm 18, 1941, Columbia Pictures released Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring (1941). Nan sa a fim, Ralph Bellamy portrays Ellery Queen for the fourth and final time. The film opens with a wealthy widow, Mrs. Augusta Stack, seeking the help of the police department. Mrs. Stack suspects Dr. Jannery, who operates her hospital, of negligence in the death of
Columbia Pictures’ Lone Wolf series, starring Warren Williams as Michael Lanyard, is one of my favorite “B” film series. Williams played the debonair jewel thief, who somehow always ends up helping the police solve a series of crimes. Counter-Espionage (1942) begins with Lanyard stealing top secret plans from Sir Stafford Hart’s safe. Scotland Yard’s Inspector Stephens rushes to the scene
Roland V. West directed fourteen films in his career. Critics consider three of his films to be excellent. West directed the silent thriller The Bat in 1926. West directed his most acclaimed film, Alibi (1929), which resulted in an Oscar nomination for his friend Chester Morris. Nan 1930, West and Morris again collaborated on his last classic, Pale nan Bat,
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 (lyen afilye) 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
Sou Oktòb 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” sinema. 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
Nan mwa janvye 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. While British