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Legacy posts about films from the silent and classic Hollywood film eras.
The series of the Charlie Chan films starring Warner Oland were probably the strongest films in the Charlie Chan series. Sidney Toler made several good films also but eventually the series would become low-budget “B” films produced by Monogram Pictures. Segredo de Charlie Chan (1936) (enlace de afiliado) was one of the earlier Twentieth-Century Fox films about Charlie Chan. The production values
The Black Camel (1931) is the oldest surviving Charlie Chan film (enlace de afiliado) protagonizada por Warner Oland. Foi a segunda película da serie para a Fox Films. A primeira, terceiro, cuarto e quinto películas son perdidos, aínda que unha versión do Charlie Chan lingua española leva (Trece foron, 1931) existe. The Black Camel was released on June 21, 1931.
Eu primeiro oín falar Chang apana nunha featurette nun dos conxuntos de Charlie Chan DVD. I knew a real life detective inspired Earl Derr Biggers to create Charlie Chan. I did not know who the man was. Chang Apana was that man. Change Apana (born Ah Ping Chang) en Decembro 26, 1871 on the island of Oahu was
Charlie Chan no Museo de Cera (1940) protagonizado por Sidney Tolerancia como Charlie Chan é o meu filme favorito de Charlie Chan. Charlie Chan está buscando un asasino en un museo de cera. The wax museum is a front for a plastic surgeon, who changes the appearance of wanted criminals for a price. The surgeon Dr. Cream, played by C. Henry Gordon, also hosts
Trece foron (1931) is the Spanish language version of Charlie Chan Carries On. Charlie Chan Carries On has not survived or at least has not been found yet, so this film (affliliate link) gives us our only look at the lost film. While it was based on the same story, the film had a completely different cast. Charlie Chan does
Charlie Chan en Panamá (1940) estrelas Sidney Tolerancia como Inspector Charlie Chan. Nesta película, Inspector Chan está na ruta do espía Riner. Riner pretende realizar un acto de sabotaxe, cando a flota estadounidense pasa pola canle. Inspector Chan experimenta unha situación inusitada, when he is arrested for the death of an American agent in
This movie is the first in a series (enlace de afiliado) of six films from Monogram Pictures released between 1938 e 1940. The series was a “B” formula film offering. A película sería exhibido por primeira vez nun proxecto de lei de matrimonio. Os primeiros cinco películas protagoniza Boris Karloff como o Sr. James Lee Wong, while in the sixth film Keye Luke portrayed
Max Linder (1883-1925) built the Pathe’ Film Studio in the early 1900s. Linder’s comedy influenced Charles Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton. Linder is largely unknown today because his biggest film successes were in the 1910s. Most of his films are considered lost. Film fans today have the benefit of resources like the Internet Archive, which has a number of
What happens is the first commercially successful art film (enlace de afiliado). The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) was released in January 1920 becoming a German and international sensation. It marked the beginning of a German film revival during the 1920s The German Expressionist Movement in German art strongly influenced this film. Expressionist paintings were known for buildings sloped at
While it may not be on classic film lists, I love The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) (enlace de afiliado). It is an adaptation of the novel (enlace de afiliado) by the same name, written by Baroness Orczy. The film concerns an English gentleman, who risks his life to save French aristocrats from the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney married Marguerite, a French woman with