Secret Charlie Chan er (1936)

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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. Secret Charlie Chan er (1936) (tengja hlekkur) was one of the earlier Twentieth-Century Fox films about Charlie Chan. The production values

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The Black Camel (1931)

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The Black Camel (1931) is the oldest surviving Charlie Chan film (tengja hlekkur) starring Warner Oland. Það var annað kvikmynd í röð fyrir Fox Films. Fyrsta, þriðji, fjórða og fimmta kvikmyndir hafa tapast þó spænska tungumál útgáfa af Charlie Chan ber á (Þrettán voru, 1931) er fyrir hendi. The Black Camel was released on June 21, 1931.

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Þrettán voru (1931)

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Þrettán voru (1931) er spænska tungumál útgáfa af Charlie Chan ber á. Charlie Chan ber á hefur ekki lifað eða að minnsta kosti hefur ekki fundist enn sem komið er, so this film (affliliate link) gives us our only look at the lost film. Meðan það var byggt á sömu sögu, the film had a completely different cast. Charlie Chan does

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Max Linder Made Pathe’ Film

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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

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The Mad Doctor Meets the Somnambulist

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What happens is the first commercially successful art film (tengja hlekkur). 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

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

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While it may not be on classic film lists, I love The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) (tengja hlekkur). It is an adaptation of the novel (tengja hlekkur) með sama nafni, skrifað af 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

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