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Avgusta 2, 1947, Max M. King Productions released Killer Dill (1947), a crime film that professional wrestler Mike Mazurki plays “Little Joe”, a henchman playing both sides of a gang feud. Stuart Erwin stars as Johnny “Killer” Dill, a lingerie designer and salesperson, who people mistake for a gangster. After accidentally involving himself in a gang war, njegov
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) izdal Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) novembra 1941. Eden od poznejših filmov Thin Man (podružnica povezava), film vsebuje zanimive vinjete za ljubitelje rokoborbe. Nick Charles, played by William Powell, je vpleten v državno preiskavo lokalnega igralniškega kroga. Dva lokalna promotorja rokoborbe vodita igralniški ring, ki je umetnost posnemanja življenja, če
Norman Edward Wescoatt se je rodil avgusta na Havajih 2, 1911, "Rusty" Wescoatt je igral nogomet za Univerzo na Havajih, preden je debitiral v poklicni rokoborbi na Havajih med 1933. Wescoatt je bil tudi prvak v plavanju. Wescoatt je sprva prinesel več novic o svojem plavanju kot rokoborbi, ko je odpotoval v celinski del ZDA leta 1935. Na velikonočno nedeljo, April
Oktobra 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
Novembra 18, 1941, Columbia Pictures released Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring (1941). V tem filmu, Ralph Bellamy portrays Ellery Queen for the fourth and final time. The film opens with a wealthy widow, Gospa. Augusta Stack, seeking the help of the police department. Gospa. 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 serija. 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. V 1930, West and Morris again collaborated on his last classic, The Bat Whispers,
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 (podružnica povezava) 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
Oktobra 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” filmi. 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
Januarja 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. Medtem ko britanski