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On September 27, 1941, Warner Brothers Film Corporation released Sergeant York (1941). Filmen (affiliate link) fortæller historien om sergent 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. Filmen begynder med kontrasten fra en søndagsgudstjeneste og den
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) starring
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) is the final entry in “B” film series. RKO Pictures took the series over from Republic Pictures, who released the original Dick Tracy serials in the late 1930s and early 1940s. RKO Pictures released the film to theaters on September 26, 1947. RKO brought Boris Karloff in to play Gruesome, one of Dick Tracy’s arch
Når Twentieth Century-Fox besluttet at droppe Charlie Chan serien efter Castle in the Desert (1942), Sidney Toler købte rettighederne til serien og tog det til Monogram Pictures. Efter at 11 film med Twentieth Century-Fox, Toler ville gøre 11 Charlie Chan film med Monogram Pictures. Shadows Over 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. Efter at have truet flere
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.
The Scarlet Clue (1945) er den femte af elleve Charlie Chan-film Monogram Pictures produceret efter Twentieth-Century Fox aflyste serien i 1942. Sidney Toler lavet elleve film for Twentieth-Century Fox, før du flytter serien til Monogram. Efter at Toler døde i 1947, Roland Winters took over the role for seven more films. I denne film, Inspektør Charlie Chan opdager en
Charlie Chan i Paris (1935) is another entry in the series starring Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. Charlie er tilbage fra hans London undersøgelse, når han stopper i Paris for en ferie. Faktisk, 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