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Al setembre 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). The film (affiliate link) tells the story of Sergeant Alvin C. York, a reluctant World War I hero from the small town of Pall Mall, Tennessee. Western film veteran Gary Cooper stars as Sergeant York. The film begins with the contrast of a Sunday church service and the
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
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) protagonitzada per
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) és l'última entrada en “B” Cicle de cinema. RKO Pictures va prendre el relleu de la sèrie Republic Pictures, qui va donar a conèixer els serials originals Dick Tracy a la fi de 1930 i principis de 1940. RKO Pictures va estrenar la pel·lícula als cinemes el setembre 26, 1947. RKO va portar Boris Karloff a jugar Gruesome, one of Dick Tracy’s arch
Quan Twentieth Century-Fox va decidir abandonar la sèrie de Charlie Chan després de Castell en el Desert (1942), Sidney Toler va comprar els drets de la sèrie i se'l va endur a Monogram Pictures. Després de fer 11 pel·lícules amb Twentieth Century-Fox, Toler faria 11 Pel·lícules de Charlie Chan amb Monogram Pictures. Ombres sobre Chinatown (1946) was the ninth film that Toler made for Monogram
Monogram Pictures released Behind the Mask (1946), the second of three films based on the popular Shadow radio program, on May 25, 1946. “B” Film leading actor Kane Richmond returns as Lamont Cranston, the alter ego of the mysterious Shadow. The film begins by following the activities a blackmailing newspaper reporter Jeff Mann, played by James Cardwell. After threatening several
Warner Baxter returns for a fourth time as Dr. Robert Ordway in The Crime Doctor’s Courage (1945). The newly married third wife of Gordon Carson asks Dr. Ordway to look into his first two wives’ mysterious deaths. Authorities declared both cases to be accidents. Kathleen Carson, played by Hillary Brooke, has begun to doubt the official verdict. Dr. Ordway arrives
Marvel Studios released the series Iron Fist on Netflix on March 17, 2017. The series based on the Marvel comic about Danny Rand, a young man presumed to have died in a plane crash. Rand is rescued as a child by monks, who teach him martial arts in the Himalayas. The series contains a number of great martial arts fight scenes.
La pista de l'escarlata (1945) és la cinquena de les onze pel·lícules de Charlie Chan, Monogram Pictures produïdes després que Twentieth-Century Fox cancel·lés la sèrie a 1942. Sidney Toler va fer onze pel · lícules de Twentieth-Century Fox abans de passar la sèrie de Monogram. Després de la mort de Toler 1947, Roland Winters took over the role for seven more films. En aquesta pel · lícula, L'inspector Charlie Chan descobreix a
Charlie Chan a París (1935) és una altra entrada a la sèrie protagonitzada per Warner Oland com Charlie Chan. Charlie està tornant de la seva recerca Londres, quan s'atura a París per unes vacances. En realitat, the vacation is a cover for his investigation of forged bonds from the Lamartine Bank. Charlie installed an undercover agent named Nardi but the gang kills Nardi